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UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator: “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”

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“Trying to appeal to a voter who will congratulate you for scolding a member of your own party for peacefully protesting fascism is a losing game because that voter does not exist.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 133 comments

Repeat after me - this is the stupidest possible way to run the world’s biggest economy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 172 comments

The chaos at the VA is making it harder for veterans to get the care they need. Research trials and essential services are on hold—our veterans deserve better. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 174 comments

Hopes for increased US infrastructure spending? This is Merrill Lynch’s US Infrastructure basket. 🇺🇸

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“If the tariffs were to last for six months, nearly half of the surveyed suppliers said, they would cut U.S. jobs.” www.caranddriver.com/news/a640899...

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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

submitted 2 days ago • 420 comments

Hurricane Helene may feel like ages ago, but the recovery job isn't done. Our teams are still distributing hot meals to NC & TN communities with the help of grassroots organizations. By empowering local leaders, our teams have served over 1.6 million meals since October 2024. #ChefsForNorthCarolina

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They're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...

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"From now on, he said, the secretaries would be in charge; the Musk team would only advise." From now on. FROM NOW ON? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, FROM NOW ON??? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

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Please watch this ad. Please share this ad. Please follow @senecaproject.us. Please JOIN them. Please stand up for our vets. The draft dodger hates our troops. And that is un-fucking-acceptable. MAGA no longer supports our troops. But WE do. So let’s fucking go.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.

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SCOOP: House Democratic leadership can fuck off into the sun

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Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation has requested granular, invasive personal data from pharmacy benefit managers, to include “names of patients taking the medications, their dates of birth and doctors they’ve seen.” And they won’t say why. They don’t need that info to regulate prices.

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Al Green is a national treasure

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It's getting creepy... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"It’s the 12th highest monthly job cuts total in the 32 years Challenger has been tracking them. "The 11 others (4 came during the Covid pandemic) all occurred when the US was in a recession..." www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...

submitted 3 days ago • 133 comments

Waiting for Georgetown Law students to respond with a letter of their own, saying they have no intention of working for him. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February. This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.

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Exclusive: AI chatbots echo Russian disinformation, report warns https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/exclusive-russian-disinfo-floods-ai-chatbots-study-finds #axios #news #usnews

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Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and enforcement actions against corporate lawbreakers. At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural. It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

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House censures Al Green for standing and heckling Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress, with 10 Democrats joining Republicans in support of the punishment. @mayacmiller.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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GOP budget goals impossible without Medicare and Medicaid cuts, budget office says

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www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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Global sea ice hit ‘all-time minimum’ in February, scientists say

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The U.S. Marshals Service has reached out to a number of federal judges, alerting them of heightened threat levels following Elon Musk's vicious campaign against members of the judiciary.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

DOGE firings have upended the lives of thousands of hardworking civil servants — including park rangers, disease researchers, and veterans. Meanwhile, DOGE's own staffers are drawing hefty six-figure government salaries from the very agencies they are sabotaging. "Efficiency."

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Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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In his spirited rebuttal to the President, Sen. Bernie Sanders took on Trump’s lie about Social Security. “That is an outrageous lie, intended to lay the groundwork for … dismantling the most successful and popular government program in history.”

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The cost of eggs is up 33% under President Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Things Trump did that he isn't talking about tonight... -Fired 17 inspectors general and the top govt ethics director -Halted anti-bribery enforcement and money laundering laws -Dismantled CFPB at the behest of billionaires -Put a corporate lobbyist in charge of the DOJ "Drain the swamp."

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Donald Trump says he’ll protect Social Security — but his plan to fire thousands of SSA employees could collapse the entire system and put Americans' hard-earned benefits at risk. We will fight like hell to protect Social Security from Trump, Musk and their band of billionaires.

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Trump is spewing misinformation about Social Security so he can ultimately justify cutting your benefits. Don't fall for it.

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This affront to veterans will soon be mowed over by news of Trump's address to Congress, so I'm asking folks to share it now. People need to see all the crap they're peddling, IMHO. Thx. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Trump: American students will be ‘permanently expelled’ or arrested for campus protests

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DERRICK VAN ORDEN THREATENS TO REFER A FORMER GOVERNMENT WORKER TO DOGE FOR ASKING QUESTIONS U.S. Rep. Orden (R-WI) reportedly threatened a former Department of Veterans Affairs worker for asking a question during work hours in an exchange on LinkedIn. heartlandsignal.com/2025/03/03/d...

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Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

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All eyes have been on the nest belonging to Big Bear’s famous bald eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow, and their trio of eggs. Two chicks have hatched. via @laist.com

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Promises made, promises kept!

submitted 6 days ago • 423 comments

BREAKING: The government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries. Wealthy corporations and individuals may now hide their profits from the public.

submitted 6 days ago • 183 comments

Elon Musk, who's taken tens of billions of dollars of govt money to enrich himself and his companies, calls Social Security "a Ponzi scheme." Beyond the hypocrisy and fallacy of his remarks, this man is exploiting his bought position to try and steal from SS and fund Trump's billionaire tax cuts.

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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

submitted 8 days ago • 96 comments

We don’t admit people to the hospital for quarantining. They can do that at home. The many kids admitted to the hospital in Lubbock have severe respiratory complications from measles. Stunning ignorance from highest health official, embarrassing really.

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

This should not be posed by journalists as cost-cutting measure. This is an attempt to gut civil rights enforcement across the federal government and therefore across American life. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a D.C. townhouse that is the center of an evangelical pastor’s secretive influence campaign — and the home is owned by a major GOP donor. www.propublica.org/article/mike... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

submitted 11 days ago • 278 comments

Corruption Watch: Trump/Musk FAA steering huge contract to Musk company.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

One of the richest data sources on maternal health ended by a "pro-life" administration. I feel truly ill. CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

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