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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

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Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

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This is for all the big accounts on hear w/thousands upon thousands of followers, including @mcuban.bsky.social & George Clooney. The Democratic Party did nothing wrong in their messaging. This election was a clear choice between good & evil, moral vs immoral. I'm sorry that most of you don't have

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Memo to Democrats: If EVERY ONE of you would do what Janet Mills did yesterday EVERY TIME, Trump would unravel entirely. He relies on you being bullied. Refuse to be.

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Even before Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration’s staffing levels were at a 50-year low due to a decade of budget caps & cuts authored by GOP lawmakers. Further staff cuts and office closures can only make things worse for America's most vulnerable. New, @propublica.org

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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““Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.” — apnews.com/article/trum...

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And now the Trump administration has opened an investigation of the Maine Department of Education

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

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This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

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NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services. This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.

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“The pass-through deduction is emblematic of the tax reform package as a whole: More tax cuts for the rich, masquerading as tax cuts for the little guy.”

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Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

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“All the AID people hate him—not because he’s a rightist or leftist, but because he’s an asshole,” says one person who worked in the agency during the first Trump administration.

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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🟡 SCOOP: Congressional Republicans are lining up votes to roll back Biden administration rules on bank mergers, WiFi hotspots and more for floor consideration as early as next week, five people familiar with the plans said.

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NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

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Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

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1. The Philadelphia Inquirer has 2 journalists - our chief political writer and foreign affairs columnist - in Germany for its critical election. A friend yesterday called us "a regional newspaper" but I'd say we're a historic legacy news org (with 23 Pulitzers)... www.inquirer.com/politics/ger...

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Don’t make me tap the sign (cc RFK Jr)

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This is going to do irreparable damage to the strong ties that the NPS has forged with academic historians. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

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Birthright citizenship 3: My letter to editor of NY Times on Barnett and Wurman’s misleading essay They’re not publishing it, so I’m self-publishing. Now y’all know what to do: shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/b...

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elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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Guys...

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Movie you watched over six times, using only gifs

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If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

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It's ridiculous to think that norms will be in play with the GOP/MAGA. The Democratic Party needs to follow a new playbook.

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people think our leaders have access to superknowledge and are somehow way better than us. usually theyre much dumber. Some Democrats now admit they screwed up by voting for Trump’s nominees www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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Follow the money and uncover the madness...

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BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

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This will be at Greenbelt National Park. The previous Trump administration had already drafted the plans for this, destroying the park and putting up statues throughout.

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Here’s a good model for responding to this dipshit’s letters:

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I wonder, given the budget shortfall predicted for Maryland, if this state will be able to afford and continue to fund Dolly's Imagination Library program for the birth to age 5 age level.

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