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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at the House hearing on sanctuary cities: "If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting Medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our cities safe." Mic drop! 🎤

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This is next level! 💥

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I want to make sure that I’m understanding what I heard correctly! The president just admitted that Elon Musk is the head of DOGE, the very agency that department of justice officials and lawyers argued in court that he was not! Uh-oh, some perjury going on!!

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Mike Johnson forcibly removed @algreen.house.gov from the House chamber via the Sergeant at Arms after repeated disruptions during Trump's #SOTU speech tonight. Early in Trump's remarks, Democrats repeatedly interrupted him, with Green standing and shouting that Trump had no mandate.

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Donald Trump just admitted Elon Musk leads DOGE after telling a federal court that Elon Musk does not lead DOGE. Judge Chutkan, the DOJ lied.

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The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

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NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

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Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

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When America faltered, others stood up to lead.

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An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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The importance of JAG’s “In short, it sometimes means telling military officers or civilian military leaders no. A JAG might, for example, tell the president that he can’t deploy troops in Washington, D.C., with orders to shoot protesters in the legs…” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

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Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi just received a huge standing ovation in a Trump +5 Congressional District at Hofstra University after talking about how despicable Trump‘s behavior was in the Oval Office with Zelensky. Americans are furious.

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Protesters at all U.S. national parks on Saturday decried the firing of 1,000 National Park Service employees and 3,400 Forest Service employees — including rangers, scientists, wildland firefighters, trail crews and more — by the Trump administration.

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Must watch: GOP Senator Roger Marshall stands up and flees his own town hall meeting today after being asked why Republicans think it’s acceptable for DOGE to be firing Veterans. This is a very rural, very conservative town.

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Seems like a pretty important detail

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Pretty much sums it up

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The Death of Diplomacy: The explosive meeting between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy ended in no deal over Ukraine's rare minerals and securing support for Ukraine. @katiephang.bsky.social brings you the latest on the #KatiePhangShow @msnbc.com

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NEW: During a 3-hour preliminary injunction hearing in a suit alleging that Elon Musk wields unprecedented power in violation of the Appointments Clause, a federal judge grew frustrated with government counsel's inability to answer questions about DOGE’s chain of command and Musk's role.

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In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

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Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

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They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

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If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

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#Ohio Reps: • Troy Balderson #OH12 • Mike Carey #OH15 • Mike Turner #OH1 Voted to throw 3M Ohioans off their health care, tossing 6 in 10 nursing home patients to the curb while keeping their own gold level taxpayer funded health insurance program #OHpol #DontCutOurMedicaid

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If they truly believed they were saving America they'd be celebrating in the streets, not canceling town halls and hiding from their constituents.

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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

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Dying in Darkness: Jeff Bezos Turns Out the Lights in the Washington Post’s Opinion Section The tech mogul’s decision to revamp the editorial pages around his own views threatens not only independent journalism, but the Post’s business future.

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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

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Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate. #ProtectOurHealth #DemocracyNotDictatorship www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/ur....

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"If the GOP could pull Trump’s dick out of their mouths long enough for the oxygen to return to their brains, they might see how batshit crazy it is to run a govt like this... But that would require a spine and these Republicans have the collective courage of a baby deer caught in a 6-lane highway."

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UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

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[Silence.]

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NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING: Judge in our Treasury case vs. DOGE just raised profound "concerns about constitutionality of DOGE"! She follows Judge Chutkan who also raised questions last week We @sddaction.bsky.social will be in Md. Fed. Ct. Friday in our appointments clause case to prove DOGE is unconstitutional

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A newfound RESPECT for @maddow.msnbc.com for keeping it real about what’s going on at MSNBC and how she really feels about it. She didn’t have to say this, but I’m so glad she did. Take 2 minutes… (1 of 2)

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This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

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It's The Worst Flu Season In Years. Guess What The Trump CDC Is Gonna Do? open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... Felon47 and RFKJr (and his wormy brain) really, really want to kill a lot of Americans plus overload hospitals and work healthcare personnel to death. #FireFelon47 #HealthCareFails

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Missouri Congressman Mark Alford (R) got the exact warm reception he deserved at his coffee chat this morning. Not a moment of peace. #MoLeg

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@reedhoward.bsky.social: “A bomb threat by the Proud Boys disrupted the #PrinciplesFirst Summit today—an event dedicated to democracy, character & the rule of law. Violence & intimidation have no place in our politics. We will not be silenced or intimidated. We will keep fighting for what’s right.”

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This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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NYT: “Except, no. None of that is true. Not that it stops Trump… he has long been unfettered by truth...” Nice to see them using the L word in their headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/b...

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BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

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“Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular.” — Timothy Snyder

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