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New York state authorities and a union representing corrections officers have reached a deal to end the most widespread strikes in the state’s prisons in more than four decades, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday.

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We're an international pariah.

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Get on over there and comment!! There were just over 500 comments this morning. We need 1000s to support keeping environmental regulations.

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On the dishonorable attempt by Trump and Hegseth to purge transgender individuals serving honorably in the military. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-anno...

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Banking on most employees not being able to afford to move and replacing them with the lackey force that Heritage Foundation has been interviewing and vetting for loyalty. Guarantee red states will be the agency homes.

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🐻 ⚠️ “Rangers enforce safety on the trails near the glacier. That’s critical at the Mendenhall Glacier where visitors from across the country may see bears for the first time. Visitors often don’t know how to react when they encounter a bear — sometimes crowding it instead of moving away.”

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Billionaires propagandizing for other billionaires. Won't anyone carry your water anymore, poor little rich kid?

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"Young Republicans Group Invites Tate Brothers to Speak" The GOP is party of rapists. We can expect to see sexual assault rise in US by Republican men as GOP mainstreams rapists and sexual predators from Trump on. www.mediaite.com/news/young-r...

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OK, so what is the date that Trump and senior officials in his Admin are responsible for what they are doing? How long are they always going to blame the Deep State for their own screw ups and incompetence? Another month? Six? When do they accept accountability? Ever?

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So: We have news of very promising developments in cancer treatment with mRNA vaccines. The Trump administration wants to gut cancer research and hamper the development of mRNA vaccines.

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Oliver Darcy has some very good points here

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How it started/How it's going

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Jeffries: "Don't act like this was being done in the name of fiscal responsibility. Enough with that narrative. There's nothing in the Republican track record to suggest to the American people that you are the party of fiscal responsibility. Absolutely nothing." #HandsOffOurMedicaid

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Outside USAID, a former PEPFAR worker laments that thousands of HIV+ patients have been cut off from their life-saving drugs. “We’re going to see an outbreak of drug-resistant AIDS.” ☣️

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We’ll be writing every day in support of personal liberties. Here’s why workers aren’t persons. by Jeff Bezos

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Groceries are more expensive, air travel is less safe, infectious diseases are raging and inflation is higher than it’s been in months, but at least Trump was able to strong-arm a sovereign nation into releasing a couple of psychopathic sex traffickers. At least there’s that.

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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

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"NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of. Russia is afraid of democracy expanding to Russia. Why are we in NATO? Its because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is NATO's umbrella," Kaja Kallas said in an interview with AFP

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Janet Mills was elected the first woman DA in ME history. Elected 1st woman AG in ME. Won election to state House, reelected 3x. Then 1st woman Gov - won by 20 points. Then reelected in 2022 by 13 points. In other words, far more popular in ME than Trump will ever be.

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Trump’s executive order shutting down DEI claims that recruiting diverse applicants “diminishes the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination.” Donald Trump’s war on DEI isn’t about merit.

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Russian state TV praises Trump for being "perfectly aligned with Putin" in his second term. It can't be any clearer then this that Trump is following Putin's orders to sell our country out.

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Joy is out, but Katy Tur and Jen Psaki still have jobs?!? Something’s not quite wight.

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First they came for the federal employees, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a federal employee ... You know the rest of the poem. Act accordingly.

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5 things we did last week @contrariannews.org MON: canceled Pres. Day (office currently unoccupied) & had Contrarian’s Day instead👇 TUE: covered coast to coast protests vs Musk WED: launched AM video series THU: more lawsuits FRI: reached 500k subscribers! contrarian.substack.com/p/spring-tra...

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It is a test. A test that determines whether you work for the federal government, and your agency/department, or whether you work for Elon Musk. It is up to you whether you surrender your rights as civil servants, your pride, and your dignity. Once you do, he’ll be back for more.

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It’s a total and utter LIE that having a small number of very very rich people who keep getting richer doesn’t harm us. It absolutely does. Because we are all competing for access to resources, land, education, even health care. We are especially competing for influence and policy over those

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Trump and Musk are dismantling our government and stripping away all the guardrails, convinced that we are too stupid, too fearful, too passive, too unknowing to successfully defy their hostile takeover. We need to prove them wrong.

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Heaven forfend they do their job.

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Godspeed, Democracy Warrior.

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I hope one went to the judge in the case where he’s pretending he has no actual power

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These guys make Chamberlin look like Churchill

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I am only more convinced that independent media is the crucial tool to ensure there are journalists ready and able to tell the truth, not soft-pedal to serve the requirements of a billionaire owner worried about crossing Trump. Join our growing community (free or paid). www.americaamerica.news

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BRENNAN: Do you believe the president has the unilateral authority to cancel funds appropriated by Congress? JOHN CURTIS: We'll find out BRENNAN: You don't have a point of view? CURTIS: I believe this is how we test the Constitution

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz posts a progress report of his recent accomplishments and tags Elon Musk, the unelected CEO of the United States. Our elected officials are reporting to an oligarch now.

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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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Loyalty Over Merit Trump fired Gen Brown because he pushed back on Trump’s war on “woke” making him a target. His replacement—Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, is less qualified, but a Trump loyalist. This isn’t about military strength—it’s about purging leaders who won’t bend the knee!

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“The 5 bullets email was the administration’s declaration of psychological warfare: Petty on its face and lacking sufficient instructions, its one and only purpose was to scare the shit out of workers already living in peril.”

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Great job, 🤡 administration. You’ve managed to turn (already) worldwide hero, Zelenskyy, into a worldwide martyr. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Over 72 million children, seniors, and people with disabilities rely on Medicaid for life-saving healthcare. The Republicans' budget plan will cut $880B from this crucial safety net to pay for huge tax breaks for the wealthy. It's time to fight back! Tell Congress... HELL, NO SAVE MEDICAID 1/

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Democratic women are the ones who are stepping up and confronting Musk and Trump.

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TAX THE CHURCHES TAX THE RICH REMOVE THE CAP FROM SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS HANDS OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SNAP AGREE? ✋

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