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Overnight, the Senate passed a partisan budget that lays a path for taking food assistance & health coverage away from people & making college more expensive -- to pay for defense & deportation funding &, later, costly tax cuts for the wealthy.  www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

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Alnur Mussayev, 72, who headed Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleges Donald Trump was recruited when he was a 40-year-old New York real estate developer. His code name was Krasnov www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

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ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

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BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been hit as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes more dangerous, indiscriminate cuts to government agencies. Trump administration incompetence has led to more dire consequences. The USDA admits to the accidental firings of employees working on the..

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English-language report on this horrific tragedy: www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

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Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 6 days ago • 233 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Education Department employees on probation were abruptly dismissed without cause across the department this morning. Staff have been warned that more layoffs are coming.

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Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—And It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid #Trump #MAGA #Musk #DOGE #Nazi www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

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Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

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Trump just fired the USAID Inspector General. Why? The IG released a report on the negative impact of USAID’s dismantling, including reports that food for hungry people is rotting in warehouses. $489 million of food grown by American farmers. THAT is waste.

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The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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SCOOP: Kash Patel—whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI—took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries.

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NEW: Kash Patel was paid $25,000 by a Kremlin-linked filmmaker to promote anti-western propaganda. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Senator Murphy lays out exactly what is on the line. " There was a promise made to finance this tax cut with two trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid, poor kids, poor families, Medicare, seniors in this country." Hands Off Our Medicaid!

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"Pam Bondi is the first attorney general in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:

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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

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Thread of mental health and practical resources for LGBTQ people (US-based) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Don't need these? Help someone who does by reposting this thread and donating to the organizations. Start a thread for your own country and I'll repost! 1/6

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“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

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Trying to channel some of this energy today. This country doesn't deserve your genius or your joy but is absolutely better because of it. youtu.be/3YHVC1DcHmo?...

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For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency, and they're trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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A non elected, Neo-Nazi oligarch seizing control of our Treasury. What new demands will be made, if social security payments are held for ransom? Gives new meaning to the term Robber Baron.

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JUST IN: "Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials." www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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The awful news that Elon Musk clashed with a top Treasury official in an effort to access govt payment systems raises a crucial question: Did Trump authorize this, or not? I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key question, and why it's so alarming: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

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The highest-ranking career Treasury official has resigned after a fight with DOGE associates seeking access to sensitive payment systems.

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Air traffic controllers have been emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash.

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BREAKING: 88 FBI agents who worked on Trump cases were just physically escorted out of the Washington Field office per a source.

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Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have perfectly met the qualification that Donald Trump cares about most: a proven record of tearing down the credibility of the institutions that he has chosen them to lead.

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In an email sent Tues, acting EPA head Payne said a decision had been made to “reset” the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee & Science Advisory Board “to ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission.” They gutted the EPA.

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I can't help but think this is a feature and not a bug.

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Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

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