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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Dude… some scary cursed shit here.

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Over the course of roughly half a day, Trump vowed to oppose cuts to Medicaid and endorsed a plan to make deep cuts to Medicaid. Why would he do this? There are a variety of possible answers, but none is especially flattering. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

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This could kill babies.

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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: The biggest hustle is the fact that Republicans are planning to hurt everyday Americans by doing things like destroying Medicaid... they want to pass massive tax cuts for their billionaire donors and wealthy corporations and stick working class Americans with the bill.

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This is exceptionally fucked upz

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This should be on the front page of every paper in the country.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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I’ve had a lot of reactions to the no good, very bad Wurman-Barnett op-ed on birthright citizenship over the last couple of days, and the threads here aren’t very easy to follow. So I’m going to put them all in one place. This is the place👇

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I dug into the only US source cited by Randy Barnett & Ilan Wurman for their theory - against birthright citizenship - in @nytimes @nytopinion: Edward Bates in 1862. He doubly contradicted their argument: "Birthright Citizenship: The Bates Backfire" shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/b...

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DOGE is about to receive full access to IRS taxpayer data. On its own, that’s horrific. But it gets worse. The guy with access reposted content by Nick Fuentes (who advocates killing Jews) & says he was inspired to join DOGE by Ron Unz (an antisemitic Holocaust denier). This is beyond dangerous.

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Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

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Too horrible for words.

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National security breach of classified information. So yeah, not so good

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Add Danielle Sassoon and the other members of the Valentine’s Day 7 to the pantheon of Justice Department heroes. My thoughts in @TheAtlantic.

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Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. #resistancegenealogy.

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This will cause massive new delays for disabled veterans getting medical care. Unconscionable.

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BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

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He’s trying to kill us all

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👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

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Even by the standards of this hellscape year, this lawsuit is shockingly racist and sexist.

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The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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DOJ resignations over orders to drop charges against the NYC mayor (via Reuters) - Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon - Kevin Driscoll, head of the Criminal Division - John Keller, head of the Public Integrity Section And 3 of his deputies: - Robert Heberle - Jennifer Clarke - Marco Palmieri

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Christ www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

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Find out how much federally funded education programs benefit students in each congressional district in the US In this crucial new dashboard tool @UmichPoverty poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...

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Letter: A popular STEM program for elementary school students was canceled due to suspension of federal funding. This should not happen.

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NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

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True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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AMID. BACKLASH. We have power. Our calls, our stories, our spending, our conversations, our votes matter. A democracy is about the power of the collective: shannonwatts.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

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WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

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📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

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uhhh kinda feels like maybe they should publish those birds flu studies? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

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1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month

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