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Musk’s Coup at the Treasury Has Been Ruled Illegal. Will That Stop Him? truthout.org/articles/mus...

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'Outrageous, Unlawful Attack': Trump Plots Takeover of US Postal Service www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

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Get Ready For Delayed Tax Refunds, Long Hold Times After Mass IRS Firings But wealthy tax evaders will enjoy “a feast” as the strained federal agency lacks the resources to hold them accountable, said one tax policy expert.

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Reminder: When you look at the Weather Channel App and it talks about Warnings, Watches, Advisories, Outlooks active in your area. Those are all done by @NOAA @NWS the National Weather Service. The Weather Channel does NONE of that stuff. Carry on...

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Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.

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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

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Wonder why there are pieces of this thread that don’t show up normally

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“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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ICE’s agenda of fear must be answered by fearlessness and fact-checking on the part of bystanders and neighbors; their faceless intimidation must not be normalized.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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This is really something

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Federal employee union members have been fighting back as agency after agency has been hit by Elon Musk’s DOGE — a private unaccountable entity which has been demanding access to all government records while spreading wild lies about waste and fraud.

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In recent days, the US Army Corps of Engineers created a new designation of “emergency” permits for infrastructure projects, citing a Day One executive order signed by Donald Trump which claims the US is facing an “energy emergency." from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

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Arresting someone for calling you fascist seems an excellent approach to proving their point.

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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The good news is that he’s not very popular, the bad news is he is very very very very ensconced

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Mitch McConnell passes the baton to the next generation of Republican leadership in the Senate as Jim Justice rolls on by.

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“Some students asked, 'Are we going to practice like an [active shooter] drill for when ICE comes?'” How Trump’s immigration agenda is disrupting education around the country

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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More of this energy everywhere please!

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After stopping New York City from carrying out a previously approved congestion pricing program, Donald Trump bragged about the outcome on social media, calling himself a “king” on official White House social media.

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As the US officially designates six Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, Mexico's president warns the United States against any violation of its territory.

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Appearing today in The Week:

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No I think it’s good

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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The mothers met in a Whatsapp group. They have vowed to fight until their sons, who they say have not committed crimes and do not have ties to gangs, are released.

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According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

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Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

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Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

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Wonderful Wilcox again.

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True We already knew they would buy and bury stories. After the hush money trial with the felonious orange shit gibbon , it was shown and proved True.

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Keep in mind that the probationary federal employees who are now being fired are NOT just newly hired ones. If a long-term employee is promoted to a higher-level position, such as a supervisory or managerial role, then the employee may be subject to a probationary period for that new position.

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These self-identified Jesus-followers are celebrating the separation of parents from their children and spouses from one another; cheering families torn apart, lives violently uprooted, and human beings being terrorized at school and at work and at church. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-youre-a...

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Maybe when Trump finds out about this one he will reverse it since it directly affects him. bsky.app/profile/greg...

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“A walking conflict of interest… $20 Billion in 🇺🇸 government contracts…” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting for equity in farming.

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Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

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