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How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I just added more things to this list today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

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As Trump was bullying the awesome Governor of Maine, he claimed that he is the Federal Law. He is NOT !!! This is the moment in American history when we the people must save our country from a dictator & his stooges & oligarchs. We all need to push back while we still can. .

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The felon promised he wouldn’t touch Medicaid. He lied. 🤥 Now, his reckless cuts put millions at risk. 2 out of every 5 births in this country are covered by Medicaid—this is about life, health, and families. We can’t afford these attacks. #DontCutMyMedicaid

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Trump issued an executive order to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency overseeing San Francisco’s Presidio, a national park site at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

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BREAKING: A Republican Congressman has filed to impeach a judge who blocked DOGE. Judge Paul Engelmayer limited DOGE's access to sensitive Treasury data. Now Representative Derrick Van Orden wants him gone. www.axios.com/2025/02/20/d...

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The Nazis and fascists wouldn’t be running a massive demoralization campaign, coupled with a terror campaign online if they thought they had the power to pull off what they were trying to do without a fight. They are weaker than we are and we outnumber them 100 to one. They will reap the whirlwind

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Less than 24 hours after Trump said he would leave some social safety net programs like Medicaid intact, the inveterate liar has reneged. Trump is now backing the House GOP’s strategy calling for finding $880 billion in savings from the committee with jurisdiction…

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

Helpful tracker on Project 2025's destruction. www.project2025.observer?utm_source=s...

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SHARE FAR & WIDE: LETTER From Senators Ron Wyden, Chuck Schumer, Patty Murray, Tammy Baldwin & Bernie Sanders to the ACTING Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Leland Dudek. Initially his pro-DOGE views, put him on LEAVE, but after Michelle King's departure he was GIVEN her position.

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 2 days ago • 346 comments

I do, incidentally, recommend Samantha Harvey's Orbital, but was already thinking as I read it about how things had already changed

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

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Trump admin quid pro quo with Adams reeks to high heaven Even the Trump-appointed interim U.S. Attorney quit to protest Hochul should remove Adams as I discussed @cnn.com 👇

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He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 6 days ago • 369 comments

Elon Musk and DOGE are trying to get their hands on some of the most sensitive information the Internal Revenue Service has to offer: data on every single taxpayer, business, and nonprofit. The request has put IRS officials on high alert.

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

At the heart of the chaos and confusion of DOGE, mass firings, suspensions, and funding freezes is the fight over control of your tax dollars. While the White House stokes debate, the Constitution clearly says the power is with Congress. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-purse-and-the-sword

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1/ Protests are taking place at state capitols and city halls and other civic spaces today, most begin at noon local time. They have already started out East. #50501movement www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...

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SCOTUS conservative justices accused liberal justices of “fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” They weren’t fear mongering; they saw the writing on the wall. ⬇️

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Happy President's Day from Union Square in NYC, which is filled with protesters preparing for a march down Broadway This picture is a fraction of the people in the park, and many people have already started marching It's a beautiful day. Let's do this 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 165 comments

My colleagues and I at @insideclimatenews.org found chaos and confusion as their federal climate and environmental justice grants remain frozen despite court orders. Attorneys say the Trump administration is now making baseless claims against the programs.

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1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

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VARNEY: The administration said the worst of the worst would be held in Gitmo. But there's an article in the Post saying the families members of those detained say they're being falsely branded as members of Tren de Aragua. HOMAN: That's the Washington Post ... no one is off the table

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Then they came for the climate scientists...

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

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Donald Trump’s administration has begun indiscriminately culling scores of people who keep air travel safe, despite four deadly plane crashes during his first two months as president.

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Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0. This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” apnews.com/article/penc...

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The IRS is preparing to give DOGE access to sensitive taxpayer data. The systems contain the private financial data tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details and employment information.

submitted 6 days ago • 445 comments

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

submitted 6 days ago • 304 comments

But no, people couldn't bring themselves to vote for the smart Black lady.

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“Since 1963, the Munich Security Conference has seen many consequential speeches…But Friday’s speech by JD Vance has the potential to be the most consequential – the moment the world order against which Putin railed fell apart.”

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 6 days ago • 103 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2287 comments

the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

submitted 6 days ago • 408 comments

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

here's today's post: "JD Vance lectures Germany: be nice to your Nazis" — Germany doesn’t need your bullshit, thank you very much. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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as musk and the hitler youth demand access to “detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country,” remember that “in his first term, Trump openly mused about sending IRS agents after political opponents.” (gift link) wapo.st/3QizwcN

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Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts to recover documents from Mar-a-Lago. 🗃️

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As the Trump administration purges its federal workforce, they are lying as they are firing. Letters were sent to dozens of federal employees who have been fired from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The letters cite poor work performance as a reason for termination. Donald Trump and…

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

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This is, of course, wildly illegal.

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