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👀 NEW: the current under secretary of State for Management, Ambassador Tibor Nagy, has sent an email regarding OPM's request for five accomplishments: "No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their department chain of command."

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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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Not the white man for the moment. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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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 This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.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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83% of Americans disapprove of King Donold’s pardoning his Jan. 6 goon squad, and now his poll numbers are falling faster than a gold-plated toilet in a hurricane. SMITE!

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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Elon Musk is dumb because he falls for the most outrageous lies on the platform and can't be bothered to fact check them before he spreads them to millions of users and bots to proliferate the propaganda.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

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Says the guy who won't even respond to the mothers of his own children

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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

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As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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One month in office for the hardest working guy at Mar-a-Lago. Gift link: wapo.st/434l8fD

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Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here

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Call to Action: March 4 Liberty. Washington, DC and every state capitol, March 4th, 12PM - 9PM. Further announcements for the 5th to come later. Need max number of people in DC as Trump addresses congress. #3E #USprotests #March4Liberty #FiftyFiftyOne #Mar4

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One of the fired Inspectors General, Robert Storch, reveals that the head of counsels of Inspectors General reached out to DOGE and offered to help, but got no response. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Exclusive-US Refusing to Co-Sponsor UN Motion Backing Ukraine Ahead of War Anniversary, Diplomats Say: By Tom Balmforth, Emma Farge and Sabine SieboldLONDON/GENEVA/BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. is refusing to co-sponsor a draft U.N. resolution marking...

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Last night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.

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Wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs is on the version of hitting $8, per USDA data.

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He will burn down whatever he can, however he can Our systems of governance, rule of law, global alliances, even the Constitution. Consumed by vengeance and greed, he is the greatest threat to our Republic since its founding. We must meet this moment with the force of a thousand suns. Or perish.

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(FT) - The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, threatening to derail a traditional show of unity, according to five western officials familiar with the matter. www.ft.com/content/7380...

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Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

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He should be our messenger.

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

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NATO Holds Combat Exercises To Protect Eastern Border - W/O U.S.: NATO members continued their largest combat exercises of 2025 yesterday, testing their ability to rapidly deploy on the 32-nation alliance’s eastern border as worries grow over its most powerful member, the United States. Via the…

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Meet 11-year-old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, a young girl from Texas whose life was tragically cut short. She died by suicide after classmates threatened to call ICE on her family. Stop dehumanizing immigrants. That is not America.

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Trump sends turf flying during his extending golfing weekend. Golfers, is the turf supposed to be flying like that?

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I can’t stop thinking about these two headlines

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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Will their voters ever wake up to the fact that the GOP isn’t out to help them?

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We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

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AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

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“.. the share of Americans who think the economy is on the wrong track rose to 53% in the latest poll from 43% in the January 24-26 poll.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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A justice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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

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