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Van Hollen: "There's no Article 4 in the Constitution that gives Elon Musk that authority, and the way he's been 'delegated' this authority is illegal, and the actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation."

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Perhaps the most important panel at the @principlesfirst.bsky.social summit- @asharangappa.bsky.social with former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner speaking of the dangers of those now in charge of DOJ and FBI.

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Ooh, I know: the Black guy and the woman. Not qwhite sure why, though.

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Hypocrite says what?

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Was complaining about [gestures broadly] in the family chat and my brother, a reliably warm, sunny person, said “you know, whenever I start to feel bad about circumstances beyond my control, I just take a moment to yell at my senator.” Then he shared this app apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...

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Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Not to alarm anyone but the stooge currently serving as acting head of the Social Security Administration, you know, the one w/access to all your personal info, was, as recently as two weeks ago on paid leave b/c career folks thought he was violating multiple privacy and tax laws

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🚨 🚨 As you find yourself appalled, day after day, by what is happening, never let the far right convince you that you are somehow in the minority. Most Americans agree with you. They do not like what they’re seeing either. 1/

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These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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NYT: “.. In only five of the 90 cases were patients vaccinated ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Trump is a goddamn traitor to America. Any congressional Republican who supports him — or is afraid to stand up to him — is just as much of a traitor as Trump.

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Hegseth and Trump are incompetent evil personified. Admiral Lisa Franchetti, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman CQ Brown Jr., are military leaders with LONG distinguished careers based on (plot twist) MERIT! 🤡 is driving our country off a cliff as the world watches. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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The unqualified Pete Hegseth fires a Black four-star general with a deep record of service. As if Gen. Charles Brown was just some D.E.I. hire. As if Hegseth is not some white hire, lacking in merit.

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Wealthy elites know that tax cuts for the super-rich are extremely unpopular. It’s why they try to distract us with scapegoats like immigrants, trans people, and a catch-all like DEI. Don’t fall for it.

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It feels like people are waking up

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Eggs are now so expensive they’re smuggling them like fentanyl.

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

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I'm dumb. I can't figure out how to end world hunger. But I do promise that I will continue to change healthcare in this country and make it more affordable, possibly setting a path towards Universal Healthcare.

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Love to see it!

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A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.

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DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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With each passing day this administration weakens our country, increases the risks we face and strengthens our enemies. Every day.

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Fresh out of prison after Trump’s pardon, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested today for assaulting a woman protesting his event.

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General Brown is a brilliant, amazing leader. I worked at the Air Staff for three years and it was known that he read everything the staff wrote for him. He believes if an analyst took the time to write it, it’s his responsibility to read it. Very few generals do this.

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Firing doctors at the CDC is going to make us all less safe.

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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I’m shocked.

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72 million Americans are on the chopping block to lose their healthcare if Republicans pass the budget that came out of the House. AOC (D-NY) voices her concerns daily telling her colleagues on the other side of the aisle that people are yelling Don’t Cut My Medicare. AOC has no fucks left to give.

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Associated Press sues White House over ban from Oval Office and Air Force One www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Lucky for him, he still has the treasury to rob.

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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This is amazing news. But if you call it a vaccine, RFK Jr. will try and tank it. Call it heroin. That should work.

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Remembering tonight these very racist rants from the campaign trail that nobody seemed to take seriously at the time. Welp.

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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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