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"She then points out that the transgender ban is based on zero study or analysis, and compares it to the paper straw ban - which presented multiple studies to justify bringing back plastic straws:"

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NEW: Judge Chutkan has blocked the EPA from terminating grants for climate programs held by Citibank, saying the Trump administration failed to abide by legal procedures and provided no evidence of impropriety. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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This is often overlooked, but it’s important‼️ Cutting Medicaid isn’t just cruel—it hurts cancer research. Medicaid funds life-saving treatments and studies. Slashing it means fewer breakthroughs, fewer treatments, and more lives lost. Cancer won’t wait—neither should we. We Must Save Medicaid.

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#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory Unita Blackwell was born on this day in 1933 in Lula, Miss. A longtime civil rights activist and project director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Blackwell became the first Black woman elected mayor in Mississippi in 1976. /1

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Please take the fact that I am posting this picture, despite the fact I look like someone who will take your child if you can’t guess my name, as an indication of how delighted I was to meet @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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The evidence presented was so thin, the judge said at one point, that “the Defense Department might have well cited the latest Beyoncé album.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

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Say it again…

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I am happy today to join my many intelligent and thoughtful friends who are now on Bluesky.

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Murphy: "The president is continuing to act unconstitutionally. He shut down some of our most important programs that protect us abroad, like Radio Free Europe, that were funded & authorized in that spending bill. So it doesn't seem like we have restrained any of the president's lawlessness."

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"There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher. Sarah, you are a class act.

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If you love around Dallas

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❤️ 🇨🇦

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While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

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The 2 planes Judge Boasberg ordered back, plus a third plane that took off AFTER Boasberg’s order, never returned to the U.S. in apparent defiance of the court order.

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A federal court’s jurisdiction does not stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the defendants are subject to the court order, not where the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

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NYT: “The White House did not comment on why the group had altered the contracts data or why it’s now harder for the public to scrutinize it.” The savings have been changed and altered — and are nowhere near what @MarshaBlackburn claims they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

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Judge Reyes just tore DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Trump DOJ a new one during an infernal hearing in which it looks like the Judge will block Trump’s efforts to drum transgender soldiers and those with gender dysphoria out of the military despite impeccable service... youtu.be/8oTJq0oWnv8?...

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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

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A massive demonstration took place in Budapest today against Viktor Orbán’s pro-Russia regime in Hungary Opposition leader Péter Magyar declared: “The spring is here, the spring of the Hungarians, and we, together, will end Orbán’s winter.”

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Yesterday, Trump targeted me at a speech be the Department of Justice. If he thinks it will cause me to back down he is wrong. My law firm is currently litigating 46 pro-democracy cases in 21 states, with more to come. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.

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I remember when Schumer refused to bring the Military Justice Improvement Act to the floor. It had 66 yes votes. I never got an answer as to why. They ended up watering it down and folding it into the NDAA.

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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

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I really like her

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NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

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If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

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His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

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The #ElectoralCollege is #DEI for #RedStates

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America is so stupid.

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We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

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It is one thing to watch a dictator grab power. It is another to hand it to him. I’m headed to the Senate floor now. To cast an emphatic “no.”

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[School gives a child a book with a black character in it without asking the parents first.] PARENTS: "This is OUTRAGEOUS! A TOTAL violation of my parental rights!" [School inspects a child's genitals without asking the parents first.] PARENTS: "This is fine." www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...

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I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race. I wrote more here about my decision and how I view the work required of us all in this moment:

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One of these things is not like the others

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"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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JUST A REMINDER ... ... of how close we are today ...

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Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

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✅ DEI Commentary of the Day™ 🧵 "Costco’s decision to stand by DEI efforts sent a clear message: 'Black America, we see you, and we value you.'" by James S. Bridgeforth, Ph.D. chicagodefender.com/the-cost-of-...

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If anyone is keeping score for the "I didn't vote for this" MAGA crowd, eliminating the #DepartmentOfEducation is the first sentence in Chapter 11 of #Project2025. Maybe you should have believed us lying libs.

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Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

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Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

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We just got new data: Our trade partners bought nearly $27 billion in food and other products last year. That’s a massive contribution to Minnesotans who work in our agriculture, mining, and manufacturing industries, and it’s why we can’t risk trade wars with our closest allies.

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