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👀 There's a court hearing tomorrow in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops emergency bid to stave off State Department contract cuts. So today State abruptly canceled the conference's contract entirely and said Judge McFadden has no jurisdiction anymore.

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Wage theft is one of the most rampant crimes, and such corporate executives should be viewed as the thieves that they are. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Entirely predictable action by the GOP, which has steadfastly stood for regressive economic policies for decades, but yet for the last decade, ever since the emergence of Trump, has managed to snooker much of the pundit class into thinking it would reverse into a pro-worker party.

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BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS over order that State/USAID pay owed contracts by the end of the day. This is coming out of Judge Ali’s Feb. 13 TRO, which he ordered the government to adhere to — with a deadline — in a new order issued on Tuesday.

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More, not great, local news www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/chp...

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JUST IN: DOJ asks Judge Ali to stay his order from today — which was to enforce a TRO in place since Feb. 13 — because, DOJ says, "the Court’s order requires Defendants to disburse nearly $2 billion dollars by 11:59 PM tomorrow." THEY HAD TO DO SO SINCE FEB. 13, THOUGH!! That's the whole point!

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Folks should read & silently reflect on the responses to this earnest question: bsky.app/profile/ange...

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"This would make it more difficult for more than 40 million people to afford groceries, 90 percent of whom are in households with children, older adults, or people with disabilities." When people cannot afford food, they cannot afford energy or medicine either.

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When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption.

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Of course, if Amy Gleason is the administrator of DOGE, as my colleagues and others have now confirmed, the questions now are when she was named and whether she has actual authority or is a conduit for Musk. DOJ lawyers couldn't answer either question in court yesterday.

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Not great news kyivindependent.com/breaking-kyi...

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For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train

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Generally there’s a long ramp before you get to real biting sanctions, and Trump lawyers know and exploit that. I’ve long thought that judges who lose their patience much more quickly could do a lot of good.

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The news about Richard Glossip, from the United States Supreme Court no less, gives us all hope that we will soon see the freedom of so many of our clients convicted based on false evidence. And what we need more than anything right now is HOPE.

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Half an hour or so if they forced a vote = 172.5 hrs. On a typical day in session, ~5 hrs. from call to order to adjournment. So that's ~35 regular Senate days that could have been burned just on denying UCs, without anything else. For context, there have only been 29 such days so far this Congress.

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Dear manager: 1: I went to the doctor 2: I went to the mountains 3: I looked to the children 4: I drank from the fountains 5: There's more than one answer to these questions

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1. Tumbled out of bed 2. Stumbled to the kitchen 3. Poured myself a cup of ambition 4. Yawned and stretched 5. Tried to come to life

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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

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Refugees in the US give money to US taxpayers. From 2005–2019, refugees paid $123.8 billion more in taxes than they received in expenditures: aspe.hhs.gov/reports/fisc... That's federal, state, and local combined. Everything. Now we have obliterated that low-cost, high-return investment—>

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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Both Gov. Janet Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey issued written statements Friday morning pledging to fight any attempt to cut off the state’s funding. Frey and others said such action by the president would be illegal and overturned in court.

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NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

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Heads up for people who eat food in New England

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Yeah. To put it into perspective, if Trump is permitted to rearrange the post office, he is also permitted to rearrange the lower federal courts however he likes. Both are spelled out as "The Congress shall have Power" in Art I, Sec 8. And there's more too, like armies and the militia, second pic.

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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we need to bring back serious political cartooning x infographics

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Twitter was a way to get news, then Musk bought it, turned it into X, de-prioritized external links, and restructured it to make hate speech and harassment the preferred and prioritized content. If you throw a burger on the ground and stomp it into the mud it stops being a tasty meal

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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this is your money on fire

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As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.

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Reconstruction Dems vs Vichy Dems

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BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

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Noooooooooo

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Lord, I see what you do for others www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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US Catholic bishops sue Trump administration for halt in funding for refugee settlement (this is a big deal as many have been questioning why it hadn't happened yet) apnews.com/article/cath...

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I would like to see some discussion of the civil service that recognizes there was a reason for making it apolitical, and recognizing what is lost by re-politicizing it

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Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, a former prisoner at Auschwitz, has died aged 98. Turski regularly appealed to people to not be indifferent towards discrimination, famously declaring that "Auschwitz did not fall from the sky".

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Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

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Association of law schools reminds the chief justice of his own words

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