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Any media outlet hanging on to a shred of journalistic timber should televise these hearings.

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Mike Slater survived four tours of duty as a US Army infantryman, risking his life in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that wasn’t enough to spare him from the budget ax now being recklessly wielded by DOGE at federal employees.

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The economic black out is tomorrow. I'm participating.

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Not pro-life

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During Trump's CFPB Director nomination hearing, it broke that the agency is dropping lawsuits against companies accused of cheating American families out of their money. This wasn't a coincidence. It shows exactly who is in charge right now: Elon Musk.

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The New Mexico congressional delegation is pleading with RFK Jr. to promote vaccination and provide other resources in the wake of the measles outbreak. Instead, Kennedy says that the death of a school-aged child as “not unusual”. He can’t get out of his anti-vax corner. His ego is paramount.

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

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NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

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Quite the message from the guy running our government

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They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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PSA: It’s not an “editorial section” if the owner of the newspaper is telling you what you can or cannot editorialize.

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What’s the purpose of this? There’s already very limited wiggle room in the turnaround from the meeting to vaccine production. If this isn’t rescheduled quickly, vaccines won’t be ready before peak flu season.

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Is this the finding out part?

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@calltoactivism.bsky.social

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Love this. It should not be limited to this term. But it’s a great step forward. Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

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We have lost one of the true giants of the screen. Gene Hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it. He could be everyone and no one, a towering presence or an everyday Joe. That’s how powerful an actor he was. He will be missed, but his work will live on forever.

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Transgender Troops to Be Separated From Military in New Pentagon directive. Also, in 1935, in accordance with Nazi racial law, the military prohibited Jews from joining its ranks. Those already serving were dismissed. Does everyone see the parallels here?

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The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

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The plot thickens. After it was first reported the State Dept. planned to award Tesla a $400M govt contrast to buy cybertrucks, it was then supposedly put on hold. But a new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400M Tesla deal. WATCH WHAT THEY DO! www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...

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First, they came for transgender citizens .... AND WE SAID FUCK THAT!

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🤬

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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Consumer confidence down. Unemployment up. Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make 6 nuclear warheads. Are we great again yet?

submitted 19 hours ago • 149 comments

As usual, Donnie’s brain is playing shorthanded.

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Listen up you absolute fucking legends of stupidity, you glorious, star-spangled dipshits, you majestically brain-dead champions of mediocrity, you beige wallpaper of humanity… measles outbreaks do not HAPPEN ALL THE TIME in our country. Stop acting like this shit is normal. It’s not.

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BREAKING HEALTH ALERT: A case of measles has now been confirmed in the state of Kentucky. The Kentucky Department of Public Health said the person had traveled internationally to an area with an ongoing measles transmission. CRITICAL REMINDERS: Measles is highly, highly contagious — one of the…

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If this is enacted, Indiana will be sued.

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Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

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If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1436 comments

RFK Jr is either IGNORANT or a LIAR. The two measles deaths — both unvaccinated children — in Texas announced today are actually the FIRST deaths attributed to the disease in the U.S. since 2015.

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If they truly believed they were saving America they'd be celebrating in the streets, not canceling town halls and hiding from their constituents.

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Narrator: Bongino is of course a far right podcaster.

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Posted by @acnewsitics.bsky.social on another platform: “Why is Pam Bondi taking so long to release the Epstein files? What is she hiding?”

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🔥 CROCKETT: “Facts matter.”

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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

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To have the Supreme Court lowering the bar for 'reverse discrimination' suits is nothing more than privilege and a straight-up slap in the face! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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My husband @robertcooper-us.bsky.social and I were the FIRST gay couple to adopt children in the US, way back in 1985. We went on to adopt five wonderful kids — all adopted at birth. They’ve grown so much! Here’s a pic from our wedding in 2000, and a recent one including their significant others. ❤️

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BREAKING: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that the average price for a dozen eggs in U.S. cities skyrocketed to a record of $4.94 last month — despite Donald Trump building his entire election campaign on the promise of lowering groceries. The verdict is in. MAGA is a disaster.

submitted 15 days ago • 84 comments

It's coming. Pay attention.

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