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The DOW closed down 400 points yesterday and is down another 400 points this morning. I hope this isn’t a trend

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From the incredible team continuing to track the effect that abortion bans are having on women's health: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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We need a work requirement for the Missouri GOP. They plagiarize bills, scroll on their phones all day, disrespect the voters, work 90 days a year, and walk away with taxpayer-funded healthcare and a state pension.

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Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to cut 84% of staff at the office that funds the U.S.'s disaster recovery, raising questions about how the country will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change.

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

Good work, MAGA voters. Especially those of you in Tornado Alley.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Good. Don’t flinch.

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“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower-qualified women and minorities could be hired instead of highly-qualified white men. They were put in place to ensure lower-qualified white men were not hired instead of more highly-qualified women and minorities.

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theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

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Via The New Yorker

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Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 317 comments

Trump signed 60+ executive orders in a month—none were for you. He let billionaires loot, dismantle, & dodge justice. Now, they’re tearing at the Constitution to stay in power. We must fight back. Monday, Feb 17 at your state capitol. 50 states, 50 capitols, 1 protest.Stand up: www.fiftyfifty.one

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

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These Trump Party people in Texas don’t actually care about this doctor in New York. They just want to try to use this case to get in front of the Supreme Court to push their big government control agenda nationally. apnews.com/article/abor...

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Stop using the term Republican Party. The Republican Party is dead. It’s the Trump party now. He owns it and he owns them.

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Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

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Imagine you're just some 30-something guy who converts to one of the world's major religions and in less than a decade its spiritual leader is rebuking you in front of the entire world That's how big a loser JD Vance is apnews.com/article/pope...

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 12 days ago • 252 comments

🚨BREAKING: Emergency motion filed in federal court by @democracyforward.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social re: Trump admin’s non-compliance with Friday’s court order blocking US AID purges. Visit Democracy Docket for details. www.democracydocket.com

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Trump hopes Americans don’t realize what the CFPB does. So I wrote this piece on why CFPB exists, the billions it has saved us, & why dismantling it devastates working people. This is class warfare & we cannot afford to lose. No paywall. Please read & share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/cfpb-is-su...

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

Modern-day coups don’t require rifles. They happen when the executive seizes power, dismantles the judiciary, and usurps the legislature—just like what’s happening now.

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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau seems to no longer exists online (discovered by Dr Eric Feigl-Ding)

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Wow www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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A constitutional crisis? Nope. Let's call what's happening what it is: a constitutional collapse: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team, which has been tasked with slashing federal spending, has access to her agency’s data, including that of federal disaster aid recipients’ personal information, as part of an “audit” she welcomes.

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Hard to coose the worst stories tonight - NIH cuts which will close departments, put scientists out of work - or this, reports of cat to human transmission of bird flu virus which appeared then disappeared from CDC website : www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 15 days ago • 941 comments

📌STOP talking about GAZA and KEEP talking about this COUP.

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