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"Trump’s 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption" Trump plans to use your money to buy fake money, writes Jacob Silverman for Zeteo, benefiting the crypto donors who helped put him back in the White House.

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“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”

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White House, via GSA, announces plans to sell off most of the central buildings which constitute the HQs of the American republic, including FBI HQs, HQs of DOJ, HHS, Dept of Labor and many others. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/looti...

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I hope the young people of America start rising up because Donald Trump is stealing their future.

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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

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This is incredible to witness. Sen. Glenn Grothman checks his notes, so he obviously planned to say these things —yet delivers a masterclass in being completely out of touch. This is exactly what people mean when they say their representatives don’t get it. Cringe!

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SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

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Trump Orders Permanent Govt Shutdown – No, Really … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

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"FDA labs now have to go through a lengthy process to order liquid nitrogen, which is used to keep ultra-cold freezers running. These freezers preserve samples of cells and other biological material that reflect years, and sometimes decades, of research." bit.ly/3DtbYyO

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Critical to remember. The constitution has a really straightforward tool to deal with this situation.

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An Economy and a Government are Not Like a Business talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-ec...

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Trump is not just betraying the brave people of Ukraine and our European allies--although he is certainly doing that. He is also betraying the people of the United States and his oath of office. Defending Ukraine and repulsing Russian aggression is critical to US interests.

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Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

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Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

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Look up James Talarico he is a congressman for Texas and he is also a great one to listen too. But since he is not as popular as AOC not many people pay attention to him. He has tried to warn others way before the election about Christian Nationalists taking over as well.

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The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Here in Texas, a group of billionaires are trying to dismantle our public schools with a private school voucher scam. If they want to close our schools, Texans have 4 words for them: Come and Take It.

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good morning 🔌 we're plugged in and ready to roll. our top story so far: In a Texas university town of about 125,000 people, ordinary residents and officials banded together to oppose Amazon’s proposal to more than double the number of daily local drone flights. And the animals are thankful for it:

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This is it. The plausible scenario is not that the 2028 elections don’t happen. It’s that they happen with every financial oligarch and major corporation backing the GOP. And every major media organization backing the GOP, except for The NY Times which is trying to be neutral.

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We are firing Rangers at National Parks, scientists & aid workers that treat/prevent/research disease and feed the poor, & disabled vets helping fellow vets at VA hospitals, but the good news is we are going to buy a shit ton of crypto so Trump & his friends can make billions.

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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These sites might be useful: 1. HealthMap – Real-time disease tracking system developed by Boston Children’s Hospital. (healthmap.org) 2. Global Incident Map – Displays disease outbreaks worldwide with alert notifications. (outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com)

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I was just on American flight 3083, for LaGuardia. As we touched ground, the plane suddenly sped up and climbed back up. The plane strained to quickly gain altitude. After something like five harrowing minutes, the pilot finally announced, “there was a plane in the ground that was too close to us.”

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Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

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🚨 Global Bird Flu Risk Assessment: Are We on the Brink of a Pandemic? 🚨 The risk of H5N1 bird flu escalating into a pandemic is increasing. Where do we stand now, and what happens next? 🧵👇

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"One side wants you dead, the other side wants you fed. Choose wisely"

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Astonishing speech by Danish Prime Minister. #3E #StandWithUkraine

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Elmo IS the person running the US. Full stop

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Gut wrenching

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Brooke ends this thread by saying she hope she’s wrong. I hope so too, but am fearful she got it exactly right.

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Repeat. This is a lie!

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This will be all of us. Afraid to go outside for one reason or another if we don't turn this tide soon!

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#WomensHistoryMonth

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You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-hundreds-of-millions dollar contracts at fed and state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that repeatedly delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

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So two DOGEbros now embedded at IRS are, according to WAPO, finalizing an 'omnibus agreement' for IRS to share Americans' individual tax data with officials across the US govt, something that would appear to be plainly illegal. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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THIS IS HUGE! For the FIRST time ever, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have successfully discovered a molecular switch that can actually REVERT cancer cells BACK TO NORMAL by capturing the critical transition state before full cancer development. 🧪🧵⬇️

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SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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I cannot stress how true this is; remember, many of these are young democracies. Many of these journalists will be unable to continue their work without support from the US. It's harder to target a journalist if it will get you sanctioned. Now? Open season. www.euractiv.com/section/pol...

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Individual steps towards autocracy can seem petty and personal. But their significance goes beyond that. Retaliation or retribution against one individual or institution is a way to intimidate many others. It’s a way to induce much broader compliance.

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My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

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We’re in this mess in large part bc the average American is uninformed about fundamentals of civics, history, basic biology, economics, etc, and media and the internet are not meeting the moment. Is anyone organizing teach-ins or similar for the general public, whether irl or online?

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Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

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How did the US become a land of opportunity? In a new paper, we show that the country's pioneering role in mass education was key to its rise in intergenerational mobility from 1850 to 1950. "America's Rise in Human Capital Mobility" with Harriet Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichardt

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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

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The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here theblue.report

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“Weaker and more isolated”. Sad truth

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The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;

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