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Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill, say experts - The Guardian “We won’t recover from this. There’s no way. The financial fallout is catastrophic, and he’s dismantling everything. I mean, I don’t know how this helps the working man.”

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This is what true politicization of the DoJ looks like.

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“No kings, no tyrants.” Thanks @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for using your powers for good.

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@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Thank you so much for speaking up for what is right with honesty and integrity. We appreciate you and need others to follow your lead! #SaveOurDemocracy

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Chris Kluwe, a former NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings, was arrested after speaking out against plans to install a plaque with references to President Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” at a library in Huntington Beach, California.

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Floating the idea of them stupid ass checks from DOGE is literally a distraction while they keep ruining the country. "Here's 5000 bucks, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" (wizard of oz reference)

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Ex-NFL Player Hauled Out Of City Meeting After Railing Against 'Nazi' MAGA Movement - HuffPost We need more like Kluwe #StandForDemocracy

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A coalition of congressional Republicans from the New York area rebuked President Trump for cuts to a federal program that administers aid to emergency workers and others suffering from toxins related to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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gulfof.mapquest.com?name=Obama What a name! 💪😊

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Opinion | Can Trumpism be defeated? Absolutely. Here’s how - The Guardian apple.news/AAWgYs1JkQTe...

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"This is in violation of a presidential executive order. It needs to stop" -- Elon Musk, on Hannity's show, makes clear he has no idea how the American government works by asserting that Trump can use executive orders to unilaterally impound funds appropriated by Congress

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Trump issues new executive order: Only the president can speak for “what the law is” It was fun doing democracy with you.

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Anne Marie Hochhalter, who spoke publicly about the long-lasting effects of gun violence after she was paralyzed in the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, was found dead on Sunday at her home. She was 43.

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One Internal Revenue Service employee said the administration’s reported plan to lay off probationary employees could lead to a yearslong mess for processing tax returns. “It’s skilled, technical work and it takes months and months, even years to become proficient,” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump have decided that you don't deserve to feel safe when you fly.

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They're using fear to bully you into compliance. Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom. They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises. What do they have to fear? Nothing so far. That needs to change.

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What the actual fuck.

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Not remotely surprising.. Great show! "NBC’s 50th anniversary special for “Saturday Night Live” hit a very strong 14.8 million viewers on average across NBC and Peacock on Sunday night." That number is 202% above the average. #SNL50

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No bueno www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

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Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.

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WTF!!! Eric Adams just invoked Adolf Hitler and said that those calling for his resignation over his corrupt deal with Trump’s DOJ to drop his indictment amount to “a modern-day ‘Mein Kampf.' This is insane.

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If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

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three fights and we're not 10 seconds into the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off game this is the most lit thing i've ever seen

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You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly. Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences. The public must turn on this madness and soon.

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Sheryl Crow Sells Tesla with a Big FU to Trump and ‘President Musk’: Sitting in a restaurant early in the evening on Saturday, it occurred to me that Sheryl Crow had some demons to excise and so it’s little wonder that she set about to do so this last weekend and perhaps she has them maxed out –…

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BREAKING: NEW resignations over Trump's DOJ moving to drop the Eric Adams case. John Keller, acting head of the Public Integrity Section, refused to drop the case and resigned. Three others resigned. Kevin Driscoll, acting head of the Criminal Division, refused to drop the charges and resigned.

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BREAKING: 70 to 100 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were just laid off -- a few days after ~73 others there were terminated. CFPB staff are hearing talk that much wider cuts to the organization could happen on Friday. My story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

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'He has that reversed': CNN fact checker smacks down Trump's newest round of falsities: President Donald Trump's joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was rife with misinformation, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale told anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday evening. "What stood out…

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Ben Jennings on ‘checks and balances’ in Trump’s White House – cartoon - The Guardian

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Consumers are boycotting major retailers. Here's what they plan for 'blackout' on Feb. 28 - USA TODAY

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We remind them that this country does not belong to the elite, it belongs to the people and this will work," Power to the people!

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Russell Vought, the co-author of Project 2025, has said that we live in a post-constitutional time and has proposed hundreds of billions in cuts to health care and other essential programs. Now, he’s nominated to run the Office of Management and Budget.

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