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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Did you know that 72 MILLION Americans rely on Medicaid for healthcare? The Trump Administration and MAGA Republicans in Congress want to take it away to give tax breaks to billionaires. Don't let them take away our healthcare. Let them know you didn’t vote for this shit.

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Yippee Ky-yay. Git along little DOGEy.

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$880BILLION CUTS TO MEDICAID 31 million children Extreme MAGA GOP WILL CUT MEDICAID

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Pete Buttigieg said what we’re all thinking about Trump and Musk’s mayhem: “We too demand government work different and better than it has...burning it to the ground isn’t gonna do that for anyone.”

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

As someone who is in this industry for a living, this would be devastating. Like the worst crisis in American medical history devastating. Like so earth shattering Republicans wouldn’t win an election for 2 decades. It won’t happen, at least congressionally

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If you watch any sporting event in America and the commercials, it would be hard to contend that American culture tells young men that they are "bad" if they like to have a beer with friends. This is far-right, culture-war drivel.

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COWARD, IRRESPONSIBLE, WEAK : “Right now, you have got to give him some space,” Senator John Thune, the South Dakota Republican and majority leader, said at a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday after a closed-door Senate lunch with Vice President JD Vance. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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I have no independent confirmation of this. But this is seriously scary. This piece claims D.O.G.E. exposed sensitive government servers to the internet. @markwarner.bsky.social @jahimes.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/cyberint...

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

Trump & Musk together have pulled our pants down in front of the entire world to see, leaving us exposed and vulnerable. These guys are not Pro American. They are anti American!

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“The people who represent the nation that has committed these war crimes are sitting across the table from Rubio with the hope of relief from devastating sanctions and an end to a conflict they started, all the while continuing to inflict suffering on Ukraine.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

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The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

submitted 5 days ago • 127 comments

THIS is how you communicate. Say it plain.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 246 comments

Sound familiar? History repeating itself?

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Tell Congress: Pass the "Stop the Steal" bill to prevent anyone from meddling with our payment systems and data actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Oops - again Trump gets compared to Hitler. Starts to be a pattern.

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Murphy: "Hegseth got the job because he's the weekend news anchor on Fox, and Trump watches a lot of Fox and so he decided to make that guy the head of the DOD and our chief negotiator in Ukraine. Pete Hegseth is screwing it up badly, but of course he is ... all he knows how to do is read the news"

submitted 4 days ago • 378 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

submitted 5 days ago • 1093 comments

Trump has signed an executive order claiming that ONLY the President and Attorney General can speak for “what the law is.” No laws for me but laws for thee. What happened to checks and balances? 😡

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

imagine what a weak quisling Rubio is that he cannot even explain to Trump that Russia started the war. Think about that. Utterly spineless.

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

President Convicted Felon is working SOOOOO hard.

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 846 comments

Trump is telling us to our faces that he's going to stand by while Musk guts and likely steals the social security that several generations have paid into. He's counting on his flock being perfectly fine with it. And sadly, they probably will be.

submitted 4 days ago • 101 comments

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

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"When I started this, didn’t have a strong objection to the death penalty... But in looking closely at each of these cases I see very troubling signs that make me think that the moral authority to impose an extreme penalty like this is just not available." www.texasstandard.org/stories/texa...

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This is dangerous. Trump wants to hand over FAA to Musk and SpaceX. This means your taxpayer-purchased air traffic control facilities and equipment, packages, and emergency flights would be under control of SpaceX, which is unchecked by the flying public and U.S. military.

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Mass firings of FAA workers - at a time when they already have serious staffing problems - would be dangerous at any time. Musk and Trump doing this weeks after the deadliest crash in years is stupid beyond belief. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

This is absolutely insane. — www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 6 days ago • 375 comments

For those keeping track, @nytimes.com ran the story today on the bottom of page A22.

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"What part of “neo-Nazi” does JD Vance not understand?" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Where does the accumulated debt of this country come from? It comes from Republican presidents. So much for Republicans being the party of "fiscal responsibility"; they will gladly drive up the debt if it means they can pass a Tax Scam for their billionaire friends and corporations.

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

He’s been co-POTUS for 4 weeks. Not even a month. And they’re already calling for the likely future leader of the Democratic Party—a nonwhite woman—to be put in a cage. Twitter has many tweets like the one below. Everyone needs to understand: America is on very limited time now. Fascism is here.

submitted 7 days ago • 459 comments

Captures it perfectly.

submitted 7 days ago • 459 comments

A phrase in this article I'm hearing more and more often when describing working in the NHS "Like working in a war zone" We need more staff in almost every department

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

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