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NEW: Trump appointees running USAID have just fired about 400 employees who help deliver urgent humanitarian aid in disaster and war zones around the world. This raises more doubts about whether Rubio supports lifesaving aid. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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This is horrific "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 23 hours ago • 641 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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The former Brazilian president, a Trump ally, could face years in prison over a scheme to overturn the country’s 2022 election.

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BREAKING: Mysterious Deadly Outbreak in DRC 431 Cases, 53 Deaths as Ebola, Marburg Ruled Out In the first of the two outbreaks, children affected had prior contact with bats. Further investigations are ongoing for both incidents.

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Starting to analyze the data with the team. Here is a breakdown of contracts cancelled by DOGE by contractor. What happens as DOGE goes through and cancels all these contracts is that thousands of companies lose business and people lose jobs that were helping the government.

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I have heard from workers at multiple agencies that they have been advised by managers not to respond to Musk’s email. Some didn’t say why, others said they’re waiting on guidance from agency leadership—but we can guess what they’ll say.

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This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

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New from @karenhao.bsky.social: more than a dozen workers in federal agencies outline how the administration is pushing a new ideology and stoking paranoia within the government’s ranks. “People are terrified,” one source said, “not for losing their jobs but for losing democracy.”

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Penn (not Pitt) just announced too. There will be many more.

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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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Judge Advocates General. He’s fired the top military lawyers in each service.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The Trump administration is sending asylum seekers and migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and China to Costa Rica and Panama. There’s no plan for what happens to them next // Andrea Salcedo writes from Panama City with @schmidtsam.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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We need to think like an authoritarian if the pro-democracy opposition is going to win. Here's how to look ahead and run the authoritarian playbook in reverse. Read our latest briefing on reverse-engineering autocracy. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/reverse-engineering-autocracy

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TRUMP: You have a man who has let a country that had the more beautiful cities get demolished. The most beautiful domes. FOX: But that's Russia's fault, Mr President T: 1,000 year old domes. Everything is demolished. It's sorta like Gaza F: That's Putin's fault T: I get tired of listening to it

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¿Hay en la sala alguna traductora jurada que pueda traducir del francés al catalán un certificado de capacidad matrimonial de una sola página? Tengo los MD abiertos. ☺️ Se agradece un retuit. ¡Muchas gracias!

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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The Pentagon is now pausing their mass firing of civilian employees in order to evaluate potential impacts on military readiness. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe a readiness assessment should have been the first step. 🤦‍♂️

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Maya Angelou taught us to believe people when they show us who they are. Well, this presidential administration keeps showing us their Nazi sympathies and we'd be foolish not to believe them. --- Source with video: www.thejc.com/news/usa/ste...

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I used to be enamored with politicians who openly used Christian faith language in interviews and speeches. I’m now far more enamored when politicians openly treat others with Christian kindness.

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking ALL NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

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Precisely what we warned about when the emails first went out.

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Oh wow, what a crazy random happenstance.

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The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

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Fox News and Newsmax have reportedly signed onto a letter criticizing the Trump WH for limiting the AP's access for not using "Gulf of America." But their actual coverage of the issue is full of attacks on the AP and defenses of Trump.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 859 comments

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Bannon: "The future of MAGA is Donald Trump! We want Trump in '28. That's what they can't stand. A man like Trump comes along only once or twice in the country's history. We want Trump! We want Trump!"

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Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

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What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

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We're on the Hill! @pfirchow.bsky.social @apaczynska.bsky.social @democracyprofdc.bsky.social and Louis Berg are delivering the Open Letter to Congress as we speak. Over 217 scholars of foreign assistance have signed to demand Congress take action. @schatz.bsky.social

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