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House Republicans created a disaster for D.C. with the CR — restricting the District's ability to use its OWN money to fund its OWN schools, public safety and more. My bill with Senator Collins to fix this passed unanimously in the Senate. House Republicans need to pass it NOW.

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“Essentially all shipments out of China for major retailers and manufacturers have ceased,” Eugene Seroka, the executive director of the port, said on April 24.

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Countless journalists around the world risk their lives every day to speak truth to power. On World Press Freedom Day and every day, we must protect the freedom of the press. Journalism is not a crime.

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A federal judge ruled on Friday that an executive order President Trump signed in March targeting the law firm Perkins Coie was unconstitutional and directed the government not to enforce its terms, which had threatened to upend the firm’s business.

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Voters in a part of south Texas that is home to Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, will decide whether to officially turn a small, coastal stretch at the southern tip of the Lone Star State into a city named Starbase.

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Score one for 🇨🇦? Canadian pension fund PSP Investments has acquired full ownership of The Wharf, a 3.5-million-square-foot, mixed-use area along DC’s Southwest Waterfront. #canada #DCrealestate

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Very interesting read from @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Gorgeous morning at Bethany Beach, DE.

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Well F. I think my BF & I figured out Trump’s 2028 plan. 12th amendment says he can’t run for POTUS or VP. But next in line is Speaker. Art. I, Sect. II, Cls. 5, doesn’t state House membership as a requirement for Speaker. And if we figured that out on vacation over ☕️… @50501movement.bsky.social

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Trump is trying to fix the rules so he gets to rule forever; following the authoritarian playbook to the letter: - harass or co-opt the press - weaken the lawyers - silence universities and student protest - cut off funding for the opposition But we won’t let him win.

submitted 12 days ago • 67 comments

I am hosting a job fair to support federal workers and contractors on May 3 at George Washington Middle School in Alexandria. Come meet with companies from various sectors, including from health care, local government, military, finance, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EQ5...

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“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:

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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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Stumbled on DC’s Boundary Stone #9 on this morning’s run. Love finding them; so glad many of them have been preserved.

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A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."

submitted 22 days ago • 1432 comments

Ken Griffey Jr.’s wife, Melissa, asked if he could do some chores around the house this weekend. “No,” he told her, “I have to work the Masters.”

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My favorite sentence was “Don’t get health advice from a cookbook.” Great read/listen from the @theatlantic.com #bluezones #longevity

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Excellent discussion.

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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk’s DOGE may be secretly recording meetings in at least two agencies, according to emails from senior officials. Full story from our collaboration with the @us.theguardian.com: go.crooked.com/K628MH

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Well, none of this seems like authoritarian behavior at all! Subscribe to #WhatADay for more. crooked.com/daily

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@dkthomp.bsky.social: “The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.”

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25,000+ Federal employees & contractors work in Arlington & more call the County home. We've created a hub to help our neighbors find & navigate important resources, services & public benefit programs. Explore job training & searches, unemployment, & more.

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There are 32m small businesses in the USA

submitted 33 days ago • 1206 comments

More than 500 law firms on Friday threw their support behind some of their embattled peers, declaring that President Trump’s recent crackdown on the law firm industry poses “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.”

submitted 33 days ago • 39 comments

Nice one from @lincolnproject.us on how if only Trump had paid attention to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off we could have avoided this mess. www.facebook.com/share/v/1ADN... (Didn’t see it on 🦋 so sharing the FB link)

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Yeah you know those damn seals, penguins, albatrosses…they’re really stealing from “us”… #tariffs

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Sen. Strom Thurmond voted against the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, AND supported Jim Crow laws. Thurmond’s record for longest floor speech (in protest of the Civil Rights Act, no less!) was just broken by a Black man, my good friend Cory Booker. That’s America.

submitted 36 days ago • 106 comments

Hope. www.youtube.com/live/-tQnm19... #corybooker

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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

submitted 37 days ago • 11195 comments

1) so wrong. 2) it will be interesting to see how this plays out with taxes. I suspect it will follow the Oprah car giveaway incident and the recipients will end up paying the taxes on the $1mln.

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JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

submitted 37 days ago • 378 comments

Taking in peak bloom at dusk. Did you know the cherry blossoms festival commemorates the 1912 gift of more than 3,000 cherry blossom trees from Japan to the US as a gift of friendship?

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Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House

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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

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Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites. Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly. theblue.report/week/

submitted 40 days ago • 369 comments

🫠came home to a wonderful surprise. To paraphrase #RoyKent in #TedLasso, I’m so glad I didn’t settle for fine and waited for someone who makes me feel like I’ve been struck by lightening. Every. Day.

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