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Senator Lisa Murkowski on the DOGE/Elon Musk email to federal employees.

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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The media have failed us. There aren’t four GOP moderates in the Senate with any backbone. Judicial time is slow and it’s too soon to say whether the courts will fold. But in a mixed economy you can’t unleash a buncha clueless culture warriors to gut the public sector without obvious consequences.

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In 2020, the military was adamant about refusing to get involved in the election. That's why Trump hates General Mark Milley so much. Now, Trump is transforming the military into one that will back him up in 2029. We need to figure out how to prepare for that eventuality.

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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““We did not elect him,” a man shouted. As the town hall reached its scheduled end, more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled “don’t lie to us””

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Rep. Bacon and other House Republicans are asking the right question: How can you cut $880 billion or more and still spare people who get their health coverage from #Medicaid? You can't! punchbowl.news/archive/2212...

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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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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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You were elected by the public. If you can’t stand up for your own constituents IN PUBLIC, then you don’t deserve your office and we are all paying for your cowardice.

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

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In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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GOP Rep Tom Cole, whose father died of Alzheimer's, has called this center "critically important" for the "future of aging." Sen Susan Collins hailed this research as key to preventing Alzheimer's from becoming "one of the defining diseases of our children’s generation." Now?

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Graduate student admissions paused and cut back as universities react to Trump orders on research www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t... via @statnews.com @anguschen.bsky.social @usha.bsky.social @mmolteni.bsky.social

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Disgusting state-censured discrimination! HaHS should be ashamed. Fight bird flue not people just trying to survive.

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Plane crash president

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1st Cir., per curiam, holds that it does not violate parental rights for school to use a student's requested pronouns and requested name at school without informing the parents. Of note, the decision uses "they/them" throughout to refer to the student. www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

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During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes, robbed of their property, and imprisoned for no reason other than their ancestry. On this day of remembrance, we condemn the bigotry that fueled this dark chapter in our history. Never again.

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Elon is unpopular. Billionaire oligarchs are unpopular. Letting tech bros have all your gov't data is unpopular. Slashing cancer research is unpopular. Laying off veterans is unpopular. Cutting the FAA is unpopular. Dismantling nat' parks is unpopular. Seems like a good time to take a stand.

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MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

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He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

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FFS @politico.com !!

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"This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.

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"We have a cowardly Republican conference in the House...[and] the Senate...And that is part of why we're in the situation we're in...a stalemate just between the executive branch and the courts." - @marcelias.bsky.social Watch the full video:

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Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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Democrats need to be focusing on the crisis going on right now rather than positioning themselves as bipartisan for an election 21 months away

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Ex-federal workers say 'cold and cruel' firings upended their lives Fired workers worried about making rent and paying student loans. Many talked about going into government work because they value public service. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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