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“I thought that someone with his [Trump’s] business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.” Trump? Business acumen?🤣🤣🤣 He’s had how many bankruptcies?

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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"America is indeed an exceptional nation—exceptional in this current moment for the selfishness and cruelty of its leaders, their rejection of pluralism, and their determination to make 330 million people speak, think, and live as they say."

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The Department of Agriculture fired employees working on the avian flu outbreak because of DOGE. DOGE works directly for President Trump. So from now on, when this kind of thing happens, it should be reported as, "Trump fires employees working on avian flu."

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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

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“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

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Nothing fishy here…

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1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

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"The enormity of Defendants’ actions cannot be overstated." Please read this paragraph in court case filed on Monday.⬇️ Details the devastating, immediate and far-reaching, real-world impacts of the #USAID funding freeze. From famine to counternarcotics and counter-terrorism programs, more.

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Trump may have pardoned the rioter who viciously attacked officer Michael Fanone on January, but Judge Amy Berman Jackson made a few things clear when she dismissed the case, as she had to:

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Sweeping up Puerto Ricans - automatic U.S. citizens - in immigration raids doesn't exactly back up the idea that it's all about making sure immigrants are following the law. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-depo...

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.

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Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

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Folks, go get your Tdap vax if it's been more than eight years, and get your kids vaxed too.

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👇👇👇

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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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NIH IN YOUR STATE “Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America” www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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8th day of Black History Month quote from Mr Baldwin is longer but certainly auspicious. Let us all look for the light, wherever we find it. Hope in our Senators & Reps fighting back. In our friends, family who share our concerns & our love of what promise America has held & can regain. Resilience!

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If you work for the federal government and have information about what’s going on at your agency, please contact me via Signal at juddlegum.47 or use the QR Code below. I'm especially interested in speaking to people who work for the CFPB. I will maintain your anonymity.

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We have the power to keep darkness at bay...

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Measles outbreak in Texas. Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas. Bird flu percolating. It’s gonna be a great year…

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The threat is coming from inside… as most of us thought.

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Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the CDC but then abruptly vanished.

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We @propublica.org are tracking who is working with Elon Musk and what they are doing. We have 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported. Help us investigate and send us tips 🔎: www.propublica.org/tips/federal... projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident.

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Chicago! If you can, head downtown tomorrow and join Indivisible Chicago in calling on Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to do more to push back against the Trump agenda. Get to 230 S Dearborn St., Chicago, from noon to 1pm.

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NEW: Elon Musk’s attack on USAID has cut HIV/AIDS workers off from medicine and money. The Trump Administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives. Read our scoop here:

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Whether it's Donna Brazile sharing town hall topics with Hillary Clinton or Trump treasury secretary Scott Bessent sharing your Social Security Number with Elon Musk, both sides are guilty of sharing privileged information.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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