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The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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My favorite Europeans are nine years old open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

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Dublin today. Thank you for standing with #Ukraine! 📹:@UKRinIRL

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What the Trump administration wants to do by creating these camps is monstrous enough. But a key thing I found when writing a book on concentration camp history is that when you establish this kind of detention, it tends over time to devolve into much worse kinds of camps.

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He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

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I'm always so relieved when I come across Americans who were truly affected by watching a genocide for 15 months straight. I'm not sure what's wrong with those who weren't, but I know they're directly connected to the predicament this country finds itself in today. You can't localize lack of empathy

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AND... it is wrecking the ability of the agency to function! DOGE was invented to destroy our democracy and yes, it destroys people's lives.

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"Cowboy" morphed into Fascist and Torturer. February 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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I continue to believe this idiot decided America was never richer than in the gilded age because someone showed him pictures of all the robber baron mansions.

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KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE

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The Justice Department is investigating a New York sheriff for declining to detain someone on behalf of ICE. It's not clear what the DOJ could charge him with. “There is no such crime as failing to help ICE do its job," one legal expert said. nysfocus.com/2025/02/21/t...

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FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

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This is going to sound mean & elitist & the meritocracy is bullshit but whatever: so many of the people they want to traumatize busted their asses & sacrificed & succeeded against big odds to carve out careers in government that don't pay well but help keep this place up & running...

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"The reclassification exposes these employees to termination without due process, said U.S. Representative Don Beyer... NSF unilaterally stripped permanent status from both union and non-union workers, including executives, without notification." More on this here: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

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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.

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OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

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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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It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

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Trump draws strong support from farm states. But his enthusiasm for increasing taxes on all imported products could ignite a global trade war that boomerangs on American farmers, the principal targets of foreign retaliation in Trump’s first term.

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Elmo is demanding that 2.3M federal employees submit 5 bullets representing their accomplishments last week (or be fired). Fun fact. If 2.3M employees spend 5 minutes each answering that email, it will cost taxpayers $8.5M. Your taxpayer dollars funding his harassment of Feds. Now you know.

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They do nothing that does not have corruption at its core. Follow the money.

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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“A reminder to believe nothing you see or hear on CBC.” Because if you did, they’d keep the power to hold Pierre to account for the things he says and does! And god forbid anyone does that!! Chickenshit, autocratic rhetoric from a guy who keeps boosting bootlicker media

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The way other female conservative influencers are turning on Ashley St. Clair, leaking her texts, and smearing her should be a sign to any conservative woman that a movement built on misogyny will not protect you. That your female peers will weaponize misogyny against you, too.

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Something that wasn't brought to my attention until after publication is that GlomarResponder also made a lot of posts that appear to praise and defend Adolf Hitler.

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This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Höcke claimed that "Hitler was regarded as only bad.” He has been convicted twice by German courts for using Nazi slogans. And at one point his own fellow AfD leaders thought he was too extreme for their party. But he’s hero to Elon Musk.

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This is excellent

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The MAGAs are really, really blatantly firing a ton of women in the federal government and military for the crime of being women, and it is embarrassing when people ignore or downplay this.

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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

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Wait for it... 😂 🔊🔊 📽️theflooftales #cats

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Contrarian Pet of the Week open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Undaunted: Courage is Contagious open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Have any of you ever pondered about the fact that so many people in this world are incurious? Their lack of curiosity is what keeps them from learning about what is different from their bubble and preventing their intuition & empathy capacity from being fostered. What would happen if we just had 1/

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If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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The importance of being litigious www.lawdork.com/p/the-import...

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Full speech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBOJ...

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My governor: Go, J.B.! Hit 'em again, harder, HARDER! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS66...

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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“In every Supreme Court case in the last decade involving religious resistance to an equality norm, equality has lost. The implications, for our civil rights laws and those they aim to protect, are grave.” Deputy @aclu.org legal director Louise Melling:

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If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

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February 21, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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Republicans have proposed cutting the healthcare of 72 million Americans by as much as $880 BILLION Why Because they want to give more tax cuts to the ultra wealthy Think of it They’re willing to let people die So they can give their rich friends-like Elon-tax breaks Don’t Cut My Medicaid

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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