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🦋 REMINDER: Project 2025 is a 6 month plan, so 3.5 months left of the Mandate which is a "180-day Transition Playbook" 💥 302 Total 109 Done 44 In Progress 💥 👉👉 www.project2025.observer 👈👈 Sad to say, there is worse to come ... 🦋

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I am scared to imagine what will be covered by Medicare & Medicaid going forward. Raspberry ketones? Some other non sense supplements? Ivermectin? But probably no real meds since the entire crew is fighting vaccines, statins, SSRIs, chemo therapy, etc.

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This was less than three months ago.

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In the "personal news" department, this morning I let my colleagues know that I'm leaving The Washington Post. I'm retiring from my longtime journalistic home but not from journalism, and I'll keep you posted as I decide what my next chapter will be.

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We all look forward to your next chapter!

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🦋 Funding for Planned Parenthood ends today Title X funding supports 300 health centres nationwide who have 1.5 million visitors a year. The cuts affect: > Cancer screening > Sexually transmitted disease treatment > Access to birth control Rates of cancer & STD are expected to rise as a result 🦋

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Trump is pathetic www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

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📌He gets such glee out of breaking and abusing such perfectly good things ...

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Must read from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

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Fifty years ago, life expectancy in the U.S. and wealthy European countries was relatively similar. That began to change around 1980. As European life expectancy steadily increased, the U.S. struggled to keep pace — and its life expectancy even began declining in 2014.

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Trump’s reckless global tariffs will hurt American businesses, raise consumer prices, and trigger trade wars that cost jobs. Protectionism isn’t strength—it’s economic self-sabotage. We need smart trade policies that boost American manufacturing, empower workers, and boost our economy. #TrumpTariffs

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Trump’s legacy is one of broken promises—bankruptcies in business, betrayals in politics. Now, he’s wrecking trust in America’s alliances, economy, and government. Once trust is gone, it takes generations to rebuild. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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Since Mike Johnson and House Republicans have absurdly declared this entire year to be one loooooong legal day, we need to make reduce their salaries, healthcare and security to one day's pay, one day's coverage, one day's security protection.

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“When McKinley, most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Rand Paul said. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”

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Remember how Mark Zuckerberg started cozying up to Trump as Meta donated $1 million to his inauguration? Well now Zuckerberg is trying to cash in — reportedly lobbying Trump to settle the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta. This is why you always follow the money.

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The stock market is collapsing, and that means the retirement savings of everyday Americans are disappearing by the hour. This is all because of Trump's reckless mismanagement of the economy. Now, these tariffs that are being imposed will raise the cost of goods for everyday Americans.

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Apropos of nothing: Kamala Harris predicted this exact moment happening: “Understand that part of Trump’s plan is to put in place a national sales tax of at least 20% on everyday goods and necessities.” She warned us over & over again & she was so right.

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I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!

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It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

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Prosecutors this week decided not to pursue an assault charge against a man whom Rep. Nancy Mace accused of having "physically accosted" her at the U.S. Capitol in December.

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There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

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Trump has always sold victimhood. He’s always whining that he’s a victim. He’s convinced his voters they’re victims, that black & brown immigrants are taking their jobs. And his case for tariffs? America is a victim, “We’ve been getting ripped off for 50 years,” he said today.

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So no tariffs on Russia that's not suspicious?

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Gotcha!!

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This is what happens when people speak up.

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What say you? 👇 Mad yet?!

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#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue Today, Trump announced tariffs on everybody! Trump is so stupid, he put tariffs on penguins that inhabit the Heard and McDonald Islands. Who knew those penguins were ripping us off but Trump is owning the penguins! 1/3

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#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue The World Trade Center Health Program has become the latest victim of Musk’s DOGE cuts. This program helped 9/11 first responders and survivors and now it faces a bleak future after the layoff of hundreds of 1/4 www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-...

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America🇺🇸Shame on you for what is being done to our veterans! Veterans have made selfless sacrifices to protect this country and instead, they’re treated like💩 America has turned their backs on them! America is the most ungrateful nation ever😡 #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

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Where's Bondi?

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Speak Truth to power.......Democrat and Republican.......Silence is NOT AN OPTION......

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Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.

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Kind, thoughtful, talented, brilliant, wise, brave. A beautiful person who will be missed

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Would be wonderful but I’ll wait to celebrate. What’s scary is the Republican budget wants to keep DOGE. That’s not good. If Musk goes and takes DOGE with him, then we could take a deep breath. 💙

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