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A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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The funder landscape for NGOs is under pressure internationally, not only just because of the USAID funding cuts, but developments in The Netherlands as well.

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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NEW: The Energy Department tried to spin its DOGE-directed firing of nuclear-safety officials as affecting just non-critical staff. But this wasn’t close to true. In fact, one of the officials locked out of his work accounts was the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the agency.

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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This is an extremely interesting analysis.

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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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504 plans are how kids can carry EpiPens or make sure their classroom is peanut free. It’s how kids with diabetes can use insulin. It’s how kids with mobility issues can have more passing time or use an elevator. An attack on 504 is an attack on everyone. Listen to @lollardfish.bsky.social.

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What could go wrong? (I can think of like a dozen things, without giving it much thought) www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

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DOGE is a criminal enterprise to destroy the government to empower and enrich oligarchs. Any news org that uses the term "cost cutting" to describe DOGE is complicit and should be shunned.

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Ummm…..

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Amid the rapid disassembly of our government, this is what your Republican Congress is working hard on:

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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

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People have been saying “there are no superheroes, no one is coming to save you,” but historically, oppositions have had leaders that served as figureheads and organizational centers. Who is our George Washington? Our MLK Jr? Lots of people seem to want to orate, but who is our central organizer?

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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

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Extraordinary lies and nonsense from a sitting U.S. president - I counted seven lies in just the first sentence. This could have been written in the Kremlin - where the vodka and crappy Shampanskoye is likely flowing right now.

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There should be some—emergency conference, is how I think of it, others say 'shadow cabinet'—of officials coordinating and making united statements about the constitutional crisis, and Pritzker should lead it. Nobody's perfect but he's hitting the right notes. This is the tone and message we need.

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The parallel of this is quite literally Western allies pressuring the leader of Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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I am part of the 25%. The lifestyle change is worth it. This is the way…

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Not checking the single biggest line in your data is just absolute amateur hour stuff, total rookie error. When they get basic stuff like this so obviously wrong, it's not exactly reassuring that they're accessing ultra-sensitive records

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This database would give Musk detailed technical specifications of every system, detailed pricing and delivery schedules, and information on any confidential government investigations into every other U.S. defense firms. Conflict of interest does not get bigger than this.

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New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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a government full of sexual abusers taking the position that you can't say no

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Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

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Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

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Everytime you read one of these stories--and they've become daily now--remember that there are some functions that are just as critical but don't make obvious headlines. Nukes! Bird Flu! ATCs! But food inspectors are probably the same--and they're not being recalled. and so on.

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Yes, the employee at McDonald’s should be able to afford rent, groceries, bills, health care and retirement plans with their paycheck alone. That’s what jobs are for.

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Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

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Many people are asking why RFK Jr. talked about the sperm count of young boys in his opening address to HHS and I do not have a good answer for that.

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The greatest lesson of the past decade for me is just how cheaply people will sell off their oaths, their ideals, their country. It is utterly depressing.

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Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?

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After we let Russia occupy part of your country and steal your resources, we will occupy the other part and do the same. Quite the starting point for the Americans.

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jesus christ, fuck you, man

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Yes. Surely there is news to report outside of the press conferences chaired by a WH Press Sec who lies nearly as often as her boss does?

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A thing that everyone should do RIGHT NOW is download your Social Security statements. What you've paid in, what you're owed. www.ssa.gov/myaccount/st...

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He's getting access to literally everything about everyone, IRS records, social security records, health records etc. No one can have any sense of privacy after this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

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