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DID YOU KNOW: We had fewer federal workers in 2024 than we had in 1970?

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Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥

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The shareholders at Tesla would probably like to ask a similar question: "Elon, what did you get done for us last week, other than further alienating our most likely customers with your obnoxious fascist stunts?

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For some reason, they really hate diversity: An Education Department letter says even race-neutral policies aimed at diversity could result in schools and colleges losing federal funding. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his 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." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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MAGA had a huge problem with Kamala’s laugh but is totally fine with Trump saying he is a king and then posting a picture of him in a crown. That basically sums up the current state of the Republican Party.

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Who needs public heath when you've got MAGA & Chainsaw Man running around?

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a vetted list of organizations that are openly supporting project 2025

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This is Arielle Pines. A military spouse who worked in the Dept. of Veterans Affairs for 15 years. She received exceptional performance reviews. She was fired last week as part of Trump’s cuts. She was a “probationer” as she’d transferred to a new office. One story amidst 1000s of lives upended.

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Please note Mr Zelenskyy that many of us did listen to warnings and voted for Kamala Harris the strong + worthy candidate who told us all numerous times about Donald Trump + his weakness for dictators like Putin - unfortunately others ignored the warnings + doomed us all. 🙄

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She told the whole world a few weeks ago.

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Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP state lawmaker says www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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Drug prices just went up, and Big Pharma wants even more. They’re pushing Congress to weaken cost-saving tools for workers, unions, and employers—all to boost their profits. Here’s what’s at stake: bit.ly/4gu5A86

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BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

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🇺🇸👀 CNN poll: ▪️8% of Americans view Russia positively; ▪️61% see Russia as an enemy; ▪️4% Russia as a partner. ▪️ only 9% like Putin! ▪️ 52% support Ukraine using U.S. weapons in Russia.

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A dictatorship that kills people from democracies if they say something inconvenient hosting another dictatorship that does the same and a country run by a wannabe dictator who wants people jailed for saying anything inconvenient gathered to decide the fate of a democracy that wasn’t even invited?

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Food safety chief at the FDA quits saying Trump's mass layoffs make his job "fruitless" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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A Missouri lawmaker is trying to get a vote for a bill that will "maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child (...)" (Missouri voters passed an amendment legalizing abortion this past November) documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking...

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

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Since the Delta pilot, who totaled the plane in Toronto, is a white guy, do you know who suddenly shuts the fuck up about the piloting skills of certain individuals with immutable physical traits, like skin color? Elon fucking Musk. He didn't even lift an arm.

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The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union. cnn.it/42Ymbxy

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What's this you say about censorship, Elon? Just today, Twitter hit famed political cartoonist Mike Luckovich with an account violation and REMOVED this "free speech" from your own platform.

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Real people are being hurt by this illegal government purge by Elon Musk & Donald Trump. Read this from "Ranger Brian" Gibbs who was fired from his National Park Service job in Iowa. Just devastating. 1/

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The New Mexico Department of Health declared a measles outbreak in a southeastern New Mexico county. Cases had previously been detected in a neighboring Texas county. nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/02/14/d...

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Just as it did during the rise of the Nazis a century ago, the New York Times is twisting itself in knots to avoid calling fascists fascists. Germany’s AfD is not a “party that downplays Nazis.” It’s a neo-Nazi party.

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USAID has been paying for removal of Vietnam-era land mines in Cambodia. Trump's funding freeze has compromised those efforts. Almost immediately, China stepped in to aid Cambodia instead. Besides humanitarian costs here, how does any of this serve US interests? www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u...

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Fuck around and Find out: Trump’s federal firings imperil government services from cities to farm towns www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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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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LOUISIANA: “Half a billion dollars to send thousands of kids to private schools… voucher students fare worse on state tests than public school peers…” Same story everywhere. But @GovBillLee does not care. #LeesVoucherScam www.nola.com/news/educati...

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This is the world the RFK regime will bring us. www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

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Sheryl Crow: “My parents always said you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”

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When we expanded funding for IRS the CBO calculated it would reduce deficits by nearly $300B over 10 years because it would begin to close the tax-cheat gap. The Trump WH is now choosing to reverse that and blow up the deficit. AND... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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For two guys who have been divorced 97 times, Hegseth and Trump do not know how to negotiate

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two days ago, the CFPB’s consumer complaint system went dark. yesterday, Vought set up a complaint line for companies that are being investigated for ripping people off. in case you needed a clearer illustration of who this admin will protect.

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Tesla Cybertruck 17 Times More Likely For Fire Fatalities Than Ford Pinto theautowire.com/2025/02/11/r...

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"RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hailed By National Alliance of Funeral Directors" - The Borowitz Report "RFK Jr.’s confirm. as HHS Sec. on Thu recvd a rousing thumbs-up from his most prominent supporters, the Natl Alliance of Funeral Directors. We're confident that Sec Kennedy will make death great again."

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How the Trumps turned an election victory into a cash bonanza www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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The MAGA cult will voluntarily die to own the libs. If you think this is an exaggeration just look at what happened in COVID. They refused vaccines as they were literally dying bc the saw it as some liberal conspiracy. Same thing happened initially during Obamacare.

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US craft beers — brewed in steel, canned in aluminum — could get crushed by tariffs www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/e...

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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