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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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I hope one went to the judge in the case where he’s pretending he has no actual power

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So everyone who has PTO on Monday is going to be fired? Governance by surprise is stupid.

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The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

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I don’t know anything about General Caine, but this doesn’t sound good.

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Literally extortion

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Not only do people hate someone who was right too early, the more important the question the more they hate it

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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This is what I mean by news outlets willingly letting themselves get language-policed by the far right. You used to be able to just call this a "Nazi salute." Now it's "a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month."

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Extortion.

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I thought “I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything” was the best and then I got to the bees.

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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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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

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👀 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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The fact that this needs to be said by a state's high court (New Mexico) in 2025 is alarming.

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This is a shocker. Apple is winding down Advanced Data Protection in the UK, company says in press email, rather than build a backdoor for that government, which is impossible to do safely. Every Apple user in the UK is now less safe. Other countries not affected.

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BREAKING: DOJ announces that administrative law judge removal protections are unconstitutional, although DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle's wording leaves unclear whether all such protections are unconstitutional or just certain ones. It also leaves unclear what DOJ is actually doing as a result.

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Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

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How a genderfluid samurai kills someone: they/them

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This is what weaponizing DOJ looks like.

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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"It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to…the philosophy and practice of fascism." Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, 22 January 1962 lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/e...

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Reflecting on this more, here's why the "Trump saying X is just a distraction from Y" trope irritates me so much: it's impossible to understand this moment without at least trying to observe the totality of it. It's all a unified whole. Because that's how history works!

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President Musk: You must work in person and in person doesn't exist.

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Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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BREAKING: Donald Trump issued an executive order tonight aimed at ending several decades-old and highly successful government programs. Among the programs Trump says he's ending: The Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. What do they do, you ask? Key things!

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So I don't think we're invading Canada

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Dems, if you don’t shove this down his throat (metaphorically) you are worthless.

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American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

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Hawaii's state government is understaffed, and our governor has announced a program to recruit terminated federal workers dhrd.hawaii.gov/ohhi/

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"We will protect DOGE." This morning, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin — a "stop the steal" organizer and Jan. 6 defendant advocate — sent an email titled "Operation Whirlwind" in which he said he's personally launched an investigation into Sen. Chuck Schumer. The text:

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