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The Florida lawmaker and staunch Trump supporter is being investigated by D.C. police in connection with an alleged assault.

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Just wow. He's openly threatening governors if they don't comply with losing all federal funding by violating their own state laws.

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The former CNN anchor isn't staying on the sidelines—he’s issuing the president a direct challenge.

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Since last week, the United States is now pro-Russia, anti-NATO, and anti-democracy. Everything we feared is real. What can we do about this? Where do we go from here? @djrothkopf.bsky.social and @normornstein.bsky.social tackle all of these pressing questions. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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“We’ll see you in court.” Gov. Janet Mills is a badass for this.

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Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

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“President Trump on Saturday posted on social media a single sentence that appears to encapsulate his attitude as he tests the nation’s legal and constitutional boundaries in the process of upending the federal government and punishing his perceived enemies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

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RFK Jr. Taking Aim at Antidepressants 🤦 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

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Three fights in first nine seconds of US vs. Canada game at 4 Nations www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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In 2023, three states passed laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and other political influence activities. Customers have already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

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The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

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my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

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So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

submitted 8 days ago • 1271 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

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👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

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How long until the Library of Congress faces a purge? Should historians be getting what resources they can now? I'm imagining anything related to the civil rights movement, anti-fascism, and even public health could be gone soon.

submitted 9 days ago • 481 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

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Judge orders HHS, CDC and FDA to restore deleted webpages with health information www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-o...

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It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.

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After Nancy Mace's explosive speech on the House floor, she encouraged Americans to call a new "victim hotline" set up by her office. But advocates and experts in her district are sounding the alarm: Do not call this a "hotline." In fact, they warn, it's best not to call it at all.

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This is a flat-out, clear-cut violation of the First Amendment.

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Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

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i am mostly ignoring Nancy Mace these days because the thing she wants more than anything is attention but i will just note that her signature move during the presidential campaign was claiming women who allege they were assaulted are liars

submitted 11 days ago • 670 comments

The next DOGE target could be the FDIC, which was already experiencing a staffing shortage before Trump's hiring freeze. Remember: the FDIC was created during the Depression to protect people's deposit accounts. Gutting it could lead to another financial meltdown.

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Wasn’t it just a week ago that we were supposed to get a 30-day pause? And now, suddenly, he’s focused on steel and aluminum imports? No one in Canada is surprised. Did anyone actually believe this guy? That his word meant anything? He’s a criminal.

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“The truth is the United States is a net exporter of crime, of guns, of drugs to Canada. So what are we asking for them to do on their side of the border? Is anybody asking them for reciprocal hardening, in terms of security, of their side of the border?” -Rob Russo,The Economist #Canada #US #border

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We’re done here. Right?

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NYT OpEd: Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege "We take the extraordinary step of writing this piece because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy." #BlueSky

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Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

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From ProMED: “pediatric neurologists…have noted…[an apparent] sharp increase in influenza A-associated acute necrotizing encephalitis (ANE) cases during the current influenza season…associated with both seasonal influenza A subtypes (H1 and H3). The morbidity and mortality of ANE is high.”

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Hospitals that can afford Super Bowl ads shouldn’t be sending their patients to collections

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

So what do my HCW friends think about NYU Langone spending millions of dollars in the Super Bowl for an ad instead of say paying more to their workers or buy new equipment? Good use of resources? 🤔

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"’America's competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound,’ Owens says. ‘We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.’” www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

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