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Who needs a strong FDA? “On Monday, the FDA said it had collected samples from Prairie Farms’ Fort Wayne facility and that three swabs had tested positive for listeria…closely related to the strain of Listeria that is causing illnesses in this outbreak.” www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/02...

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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince wants the Trump administration to let private military contractors take over mass deportations. None of this is about making America safe. It's about using human suffering to enrich the border-industrial complex.

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Trump is replacing highly qualified military leaders with those loyal to him, not the Constitution - his most dangerous move yet.

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The Trump administration has fired 400 FAA workers in the past week. www.axios.com/local/chicag...

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Had a conversation with a non political person whose buddy works for the forest service and was 10 months into his job supplying hard to reach parts of a national forest and was fired. The guy talking to me was like “I don’t really think my buddy’s $50,000 salary is gonna balance the budget.”

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Medicaid covers nearly half of all children born in the country and around two-thirds of nursing home care for seniors. The Republican Party is voting today on a budget framework with will gut Medicaid to finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. "Party of family values."

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I’ve known and worked with @joyannreid.bsky.social for over a decade and it’s been, well, a joy. She’s brilliant and fierce and irreplaceable. One of my favorite nights ever was getting to interview her for this live #WITHPod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

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This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

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The GOP passed a budget resolution tonight that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Why? To finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

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Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert – originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center – to a different venue in Washington, D.C.

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Kind of feels like there wasn’t a mandate to destroy the health insurance program that covers 24% of Americans in order to fund a giant tax giveaway for billionaires and corporations, but maybe it’s just me.

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Republicans are pulling a reverse Robin Hood. The House could vote on its new budget resolution as soon as tomorrow. Call your rep to let them know how you feel about the GOP's plan to gut programs used by millions to fund tax cuts that will predominantly go to the richest Americans. (202) 224-3121

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This is great. www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

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MORE BREAKING: Judge K-K concludes that we have standing and she orders production of the admin. record! Those will be some of the first internal records that we will likely get re: DOGE

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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How it started (Obama) How it’s going (Trump)

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Purging the civil service is a tactic used by illiberal leaders in Turkey, Poland & elsewhere By removing nonpartisan civil servants, the regime can replace them w/ loyalists willing to defy democratic laws & norms We ID warning signs of illiberalism👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

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United States Attorneys are not "President Trumps' Lawyers" They work for the American people.

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Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

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@pbump.com on fire these days

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Where are the CEOs of @deltaairline.bsky.social @americanair.bsky.social @unitedairlinesual.bsky.social @jetblue2.bsky.social ? They’re good with this. Where are the leaders of business?

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Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Oh, good grief. Do Republicans just stay up late at night dreaming these things up, instead of working for the American people?

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February 16, 2025

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“Will there be singing in the dark times? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times.” I wrote about honoring Joan Baez alongside Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris last weekend for my latest substack. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/margopri...

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The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to emerging outbreaks.

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l'etat c'est moi

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Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

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Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.

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www.marlerblog.com

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

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“When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal” — Richard Nixon, 1977 “He who saves his country does not violate any law” — Donald Trump, 2025

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February 15, 2025

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"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

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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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Congratulations to rightwing anti-vax forces: you've reintroduced a deadly, vaccine preventable disease back into American society.

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This is ballgame on the First Amendment unless there is immediate action by news media, Congress, the courts & the public to condemn & prohibt this www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

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"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world

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Add Danielle Sassoon and the other members of the Valentine’s Day 7 to the pantheon of Justice Department heroes. My thoughts in @TheAtlantic.

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BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

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If the goal is to undermine the nation’s preparedness for pandemics, bio-emergencies and other emerging health threats and to worsen our general health and well-being, this would be part of the plan. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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Never forget what russia has done to Mariupol. There can be no lasting peace in Europe without justice for this. It's either peace through strength and accountability, or more wars through appeasement and concessions. No third way.

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"Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it."

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NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

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We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.

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