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The Social Security Administration — already reeling from plunging customer service following a rapid downsizing under the Trump administration — is drafting plans to begin layoffs of potentially thousands more employees as soon as next week.

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Best part of this when Bessent says Biden massively blew up the deficit and they show a chart with the deficit spiking in….2020 and then coming down dramatically after. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8j8SwSY/

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"It is the fourth time he has been arrested since Mr. Trump freed him..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

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🏝️🏝️ NEVER FORGET 🏝️🏝️

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The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

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"When he said, 'I have the highest poll numbers of any Republican for the last 100 years,' that wasn’t just wrong, it was the opposite of reality: At this point in their terms, every other GOP president since the dawn of modern polling has had more support than him." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”

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Real whiplash watching the Trump message go from “we’ll fix everything on day one” to “suck it up buttercup, this is gonna hurt.”

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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

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NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

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The intersection of immigration law and First Amendment protections has long been a gray area. That uncertainty, legal experts say, creates room for abuse. Here’s what the law says — and where the risks for noncitizens lie.

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One weird trick to take 5 years off life expectancy of anyone born today. Put RFK in charge of health policy.

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Wow. The darkness descends. 75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com Where to? "Anywhere that supports science..."

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if ever there was a time to throw your (much vaunted!) weight around, this is it... www.aarp.org/politics-soc...

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This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gearing up mRNA vaccines ("tolerogenic") to prevent autoimmune diseases, vital science that is currently under irrational and reckless attack www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

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"In accordance with the New York State Shield Law, I have refused this filing and will refuse any similar filings that may come to our office..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h... clerk.ulstercountyny.gov/news/countyc...

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Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

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@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social have you seen this counter, tracking how many people have likely died from tuberculosis since USAID funding was cut? www.bu.edu/articles/202...

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These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

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What's it gonna take for everyone to realize the occupant of the white house is fundamentally anti-American?

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the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

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Call it by its name: Trumpcession

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*S&P 500 ERASES ELECTION GAIN, WIPING OUT $3.4 TRILLION IN VALUE

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

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"Frank traveled this month to DC to speak with Alaska’s congressional delegation... she said she was well received by Begich. “He assured that he 100% backed us on fighting to not have any cuts to Medicaid,” said Frank. Now, she said she feels betrayed by his vote..." www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

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A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID.

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Gutting Alzheimer's research. First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru... See also... newrepublic.com/article/1917... See also... www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, people familiar with her departure said.

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Protect this law at all costs ! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Pope Francis sharply rebuked President Donald Trump’s policy of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and urged American Catholics not to lean into anti-immigrant sentiment in an open letter to U.S. Catholic bishops Tuesday.

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