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While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists. So much for "drain the swamp."

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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

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Wow

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Middle East crisis live: IDF carries out airstrikes in southern Lebanon ahead of funeral of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah

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CNN has obtained recordings of two cybersecurity executives in 2022 discussing whether to fire Edward Coristine, who leaked information to a competitor. Coristine, now 19, is one of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” workers with access to your private info in government databases. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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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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Trump plans to cut 84 percent of the staff that funds disaster relief for major crises when the damage goes beyond FEMA’s budget. The next time you suffer a hurricane, a tornado, or an earthquake and can’t get your house or neighborhood rebuilt, it will be entirely because of Trump.

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Rosen has voted for 7 of Trump's nominees. Yesterday she was the lone Democrat to vote for Kelly Loeffler to lead the Small Business Administration. Loeffler & her husband (CEO of the company that owns NY Stock Exchange) sold millions in stock after she attended a closed COVID briefing in Jan 2020.

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

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When people ask how is Israel inciting antisemitism around the world, this is how. The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.

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Tom Homan basically admits to a quid pro quo for dropping the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams in exchange for enforcing Donald Trump's mass deportation plan. "If he doesn't come through...I'll be in his office, up his butt, saying 'where the hell is the agreement we came to?'" Vile.

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I'm currently in a Budget Committee markup. This is what Republicans want to do: ❌ Slash $880 billion from Medicaid ❌ Cut $230 billion from food assistance ❌ Hand $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires & big corporations This is a Republican rip off.

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"The Israelis shot and killed an innocent young woman and then caused the death of her unborn baby, too. Shocking, right? Depraved? Murderous? And yet, as of Monday morning, there was no mention of Sundus Shalabi on...the New York Times or the BBC" - me, for Zeteo:

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“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

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For folks who are surprised about, or shocked by, Vance calling on Trump to ignore judges, he’s been saying it for a while but much of our political press wasn’t paying attention:

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Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

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DOGE plans to slash about as much ($4B) from NIH, and hence from universities and medical centers, as the government gave SpaceX ($3.8B) last year. It's not about the money and government "waste." It's never been about the money or government "waste." www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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The new cover of TIME.

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Imagine being so weak that you're threatened by "End Racism." The NFL, which has majority Black athletes, is apparently...pro racism now?

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Trump during the election: No new wars! Trump after inauguration: We’re going to send the U.S. military in to conquer Gaza, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and the Panama Canal!

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REPORTER: You are talking tonight about the US taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation? TRUMP: I do see a long term ownership position

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BREAKING NEWS: Starting Tuesday, nearly all imports from Canada and Mexico will be charged a 25% tariff, while goods from China will be charged a 10% tariff.

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Kash Patel testified under oath today that he wasn’t sure who right-wing Nazi talk show host Stew Peters is. Stew? Never heard of him …

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Meiselas: I’m speaking to the union worker who voted for Trump. Now your job is gone, your family is less safe, prices are higher, and your government aid is frozen. When you sit at the table with your family, what are you telling them?

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'This Week in Democracy' – A New Series From Zeteo Documenting the Authoritarianism of the Trump Presidency Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Nashville school shooter says he was “ashamed to be Black” and credits Candace Owens: “Candace Owens has influenced me above all each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights and her own views helped push me further and further into the belief of violence over the Jewish question.”

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I've always known trump was a fucking moron, but signing an executive order to make prescription drugs MORE EXPENSIVE for Americans deserves an entry in the Ignoramus Hall of Fame.

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Brave yourselves for more of the like.

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Here’s more.

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"Revealed: How Fox News Morphed Into the Trump Administration" For Zeteo, @mattgertz.bsky.social introduces us to/profiles the 18 controversial current & former Fox employees who will be running the US government from tomorrow. Trump can't stop hiring from Murdoch!

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