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Get Ready For Delayed Tax Refunds, Long Hold Times After Mass IRS Firings But wealthy tax evaders will enjoy “a feast” as the strained federal agency lacks the resources to hold them accountable, said one tax policy expert.

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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Elon, community noted and ratioed.

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NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Just now picking up my daughter’s Claudia’s Corgi, Gracie, from her spaying procedure from Friendship Animal Hospital in northwest DC. It turns out they are doing something amazing for people victimized by the insane government purges 👉

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Where are the campus protesters? They neither stand up for Hamas victims, Gazans, nor the Trump Musk Republican tyranny. Was it all Qatari paid useful idiots?

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

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Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have more courage in their pinky fingers than every fucking spineless Republican…

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Who needs public heath when you've got MAGA & Chainsaw Man running around?

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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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And the disabled…

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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

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"I will not be silenced": U.S. Attorney launches inquiry into Democratic rep. over Musk criticism: Ed Martin, Trump's pick for U.S. Attorney for DC, warned Rep. Robert Garcia to leave Musk and DOGE alone

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COWARD ! Tillis should go find another job . We have more courage than most of them . Fear is no excuse for any of them 😠

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I wrote all about this situation, including new reporting and exclusive details:

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Literally correct that Musk-Trump is "decimating" American science, since they indiscriminately fired one out of ten working for the NIH www.science.org/content/arti...

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Remember Trump’s rallies: “Please come out to vote, I promise you it’ll be the last time.”

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US CDC Vaccine Advisory Meeting to Be Postponed, Stat News Reports: (Reuters) - A panel of experts advising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines will not convene for its February meeting,...

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What still hasn't yet gotten sufficient attention is that the federal workforce - not just VA - is disproportionately made up of veterans. That are many reasons. One is that there are many logical paths from uniformed services into fed workforce. There are also employment preferences for ...

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IRS begins layoffs, as DOGE cuts collide with tax season: The IRS started laying off employees on Thursday, just as tax season kicks in to high gear. Why it matters: The terminations, reportedly of 6,000 relatively new workers at the agency, are part of President Trump's broader purge of the…

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I specialize in representing Democratic campaigns because I believe in the party. I litigate voting rights cases because the right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy. I speak out about free and fair elections because they are under threat. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Republicans want to kill your grandparents. They want to cut Medicaid by nearly a trillion bucks so billionaires keep more money in their accounts. Medicaid pays for nursing home care.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/good-news-... Pritzker said: “Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity...and do not let despair overcome us, when our country needs us the most.”

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"Moderate" Republicans vote for Trump Nominee A after A assures them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. "Moderate" Republicans say Nominee B assured them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. Repeat with Nominees C, D, E, F, G, etc.

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Trump Breaks Promise on IVF, Waters Down Bold Campaign Pledge Video: Trump promised IVF treatments would be free or fully covered by insurance

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Farmers overwhelmingly backed Trump—now they’re feeling the pain and speaking up. Here’s the thing: If you got grants and contracts under Biden, why vote for Trump—who did nothing for you? It’s easier to be angry than well-informed. Harris voters chose their self-interest.

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Marocco has leadership roles at both the State Dept. and USAID — two agencies that sidelined him during the first Trump administration after he was accused of undermining U.S. foreign policy. This time, he answers to few besides Trump himself. By @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy

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In case anyone is still uncertain whether Trump and Musk are allied to Putin — @bylinetimes.bsky.social has been covering the Trump alliance for six years, and we cottoned onto Musk quite quickly

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Pete Hegseth is about to purge military officers—and make no mistake, this is 100% political retribution. 📌 Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth is planning to fire generals and top officers as soon as this week, per two Defense officials and three Congressional sources. Most of them tied to Lloyd Austin.

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Dictators of a feather

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Donald Trump's “Concepts” of a Healthcare Plan: Make His Voters Pay: A mere day after promising to safeguard Medicaid, the president endorsed a budget plan that would slash the program, presumably to subsidize $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

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You know that "Napoleon" quote Trump posted? It's credited to Napoleon right before he crowned himself emperor but it was made popular by white supremacists in 2011 by Anders Behring Breivik, the white supremacist terrorist who killed 77 people, many of them children, on an attack at a summer camp.

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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

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More than 70 lawsuits have been filed against aspects of Trump's agenda in the first month of his term, according to Axios. More than two dozen court rulings have paused some of Trump's executive orders.

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Our about-to-be next FBI director just called journalism “the most powerful enemy the US has ever seen.”

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The top 1% evades $163 billion in taxes each year and many Fortune 500 companies pay an effective tax rate of 0%. President Musk is cutting 6000, mostly enforcement, jobs at the IRS because he feels the rich aren’t exploiting the system enough. Grift.

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Minnesota lt. governor launches Senate bid: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan on Thursday launched her official campaign for the U.S. Senate, running to succeed retiring Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) in the 2026 election cycle. “Today, I’m officially launching my campaign for the U.S. Senate to go to…

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