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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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The University of Pittsburgh has paused all of its PhD admissions because of Trump-Musk hammering research funding. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

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Stacy's mom's medicare is gone

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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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Wyden: "Nobody should lose sight of what happened this morning. Trump endorsed the House budget resolution. This resolution mandates that $880b in cuts come from the House Energy & Commerce Committee ... there is no plausible way to hit that target without hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid."

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This is PA-7, a seat we flipped with Susan Wild in 2018, then lost in one of the closest congressional elections in the country last year. It’s a prime pickup opportunity to flip the House and if you are asking “what can I do to help,” helping create more scenes and stories like this is very good

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Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

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helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

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His useless EO does nothing to help families going through IVF and at the same time he’s working to slash Medicaid which covers 1/2 of births in this country.

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The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are mass firing veterans. apnews.com/live/trump-p...

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While layoffs going on today at CDC, Texas is having its worst measles outbreak in nearly 30 years and the U.S. is having its most intense flu season in 15 years. apnews.com/article/meas...

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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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🚨NEW POLL: Seven in ten Americans are concerned about how Trump’s new tax plan may cut vital programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. ❗69 percent find it “concerning” ‼️ 55 percent find it “very concerning”

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Same with Medicaid work requirements — gutting Navigator funding only makes sense if your ultimate goal is sabotaging the system and denying people from getting the health care they’re owed.

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This is right! Our polling also found that Medicaid is popular with voters across the political spectrum. If Republicans think they can boot people off their health care to fund tax cuts for billionaires with no political consequences, they’re in for a rude awakening

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Access to health care shouldn't be reliant on how much you can shame a health insurance company www.ketv.com/article/anth...

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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I’m not sure what the AP style book for “fuck you, make me” is, but if they bow to the right wing language police here, the AP might as well close up shop

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Genuinely WTF is wrong with these people?

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Being publicly corrected by the pope sounds like an anxiety dream I had before confirmation in junior high

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This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

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so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.

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Just heard from the U of M about the impacts of Trump/Musk’s funding cuts to health research. They painted a grim picture — cutting off funding designed to help unlock new cures and treatments that save lives. Republicans need to grow a spine and stand up to this.

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shame... celebrate all you want but this kind of vandalism is never acceptable

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I told her he’s the guy Cher ends up with in Clueless and she knew who that was

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The 12 year old: who is Paul Rudd? Devastating.

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USAID was investigating Starlink CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests

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White House says it is "fake news" to describe massive NIH cut as a cut to research Two thoughts 1) WH is free to argue the cut makes sense on the merits, but it will absolutely reduce research funding -- by a lot 2) Reaction suggests pushback is getting to them already

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Now under Trump, the NIH says it is cutting ~$9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's diseases. “I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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Rest easy to the most famous Shoup ever (no relation to my knowledge). By all accounts, he was a great guy who did impressive work.

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Every church leader I've talked to across MD, VA, and DC has somewhere between 12 - 20 individuals and/or families with their paychecks and livelihoods suddenly ripped from them by Elon Musk. This is a pastoral emergency in every way.

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This is evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Well now I’m wondering if Marco Rubio has secretly been my boss too

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Many people are asking me if Elon Musk is stealing tax-payer money or using our private information to enrich himself? I’m a Member of Congress on the committee for Government Oversight and I can’t tell you that he’s not. That’s a problem.

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We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

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Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.

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