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Canadian customers are telling US businesses they will stop buying US products, as Canadian grocers adopt measures to favor locally produced products.

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DOGE will assist in tackling "big problems" at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has struggled financially in recent years.

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Amid President Trump's push against DEI, the Education Department has opened investigations into a diversity-related program it says is connected to three California colleges. The department said it is investigating whether the program amounts to illegal race-based discrimination.

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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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The rare speech at the Justice Department comes as the Trump administration has spent the last several weeks trying to reconfigure the agency.

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The 10 Democrats Who Gave Trump the Keys to The Castle: Catherine Cortez-Masto (NV) Dick Durbin (IL) John Fetterman (PA) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Maggie Hassan (NH) Angus King (I-ME) Gary Peters (MI) Brian Schatz (HI) Chuck Schumer (NY) Jeanne Shaheen (NH)

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I’m so pissed! Democrats got steamrolled by Republicans in the government shutdown battle. 😡 Now it’s time for the people to lead the leaders. Call your senators and tell them: “Vote NO on the Republican CR!” (202) 224-3121.

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I’m increasingly convinced that abandoning belief in the dignity of the human person—even the fundamental sacredness of life itself—in favor of edgy nihilism or political pragmatism will lead us nowhere.

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Congratulations to @schumer.senate.gov and the others who just played into the hands of an insane dictator who just said it's illegal for cnn and msnbc to criticize him

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I'm sorry that @schumer.senate.gov and @cnn.com and @msnbc.com didn't know this before today: there is no compromising with Trump. He is insane and his only human emotion is revenge and you cannot mitigate against it. There is only one path through: destroy his presidency.

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The president's contention that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional is considered a fringe view because the Supreme Court ruled to the contrary 127 years ago.

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JUST IN: The Senate voted to advance a spending bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown. The vote exposed a deep rift among Democrats.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada officially resigned on Friday. After nearly a decade in power, Trudeau stepped down amid a trade war and President Trump’s stated desire to annex Canada. He now hands the reins over to Mark Carney. nyti.ms/4hfWrAv

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Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship—as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians. ...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.

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"Coward," "You are complicit," "step up or step down" - signs left on a bench across from Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn home. I saw these around 2pm today.

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Primary all of them. They are not the people ready to meet the moment. Thank you for your service. Now sashay away.

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In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

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Who is Chuck Schumer? Oof @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

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Time for Chuck Schumer to meet…Chuck Schumer.

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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10 Democratic Senators abandoned their constituents and the American people.

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Shameful

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thehill.com/business/bud...

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Tell your Democratic senators not to join Schumer’s surrender: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

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Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of their own CR, it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.

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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Republican budget bill is "a terrible option," Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, writes in a guest essay. But "the risk of allowing the president to take even more power via a government shutdown is a much worse path."

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Breaking News: Rep. Raúl Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, died from cancer, his office said. He was 77.

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“The President of the United States—the man with the nuclear codes—is angry and emotional and acting, frankly, erratically. And that is not my judgment. It is basically what his own Cabinet defenders are saying,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

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"Mr. Kennedy’s focus on unverified treatments has frustrated some doctors in Gaines County, who have been trying to explain to patients that there is no antiviral for measles and that they have little control over which patients suffer serious symptoms..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

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"non-MH [mental health] VA staff around my cubicle can hear my sessions." The therapist said they were "worried about issues of licensure [and] ethics code violations related to confidentiality." popular.info/p/veterans-a...

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"The interview was a reminder of Musk’s hostility toward Social Security, which provides monthly benefits to retirees and some children. Musk has described it as 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time'. Trump's administration is shutting down some of the agency’s offices" apnews.com/article/elon...

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Today at a Foreign Affairs Committee briefing on USAID I asked Trump's head of USAID Pete Marocco, as the overseer of democracy and free elections programming globally, whether he was at the Capitol on January 6th. He refused to say no.

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My latest at Joy's House on Substack: What are we becoming? www.joyannreid.com/p/the-daily-...

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#NIH funding cuts could hit red states and rural areas hardest—23 states, mostly pro-Trump in 2024, get just 6% of NIH funds. But a special program sent those states money to develop research infrastructure. A longtime husband-and-wife immunologist duo explains: Prakash & Mitzi Nagarkatti @sc.edu 🧪🩺

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Republican lawmakers around America have filed a new batch of bills this year that would grant legal rights to fetuses and fertilized embryos. Lawmakers in at least eight states have considered bills to go even further, to punish women who seek abortions

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Several nonprofits and aid groups sued the Trump administration after it froze foreign aid amid DOGE-driven cuts to federal programs.

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The betrayal of transgender Americans by so-called allies has been happening for decades.

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All Democrats who vote for censure should have a primary challenge. They speak of decorum as their Republican counterparts are actively seeking to undermine the Constitution and roll back protections for all but heterosexual white men.

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“Despite what you heard, [Trump] came in with just under 50 percent of the vote,” Buttigieg said. “He won, I’m not disputing that. But it was the smallest popular vote margin since Nixon."

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“There’s something really cruel about the richest man in the world calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme,” said Rep. Richard Neal, ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, at the press conference.

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“Hamilton” is canceling plans to perform next year at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing President Trump’s moves to impose his values on the venue. “We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social

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