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CONFIRMED: the IDF has confirmed that Kfir and Ariel Bibas were “brutally murdered” in November of 2023.

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"The terrorists didn't shoot them, they murdered them with their hands." This sentence, and the horrifying images it evokes, will be burned into my brain forever. Such inconceivable cruelty.

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What Hamas did to the Bibas family is a crime against humanity. There’s no forgiveness.

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This has been my point for weeks about what Musk is after. Consolidated data from the biggest mine of information in the world. He’s so thirsty for data he’d get his hands on the nuclear codes if he could. Could he? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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"You screwed people": Inside the National Science Foundation’s firing of 168 workers👇

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 2874 comments

Man what the fuck did we do lmao look at this shit

submitted 2 days ago • 333 comments

Keep pressuring Republicans. Call them. Write them. Visit their district offices.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

I used this metaphor when talking to a reporter: they are swinging a chainsaw through government services, with no investigation of the performance of people they are firing, or the value of services they are eliminating. Why would the unelected richest man in the world care about the damage?

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

This man did more to set the stage for the unraveling of American democracy than anyone alive right now.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 853 comments

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

This is a red alert for US science, for new cures & treatments for diseases that afflict everyone in this country. This isn't "oh, it will blow over." Soon we will have reached the point of no return destroying what it has taken decades to build. WE NEED TO BE BANGING DOWN THE DOORS IN CONGRESS.

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Heartbroken. We had hoped for a miracle - to be able to welcome Oded Lifschitz back to his family and to join them in Walthamstow. A man who dedicated his life to fighting for peace between Israel and Palestine, driving ambulances across the border to help. 1/2

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NEW: The hiring freeze ordered last month by President Trump continues to stall onboarding of firefighters and could have deadly consequences as the national wildfire response operates at a "diminished capacity," a federal firefighting captain tells me. www.nbcnews.com/weather/wild...

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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

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UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

What truly fills me with despair is how Americans are fine with this — even happy about it, enthused at any degradation of immigrants. Is a Republic made up of such people worth preserving?

submitted 3 days ago • 159 comments

I enjoyed that little flurry of fake news reports that Trump and Putin weren't really talking, or that Putin was mad at Trump the "russia hoax" was always real, and this is an extremely well funded global authoritarian assault on law, informed consensus, empathy, and democratic order by sociopaths

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NEW - The IRS is expecting a "purge" today of probationary employees, agency sources tell me. In a video posted last night, a National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) chapter president warned staff to download all their documents ASAP because other agencies only gave workers one hour to leave.

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You aren’t seeing Black folks at protests because we know Trump will use us as an excuse to start violence—to justify martial law. Black folks, stay home. Be in peace. Our time will come. Everyone else, peacefully protest, but understand we won’t be human shields or targets! Don’t ask that of us.

submitted 3 days ago • 810 comments

Keep this list in mind when you’re thinking about the direction Dems should take. This would require a big tent.

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1. The president is colonizing the federal bureaucracy, replacing people of skill, competence and integrity with goons, or no one. One of his targets has been the FAA, the agency that regulates the airways and makes sure airlines obey the law. Guess what? The planes are falling out of the sky.

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I really don't understand why pundits don't understand this. MANY of you have better platforms than any Democrat this side of AOC. If you spend all your time whining (some more) about Democrats, then you are being just as feckless, you are giving the GOP just as much of a pass, as the Dems are.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

submitted 3 days ago • 467 comments

There's this episode of the Sopranos where Tony gets mad that Meadow's boyfriend secretly pays for dinner. He's mad because he knows that paying gives him power. America set the terms of the global peace by largely underwriting it. We're about to find out what comes next.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

What I cannot understand is why the American establishment and its institutions are folding so quickly. What are you people so afraid of? You never even had gulags.

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