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My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

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Denise Cheung, a veteran prosecutor and head of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., was forced to resign after resisting the Trump administration’s demand to freeze the assets of an environmental grant initiative. Thank you for your service and integrity, Denise.

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“Clearly contrary to manifest public interest” is the standard for when a judge can countermand the government’s decision about dismissing a prosecution. The interesting question is, what would the prosecution look like if a judge did that with the government unwilling to proceed?

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A rando The-World-Can-Be-Good post Things I saw this AM a taxi driver carefully helping someone w/a walker into a cab & putting the walker in the trunk a car stopped mid-street for someone w/a to walker pass *someone offered me a few $ cuz I left all (ALL!) of my $ at home I appreciate it all

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New newsletter: The majority does not like this, and as I wrote Sunday we can make that matter when we act. And we are acting--it's far from enough yet, but it's also far from nothing (and likely more than they bargained for)... The rest at: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/notes-on-not...

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A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

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Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

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WTF

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Ratner predicts the appointment of Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to un-scare them," he says.

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I'd apply if I didn't already have a good gig. Seriously. This is a dream job.

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Eleven.

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Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich and declared “peace for our time.” His name has been permanently stained for getting it so wrong. Now imagine Chamberlain had come back and declared: “we get half of Czech minerals!” That’s what Trump’s trying to do. Truly shameful.

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DOGE is attacking federal agencies that protect millions of Americans from financial predators, infectious diseases, natural disasters, and air crashes. Once again: this has nothing to do with making the government "efficient" — and everything to do with who it works for.

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What’s good for the constituents is good for the representatives. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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Good. Hold Google accountable for caving on this insanity.

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Scott County, Tennessee, has revolutionized its approach to reducing domestic violence, in part by requiring people who are ordered to give up their guns to disclose who is receiving the firearms. Now, following ProPublica and @wpln.bsky.social reporting, the entire state could follow its lead.

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"Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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The VP of the US responding to a journalist. What a great role model for our kids.

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Understanding what the courts can do helps us understand what we must do. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-courts...

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The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

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Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.

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I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

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Musk proves again he’s a terrible human. When Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, a blind watchdog from the Project on Government Oversight, criticized Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service in Capitol Hill testimony, Musk retaliated with a cruel online attack.

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I'm starting to think DEI may have been the only reason so many planes stayed in the sky...

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Several Department of Education employees told ProPublica they were directed not to contact students and schools about their pending civil rights cases. “We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social

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Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

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Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

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Because of DJT, we’re less safe in planes. Period.

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Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend. And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

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Elon Musk’s claim of Social Security fraud is…a fraud. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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THIS. It would matter. Truly. In the 1850s, when a congressman routinely threatened and insulted two key congressional reporters, they stopped reporting him. He apologized.

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YES. The press should unite in boycotting his press conferences. As far as the press is concerned, if they don’t hang together, they may all hang separately.

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This gives me joy.

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

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Let’s turn back the clock… to the last time a New York governor threatened to use their power to remove a sitting mayor. That governor? Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

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The first challenge to the Trump 2.0 administration heads to SCOTUS: "If you’re interested in rooting out waste and corruption, you want someone like Dellinger in place. So, Trump’s insistence on firing him is telling." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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NEW: Three former U.S. Attorneys ask to file a brief in Eric Adams' case before Judge Dale Ho "in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry" into DOJ's actions leading to its Friday request to dismiss the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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🚨OH HELL NO! ‘DOGE appears to have busted their way into the Social Security Administration, forcing the resignation of the acting commissioner, Michelle King, when she resisted their demands to give DOGE access to Agency’s most sensitive government records’. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

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"DOGE wanted access to SSA’s sensitive files — the same way they’re trying to do at Labor and Treasury — and the acting commissioner wouldn’t give it, and she was replaced,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works. “There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is."

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Not only is everything Musk is saying bullshit, often, as in this case, stuff people with the most basic knowledge can spot, but there's more to it. He & his cronies have already defamed & libeled numerous civil servants, claiming among other things that they've broken the law, diverted public ...

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Happy President's Day from Union Square in NYC, which is filled with protesters preparing for a march down Broadway This picture is a fraction of the people in the park, and many people have already started marching It's a beautiful day. Let's do this 🧵

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Washington Post refuses to run $115,000 ad titled ‘Fire Elon Musk’

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When the rule kicks in in 2035, the California Energy Commission forecasts that EVs will represent 20% of the state's total energy demand. Researchers are thinking through what charging infrastructure will need to look like by then. (via @kpbssandiego.bsky.social)

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