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Outstanding webinar this afternoon with Heather Cox Richardson and Simon Rosenberg. Three, among many, take-aways: 1) We need to put pressure on our elected leaders. 2) We need to act out. Trump hates protests. 3) We are are stronger than we know. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @simonwdc.bsky.social

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Why would Musk, who the Trump administration claims in court is not in charge of DOGE, tell a bunch of republican senators that he's in charge of DOGE? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Education is the key to a bright future, which every child deserves. The greatest act of public service would be to make our public education system stronger for generations of American children. There should never be a "final mission" when it comes to our kids. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

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BREAKING: irony dead.

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NEW SCOOP: Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned. ⬇️ Here's how much they're making:

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I knew this would happen, but it's still surreal to hear another nation's leader talk to us in a televised address the way US presidents have historically spoken to the citizens of countries led by dictators and despots.

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China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on a raft of U.S. farm products on Tuesday and blacklisted more than 20 U.S. companies, marking a major escalation in a brewing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

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‘Like a horror movie’: ICE is detaining German tourist indefinitely www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 26 yo German Jessica Brösche—a tourist who had a visa waiver & a return ticket to 🇩🇪 in her passport—has been in a detention center for a month+ after being denied entry from 🇲🇽 Adios 🇺🇸 tourism!

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Trump Vance must be impeached That's it That's the post. Impeached for treason

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I’ve got a piece in today’s @nytimes about Elon Musk as walking/talking violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

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Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.

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Why are Republicans obsessed with getting into everyone's pants? Fucking pervs...

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Some are saying Democrats shouldn't attend Donald Trump's State of the Union. I disagree. They should attend. And the minute he starts speaking, start getting up, one-by-one, and solemnly leave the chamber. It will be all anyone talks about the next day. And will drive Donald crazy.

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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What: Economic Blackout When: February 28, 2025 Where: Everywhere

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Please RT this thread🗽⚖️: Nation’s Defense Bar Concerned Over Actions Against Covington & Burling, Citing Right to Counsel The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) expresses its deep concern regarding the recent actions taken against Covington & Burling,

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NEW: DOGE quietly deletes the five largest spending cuts it had been celebrating last week. All of them contained errors that wildly over-inflated how much had been saved. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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A federal judge has set a hard deadline for compliance with his existing restraining order over USAID funding. He wants receipts of what the government has done to comply with his earlier 2/13 restraining order. (1/2)

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BREAKING: Inches from complete disaster. What is happening at the FAA?

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Talk is cheap, GOP senators. Start voting against Trump’s nominees and agenda, or sit down and stop wasting everyone’s time and attention.

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Musk’s Protégé ‘Big Balls’ Has KGB Ties—And U.S. Clearance? Edward Coristine, Musk’s 19-year-old DOGE adviser, has access to sensitive U.S. data—but his grandfather was a KGB agent executed for spying. How did a teen with a cybercrime past end up in Trump’s circle? Why is no one talking about this?

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