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In case you missed it, the Trump administration is making an end run around the court order that unfroze NIH spending: by not allowing NIH to place notices in the Federal Register, it has stopped them from holding any grant evaluation meetings. Basically, there’s no way to evaluate grants right now.

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the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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He nails it.

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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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Why were Dems so slow in late Jan 2021? First, smug presumptuous sense of ownership of the legal process, and a narcissistic identification w/ the process itself. Second, geriatric enfeeblement of the Dem leadership – Biden, Garland Durbin lack vigor for the moment’s demands bsky.app/profile/orga...

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Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

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The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

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This is the person who has access to CUI and classified government data.

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US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

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Here’s what we’re paying for the dismantling of our government.

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if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist

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60 organizations across #LosAngeles come together to form the Community Self-Defense Coalition. “You will not come into our community without facing an organized resistance. We’re going...to surround [ICE] and not allow them to kidnap our people." boyleheightsbeat.com/community-se...

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Is anyone keeping count of all the laws he’s breaking, or is it too many to count at this point?

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Members of Congress thanks for showing up for the cameras, you told us to use the courts but courts won't save us unless YOU put the heat on. We've seen this movie before in places like, oh, Cambodia. Let them do this to us and they will come for YOU @housedemocrats.bsky.social @dscc.bsky.social

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I chatted with a program director at NIH for a half hour just now It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment They deserve our respect and gratitude

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New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, and full explanations of their chains of command.

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Another reason to celebrate tonight!! 🎉

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"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

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Gov. Janet Mills of Maine threatened legal action after President Trump said he would withhold funding to her state unless she complied with his executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports. Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a

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Oh yeah, computers are famously bad at handling a lot of ... "transactions," was it, peepaw? ... quickly. Every computer knower understands that, right?

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Never thought I’d be defending the USPS, but here we are.

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Lots of people think it's pointless to call out GOPers on capitulation to Trump. Here's why it's not. You need to make this claimed helplessness visible. You need to make it clear Jerry Moran has PLENTY of tools to rein in Musk, but has chosen not to use them. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Some people just aren't cut out to do hallucinogenic drugs.

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.

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I am sure that the National Academies are under intense pressure. That doesn’t excuse complying with efforts to undermine scientific facts. These are very frightening times if you know your history.

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I wonder what would happen if @wyden.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov asked GAO to investigate whether DOGE's "receipts" claiming savings amounts to fraud. Honestly, it's the only fraud found so far. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

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That’s the whole point.

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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The goal here, of course, is a self-fulfilling spiral of stupidity. You fire a bunch of worker because you say government isn't efficient. Then when people need help, there aren't enough workers to help them. And you say, "See? I told you government doesn't work." And the rubes believe you.

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My latest: DOGE canceled a CDC contract for FDNY research work, part of a study of the links between firefighters' cancers and their response to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

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the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

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When people who are so thoroughly dishonest and out for themselves are in power, they assume no one is capable of anything but dishonesty and fraud. There are strict and strictly enforced GSA guidelines on spending, and federal civil service take spending of taxpayer dollars very seriously.

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Just got off the phone with someone at a federal agency who went out of his way to answer my question, looking up multiple regulations and conferring with colleagues to give me a complete answer. Our federal civil service IS effective and efficient government. They are not budget line items. #altgov

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Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

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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.

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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Got himself arrested on purpose while telling his city council to not put a MAGA plaque on the library because MAGA = Nazis. It worked, producing media coverage. Baller. ✊ www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

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People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.

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