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If this is the mood in a Trump +22 district hoooooo boy

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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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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Heard a song from the 80s reference a "long distance call" and it occurred to me that this is a concept that no longer holds any emotional currency whatsoever

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“I’ll be in touch.” TRANSLATION: If we ever speak again it will be because I didn’t see you in time to avoid bumping into you on the street.

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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🧵A mini story: For a long time, I wrote about history for a website affiliated with a large, history-branded cable brand whose staff gave little to no inkling of having much grounding in history whatsoever. (I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.) 1/

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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worth pointing out this is a lot like Y2K. coulda been a disaster, but wasn't, because a lot of people quietly did their jobs to make sure it wasn't. we're now seeing how things fall apart when you decide the people quietly doing their jobs to hold everything together aren't necessary.

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I saw this detached from a thread but immediately knew who it was.

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Live your life in such a way that your assassin doesn't get cheers from throngs of his adoring fans from outside his criminal hearing.

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History teaches us that when governments begin persecuting a vulnerable minority group while simultaneously making it harder for members of that group to escape persecution by fleeing abroad... it doesn't end well for anyone. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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The video is a bit confusing but the rear car has modified his vehicle to project the anti elon, anti cybertruck images onto every cybertruck he sees

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Go AOC!! This woman is rising to the gravity of the moment. Let’s hope enough of the rest of Congress and our other elected officials rise to the occasion.

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maybe this is a silly idea but I sort of think we should make a “elected leader actually standing up against fascism in a meaningful public manner” leaderboard not a news site, just a hi score, low score & clear details when they are up for reelection

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This is a deeply concerning (and frankly, mystifying) development at the CDC that has totally flown under the radar. PRAMS provides basic public health surveillance of maternal-child health outcomes and they have quietly shut it down.

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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: It’s 4am—still debating the Republicans’ billionaire tax giveaway. We offered an amendment to say no tax cut for those making over $10m. Every Republican voted no. So we tried $100m. Every Repub voted no. So we tried $500m! Every Republican a no. See what’s going on?

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More of this

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If your toilet has a QR code to scan in case a user needs more resources, your biological man sign is raising more questions than it answers.

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lol

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Another woman who dares! After Crockett, Hutchison, Harris, Carroll and Daniels, Gov. Mills from Maine essentially told Trump to fuck off in front of a crowd and cameras. She's my PATRIOT OF THE YEAR! By the way, are all US males cowards?

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This is what it looks like when capitalism distributes resources “efficiently”

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Neo-reactionaries began courting wealthy tech elites years ago. In 2014, Corey Pein reported on the flirtations that helped deliver us to the hell we’re now stuck in, with Elon Musk and DOGE feeding the civil service to the wood chipper.

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"The issue isn’t complex policy: It’s people in power acting as though the rules don’t apply to them." via @americanprogress.bsky.social‬ www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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40% of the 77 million people who use SS are dependent on it as their sole source of income. If we don’t rise up you in your comfort will see seniors in wheelchairs on every corner until they’re removed and arrested for homelessness.

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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

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A heartfelt thank you to former Senators Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema for repeatedly blocking popular policies to preserve “norms” and protect “the rights of the minority” We couldn’t have gotten here without you

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“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

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There’s something happening in this country.

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They were the ones thinking they'd sit back with their popcorn owning us libs and watching us suffer. I'm good and I have no problem watching them crying now. Can we now say we owned MAGA and I told you so?

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This is such a huge regional flex. You're telling me central Brooklyn has eggs?!?

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This is such a savvy move by Judge Ho. It’s not just that Clement has impeccable (conservative) credentials; he was the Solicitor General from 2004–08, and even Acting AG briefly, so he can participate with quite a bit of perspective as to the proper role of the Department of Justice.

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