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Welp, “Five bullets” 2.0 is going about as well as can be expected. Some can’t send it encrypted while some can. Folks from Commerce are getting the request email from Pete Hegseth at DoD. And someone had their personal health info sent to 15,000 people. ACES!

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This isn't good. People depend on these benefits.

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The Washington Post that we once admired is gone.

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Cartoon by David Sipress.

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As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

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you'd think Marco and Elon would be proud of how many people they're condemning to needless death. Elon bragged about how he put the agency "into the wood chipper". why so bashful now?

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Somehow, in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the first country to surrender was America.

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You can tell antivaxxers don’t actually care about children because a child died and these sickos are using it as an excuse to share juice recipes and promote their supplements. There’s more aluminum in a cup of carrot juice than in the two-dose MMR series. And carrot juice doesn’t prevent measles.

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Folks are frustrated with Dems in Congress right now. Here’s my solution - get the hell out of DC and hold some hearings. I love town halls, but we need to focus on people right now. Have folks come testify about how these cuts are affecting them. Get local media there. Make it real.

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Authorities seek public’s help in locating missing 2-year-old in Siletz

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I have doubted my parenting many times in the past almost 20 years. But all of my children are Green Day fans and NONE of them will be the folks saying "When did they get political/woke," so there's that.

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In other words, the free world is moving forward without the United States. Congratulations, Republicans. You blew a 100 year head start as a hegemony.

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Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

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🚨BREAKING: We closed down Tesla in NYC Well we, went down to the rich man's house and we 🎶 Took back what he stole from us Took back our dignity Took back our humanity 📣Resistance Revival Chorus Thank you to everyone who joined us. PEOPLE POWER⚡️ #TeslaTakedown #StoptheCoup #Resist

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This says it all.

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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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We seem now to be isolated on the world stage, with an improved relationship only with Russia in exchange for demolished relationships with all our main allies. Has there ever been a time in human history when a national leader has undermined so many alliances so quickly?

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Oh

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Brutal.

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All federal employees must respond to an email from a Nigerian prince with their bank account number or risk being terminated.

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Judge Alsup has issued a TRO in the case regarding OPM's memo ordering the removal of probationary employees. Will post my thoughts in this thread as I read and drink my coffee. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

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MORE: As Judge Chuang pressed for more information, counsel for the government revealed that DOJ's Federal Programs Branch “has been cut in half.” "They're cutting people across the government," the judge replied. "If you're saying you don't have enough people, maybe that's part of the problem..."

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Judge Alsup has issued his written TRO, directing that OPM’s terminations of probationary employees across govt be "stopped & rescinded." “No statute—anywhere, ever—has granted OPM the authority to direct termination of employees in other agencies.” ... 1/3 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Trump right hates Zelenskyy because he exemplifies integrity and courage, and the price of following Trump is to abjure those qualities forever.

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Ukrainians back Zelensky after disastrous White House encounter

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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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Strong words from Bret Stephens: “Roosevelt and Reagan must be spinning in their graves, as are Churchill and Thatcher. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim America’s honor from the gangsters who besmirched it in the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

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I stand with Ukraine.

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When you know the leaders of our country are on the wrong side of history. My god, why would we side with dictators.

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Trump, and by extension the American government, has sold out our ally and is now on the side of Putin’s despotism. This is what 77 million Americans voted for in pulling the lever for him. Trump’s fondness for Putin was no mystery. It’s a stain upon our country and a disgrace.

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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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I’m starting early and I’m in EST. I will not to spend one penny for the next 27 hours. Join me. Join millions.

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If you watch “Jaws” backwards, it is a heart-warming story about a shark giving out limbs to the disabled.

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Trayvon Martin would be 30 He SHOULD be 30

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Every opinion piece in the Washington Post must now follow Bezos' new rightwing guidelines. Writers can say that they would have written the same thing anyway, but the fact remains: Their piece was only published because it met his new rightwing guidelines. Support independent, pro-democracy media.

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Donald Trump's tax breaks for billionaires and billionaire corporations are NOT "cost free". The real cost will be health care cuts for: - New moms and their babies - Grandma in the nursing home - Kids with disabilities Threatening your health care for billionaire handouts.

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This is evil. Pure evil.

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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JUST IN: DOJ asks Judge Ali to stay his order from today — which was to enforce a TRO in place since Feb. 13 — because, DOJ says, "the Court’s order requires Defendants to disburse nearly $2 billion dollars by 11:59 PM tomorrow." THEY HAD TO DO SO SINCE FEB. 13, THOUGH!! That's the whole point!

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BREAKING: Pro-democracy forces WIN German national elections Disappointingly weak show by neo-Nazi AfD party supported by Elon Musk, JD Vance, and the Kremlin — they’ll likely again be SHUT OUT of the government Wonderful news for Europe — and critical for supporting Ukraine

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I need some happiness and this beautiful pup does that

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