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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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How it started. How it’s going

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@raskin.house.gov: "In that network of rightwing billionaire libertarian-turned-authoritarians, they are very open about the fact that they think democracy is obsolete, we're living in a post-Constitutional America, and they are trying to get everyone ready for a technostate monarchy."

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The Trump admin's efforts to gut the civil service echo autocratic tactics in Hungary & elsewhere When nonpartisan civil servants r replaced w/ loyalists, the government becomes more politicized & less effective I explain👇 www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

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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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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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I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

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Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top

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Quietly, Hegseth announces a major policy change, ruling out Ukraine joining NATO. This is a capitulation to Putin, justifying his wars of aggression starting with Georgia in 2008. This will embolden Putin & undermine the interests of peace in Ukraine & Europe. A major blow to US national security.

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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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me omw to ruin someone’s whole week

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People are delusional about what happens if Musk and Trump ignore the law, the Constitution, and court orders. Everyone is acting like this is a standoff over USAID and a few other programs, and then we'll go back to politics as normal.

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@FordJohnathan5 🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Trump has now spent 9 out of his first 20 days at one of his own golf courses. - Trip paid for my tax payers - Secret Service staying at his property - Food and drinks paid for by US - Millions of dollars How about wasteful spending we start here? 🚨

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We are about to enter the brazenly lawless stage of the coup.

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Florida Special Primary Election Deadline to register: March 3rd/ request vote-by-mail ballot be mailed: March 20/Early Voting: Begins March 22 - 29/Election Day: April 1, Joshua Weil - Florida’s 6th Congressional District & Gay Valimont - Florida’s 1st Congressional District

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The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Musk/Trump (“Mump”?): “The federal workforce is out of control!” Reality:

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BREAKING - Kash Patel has stake in Chinese slave labor company, via Caymans holding company He REFUSES to divest - and he may have LIED on disclosure forms about it Marco Rubio + other Trumpers RIPPED this same Chinese co, Shein, for using Uyghurs as slaves - and dodging taxes

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He’s rubbed elbows with the Proud Boys, the Patriot Prayer group, Nick Fuentes and other extremists. Meet Donald Trump’s new nominee to be director of the National Counter Terrorism Center. apnews.com/article/2022...

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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

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the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

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Polling shows that only 16% of Americans have a negative impression of DEI. But at this Atlantic magazine staff meeting, that number seems much higher.

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BROWN: Would you support getting rid of school lunch for vulnerable kids and getting rid of childhood cancer research? REP. MCCORMICK: Philanthropy is where you get most of your money for childhood cancer research. When you talk about school lunches, hey, I worked my way through high school.

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BREAKING: Trump has moved to fire the dem members of the EEOC and the NLRB - two independent agencies that provide protections for unions and workers. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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WATCH: Rep. Bo Mitchell (D-Nashville) calls it “Despicable” that out of state lobbyist Club For Growth prez David McIntosh is threatening Republicans who don’t fall in line behind @GovBillLee’s voucher scam, which will “most definitely” hurt public schools.

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Schumer: "Last night, President Trump plunged the country into chaos ... "

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Because of lawmakers like David Gregory, who are writing bills for bounties on other humans, a 25-year-old Missouri man kidnapped and assaulted a woman in southern Missouri while demanding she show her papers. This is the world they want us to live in. Bigots. missouriindependent.com/2025/01/28/m...

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Today, Musk amplified white nationalist Peter Sweden to spread neo-Nazi rhetoric. His panic over “Europe disappearing” and fixation on birth rates are just straight up the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Usually when he cites “Make Europe Great Again” that’s what he means.

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The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.

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do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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