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Trump and Musk claim they’re saving billions through DOGE’s mass purge of federal bureaucracy. Instead, the administration has spent $710 billion in its first month, nearly a billion more than Joe Biden.

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The sales figures sent Tesla's share prices diving by more than seven percent on trading on Tuesday morning.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that a group of European leaders will head to London this coming Sunday to discuss joint plans on defense and security.

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According to the NHL, the 4 Nations Face-Off championship garnered 16.1 million viewers across North America. It was the second-most watched hockey game in North America in the last decade.

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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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Where are our leaders? We deserve better when we're under attack by Nazis and voting with Russia.

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President Macron humiliated Donald Trump on live television. He shut him up and fact checked him mid sentence. Trump sat there and smiled. #StandWithUkraine

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Support Democracy Protest Today in Centralia Washington #USprotests #3E #Feb24

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Weakness

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BREAKING: Denise Cheung, head of the criminal division in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, resigned after refusing a Justice Department order to freeze $20 billion in climate funds. In her resignation letter, she revealed that Trump officials had pressured her to launch a baseless criminal probe

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What happened to this Marco Rubio?

submitted 10 days ago • 179 comments

Proud American, ashamed of the president.

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Kash Patel wants to "come after" the press. The Senate shouldn’t give him the keys to the FBI to do it.

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In her first remarks since parting with her police chief, Mayor Erin Mendenhall says the city is eager to partner with state cops on homelessness and drugs, but says threatening to cut funding isn’t the way to do it.

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Omg more government waste. #trumpdidthis He is destroying the country with his bitter stupid narrative.#impeachtrumpnow

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The Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans.

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Elizabeth Warren, who helped to create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, likened Elon Musk’s attack on the agency to a bank robber disarming the alarms as he steps into the lobby.

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NEW: Nearly 1,000 career federal prosecutors have penned a letter to salute the bravery of those who stood up to the recent actions of Trump DoJ leadership. One of the signatures belongs to Jack Smith. www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

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NEWS: The MeidasTouch Podcast is officially the #1 podcast in the U.S. per the newly released Podscribe industry rankings, with 57.7 MILLION downloads and views per month

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It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...

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Ah yes, focusing on the issues that impact regular Americans.

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Trump blows millions on Daytona 500 propaganda as states suffer disasters. Europe scrambles for solutions while Trump snubs allies. Vance flops on the global stage. The MeidasTouch Podcast breaks it all down at 8pm EST/5pm PT!

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🚨BREAKING: Democracy Forward files lawsuit Wednesday — on behalf of a coalition of federal unions — against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to block access to Department of Labor data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Wut?

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BREAKING: Trump’s approval rating drops to 45%, down from 47%, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. I predict that within a few months, it will fall below 40%

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On January 19, President Trump claimed that “crime has gone through the roof. He claimed that violent crime is especially bad in American cities. Trump has used the purported crime wave to justify his crackdown on undocumented immigrants. But there’s a problem with Trump’s claim: it is not true.

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This cartoon is spot on.

submitted 105 days ago • 277 comments

Woke up in the middle of the night and scrolled aimlessly on Bluesky instead of the other place. We are so back.

submitted 105 days ago • 582 comments

Bluesky has officially hit #1 on the App Store charts for Free Apps in both the UK and US.

submitted 106 days ago • 468 comments

Former Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton on the Matt Gaetz nomination: “It must be the worst nomination of a cabinet position in American history.”

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[Pete Hegseth nominated as Secretary of Defense] "It can't get wor--" [Elon & Vivek nominated to lead "DOGE"] "It can't get w--" [Tulsi Gabbard nominated as Director of National Intelligence] "It absolutely cannot get--" [Matt Gaetz nominated as attorney general]

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This is what they’re saying about us. If you’re thrilled to have left the ugliness behind on X, drop a 💙 and give us a follow.

submitted 106 days ago • 619 comments

Now we know why Gaetz resigned from Congress.

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Wonderful when Russian State TV praises Trump’s DNI nominee as “our girlfriend Tulsi.”

submitted 106 days ago • 343 comments

After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.

submitted 106 days ago • 67 comments

X competitor Bluesky rocketed to the No. 1 spot on the Apple App Store’s US chart this week, as many users of Elon Musk’s platform said they were decamping in the wake of his significant role in the US presidential election. | Analysis

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