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The Washington Post wouldn’t need to write headlines like this if it hadn’t normalized Trump for the last decade.

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PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

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This should be a huge red flag to countries other than just Ukraine. Predatory weaponization of interdependence is something the US can probably exploit in the short term but the rest of the world will, rightfully, avoid American solutions if that's our modus operandi

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Judge temporarily blocks key parts of Trump’s executive orders targeting DEI wapo.st/436OM44

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

submitted 23 hours ago • 14 comments

Kudos to this week's episode of The Pitt for teaching me about the Freedom House Ambulance Service. What an incredible history and impact. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

“They are destroyers. We are the builders.”

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Isopo/WAPO POLL In less then a month people, when asked: Do you want the Republicans or the Democrats to control in the next election? Democrats in charge 59% Republicans 38% We can easily take back Congress 2026. We gotta work for it! #OwnYourBlue

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Looks like lots of families won't be able to enjoy the national parks this spring and summer because of Elon Musk and DOGE www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... It's very MAGA!

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During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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WA state school Superintendent Chris Reykdal works with WA AG on steps if feds try to freeze or recoup funds from the state’s K-12 schools based on Trainer’s letter demanding a stop to all DEI. Since 1998, WA state law bars discrimination in public education. www.seattletimes.com/education-la...

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my suspicion is that a very substantial portion of this is going into elon musk’s pocket via grok, which is why they’re fighting tooth and nail to keep it opaque

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Excellent and sobering review of the shift in US-Russia relations from today, looping back to 2004 and back to the present. Audio (20 min): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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'We’re gonna do it': Commerce Secretary gives away Trump’s game plan on cutting Medicaid www.alternet.org/msn-uk/were-...

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The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

His emphasis on the freedom to "joke" is telling. Because hearing sexism couched in humor leads boys men to adopt more sexist views and makes both men and women less likely to speak up and challenge others' sexist acts.

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has a single mainstream journalist acknowledged that it was a massive media failure to treat project 2025 as a closed issue just bc trump lied a couple of times about not supporting it

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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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If Trump were doing Putin's bidding, what would be different?

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Americans HATED Jan. 6. That the political opposition wasn't able to harness that and turn it into a lasting defeat of Trumpism will be one of the defining stories of the 2020s, if not the century.

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The goal isn't to put the AP back in its rightful place, it's to put the WH back in its rightful place- as somewhat accountable to a free press. If your savvy media response to that is to scoff and say "well that's not possible" congratulations you are regime media

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bird flu is festering in dairy cattle, and unlike with chickens, there is no federal program to contain it. instead of creating one Trump is gutting the USDA and CDC, specifically its disease control programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

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A new lawsuit seeks to block the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for several hundred thousand Venezuelans in the US #immigration #Venezuela #TPS

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If you’re going to avoid saying Trump lies because you can’t prove his state of mind, you should also avoid saying he’s just trolling when you can’t prove that state of mind.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

submitted 3 days ago • 1251 comments

Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Certainly doesn’t look to me as though the end goal is cutting government spending… They’re looking to reroute $$$ to the oligarchs. Firstly, by funneling our tax dollars into tax cuts for the oligarchs. Secondly, by creating government contracts for the oligarchs by privatizing our services.

submitted 3 days ago • 140 comments

What do federal workforce cuts look like?

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NEW: @wired.com can confirm that two DOGE members—Edward "Big Balls" Coristine and Kyle Schutt—are now listed as staff at CISA, the agency tasked with protecting US cybersecurity and keeping hackers out of critical infrastructure. @kimzetter.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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"The leaders of 500 millions Europeans are waiting for 340 million Americans to protect them from 140 million russians who haven't been able to win against 30 million Ukrainians for 3 years."

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Republicans are making air travel less safe.

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When he declares himself king, he is insulting you—and the nation. You have rights. The government is YOURS. And our loyalty is to the Constitution—the profound and fundamental essence of our nation. Not him. True patriots don’t bow down to kings.

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Trump: "We have effectively eliminated the US Agency for International Development ... we virtually shut down the out of control CFPB." (This is illegal)

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"It looks like a zoo."

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the reason i continue to think this can't last and that thermostatic response is coming is that they're not giving anyone anything positive to hang their hat on. they're trying to tear apart the federal government and the society it underpins, without offering anything substantive to cheer for.

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You know? I still find it remarkably easy to remain patriotic throughout this administration. Trump and the MAGA crowd are a repudiation of every single civic ideal that the United States is meant to represent—and I see no reason to stop believing in those ideals because of them.

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