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“No one voted to cut Social Security. No one voted to cut Medicare. And no one voted to cut Medicaid. These are key parts of our social safety net that our tax dollars have paid for over a lifetime.” Here’s a quick and easy way to contact your representatives: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Boom! 17,000 letters sent to Congress. Help us get to 20,000 letters here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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The Georgia Republican who recently told CNN that school kids should be sent to work to earn school lunches was met with outrage and fury from residents at a local town hall meeting on Thursday night.

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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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Some things to cheer you up, courtesy of Scott @dworkin.bsky.social ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

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So not only did Trump not win any sort of mandate, his honeymoon numbers are basically a participation trophy compared with other presidents. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." As the foundation of #democracy in America crumbles and the vulnerable are under attack from a rogue administration, we, the people, are asking our former presidents to "Say something!”

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“They said they were not at liberty to give us a reason.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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awwwww shit y'all, the flight attendants have entered the chat 🤘🤘🤘

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It's just one poll but in a new Gallup poll Trump is 45-51 (-6) approve/disapprove, and -12 on the economy. - 6 recent polls have Trump underwater - 538 average has dropped 6 pts in past month - Highest disapproval of any President at this point in their Presidency #notwinning

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Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed. Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio. He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.

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Remember Joe the Plumber? It was a gimmick but it got McCain tons of airtime. (Then it turned out that Joe didn’t have a plumbing license, thus completing the circle.)

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Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:

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Hey, @msnbc.com. Why do you allow your readers to share articles on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and most other major platforms — but NOT Bluesky? Asking for nearly 32 million users.

submitted 4 days ago • 890 comments

RFK Jr—extreme anti-vaccine activist—is doing exactly what he planned to do. His supporters knew this was his plan.

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@johnjharwood.bsky.social points out that LBJ in 1965 foreshadowed Trump/Musk in 2025: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice that you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, he'll empty his pockets for you.”

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And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual. Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

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This seems…..bad

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

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At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 7 days ago • 863 comments

The DOGE "force of super-geniuses" reinventing our $6 trillion government forgot to password-protect their website. Here's what it looks like right now www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Dear NYT, He wasn’t “made chair”. He fired any of the board members who wouldn’t support him and installed himself. It was…… “The Purge: Kennedy Center”

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I love this

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A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

submitted 10 days ago • 672 comments

Jesus, Gen X, what the hell is wrong with us?

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Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

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Hudson Valley Republicans are reeling this morning at the size of Ken Jenkins ' blowout Westchester win over MAGA candidate Christine Sculti, endorsed by Trump. Experts reckoned a much tighter race, and Mike Lawler staked his reputation on Sculti, went all in. Lost 64-36.

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And if you call for an Uber or Lyft and get a Tesla, cancel it and tell them why.

submitted 10 days ago • 354 comments

Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining

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Mediocre white men discovering all the money they make depends on the rule of law oh no

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One silver lining in all this is that the supervillains are starting to look like it so they can be easily spotted by anyone with eyes

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So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

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