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Without doing cringe lib FAFO, I can think of one very specific thing they could have done.

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Why are so few former Joint Chiefs speaking out? Four stars? FBI Directors? Former Senators? Presidents? Thanks to those that do but we need some courage now!

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Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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KUDLOW: "There could be some short term, one-off price hikes. But at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good." 😬😬😬

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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NEW: Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader granted clemency by President Trump, was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol and charged with allegedly assaulting a female protester. Trump previously cut short Tarrio's sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Consequences www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Usha Vance, is that you?

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NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

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Who could possibly have predicted that a chaotic tariff and public spending policy might lead to economic worries? Oh yes, most of us.

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🚨 Trump’s purge is hitting Veterans hard. A disabled Vet who voted for Trump just lost his job in the DOGE layoffs. He’s one of thousands thrown aside while Trump & Musk dismantle the government. No one is safe from their destruction—not even their own supporters. MORE: wtop.com/virginia/202...

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does this guy know that his social network of choice belongs to elon musk? beyond that, it is so clear that the reason he cannot perceive discourse is that it is not happening in a register he is capable of hearing.

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jesusfuckingchrist

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so @chatterton.bsky.social’s position is basically that i am a cult leader and that all of you are mindless hordes who have no actual thoughts and do not engage with substance

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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I feel sorry twice for this IRS Trump voter fired by the Trump Musk regime. Sorry for him and his family that he was fired, but also sorry for falling for Trump’s lies and misinformation to vote for him.

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IRS Secures Agreement with Musk Aide, Preventing Him from Accessing Individual Tax Returns and Limiting Access to Data, According to Copy of Agreement Seen by Reuters.

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You know, J.D. Vance wasn't there to inform the defenders of Kyiv in 2022 that Ukraine couldn’t win, so they fought bravely and fiercely and eventually defeated the Russian onslaught to take the Ukrainan capital, thus totally derailing Putin's blitzkrieg.

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🇷🇺Med Sea Flotilla🇷🇺 3m📷 of the port of Tartus from 21 Feb 2025 It appears that Sparta IV is pier-side and likely loading equipment Caveats apply

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

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Today's front page of The New York Post.

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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"it is a party's job to earn your vote" rather than "participating in the government of a republic is a citizen's duty" is just decadence.

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I don't know what to say, really. Welcome to the find out era. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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Rare earths in Ukraine? Nope. “President Trump’s fixation on extracting elements from the war-torn nation is an illusion,” argues Bloomberg energy and commodities columnist Javier Blas. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Dictators are elected presidents. Victims are aggressors. All this bullshit ridiculed by classic literature and praised by russian propaganda won’t stand. We know it. Italians know it. The entire civilized world knows it.

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And again, European analysts twisting themselves in knots over every Trump brainfart against Ukraine and the EU need to take deteriorating US domestic political stability into account in analysis of whether under Trump the US will be able to do anything at all

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The VP is posting through it. (Good for @shashj.bsky.social for hitting a nerve.)

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