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The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

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Gotta love the British press! 🇬🇧

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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I am part of the 25%. The lifestyle change is worth it. This is the way…

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Math is hard

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Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims - 'The Trump administration is falsely claiming that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments.' apnews.com/article/soci...?

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Trump and Musk’s efforts to shrink the government have left the country’s wildland firefighting force unprepared for the approaching wildfire season. One federal employee likened the funding freeze to a “massive sledgehammer” hitting the force.

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The Wall Street Journal has warned that “a U.S. withdrawal from Europe” under President Donald Trump’s second administration “would be a historic mistake.” www.huffpost.com/entry/wall-s...

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After 13 years of blindness, Stuart Haxell can see again thanks to groundbreaking gene therapy! His first moments reading again are pure joy—science is changing lives. #MedicalBreakthrough #Hope

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Live like a libertarian! Don't think the planes are safe? Just don't fly. Don't think the food is safe? Just don't eat.

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Earlier this month, Sheinbaum shared a letter addressed to Google with reporters, arguing that the U.S. had no authority to unilaterally rename the Gulf.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned $21 billion to people who were cheated by big banks and credit card companies. So why are Trump and Musk gutting an agency that's returning money to people who were scammed? For them, this has never been about cutting costs.

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Critics warn Trump’s latest order 'should concern you more than any so far' - “Trump Administration is setting up a constitutional crisis because they want civil unrest to enact martial law.” www.rawstory.com/trump-execut...

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The Trump administration is frantically trying to rehire nuclear weapons employees. USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them. This administration is pathetic!

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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

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President Trump is firing American workers who monitor bird flu outbreaks, safeguard nuclear facilities, and now those who promote American history in Dorchester – all to help pay for tax breaks for billionaires and giant corporations.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits. Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices. Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators. That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.

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When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

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Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

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When I talk to kids today and they ask me what I would do if I were 12 today, my answer is always the same, read books and learn how to use AI in every way shape and form you can. It is a living library that gives you responses and can help no matter who you are or where you live.

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MIAMI: “A man is facing serious charges following accusations of opening fire on a vehicle after he saw ‘two Palestinians’ in a shooting in Miami Beach this weekend, arrest documents said.” (The father/son victims were actually Israeli/ on vacation) www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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“So Elon Musk killed this program for disabled kids (illegally) because it included the word ‘transition.’ It helps them to transition from high school to work.” H/T @palafo.bsky.social, who posted the above on another platform.

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🔴 "We must not leave Ukraine alone. A fragile peace that leads to another war is not the right option. The U.S. Vice President's speech at the Munich Security Conference is unacceptable." — German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius

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If Elon Musk truly cares about being "maximally transparent," he should release the forms showing his financial interests. Americans deserve to know how Elon Musk will profit from his role in the Trump Administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Wants to Be Notified About Any Requests for Oversight The government efficiency group also wants to be notified when there’s any attempt at oversight from Congress, inspectors general, even the Government Accountability Office.

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Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

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A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams. There's power in fighting back.

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The bill passed after Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans ended a public dispute. It includes a mandatory death penalty for capital crimes committed by people without legal status.

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With Elon Musk's social media platform Twitter poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about Twitter’s competitors, an official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told Musk Watch.

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.

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Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

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It’s a mistake for the Marine Corps to fly Ospreys, an aircraft that killed 64 members of our military, over the Super Bowl. We should be celebrating the Marine Corps for 250 years of powerfully important service, not adding to the grief of families who lost their loved ones.

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🇮🇷/🇪🇬/🇹🇷/🇹🇳 The Iranian Foreign Minister called with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Turkey, and Tunisia Reportedly, Iran is urgently trying to form a coalition of countries, in order to oppose the Israeli-US plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, by any means possible.

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Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, says President Trump is trying to improperly remove her from the post.

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trump the lying,convicted fraudster's new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has halted all activity, including investigations, litigation, rulemaking & public communications. There will be no consumer finance laws

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Understand this, No Consumer Finance Law enforcement means banks, mortgage companies, finance companies of all kinds, credit card companies, even pay-day-loan sharks can rip you off and drain you dry and no one will hold them accountable. Ef me.

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Scott Bessent wasn’t bad enough, apparently. Now WSJ reports that Russell Vought is acting director of CFPB. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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