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AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

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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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The pediatric vaccine schedule doesn’t need to be “scrutinized.” It has saved the young lives of millions worldwide. It’s perfectly fine as it is. Far more burning and urgent health matters to attend to. We certainly don’t need to invent one to keep busy.

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He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

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People often assume the emotions associated with cruelty are hatred and anger, but it’s actually pleasure and joy. Fascists relish their cruelty. They roll it around on their tongue like a mouthful of full-bodied wine. They laugh as they harm.

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The University of Pennsylvania, built on the democratic ideals of Ben Franklin, once a focus of debate and protest from Vietnam to Gaza, is trashing its legacy with bended-knee compliance to its worst alumni, Trump and Musk My new column on how far Penn has fallen www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

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Centrists: Leftist language policing has gone TOO FAR!!!!!!!! Actual literal in-power Republican government: we have scrubbed the word "transgender" from every website 😊😊

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1. Three sexual abuse nonprofits have removed all or nearly all references to trans, queer and non binary people (h/t @devtesla.bsky.social) I wrote a second article today to document and archive some of the impacted pages. www.madycast.com/p/capitulati...

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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We don’t want “SpaceX engineers” We want trained, competent air traffic controllers, ground crew personnel and people well versed in making sure the public can fly safely Which hasn’t happened ever since President Musk and his flunky Trump forced out FAA Chief Michael Whitaker

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Today I wrote about the courage of the two federal prosecutors who wrote letters refusing to dismiss the charges against Mayor Adams. They represent the best of us. Join now ($10/mo) to receive all of Democracy Docket's premium content, including my writing. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

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Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend. And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

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Whatever else the mainstream media is doing (or not doing), journalists need solidarity in the face of anti-1st-Amendment tyranny. My colleague Jim Friedlich with a provocative Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed on whether journalism needs a NATO-type pact www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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NEW: Elon Musk's position to reform the federal government is an unprecedented attempt to split the traditional role of the president and create a shadow government that fundamentally alters our constitutional order, argues John C. Ronquillo of the Institute for Public Leadership.

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Good for them!

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Knowledge is power…

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I love vaccines!

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donald trump has ordered the IRS to hand over all of your personal information to a Holocaust denier who works for the richest man on Earth, who is a Nazi

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I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

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"These are not faceless agencies just taking your taxpayer money and sending it on fire. They're providing real value and service to you and your community": Eric Berger of @spacecitywx.bsky.social on potential DOGE cuts at NOAA. www.chron.com/gulf-coast/a...

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#BlackHistoryMonth The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty is an amazing work of memoir, genealogical research, and foodways that is like nothing else I have ever read. So great! thecookinggene.com

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Yesss! @koshersoul.bsky.social is on Bluesky! I'm so happy to follow Mr. Twitty again.

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

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As someone who was vaxed and had this flu and probably would have been in the ER without the vax - please get it done. I’m in great health and this thing took me down

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“If we wait for it to work itself out, it will never be worked out! Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.” Martin Luther King Jr, from his speech “The Birth of A New Nation,” 1957.

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Doing great 👍

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These are the plans of people who have never had to price check a can of tuna and put it back because it was $1.70 over budget and idk I kinda think we shouldn’t let anyone who hasn’t been poor near anything financial ever again. People who have always had money are in fact SHIT with money

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I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Happy #Caturday from Pipsqueak! #cats #catpics #catsky

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As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for minority Americans remember that black women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses and it ain't "wokeness."

submitted 11 days ago • 1288 comments

#MilkToastMcCormick

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The US continues to go "What if, hear me out, we made everyone HATE reading by the time they got through school????" Beyond that, this is NOT how you engage reluctant readers. I hate it.

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A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to restore CDC, FDA and HHS webpages that Trump had ordered to be deleted. This comes after doctors sued the Trump administration for interfering with their treatment of patients.

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So that's what McCormick (R, PA) means by 47's "team of disrupters delivering on promises of change." Dismantle the govt, screw everyone, billionaires hoover up whatever's left and profit from it. Dave McCormick you're already a failure as a senator. Your oath of office is a sham. Quisling.

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As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB, the agency that has forced big banks and corporations to return more than $21 BILLION to families they cheated.

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Trump has spent literally half of his presidency at Mar-a-Lago.

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The sit-in is one of the greatest moments in American civic life, the people who would roll back its gains are monstrous ghouls undeserving to share in society.

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