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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

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No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

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For those interested in my visit to U Buffalo’s Black History Nerds Saturday School, the video is now on YouTube! Focus: the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved African American woman, Harriet Jacobs’s INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL youtu.be/QuMrs5p6q-M

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Got Sen. Chris Hollin’s’ newsletter today and I’m so impressed with his website. Tells Fed. workers their rights, & offers resources for LGBTQIA, unemployed, immigrants, & whistleblowers. www.vanhollen.senate.gov/constituent-...

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 13 hours ago • 1198 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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And we have been arms dealers for a long time.

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Good news! Hope it has some positive effect.

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Bruh you know how corrupt you have to be for a grand jury to decide the WHOLE police department needs to be abolished?? lol abcnews.go.com/US/hancevill...

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

He's not wrong. The Congress doesn't have guns or command millions of federal workers. Blaming them for a rogue executive branch is not only useless, but will also increase voting indifference.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Someone on Reddit suggested that the Federal administrators run for office in the next election. I love the idea of talented, experienced administrators who are pissed at the Republicans, running this country.

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#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory #BlackHistoryMonth Barbara Jordan was born on this day in 1936 in Houston. The first Southern African American woman elected to the House of Representatives, she is known for her eloquent statement to the Judiciary Committee on Nixon's impeachment. /1

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French far-right leader cancels CPAC speech over Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ salute. Jordan Bardella calls off US address after former Trump aide makes controversial gesture with outstretched arm onstage. #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Governor Mills is a champ. 💫

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A beautiful essay on returning to China after years away.

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Republican congressmen in the US have introduced a bill to completely withdraw the country from the UN. The bill proposes stopping funding for the UN and its agencies and banning participation in peacekeeping missions.

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Sen. Wyden’s thread offers more info on this.

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Donald Trumps march towards more death, disease and destruction continues here and abroad. From anti-diversity to USAID to cutting research and policy in health and climate change. What hurts people around the world, hurts us here. The people don't understand this need mental help.

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Defense Dept. to Shift $50B to Trump Defense Spending Priorities $$ from climate change & other programs could instead be used to fund Trump priorities such as border security, building an "iron dome" for the US & cutting DEI programs www.law360.com/articles/230...

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I guess Trump wants to just wish climate change away?

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This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

submitted 2 days ago • 690 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

Mark your calendars: March 4 Liberty mass protest in DC, on March 4th starting at noon. “We are stronger together” #3E #USprotests #NoKings #march4liberty #Mar4

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“Ooo, it’s Thursday! What can we break today?!” says the agent of chaos.

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All I can say about this is, “Aw, HELL no!”

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MAGA have been making death threats to people who don't agree with them for years. Maybe this is the first time Tillis had them directed at him, so he suddenly felt like any liberal who's ever posted on Twitter or TikTok.

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Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to cut 84% of staff at the office that funds the U.S.'s disaster recovery, raising questions about how the country will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change.

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Now that's what I want to start seeing. "TRUMP TELLS A TRUTH!!" blaring from the masthead of the New York Times. Maybe he'd be so thrilled with the attention he got that he'd do it again.

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Do they really think we believe that what they're doing is legitimate? No. Do they care? No. What they count on is that we don't have a precedent for this kind of behavior, and no clear way of stopping it. At least not when the Republican reps are corrupt and unwilling.

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Mitch McConnell is finally retiring.

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there’s no dress rehearsal

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For all you teachers, I highly recommend University at Buffalo's online series, "Black History Nerds Saturday School." This Saturday's (2/22) talk is "Teaching Black History in an Age of Backlash: Strategies for Navigating Political Headwinds" with Yohuru Williams, PhD | University of St. Thomas.

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In the DMV, come on over to Howard University’s Inclusive Growth and Racial Equity Thought Leadership Lecture Series. I’ll be doing a fireside conversation tomorrow at the historic Cramton Auditorium. Register here: spr.ly/6182IfM54

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Trump’s attacks on DEI are anti-Blackness on steroids. But we're not backing down in our pursuit of racial justice. Proud to re-introduce #HR40, historic legislation to confront our country’s history of systemic racism and make the case for #reparations. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

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They really couldn’t see this would happen?

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HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

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U.S. aid freeze 'decimates' life-saving work globally, survey finds. Feeding centers for malnourished children are closed. Trump dismantled the United States Agency for International Development which he said was run by "radical lunatics." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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more of this, please

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