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200 million dollars of waste.

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Musk wants Brad Schimel (R) to win the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. We need every out-of-state Democrat (D) to contribute to judge Crawford's campaign. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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This is really something

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Appearing today in The Week:

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How's that vote working out?

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It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 965 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

submitted 2 days ago • 675 comments

How this year’s SOTU should look.

submitted 2 days ago • 532 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 2 days ago • 203 comments

His face even looks stupid

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Helpful tracker on Project 2025's destruction. www.project2025.observer?utm_source=s...

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Thank you, Chris! 💜💛✊🏼

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 1530 comments

if you know you know

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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.

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 2 days ago • 577 comments

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

submitted 3 days ago • 1145 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

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As detailed in Proof of Destruction—see below—the claims that America has sent hundreds of billions to Ukraine and that half of what America sent is missing were laundered by the Kremlin and the FSB through Tucker Carlson, who Canada calls a Kremlin agent. The actual figures: $56 billion and <2%.

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The Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans.

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments