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👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 A perfect example of the justice system working for the American people! apnews.com/article/dei-...

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Idiocracy was a documentary

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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: The Luis Rubiales trial taught us that a woman can be sexually assaulted and behave however she wants afterward while still being considered a victim, our columnist writes. We should be eternally grateful for Jenni Hermoso's courage. nyti.ms/4i6CsoC

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A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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Did you know that Medicare does NOT pay for long-term care. NOPE. 2/3s of longterm care for your parents is paid by MEDICAID. If you want Medicaid cut, your parents wiil need to move into your house when they need long-term care & YOU will be providing it.

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

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fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

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Many of us find the outdoors a place to escape from reality & breath fresh air. Unfortunately, if trump continues with his climate change denial & destructive policies our beautiful outdoor spaces & clean air may disappear.

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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)

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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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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Some defense officials responsible for drafting lists of civilian Pentagon employees to be terminated as soon as this week are raising concerns with their superiors that the summary firings could break the law and potentially harm US military readiness, a senior defense official told CNN.

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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.” 🇺🇸

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TWO DAYS AGO, a government employee declared in a court filing that Elon Musk is actually not in charge of or an employee of DOGE. MINUTES AGO, the President of the United States said: “I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.”

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Climate change is moving faster than scientists projected & they're not totally sure why. One possible explanation is declining cloud cover. If that's true, we may be entering a feedback cycle that accelerates warming much faster than we've modeled.

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A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

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We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“At least Russia has elections” Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999. If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

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There's SO MUCH wrong with this letter, sent by Sen. Pete Ricketts to Dr. Nesmith @careynesmithmd.bsky.social! First, I too think not! What is it with these arrogant men who can't acknowledge - much less respect - the accomplishments and stature of women? Also, let's get the record straight:

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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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Wow — in their list of savings Elon’s DOGE guys claimed to have found $8 BILLION in savings by canceling a DHS contract…. It was actually $8 MILLION. Then “tried to cover their asses” NYT Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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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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A federal judge considering whether to indefinitely block President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender service members described it on Tuesday as having “unadulterated animus” toward transgender Americans.

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The director of the FDA’s food division resigned on Monday, saying the loss of critical employees made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

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As climate scientists predicted decades ago, climate change means weather chaos (with crop failure & food insecurity worldwide) "Unprecedented! Normally, we'd see a disruption of the POLAR VORTEX every other year or so. THIS NEXT POLAR VORTEX EVENT WILL MAKE 10 THIS WINTER!" via Glenn Burns

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Author details link between 'Christian nationalism' and MAGA’s 'smashing of the administrative state': Journalist/author Katherine Stewart has a long history of in-depth reporting on the Religious Right — and not in a favorable way. 2012's "The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth…

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Mr. Not-So-Wonderful Kevin O’Leary: “Cut cut cut cut… cut more. cut everything.”🤔 Reminder: Government is not the private sector. The purpose is not profit. Reminder #2: Government protects us from THEIR greed. Of course they love cutting.

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🚨🚨🚨 This is wildly infuriating. There are scores of doctors, scientists and institutions solely focused on the safety, efficacy, and protocols of medications. The suggestion that a man without degrees or experience in medicine, healthcare or science knows better than these specialists is MADNESS.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

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60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams debuts his new look.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

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Just as relevant today… “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcom X (1963)

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Jelly Bean is so sad in NYC- the pup was surrendered due to an emergency in the family and is really having a rough time being left behind. He is in NY- his information is in his bio- if you’re around the area and can foster/adopt- pls do! Pls repost him!! 🥰❤️

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