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#Florida appeals court upholds the dismissal of a charge against one of 20 people accused by Gov. Ron DeSastrous in 2022 of registering and voting when they were ineligible. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/02/21/f...

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

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Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

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❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦 The draft agreement includes revenues from territories currently under Russian control. If Ukraine returns them, the share of revenues from there to the fund will be 66%, — New York Times 🧐 Ukraine must make contributions to the fund until it reaches $500 billion.

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FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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This brief exchange perfectly sums up the current state of the post-truth online information space.

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Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy officer at the DHS, explains why the treasury secretary violated the law by giving sensitive, personal data to Elon Musk's DOGE.

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Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

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"The ads contained calls for the imprisonment and gassing of immigrants, burning of mosques with dehumanising speech, and equated immigrants to animals and pathogens."

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I want to see city halls full of rumpled retired people ready to skeletonize a recalcitrant congressperson in 30 seconds, all across America

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I understand the importance of clickbait to the Times' social media outreach but I think the more germane fact about the German election is that 'polls predict' that the CDU/CSU will win the election and the AfD will lag substantially behind and have no hope of being in a governing coalition.

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Nothing says you’re a good steward of taxpayer money like bricking thousands of EV chargers that were installed at taxpayer expense for no reason other than that you hate EVs

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There is literally no point in trying to negotiate with these people. They want control of UK politics and economy. And sadly there are enough quislings in the UK establishment who would happily help. Not sure where Starmer goes from here. Airstrip One it is.

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Trump Urges Musk to Intensify DOGE Aggression Amid Declining Polls Trump ignores constituent unrest

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This is beyond cruel. With the so-called Supremes making it illegal to be poor & unhoused, what the Hades are people to do? Been on the edge of homeless myself these last five years. No stranger to it before that. This won't end well for a lot of folks. #endhomelessness www.npr.org/2025/02/22/g...

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⚡️US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters. The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communications.

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We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦 "Poland bought Starlinks, which it gave to Ukraine. We pay and will continue to pay a subscription fee for satellite internet for Ukraine. I cannot imagine that someone could decide to terminate a business contract for a commercial service, to which Poland is a party."

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The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service is bracing for an attempted takeover by the Trump administration and has retained outside counsel to fight any executive order to that effect, according to two sources with knowledge of the board’s plans. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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This is North Korea level crap. It’s embarrassing.

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Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

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Good info to have on hand

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“‘We go through hundreds of applications, we interviewed dozens of finalists, and basically all that work was just for naught,’ the professor said. ‘We just wasted half of those people’s time because our list just got cut by more than half.’” www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Trump deporting people at a slower rate than Biden's last year in office www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

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#Florida yacht captain charged with rape pleads to lesser charge, avoids both prison and being labeled a sex offender. There are other victims, though. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/c...

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#GeorgiaProtests

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Destruction of critical thinking continues apace.

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Europe can fairly easily replace American military support for Ukraine, but it will require massive investments to replace U.S. in NATO. Interesting assessments from @kiel.institute. www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...

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I believe I do a pretty good job in this column of explaining why public-sector workers are valuable. Please read, @housedemocrats.bsky.social! newrepublic.com/post/191811/...

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A surprisingly large crowd of 1000s are demonstrating for the independence of the Hungarian judiciary in Budapest. The protest is organised by the Hungarian Judges’ Association MABIE, and has received solidarity statements from many peer organisations around Europe. @j4j.bsky.social

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#UkrainianView That is what happens when you can only bully the victim, but show weakness in front of the aggressor.

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New — All Department of Defense agencies were sent a video of an agitated Pete Hegseth debunking supposedly fake media stories. Today at least one agency called an “emergency” town hall and forced employees to watch the propaganda. www.dvidshub.net/video/953069...

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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"The old world needs a crash course on how to wield hard power in a lawless era, or it will fall victim to the new world"

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If you're feeling overwhelmed, I really hope this reaches you today.

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1/US demands Ukrainian minerals or face cutoff from Starlink. It is the most venal form of economic coercion. And it will only accelerate the backlash to US tech platforms. Now Starlink = AWS = Facebook for friends and foes alike. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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