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MSNBC coming pretty close: bsky.app/profile/msnb...
January 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
MSNBC coming pretty close: bsky.app/profile/msnb...
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Here's your lede: With bodies still being fished out of the Potomac River, Donald Trump went on a partisan, racist and entirely unsubstantiated rant today, blaming diversity hiring and Democrats for Monday’s calamitous collision between a passenger jet and a military aircraft..
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Here's your lede: With bodies still being fished out of the Potomac River, Donald Trump went on a partisan, racist and entirely unsubstantiated rant today, blaming diversity hiring and Democrats for Monday’s calamitous collision between a passenger jet and a military aircraft..
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*EXCLUSIVE*
Feds warning Head Start providers that their funding may come late, because of review to check for "potentially unallowable grant payments"
Appears to be part of Trump freeze on federal spending
Advocates worried providers won't make payroll, rent etc www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Feds warning Head Start providers that their funding may come late, because of review to check for "potentially unallowable grant payments"
Appears to be part of Trump freeze on federal spending
Advocates worried providers won't make payroll, rent etc www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Administration Payment Freeze May Delay Money For Critical Preschool Program
Head Start providers logging onto the online funding system this morning found a message warning of delays because of "potentially unallowable grant payments."
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
*EXCLUSIVE*
Feds warning Head Start providers that their funding may come late, because of review to check for "potentially unallowable grant payments"
Appears to be part of Trump freeze on federal spending
Advocates worried providers won't make payroll, rent etc www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Feds warning Head Start providers that their funding may come late, because of review to check for "potentially unallowable grant payments"
Appears to be part of Trump freeze on federal spending
Advocates worried providers won't make payroll, rent etc www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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The funding pause orders "are actually the most lawless, brazen, unconstitutional actions that this administration has yet taken, and if sanctioned by a conservative Supreme Court, they would amount to a full disbanding of our system of government." From @ddayen.bsky.social:
Trump’s Most Lawless Action Yet
Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power.
prospect.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The funding pause orders "are actually the most lawless, brazen, unconstitutional actions that this administration has yet taken, and if sanctioned by a conservative Supreme Court, they would amount to a full disbanding of our system of government." From @ddayen.bsky.social:
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Sen. Angus King blasts Trump's freeze of federal grants and loans, saying it's "blatantly unconstitutional."
"This is a profound constitutional issue. What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States."
"This is a profound constitutional issue. What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States."
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sen. Angus King blasts Trump's freeze of federal grants and loans, saying it's "blatantly unconstitutional."
"This is a profound constitutional issue. What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States."
"This is a profound constitutional issue. What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States."
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The public needs access to research information from the CDC and NIH. We are in the midst of virus season and people have all kinds of cancer and other diseases. Trump is out of his mind.
January 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The public needs access to research information from the CDC and NIH. We are in the midst of virus season and people have all kinds of cancer and other diseases. Trump is out of his mind.
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Trump Administration has now cancelled reproductiverights.gov -- which helped women find health care.
January 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Trump Administration has now cancelled reproductiverights.gov -- which helped women find health care.
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"President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol in his name on Jan. 6, 2021... The sweeping grant of clemency includes 'full, complete and unconditional' pardons for some of the most notorious participants in the attack, including hundreds convicted of assaulting police"
Trump issues sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters
The action laid waste to the Justice Department’s four-year drive to punish the first disruption of the transfer of power in American history.
www.politico.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol in his name on Jan. 6, 2021... The sweeping grant of clemency includes 'full, complete and unconditional' pardons for some of the most notorious participants in the attack, including hundreds convicted of assaulting police"
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Next: The No More Security Clearances EO: directs to give immediate access to new appointees and bypasses the requirement for security clearances.
Great, this will go wonderfully, love to have unvetted people with immediate access to Top Secret information.
Great, this will go wonderfully, love to have unvetted people with immediate access to Top Secret information.
Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel – The White House
January 20, 2025 MEMORANDUM TO THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL SUBJECT: Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Next: The No More Security Clearances EO: directs to give immediate access to new appointees and bypasses the requirement for security clearances.
Great, this will go wonderfully, love to have unvetted people with immediate access to Top Secret information.
Great, this will go wonderfully, love to have unvetted people with immediate access to Top Secret information.
Clearing the overnight fresh powder snow is easy with a lil J Geils blasting thru the earbuds!!
Whammer Jammer (Original Version)
YouTube video by BreaKlinq
m.youtube.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Clearing the overnight fresh powder snow is easy with a lil J Geils blasting thru the earbuds!!
Dumbass fool already forced to blink… but of course his cult won’t care or even notice.
January 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Dumbass fool already forced to blink… but of course his cult won’t care or even notice.
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She's done so much for so many people. It's on us to run with the baton she's passed us.
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died, per statement from her family. She was 67. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
She's done so much for so many people. It's on us to run with the baton she's passed us.
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🧵 The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,600+ individuals connected to the events of January 6, 2021.
In the coming days, the Capitol Riot Map will be completed updated, and include an new feature: Pardon Watch.
Details on updates and how to support this project below 👇
In the coming days, the Capitol Riot Map will be completed updated, and include an new feature: Pardon Watch.
Details on updates and how to support this project below 👇
January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🧵 The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,600+ individuals connected to the events of January 6, 2021.
In the coming days, the Capitol Riot Map will be completed updated, and include an new feature: Pardon Watch.
Details on updates and how to support this project below 👇
In the coming days, the Capitol Riot Map will be completed updated, and include an new feature: Pardon Watch.
Details on updates and how to support this project below 👇
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New game show: Kiss the ring, get a pardon www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/n...
Eric Adams Heads to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump
The New York mayor, who is under federal indictment, has spoken warmly about President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks and has said he is open to receiving a pardon from him.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
New game show: Kiss the ring, get a pardon www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/n...
Ffs dude.
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine reintroduced legislation to impose a 10% tariff on all imports, doubling down on his push as President-Elect Donald Trump, who has said he’d support such a tax, takes office next week.
Rep. Golden reintroduces proposal for 10% tariffs on imports as a supportive Trump takes office • Maine Morning Star
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine reintroduced legislation to impose a 10% tariff on all imports, doubling down on his push as President-Elect Donald Trump, who has said he’d support such a tax, takes…
buff.ly
January 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Ffs dude.
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In new WSJ oped, Musk & Ramaswamy say they believe SCOTUS could open the door to unilateral spending cuts, without Congress, based on what they say is the unconstitutionality of the 1974 budget law
Could be an absolutely massive fight
Confirms our reporting: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Could be an absolutely massive fight
Confirms our reporting: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
November 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
In new WSJ oped, Musk & Ramaswamy say they believe SCOTUS could open the door to unilateral spending cuts, without Congress, based on what they say is the unconstitutionality of the 1974 budget law
Could be an absolutely massive fight
Confirms our reporting: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Could be an absolutely massive fight
Confirms our reporting: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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NEW: Governors JB Pritzker (D) of Illinois and Jared Polis (D) of Colorado form a nonpartisan coalition of governors to protect and strengthen state-level democratic institutions ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
Democratic Governors Form Coalition to Safeguard Democracy Ahead of Trump Term
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:39 PM
NEW: Governors JB Pritzker (D) of Illinois and Jared Polis (D) of Colorado form a nonpartisan coalition of governors to protect and strengthen state-level democratic institutions ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
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November 12, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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We're unapologetically pro-democracy and pro-voter in our work and coverage. Subscribe to our free newsletters to stay informed: newsletters.democracydocket.com/bluesky
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