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Harvey Milk served his country in the U.S. Navy. He was an early and powerful leader of the modern gay rights movement. Stripping his name from a Navy ship—and doing so deliberately during Pride Month—is a shameful insult to his legacy & to LGBTQ+ Americans who serve.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg...
June 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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They installed the TV...

At his request...

So he can play video games...

In his office...

In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ...

link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the urgent release of DOGE records, citing the office's "unprecedented" power and "unusual secrecy."

Judge Cooper wants "rolling" productions of records to begin within weeks. Details TK

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
March 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
wrd.cm
March 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Donald Trump, hard at work honoring America's veterans by cracking down on waste, like for example the **sterilization of medical instruments** at the VA:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
March 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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You know what's definitely not part of the American Dream? All of us paying higher taxes on food and other necessities so billionaires like Secretary Bessent can get a bigger tax handout.
Bessent defends Trump tariffs: ‘Access to cheap goods’ is not the ‘American Dream’
“International economic relations that do not work for the American people must be reexamined,” he said at the Economic Club of New York.
www.politico.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
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March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...”

"Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
DOGE targets child support database full of income data
The U.S. DOGE Service’s attempt to access a federal database with sensitive information has provoked yet another internal disagreement.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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💉🧵The trend to ban mRNA vaccines is extremely concerning. Montana recently voted down a ban and Idaho is introducing a bill to criminalize their use. mRNA vaccines have been studied since 1990 and are a critical scientific advancement. An mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer is in clinical trials
March 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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BREAKING: The National Education Association, backed by the ACLU, sues the Trump administration over its anti-diversity "Dear Colleague" letter issued Feb. 14.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dear Colleague letter: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has been on a tear for much of this hearing on CFPB dismantling.

She's concerned the agency will be "choked out of existence before I get to rule on the merits."

She wants an evidentiary hearing.
March 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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My favorite
March 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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NEW: An Oval Office shitshow for the ages.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vanc...
A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle
In an Oval Office shitshow for the ages, Trump and Vance try to humiliate Ukraine’s wartime leader Zelensky.
www.thebulwark.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.
February 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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JUST IN: The Pentagon has issued its formal guidance for currently serving transgender members of the military.

It says they will be separated from service unless they obtain a waiver meeting these criteria:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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"daddy, what did you do in the war"

son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet

we all did our part
February 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!
February 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM