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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: All HHS employees just received this email informing them that they no longer have to comply with Elon Musk’s 5 bullet point email, but if they do, they should “assume that what [they] write will be read by malign foreign actors . . .”
February 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: All HHS employees just received this email informing them that they no longer have to comply with Elon Musk’s 5 bullet point email, but if they do, they should “assume that what [they] write will be read by malign foreign actors . . .”
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McConnell's legacy is grim - he fought campaign finance reform, stonewalled Supreme court nominees - but what stands out most? More than any single person, he had the chance to end Trump but chose not to do so, even as he understood the risk Trump posed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
February 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
McConnell's legacy is grim - he fought campaign finance reform, stonewalled Supreme court nominees - but what stands out most? More than any single person, he had the chance to end Trump but chose not to do so, even as he understood the risk Trump posed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."
February 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."
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Democratic leaders:
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
February 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Democratic leaders:
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
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Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds.
If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.
If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.
The first is Susan Collins from Maine. Yes, she is a coward, but she needs to be visited in DC and in her Maine offices, and we need to call her every day until this stops. 2/ www.collins.senate.gov
Home | U.S. Senator Susan Collins of Maine
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Susan Collins of Maine
www.collins.senate.gov
February 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds.
If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.
If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.
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Nikki Haley’s failure to oppose Trump when it mattered has secured her position of complicity in this demolition of America.
February 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Nikki Haley’s failure to oppose Trump when it mattered has secured her position of complicity in this demolition of America.
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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.
February 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.
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BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.
February 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.
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Bannon has been saying this a lot lately. They are for sure planning to honor the people who attacked the Capitol at the Kennedy Center.
February 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Bannon has been saying this a lot lately. They are for sure planning to honor the people who attacked the Capitol at the Kennedy Center.
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Legislation that I passed and was funded by Congress, Solar for All, could reduce electric bills for working class families by 80%.
The Trump Admin is refusing to release the money in order to protect the profits of fossil fuel billionaires. Unacceptable. Release the funds NOW.
The Trump Admin is refusing to release the money in order to protect the profits of fossil fuel billionaires. Unacceptable. Release the funds NOW.
Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market analysts and environmental advocates say.
Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow
Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market analysts and environmental advocates say.
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Legislation that I passed and was funded by Congress, Solar for All, could reduce electric bills for working class families by 80%.
The Trump Admin is refusing to release the money in order to protect the profits of fossil fuel billionaires. Unacceptable. Release the funds NOW.
The Trump Admin is refusing to release the money in order to protect the profits of fossil fuel billionaires. Unacceptable. Release the funds NOW.
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I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.
February 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.
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Germany's AfD has made history as the first far-right party to win a state election since WWII, opposing immigration and focusing on mass deportations. This seizes Elon Musk's attention. It's crucial that we stand united. http://dlvr.it/TJ5d11
Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremism
dlvr.it
February 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Germany's AfD has made history as the first far-right party to win a state election since WWII, opposing immigration and focusing on mass deportations. This seizes Elon Musk's attention. It's crucial that we stand united. http://dlvr.it/TJ5d11
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Dark Pence is back.
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Dark Pence is back.
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This will go down as the real end.
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This will go down as the real end.
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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
February 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
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Patel is an unqualified extremist who probably perjured himself, receives money from Russia & China, and has made clear he will weaponize the FBI to pursue Trump's political enemies.
The only Trump appointee who did not make is Gaetz, seemingly for being an insufficiently loyal Republican.
The only Trump appointee who did not make is Gaetz, seemingly for being an insufficiently loyal Republican.
The Senate has taken the incredible/inevitable decision to confirm Kash "Qanon" Patel as director of the FBI
The Deep State must be shaking in their boots
www.wired.com/story/kash-p...
The Deep State must be shaking in their boots
www.wired.com/story/kash-p...
Kash Patel Says He Never Promoted QAnon. Here Are All The Times He Did
Kash Patel helped keep the QAnon movement alive on Truth Social, interacting with Q accounts, appearing on QAnon podcasts, and signing his children’s books with a QAnon catchphrase.
www.wired.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Patel is an unqualified extremist who probably perjured himself, receives money from Russia & China, and has made clear he will weaponize the FBI to pursue Trump's political enemies.
The only Trump appointee who did not make is Gaetz, seemingly for being an insufficiently loyal Republican.
The only Trump appointee who did not make is Gaetz, seemingly for being an insufficiently loyal Republican.
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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...
"Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
www.vanityfair.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"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...
"Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns
The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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This is what Hillary Clinton meant by calling him "Putin's Puppet."
February 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is what Hillary Clinton meant by calling him "Putin's Puppet."
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And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION
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2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
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Ex-Prosecutor Says New Trump Admin Move 'Is What Happens In Authoritarian Countries'
www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-pro...
www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-pro...
Ex-Prosecutor Says New Trump Admin Move 'Is What Happens In Authoritarian Countries'
CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin told Anderson Cooper on Monday that it's "one of the most bizarre situations" he's ever seen.
www.huffpost.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Ex-Prosecutor Says New Trump Admin Move 'Is What Happens In Authoritarian Countries'
www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-pro...
www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-pro...
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the “lawless decision” here is “the president does not have the power of the purse and cannot unilaterally cut or dismantle agencies established by congress”
i just think if you're going to found a website called "the federalist" you should have to have at least a tiny understanding of what the federalist papers (like, say, 78) have to say about things
February 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
the “lawless decision” here is “the president does not have the power of the purse and cannot unilaterally cut or dismantle agencies established by congress”