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Hilarious NYT headline: REPUBLICANS LOVE TRUMP’S SPENDING CUTS. JUST NOT IN THEIR STATES.
February 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Hilarious NYT headline: REPUBLICANS LOVE TRUMP’S SPENDING CUTS. JUST NOT IN THEIR STATES.
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Dear the rest of the world: You should absolutely not see the US as reliable for anything at this point, shit, none of us on the inside think we're reliable for anything right now either, you're definitely not alone
February 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Dear the rest of the world: You should absolutely not see the US as reliable for anything at this point, shit, none of us on the inside think we're reliable for anything right now either, you're definitely not alone
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A key federal agency overseeing 15 million acres of public lands in California has halted some critical fire prevention work because of the massive freeze in government funding directed by Donald Trump.
Trump’s spending freeze halts key California wildfire work: ‘We can’t even buy the rakes’
Trump’s spending freeze halts key California wildfire prevention work: ‘We can’t even buy the rakes’
www.sfchronicle.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A key federal agency overseeing 15 million acres of public lands in California has halted some critical fire prevention work because of the massive freeze in government funding directed by Donald Trump.
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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?
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The US is halting foreign aid around the world, but says weapons aid to Israel and Egypt will continue. And the White House has told the Pentagon to send a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel that Biden had stopped. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...
January 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The US is halting foreign aid around the world, but says weapons aid to Israel and Egypt will continue. And the White House has told the Pentagon to send a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel that Biden had stopped. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...
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Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time.
To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.
To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.
January 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time.
To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.
To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.
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Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies
“I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go," said one staffer.
www.politico.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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For historians/ppl who know history: did the German public who were complicit with the rise of nazism ever realize they were the bad guys? After the end of the war, did the public by & large understand they were wrong? Or were they just upset they lost? I know you can’t generalize to everyone but…
January 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
For historians/ppl who know history: did the German public who were complicit with the rise of nazism ever realize they were the bad guys? After the end of the war, did the public by & large understand they were wrong? Or were they just upset they lost? I know you can’t generalize to everyone but…
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Ethnic cleansing; imperialism; flat out lunacy. Oh yeah, hanging with a Neo-Nazi in Vegas.
On Air Force One from Las Vegas to Miami, President Trump says Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated.
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
January 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Ethnic cleansing; imperialism; flat out lunacy. Oh yeah, hanging with a Neo-Nazi in Vegas.
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The Hegseth confirmation shows that Republican lawmakers have put party over country. They should be ashamed, but I doubt if they are.
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Hegseth confirmation shows that Republican lawmakers have put party over country. They should be ashamed, but I doubt if they are.