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Governor Wes Moore

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I am proud to announce that the state has reached economic agreements with the vast majority of our public sector employee unions.

January 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM

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I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings

Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

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July 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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June 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM

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May 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM

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MeidasTouch

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JUST IN: The FDA’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, has been pushed out. In his resignation letter, he slams RFK Jr. for rejecting “truth and transparency” and pushing “misinformation and lies.” Marks warns of an “unprecedented assault on scientific truth.”

Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out

In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

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March 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM

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MeidasTouch

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Bernie Sanders announces AOC will be joining him on his 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour and delivers an important message in a new interview on MeidasTouch.

Bernie DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump in POWERFUL INTERVIEW

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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March 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy

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Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

March 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM

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God

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That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

February 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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Lisa Reyna Loe

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🚨 Five former Secretaries of Defense have signed a letter demanding Congress hold immediate hearings regarding the firing of senior military officers.

No doubt 🤡 and his band of Russian asshat assets will use their bully pulpit to bully them.

Let’s not be bystanders.
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Letter from 5 former Secretaries of Defense calling for ASAP hearings re. firings of military officers:

Appeal to the Congress from Former Secretaries of Defense
2/27/2025
We are deeply alarmed by President Trump's recent dismissals of several senior U.S. military leaders. We write to urge the U.S. Congress to hold Mr. Trump to account for these reckless actions and to exercise fully its Constitutional oversight responsibilities.
The President offered no justification for his actions, even though he had nominated these officers for previous positions and the Senate had approved them. These officers' exemplary operational and combat experience, as well as the coming dismissals of the Judge Advocates General of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, make clear that none of this was about warfighting.
Mr. Trump's dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration's desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President's power. We, like many Americans -- including many troops -- are therefore left to conclude that these leaders are being fired for purely partisan reasons.
As former Secretaries of Defense, we call on both the House and the Senate to hold immediate hearings to assess the national security implications of Mr. Trump's dismissals. The House and Senate should demand that the administration justify each firing and fully explain why it violated Congress' legislative intent that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff complete a four-year term in office. General C.Q.
Brown Jr. had not yet completed two years in the job. In the meantime, Senators should refuse to confirm any new Defense Department nominations, including that of retired Lt. General Dan Caine as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
President Trump's actions undermine our all-volunteer force and weaken our national security. Talented Americans may be far less likely to choose a life of military service if they believe they will be held to a polit…

February 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM

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February 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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Bill Madden

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Richard Gere: "... we're in a very dark place in America, where we have a bully and a thug who is the president of the United States." 🙌👏👇

February 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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Alt CDC (they/them)

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

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Oh look. A President, a Governor, a Mayor - all at the crash site at the Chesapeake Bay with first responders. Not swimming. Showing empathy and leadership.

February 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM

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Emergency Video (Extreme Emergency) Jan 2025

WHERE IS DEMOCRATIC MESSAGING AND FIGHT?!

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January 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

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Get ready. Trump is going to fire most of the VA workforce, 70% of which are Veterans, then to "fix" the problems he created, he's going to privatize the VA and send our veterans to expensive, shitty corporate health mills after he slashes health benefits so he and his buddies can get richer.

January 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM