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Leo Driscoll
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SIU Graduate. Union Carpenter and Construction Superintendent.
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Don’t sleep on this measles thing
A thing I wish more people knew is that measles is basically the most contagious disease in the world
March 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
March 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”
March 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
March 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​"
Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before
Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Even with massive crimes in broad daylight, there's a whole realm of further crimes, hidden the way crimes normally are.
Three cheers for normalcy, right?
Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce
With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.
www.wsj.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.
www.politico.eu
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
'Surgeries are being canceled!' Senator sounds alarm on Trump's veteran health care layoff

www.rawstory.com/trump-tammy-...
'Surgeries are being canceled!' Senator sounds alarm on Trump's veteran health care layoff
President Donald Trump's interference with the Veterans Health Administration is having real and dire consequences, despite the administration's claims to the contrary, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) tol...
www.rawstory.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.
February 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Here’s the new Deputy Director of the FBI. 👇
February 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM