S Hopperkins
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S Hopperkins
@sehopperkins.bsky.social
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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NEW VIDEO: While the country is riveted by what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing in Washington, DC, the Republican Party continues to attack voting rights in the states and in the United States Supreme Court.

Watch and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuW...
GOP Asks Supreme Court To Restrict Voting in Pennsylvania
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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February 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..."

apnews.com/article/trum...
USAID staffers describe colleagues abandoned in violence in Congo as DOGE ends assistance programs
Newly filed affidavits of U.S. Agency for International Development workers describe a lieutenant of Trump ally Elon Musk and other outsiders directing the immediate termination of hundreds of U.S. ai...
apnews.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the agency announced Monday. The small office is an independent agency responsible for setting policies on preventing conflicts of interest for federal employees.
Live updates: Federal judge says Trump administration has been violating court order
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce, citing an aim to bring the agency in line with US President Donald Trump's priorities, according to two sources familiar with the matter reut.rs/4hHhkVD
CIA offers buyouts to entire workforce to align with Trump priorities, sources say
The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, citing an aim to bring the agency in line with U.S. President Donald Trump's priorities, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
reut.rs
February 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at shrinking the department as he looks to fulfill his campaign promise to shut it down.

Here’s what to know about the Education Department and its potential future.
Key functions of the Education Department, which Trump is moving to dismantle
Here’s what the Department of Education, the agency President Donald Trump is trying to dismantle, actually does.
wapo.st
February 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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NEW — DOGE is preparing to purge an unknown number of USAID accounts. Source in the dept. said Musk youth employee Gavin Kliger has been made administrator of all systems, bypassing usual clearance process. If an account is shut down, employee loses access to email, shared files, internal systems.
February 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Breaking news: President Donald Trump proposes permanent displacement of Gazans as he welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, saying “they’d love” an option to resettle.
Trump proposes permanent displacement of Gazans as he welcomes Netanyahu to White House
The leaders were set to focus on the tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, relocating Palestinians, rebuilding Gaza and normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
wapo.st
February 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Rep. Jamie Raskin makes it clear -
"We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk." #usaid
February 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 EPA employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.
Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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No one elected Elon Musk.

As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences.

We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.
February 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM