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Long time software architect- I create ai/ml systems that are NOT going to run skynet. Daytimes are zoom marathon sessions - nights are exercise, play, eat ... and jump on here to keep tabs on the crazies
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🚨Hot off the presses: the CBO Score for the 2025 GOP tax scam to be heard in Rules tonight.

Key takeaway—the wealthiest Americans will get more $$$, while those with the least will lose almost 4% of their income.
May 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The tantrums of the transactional president continue as he threatens judges who rule against him.
May 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Of all the terrible things happening in America, what they're doing to their science infrastructure, while not the worst in immediate human impact, is going to be one of the hardest to recover from. US science is done for a generation or more. And that's all China needs to take over.
A top scientist quit RFK's NIH after it demanded his science be reviewed, not by top peers, but by "political appointees," and forbade him from telling a reporter the truth that ultra-processed foods are less addictive than drugs...because that is not an RFK belief. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This post was only 18 days ago … and the headline could have been reused almost every day!
Imagine if Joe Biden, newly in office, had launched a company with Hunter Biden and used his social media to recruit financial backers.

Then promised the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him ... Trump just did that.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
newrepublic.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As the transactional President… what did he give up for this plane?
EXCLUSIVE: We dug up a video of Donald Trump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.
May 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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#ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them.

#DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it.

#Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them.

Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
#FuckTrump #Resist #Felon47
May 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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This is why impeachment and removal exists. For grotesque, demented, and un-American acts like this.
April 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Imagine if Joe Biden, newly in office, had launched a company with Hunter Biden and used his social media to recruit financial backers.

Then promised the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him ... Trump just did that.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Burkina Faso grants mining lease to Russia's Nordgold for gold project reut.rs/3YIXZfF
Burkina Faso grants mining lease to Russia's Nordgold for gold project
Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, the military-led West African government said, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to strengthen an economy hit by insecurity.
reut.rs
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Trump admin begins groundwork to deport nearly 90,000 Afghans. Many were US allies during the war, and would likely face imprisonment or death upon their return. Another shameful betrayal.
The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Send American Allies to Their Deaths
If the Afghans in the United States are deported, they will likely be executed.
www.thebulwark.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Dear SCOTUS....
You voted 9-0 against Trump.
He's coming for you next.
You may wish to revisit that whole Immunity thing.
April 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The orange man's administration has no recognition of authority other than the gobbledygook that comes out of their leaders mouth.
April 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'll bet THIS story wasn't on your bingo card for today! someday - of course

www.yahoo.com/news/social-...
Social Security glitch causes panic as DOGE cuts take toll — what you need to do to steel yourself
The ghost in the machine is a direct result of DOGE's cuts to SSA staff and offices.
www.yahoo.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I agree - but it wouldn’t hurt for the entire elected blue team to band together - declare what is clearly a constitutional crisis and call out the red team

Daily
April 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Today’s EOs are breaking my brain. They’re bad.
April 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Trump placidly presiding over the largest measles outbreak in 25 years, with no end in sight.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000
Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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A national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration has united an outpouring of protesters across the country who are rallying in defiance of what they describe as a relentless assault on democratic institutions and civil liberties.
‘50501’ protesters denounce Trump administration in nationwide rallies while supporting to impacted communities | CNN
A national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration has united an outpouring of protesters across the country who are rallying in defiance of what they describe as a relentl...
www.cnn.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This is the agency is responsible for:

Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Americans with Disabilities Act
Fair Housing Act
many more
Expect devastating losses at DOJ's Civil Rights Division with the new deferred resignation program: “People are ... afraid of what they are being asked — and will be asked — to do instead.“

This is the new reality under AAG Harmeet Dhillon.

Today, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/i/161552742/...
April 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.
April 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM