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Lovely. Ty Neal

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.

In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.

Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.

Textbook corporate greed.

👏 New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free universal childcare.

The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for ALL families, regardless of income.

The move is estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.🎉

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City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.

The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Can all the people who actually understand science and disease control start their own organization please? We still need to know the real information and we need scientists out here still doing their work.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

Breaking: Republicans finally find rising tide that lifts only one boat.

🧵 from not Texas

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Before Reagan, trickle-down economics was called the Horse & Sparrow Theory - if you feed the horse enough oats, the sparrows can then eat the stale oats with a side of manure. Bon appétit!

Impeachment Related Publications

The absence of display at the Smithsonian is not the absence of fact or record.
Donald J. Trump is still the only US president to be impeached twice.

They allowed GOP lawmakers in, but not the Representative of the District ( @brotherjones.bsky.social ).

How will this tunnel affect the surrounding area? Why was this event marked private if it's going to affect infrastructure?

This tunnel is only for Tesla and another way for Musk to profit.

Two things that shouldn’t be for profit: prisons and healthcare, because the incentive for harm is too great.

Keep ’em sick.
Keep ’em locked up.
keep the checks coming.

As of today the federal minimum wage has now been $7.25 for 16 years.

“A collapse is the goal. The Republicans have wrecked the system so they can rob it.”

Read the new op-ed from SSW Executive Director Alex Lawson here:
www.commondreams.org/opinion/doge...

Holy Crap look at the posted job applications for Alligator Auschwitz! The amount of money these so called Guards will be making is insane! 🤬🤬

Gore calls on allies: The United States is under attack.

NIH leader fired amid probe of contract used in attempt to hire spouse, officials say NIH chief operating officer Eric Schnabel was fired as officials were looking into whether a $3.3 million contract could have benefited his spouse.

The Washington Post has the Schnabel story.

"A $3.3 million NIH [sole source] contract to a Louisiana company, Argo Chasing, named Trish Duffy Schnabel, the wife of the NIH’s chief operating officer on its list of staff, according to the officials. "

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Political cartoon showing an ICE officer in full garb including mask. The word ‘coward’ has been added above the ICE insignia on his vest. On the wall behind him is a shadow silhouette of a KKK member in full hood and robe

Sums it up.

Bravo to the excellent team at @miamiherald.com for this huge public service. Well done!

Maybe, just maybe, all is not lost…
Kerr County Sheriff Leda—best known for targeting immigrants—just announced he’s applying for green cards for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family. The irony writes itself. Maybe the regime should take notes: immigrants save lives. Your cruelty doesn’t.

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