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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Hands Off Clermont, Florida!

Rapid Response 47 on X: "🚨 POTUS signs an executive order on election integrity that includes the following provisions: - Requires documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms. - Conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with the integrity https://t.co/6A5zVdOAYn" / X 🚨 POTUS signs an executive order on election integrity that includes the following provisions: - Requires documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms. - Conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with the integrity https://t.co/6A5zVdOAYn

BREAKING: This executive order would block tens of millions of American citizens from voting. Presidents have no authority to do this. This order, like the SAVE Act now before Congress, would hurt voters and suppress the vote.

Republicans can't meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says The House GOP has ordered the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid funding, to cut $880 billion in a bill to advance Trump's agenda.

Call me crazy, but how about we don’t give massive tax cuts to the top 1%.

Problem solved, right?

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Kansans: They want to take your voice away. All early voting, expanded voting locations, mail in voting, counting mail in votes after Election Day. All of it. #ksleg

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A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.

One link to the story www.wired.com/story/gsa-sa...

Justice department drops discrimination case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX Case brought during Biden presidency accused space company of refusing, unlawfully, to hire certain immigrants

Favors for friends.

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The GOP Tax Scam is here.

MAGA is stealing 880 BILLION away from healthcare - (that's 92 million people) so that the wealthy can buy some more yachts....

#DontCutMyMedicaid

Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is”

(This is not how the Constitution works)

Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.

O’MALLEY: “.. At this rate, they will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits.”

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Leader of FDA food division resigns Jim Jones’ resignation comes after the Trump administration last week cut thousands of federal workers, including some at the FDA.

NEW:

The head of the FDA’s food division has resigned.

“The division is tasked with ensuring that the country's food supply is safe, overseeing inspections and recalls.”

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Defense Department layoffs expected to start soon, officials say Pentagon agencies were told to submit lists of probationary employees after members of Elon Musk’s DOGE arrived, people familiar with the matter said.

The Trump administration has directed defense agencies to turn over a list of their probationary employees by the end of Tuesday, with the expectation that many could be laid off as soon as this week.

Trump Administration Cuts Off Legal Aid For Youth Facing Deportation In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to unaccompanied minors entering the…

Trump Administration Cuts Off Legal Aid For Youth Facing Deportation: In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to…

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

But even a strong merits argument cannot secure a temporary restraining order at this juncture. Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight. In these circumstances, it must be indisputable that this court acts within the bounds of its authority. Accordingly, it cannot issue a TRO, especially one as wide-ranging as Plaintiffs request, without clear evidence of imminent, irreparable harm to these Plaintiffs. The current record does not meet that standard

Judge Chutkan won't issue a sweeping TRO against Elon Musk & DOGE—but fires this shot across the bow:

"Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an
unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight."

Media are missing this if they don't include it.

Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk.

But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause.

⬇️Key para⬇️

Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.

The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨

Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

Here we go. Buckle up, America.

DOGE-affiliated employee accessed IRS system with sensitive taxpayer information The Integrated Data Retrieval System allows IRS employees to access taxpayer information.

This is absolutely insane. — www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

This is absolutely insane. They want to be able to see our tax records. Why? What purpose does this serve? Search our history so Elon can post about it? Attack their enemies? This is a five alarm fire! 🔥 wapo.st/3QizwcN

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DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

Huh so the DOGE website gives no audit transparency but links straight to X?

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The GOP's Taliban has a new message for women The Republican Taliban doesn’t want my wife, Louise Hartmann, to vote. And they may well put that desire into law this year.Republicans have always been wary of women voting or even engaging in politi...

OPINION: "The Republican Taliban doesn’t want my wife, Louise Hartmann, to vote. And they may well put that desire into law this year."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans Congress should reject this antidemocratic and ill-conceived bill.

"If enacted, it would devastate voter registration while disenfranchising tens of millions of eligible American citizens. Congress should reject this antidemocratic and ill-conceived bill."

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🚨 BREAKING

What happened to all the "Day one!" promises about lowering inflation, egg prices, etc?

Buckle up cupcake!