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Fatally shot a man inside of a car in Franklin Park. Media is reporting the injuries to the ICE agent, instead of prioritizing the death. It is unclear at this time what the officers are doing in the video. The story is still developing. WTF. #ICE #meltICE #illinois

The Social Security Administration has already cut 7,000 jobs.

As a result, its website is crashing. Phone lines are overwhelmed. Beneficiaries can't get service.

What is DOGE recommending now? More layoffs. 

Let it be known that Trump is effectively cutting Social Security.

“A president’s cabinet is only as good as its drunkest member.” David Ray, Guerrilla Marketer

Trump Officials Accidentally Text Journalist War Plans
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All the ways Trump officials are downplaying the "war plans" group chat Among them: Calling the leaked chat "deep and thoughtful," claiming no classified information was shared, and trashing the journalist who broke the story.

Among them: Calling the leaked chat “deep and thoughtful,” claiming no classified information was shared, and trashing the journalist who broke the story.

Robert Kennedy Jr. fails predictably as measles outbreak spreads Don’t forget to blame the 52 Republican senators who put aside everything they learned about Kennedy and confirmed him anyway.

It's hard to comprehend this if you have even a smidgen of empathy, but Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does not care if children die of measles. 🧪 www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

Are you a “Good American”? It isn’t politics anymore. Your decency as a human is in question.

Article from 2019 as relevant as ever.
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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.

Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.

Funny how that works, huh?

ACLU lawsuit seeks access to migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay reut.rs/4gUnX6x

A Note on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The Senate will vote tomorrow on whether RFK Jr will lead HHS.

For this final 24 hours we are asking you to call/visit/email your Senators and DEMAND a NO vote on RFK Jr.

Kennedy's views on science and medicine are not only wrong, they are actively harmful and destructive.

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

Judge declines to block Trump administration's resignation offer to federal employees A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's offer to federal employees to resign now in exchange for pay and benefits through September can go forward.

JUST IN: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's offer to federal employees to resign now in exchange for pay and benefits through September can go forward.

Anyone want to share clever protest sign ideas?

Mr. Patel has been directly involved in secretly orchestrating a purge of career officials at the FBI. Emil Bove, then acting No. 2 at the Justice Department, fired career civil servants solely at the request of a private citizen.

Following an illegal order is illegal.

Trump has granted Musk even more power to reshape the federal government by signing an executive order requiring agencies to cooperate with Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” to reduce their workforces and limit hiring replacements.

Gaza’s Government Media Office has said over 12,000 bodies remain trapped under the rubble in the enclave, but Israel is preventing the necessary heavy equipment from entering Gaza to retrieve them.

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We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons, surveillance Tech giant says in updated ethics policy that it will use AI in line with ‘international law and human rights’.

Google has dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in its updated ethics policy on the powerful technology.

Donald Trump’s Petty War With Anthony Fauci Just Got Dangerous The president removed the security detail that has protected the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Trump’s previous efforts to discredit and demonize Fauci give the removal of his security detail a distinctly more sinister connotation.

U.S. immigration agents raided a business establishment in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday and detained undocumented residents as well as citizens, including a U.S. military veteran, the city's mayor said reut.rs/3Wwz4Lf

Trump Threatens Everyone at Davos With Global Trade War Donald Trump just took his tariffs threat to a catastrophic level.

“My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth,” Trump said. “But if you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then, very simply, you will have to pay a tariff.”

A memo distributed to federal workers across the government commanded employees to turn in co-workers who sought to ‘disguise" DEI efforts by using ‘coded language,’ warning that a failure to report relevant information would trigger ‘adverse consequences’ reut.rs/4h5ZZ9c

Sorry Elise, but Lying doesn’t make it so!!! ElonMusk is a Nazi!

I believe that to be true. I am losing faith that anyone with the power will do anything about it.

Not a majority of Americans, a majority of eligible voters who actually voted. Only about a quarter of the US voted for this.

Screencapture of a post from subreddit r/nothinghappeninghere from user u/french_revolutionist. The post has a meme-style meta-heading of "The True Death of TikTok." The post itself is titled "Censorship" and tagged "News." It reads: "Everyone returning to the app has noticed censorship on: • Donald Trump (negative remarks removed) • Meta (negative remarks removed) • Luigi Mangione (you cannot state to free him) • Banned books (search results removed) • Nazis (flagged) • Nazi Germany (flagged) • Fascism (flagged, search results removed) • wlw (search results show a radio station) • Protests against Trump that are happening nationwide currently (algorithm removing them from mass fy pages) • Calling someone a racist (flagged) • Taylor Swift's song about the smallest man who ever lived, that was used widely for Trulp/Elon/etc has now been replaced with results for the smallest woman who ever lived) • ICE raids / ICE raid trucks (search results removed and filtered) • the lives feature [list cuts off]"

The True Death of TikTok