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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
This is a program that takes federal dollars and uses them to purchase fresh food directly from North Carolina farmers to offer to food bank customers.
The Trump-Musk White House decided they were unnecessary.
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The terrible CR Budget bill β written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves β was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
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An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
Check this out β American stocks were on par with global stocks up until late January β and have now dropped terribly since then
Gosh I wonder what happened in late January?
Not that it matters, but what Trump did with Musk and Tesla today is a clear violation of Title 5, Section 2635.702, of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations: Use of public office for private gain.
12.03.2025 01:51 β π 628 π 194 π¬ 29 π 6Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
1/ The reason this is particularly badβand undermines all the great journalism the Times doesβis that it a) treats lives like a game b) will be seen as the view/cavalier attitude of the entire NYT, and not just 10 columnists, many of whom should have been put out to pasture long ago.
01.03.2025 18:32 β π 846 π 158 π¬ 68 π 27
EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
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Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.
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FFS New York Times.
Theyβre not *his generals.
Unbelievable
βMaYbe shEβs goiNg to be in TroUble nOwβ
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what wouldβve happened if they hadnβt been vaccinated. They wouldβve died, he said.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
RFK Jr. is disqualified, dangerous, and cannot be given the power to make critical health care decisions for millions of Americans.
I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.
There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trumpβs State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. Itβs a smash and grab.
13.02.2025 02:38 β π 9886 π 3042 π¬ 240 π 109Very proud to announce the Department of Health will now process all requests to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait.
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08.02.2025 01:50 β π 77630 π 19447 π¬ 999 π 849
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an βinsider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems βthe single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.β
07.02.2025 19:47 β π 27104 π 11599 π¬ 705 π 795Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, donβt comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. Itβs starting to work.
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
06.02.2025 23:41 β π 149778 π 27809 π¬ 6402 π 2270
Senator Markey and colleagues are denied angry into the EPA Headquarters
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
06.02.2025 21:46 β π 12475 π 3763 π¬ 3578 π 1335Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.
This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
NEWS
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says heβs putting a blanket hold on all of President Trumpβs State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own by eliminating the βhead of householdβ filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own.
02.02.2025 04:00 β π 3385 π 1986 π¬ 288 π 296The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
01.02.2025 00:58 β π 33098 π 12235 π¬ 486 π 582β‘οΈ January 20: FAA director fired
β‘οΈ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
β‘οΈ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
β‘οΈ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
β‘οΈ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
I spent so much ink on Gitmo in my book about concentration camps because it was clear that by failing to eliminate detention there, this is where we've been headed for decades. What the US has already done is horrific, and in an unconstitutional no-man's-land, we face the possibility of much worse.
29.01.2025 23:37 β π 5888 π 1514 π¬ 76 π 42Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Donβt take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are π
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Voters Oppose Many of Trump's Week 1 Actions. Description: Below are actions that President Trump has taken during the first week of his second term as president. For each action, say whether you support or oppose it. Ordering government officials to label certain international drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations" β Support: 62%, Oppose: 24% Declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border β Support: 55%, Oppose: 35% Establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) β Support: 46%, Oppose: 37% <strong>Terminating</strong> all diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs across the federal government and placing their employees on administrative leave β Support: 43%, Oppose: 45% See full results at: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/29/after-week-1-voters-have-a-slightly-favorable-view-of-trump-but-oppose-many-of-his-executive-orders
NEW: While some of Trumpβs first-week actions are popular, voters oppose a majority of those we tested β including his βGulf of Americaβ directive, eliminating the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and ending a policy that helped states enroll residents in Medicaid.
29.01.2025 21:12 β π 26 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0
For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Weekly Report did not go out as scheduled
"This is a concerning precedent that public health messages won't be left to public health professionals and experts, and instead will be potentially controlled by politicians,"
