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Rand Paul (R-KY) going off on his own party.

DOGE to cancel government contracts that help veterans, records show Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans.

DOGE is canceling government contracts that help veterans. Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors, and provide burial services to veterans.

NIH is again throttling research funding in defiance of a federal court order A freeze on "new and continuation awards" will "remain in place" pending DEI review, states a new internal memo.

Despite court order, NIH grants remain frozen. Newly awarded grants, grants with fundable scores, & funds for a new budget cycle of a current project are all *FROZEN*🥶 and not being released. US research is being choked to death & is on life support right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Rep. Suozzi: 26% of the federal workforce are veterans—26%. What about their service to this country? We encouraged them to apply for these jobs, and now we’re just taking away their livelihoods? It’s not just chaotic, it’s not just cruel—it’s unconstitutional.

Siri, what does “joy” look like… 🖤

🎥border.loyal

Posted by @acnewsitics.bsky.social on another platform:

“Why is Pam Bondi taking so long to release the Epstein files? What is she hiding?”

Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce Sources tell the Prospect that a meeting called for a 50 percent reduction in an agency that millions rely on for benefit implementation.

BREAKING: Two sources tell @theprospect.bsky.social that the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration has asked for a plan for cuts to 50% of the workforce, including at the 1,200 field offices that serve millions of beneficiaries.
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Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the DOGE. Please don’t be distracted by this—it was only done because federal judges were questioning who was actually running the operation. Gleason is completely controlled by Musk, and he is doing this to avoid testifying.

Happy Wednesday to everyone who agrees that Republicans who voted to cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits to give billionaires a fucking tax cut should be hounded about it DAILY until they're voted out of office, every last one of them.

CAN I GET AN AMEN?🙏

Ok!!
Canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription!! Yay!!

“You’re terminated because…?”

Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside.

DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

Wyoming H5N1 bird flu case uploads to GISAID

—PB2 E627K mutation detected

Partial sequence from a Wyoming patient confirms H5N1 D1.1 genotype with PB2 E627K

It’s a key adaptation for mammalian replication.

The Milky Way above the Earth from space. The green and purple aurora can be seen in the atmosphere.

astronaut don pettit’s new image made my jaw drop.

it’s SO beautiful!!!

I think it’s going to be very difficult for the House and Senate to reconcile this budget, but trying to force the House Energy and Commerce committee to cut 880 billion is going to kill people.

Anyone who says Medicaid won’t be impacted is lying.

BREAKING

Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.

Dear Jeff Bezos,

🖕

Signed,

People who value a free press

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

🔥 CROCKETT: “Facts matter.”

It's coming. Pay attention.

If you own Tesla stock, sell as soon as possible, it’s not going to recover and even if it does it’s blood money now.

They say less is more — celebrating my hubby Bradder's 71st birthday last night at Providence restaurant in L.A. with one candle.

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

Social media post by Brandon Friedman ( @brandonfried ...) on X, posted 1 hour ago, with the text: 'All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.' The post includes a grid of six headshot photos of individuals who reportedly left NBC, arranged in two rows of three.

Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

My husband @robertcooper-us.bsky.social and I were the FIRST gay couple to adopt children in the US, way back in 1985. We went on to adopt five wonderful kids — all adopted at birth.

They’ve grown so much! Here’s a pic from our wedding in 2000, and a recent one including their significant others. ❤️