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Another 39% Approval Poll talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

I say if she wants to join the resistance, we should welcome her with open arms. We need all the ppl we can.

We need as many in our tent as we can. If Lisa wants to hop on our bandwagon, we need to welcome her with open arms.

US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García Chris Van Hollen condemns ‘unjust situation’ and says vice-president blocked access to wrongly deported man

US senator Chris Van Hollen says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García - The Guardian

The VP of El Salvador wouldn’t even let Sen. Van Hollen speak to Kilmar on the phone.

They are wholly in league with devil fascism.

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DOGE Privacy Act Requests U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...

Problem with web site jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

The second link to click "Here" (Once you have mailed a Privacy Act Request to DOGE, please fill out the form HERE) is not working. Response is 'Sorry, the URL you tried to load doesn't exist. Check that it's typed correctly.". Please fix.

Everybody's upset abt this or that thing Dems did or didn't do at the faux-SOTU. Poor messaging, poor this, bad that. Very few of those things matter much or will be things we'll remember in a couple months. What they do on the CR really does matter. A LOT. That shld be 10x more focus anything else.

One of the Grimmest Days in American Diplomacy At an Oval Office meeting, the president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally.

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.

Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

I’m sorry but this isn’t getting enough attention.

When RFK Jr. was asked about a young child who died of measles in Texas, he responded “It's not unusual. We have measles outbreaks all the time.”

This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.

Trump Administration Live Updates: House Passes Budget Plan for Tax and Spending Cuts

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Update from Catie Edmondson

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02.... :.....The House is now voting on the G.O.P. budget resolution. As the old adage in Congress goes, “when you have the votes, you vote.”

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered:

Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t.

Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu.

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Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.

It fell on Danielle Sassoon, the interim Manhattan U.S. Attorney, to actually 'execute' the DOJ instructions to drop the charges against Eric Adams.

She just resigned instead of obeying the DOJ and dropping the case: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

I 💌 Barack Obama.

You can’t have a democracy without libraries.

Democracy is a practice. It starts at the local level by building connection and community. So check out what’s going on at your local branch!

Reading, learning, listening, chatting, connecting—this is democracy.

(Thanks to the creator of this image!)

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

AG Tong is my AG. Proud of him.

BASH: I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about the government having access to personal data

NOEM: Well, we can't trust the government anymore

BASH: You are the government

Early this morning Wired reported that, contrary to published reports, Elon Musk and his operatives at the Treasury Department are not limited to “read only” access to department payment systems. Rather, a 25-year-old member of Musk's illegal task force named Marko Elez has assumed control of admin privileges over these critical systems. These systems directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the U.S. government, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo further reports that not only does Musk have full access to these systems, he has already made extensive changes to the code base, over which only he likely has access and control. These changes were not tested or vetted in a development environment. They were plugged in live, on the fly, and now exist in such a way that the changes may be difficult to detect, let alone undo. Which means that the coup I've been talking about over the past several days is no longer merely in process, is no longer theoretical, and is no longer hypothetical. Elon Musk now has the power, and no doubt the intention, to unilaterally stop the United States government from paying contractually obligated debts. He now has the power to begin using federal funds as a means of enriching himself and those he and Donald Trump favor while punishing political enemies, perceived or otherwise. Regardless of his intentions, chaos has been sowed. As I'm writing this on Tuesday afternoon a large group of protesters led by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost has arrived at the Treasury Department but have been barred from accessing the building. The crowd is growing in size and it is unclear how, or if, the situation will be resolved. Reports now have Musk and his team moving next to the Department of Labor and Department of Energy. A foreign-born billionaire Nazi has single-handedly taken control of the United States government. The President has endorsed a…

I just posted this on Facebook because while super online people see what's going on, normies don't. I just re-read it and it sounds unhinged. But it's what's happening. And even I can't believe it, even if we're seeing it.

Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base Overnight Wired reported that contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

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This is my Senator. Go Chris go 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Follow the Money The financial markets are the only thing that can stop Trump’s reign of chaos.

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Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s
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15,000 doctors sign letter begging Senate to reject RFK Jr for health secretary Kennedy, among other controversies, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine

Over 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of HHS.

The letter states:

“RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.”

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I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.

Please pass this along, thank you.