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Fired CDC workers vow to fight against cuts as they find a tight job market outside the agency georgiarecorder.com/2025/05/02/f...
02.05.2025 16:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey, it's Saturday, and I hope you're reminding your children that when they live in the blasted radioactive Max Max hellscape Trump caused, that it was MAGA Republicans who said, "He's just trolling" then kept his promise to incinerate the world economy.
05.04.2025 17:41 β π 1728 π 297 π¬ 44 π 4Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where heβs likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back.
They think itβs funny.
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If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement.
04.04.2025 23:14 β π 55 π 25 π¬ 6 π 3From anderson alerts, the NC court of appeals is giving 15 business days for another recount on the NC SupCo election. It is ridiculous since this will be the 3rd recount and Riggs won everytime. But we will keep fighting and making sure every vote counts!
04.04.2025 16:57 β π 61 π 28 π¬ 2 π 0BREAKING: Top vaccine regulator ousted by RFK Jr. says the new health secretaryβs team sought nonexistent data to justify antivaccine narratives and pushed to weaken regulation of unproven treatments.
βWhat they are trying to do is potentially dangerous.β
Itβs weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.
* very unconstitutional
Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.
#HandsOff2025
Just based on crowd sizes weβre seeing so far and the shear number of protests, the total number of #handsoff demonstrators could reach into the millions.
And more protests in non US countries than expected.
NATβL ASSO OF WINE RETAILERS: US tariffs will harm the American wine industry βto a degree from which many of its participants will not recover.β
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The Trump admin scrapped a Biden proposal to have Medicare cover anti-obesity drugs β including GLP-1s.
05.04.2025 16:45 β π 818 π 244 π¬ 43 π 21Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"
05.04.2025 01:49 β π 55103 π 13965 π¬ 1073 π 550π¨ NEW: VoteVets is launching a six-figure ad blitz across TV, streaming, digital, and billboardsβexposing GOP Veterans dodging constituents while Muskβs DOGE fires thousands of Veterans.
They promised to fight for Veteransβnow theyβre silent. Stop Elonβs war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
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A recent executive order from President Trump claims to βrestore free speech.β But his administration is already silencing journalists, restricting press access, and threatening criticsβjust as he did in his first term.
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100% ridiculous that "We do not know if Musk has received a conflict of interest waiver. If he has and the administration is claiming the waiver is justified"
Muskβs Status in Government May Violate Criminal Law open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The Republican majority that just confirmed Vought was elected with fewer votes than Dems won & represents just 46.5% of Americans.
GOP minority rule threatens democracy when the Senate lets Trump usurp its own powers by unconstitutionally blocking federal spending that Congress has mandated by law
As a prosecutor, we investigated cases where bad actors left themselves a back door in govt systems. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse suggests Muskβs team could βmanipulate data, steal data, and leave back doors. Your privacy gone.β www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
06.02.2025 13:42 β π 4070 π 1515 π¬ 215 π 68NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justiceβs lawsuit challenging the stateβs 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didnβt have βwrite access,β when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
06.02.2025 23:58 β π 24791 π 10455 π¬ 1090 π 970When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution, you can cause harm. The President wasted water that was being saved for farmers for a PR stunt.
This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.
MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST
@mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. π
Your longtime fan, Marπ«
We will have victories and setbacks, good days and bad. We must understand that this will not be over in one election or with the defeat of any one candidate. This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...
25.01.2025 21:49 β π 16173 π 4891 π¬ 420 π 193"You can weaponize these jobs,β one of the ousted inspectors general said. βYou can ignore bad things. You can go after the prior administration. You can try to filter or edit work that comes out. Theyβve taken away one of the huge checks and balances" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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