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avpdx.bsky.social

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Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

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ICYMI: In a late night filing, DOJ argues the federal courts cannot force them to comply with the law requiring release of all the Epstein files.

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“I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him after he leaves office — after taxpayers spend $1 BILLION to retrofit it. Every Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.“ @chrismurphyct.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/madd...

Marco Foster@marcofoster.bsky.social

Rachel Maddow on Donald Trump stealing $1B from a nuclear weapon safety program to renovate his fancy new bribe plane from Qatar: “Everywhere all over the world these guys are all the same. And they all want gold toilets. They all want to rob the country they lead blind.”

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Jennifer C@thejenniwren.teamlh.social

Always listen when Black women sound the alarm. Reps LaMonica McIver & Bonnie Coleman are telling the truth: if ICE can target members of Congress and arrest the Mayor of Newark, no one is safe. This is state-sponsored terror—and we won’t be silent. Time for a general strike! #OnYourSide

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Signal “is not approved by the government for sharing classified information…If officials want to discuss military activity, they should go into a specially designed space known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Arlington National Cemetary SCRUBBED THE CIVIL WAR?!? SCRUBBED THE STORIES OF THE SOLDIERS BURIED THERE BECAUSE THEY AREN’T WHITE MEN?!?!? What The FUCK?!?

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

ICYMI: “Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website”…in order “to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”

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NEW SCOOP: Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned. ⬇️ Here's how much they're making:

wired.comSome DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government SalariesEngineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

Find a partner who sets up your beach chair and umbrella for you before he leaves for his solo vacation activity. Relationships can be challenging, but kindness goes a long way. Everything else is gravy.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

Portland,OR! Please come to this awesome event on 2/22. Hands on opportunity to (literally) build community! Recycled Living collects industrial plastic waste and converts it into panels that are used to build tiny homes for our houseless neighbors.Building/construction skills help but not essential

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"The president’s blanket pardons for January 6 didn’t just free the charged and convicted. They effectively rewrote the past in real time, a direct assault on the historical record... My photographs document a moment when democracy teetered, the nation’s timeline itself an active crime scene."

cjr.orgI Photographed January 6. Trump’s Pardons Can’t Erase What I Saw.Reflections from an independent photojournalist.

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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BREAKING: Former Senator Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 YEARS IN PRISON on federal bribery and corruption charges. Because only ONE party, Democrats, believes in holding criminals in our midst accountable.

I can’t watch these confirmation hearings. I’ve seen some clips. I almost wish they had just allowed Dump to install these fools without hearings. Not really, but at least we would be spared the spectacle of incontrovertible proof of their ineptitude/vileness only to see them voted in. 1/3

Even though I expect all or almost all of these unqualified ppl to be confirmed,the tiny bit of hope that I can’t control that arises during the hearings,thinking “no one could think this person is qualified and how could anyone vote for them” causes more anxiety than if there was no pretense 2/3

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WOW. Elon’s former friend, NeuroVigil founder Dr. Phillip Low, absolutely WRECKED him on Facebook. It’s long but you have to read every word of this. Holyyyyyy 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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The rules, if you are keeping track: If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever. If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.

You cannot make this shit up. I thought satire was dead, it now not just merely dead it’s really most sincerely dead.

Kaylan_TX@kaylan.bsky.social

Please tell me this sign with “MILTARY” written on it behind Sen. Eric Schmitt is photoshopped…👀🫣 The party of the proudly poorly educated strikes again🥴

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🚨Call To Action 🚨 🧵 Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi street gang, is raising money through Buy Me A Coffee. This is against their terms of service. Link on restrictions: help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/... It’s easy to file a report. 1/7

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org

"As nativist and anti-immigrant rhetoric becomes more mainstream, extremist groups like Blood Tribe pursue opportunities to spread their message and threaten violence against vulnerable communities and those who defend them," writes @lbaum94.bsky.social.

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From Hopium: - Trump is having a very bad week - markets spooked by his inflationary agenda, govt shutdown, Musk pushing him around, Gaetz report - As Elon shuts down US govt, backs German Neo-Nazi party time to talk about his ties to Russia and China More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-is-h...

hopiumchronicles.comTrump Is Having A Very Bad Week, MeidasTouch Interviews President BidenA US delegation visits Damascas today, top Trump advisor Musk backs pro-Russia German Neo-Nazi Party