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1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

militarytimes.comVA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductionsAbout 2,500 VA workers have been forced out of their jobs in the last few weeks.

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If you work for or are impacted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Transportation, @jessecoburn.bsky.social wants to hear from you. Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases. Few of the records are redacted or anonymized. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

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813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

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16 of the 26 Day One executive orders signed by Trump were ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025. Russ Vought, an architect of Project 2025, testifies before the Senate today as Trump's OMB nominee. Project 2025 was always the MAGA agenda.

levernews.comTrump’s First Orders Parrot Project 2025 Manifesto He DisavowedAfter distancing himself from the corporate policy agenda during his campaign, President Donald Trump is issuing executive orders torn straight from its pages.

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The carpetbagger Toad has not one morsel of common decency. Sadly WV has lived up to its reputation as backwards, racist, and uneducated. (While there are progressive, loving, and well educated people in WV, their voices are ignored, and many will leave or just tune out).

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Want to know how many votes shy of taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives the Democratic Party was, in a nation of 342 million? 12,000. Mandate my ass.

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