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don’t Chuck!
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said he would vote for a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, making a forceful case for why Democrats could not allow a shutdown that many of them have demanded. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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A federal judge in Washington has ordered Elon Musk and operatives involved with his Department of Government Efficiency to hand over documents and answer questions about its role in directing mass firings and dismantling government programs.
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NSA Mike Waltz said US support for Ukraine is contingent on a date being agreed upon by Russia & Ukraine for "peace negotiations." (Ukrainian capitulation to Russia) This coercion appears to be a direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum. Will the US honor section 2?
The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.
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Meet our genius President
He thinks transgenic mice are transgender. That asylum seekers come from mental asylums. That exporters pay import tariffs. That contraception in Gaza province, Mozambique means giving condoms to Hamas. The most stupid human ever to hold any political office, anywhere. Root for the meteor.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to reduce its work force by more than 80,000 people, according to a memo seen by The New York Times outlining part of President Trump’s escalating efforts to slash the federal bureaucracy.
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It can be hard to keep straight all of the alarming instances of politicization/weaponization of the Justice Department since January 20th. I created a detailed Timeline, with Audrey Balliette. We also link to all the publicly available documents. Read the 25+ entries here: #Democracy
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President Trump reiterated his proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza, telling reporters on Sunday that the strip of land was "a big real estate site" that the U.S. was "going to own." The idea, first announced last week, has drawn widespread international condemnation.
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Conservative NFL fans are demanding a Super Bowl boycott after they discovered that the “Black National Anthem” will be performed on Sunday in New Orleans. Over the years, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has been sung during the NFL pregame events—and has always sparked some type of controversy.
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President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.
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“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
NEWS: Amid pressure from Senate Rs over funding freeze, Russ Vought held emergency meeting Tuesday w/ baffled/exasperated staff Vought said they needed to clarify the memo only applied to funds affected by Trump EO "Anybody who could read English" could see it didn't, one U.S. official told me
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