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In the hours before IRS leadership fired some 7,000 employees for allegedly poor performance, a top IRS lawyer flagged officials that “no one” at the agency had done such an assessment. The termination notice went out unchanged anyway. By @andykroll.bsky.social
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DOGE cuts of USDA food imports inspectors might mean that food that isn’t inspected quickly enough ends up rotting, with cascading downstream effects including even higher grocery prices.
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A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.
Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. The lessons are true for the USA🇺🇸 , in 2025 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
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“Under the Biden administration, ICE primarily focused on detaining public safety & nat’l security threats. As long as they did not have criminal records, Cubans with I-220As were not taken into custody. That appears to have changed” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Trump's and VA Secretary Doug Collins policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans, sources sayhttps://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325239/veterans-affairs-va-trump-mental-health
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Replying to @propublica.org
4/ Lawmakers in several states filing bills in response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans
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The Education Department announced this afternoon it is cutting about half of its workers. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
We're hearing from multiple sources that all U.S. Dept. of Ed buildings are closing at 6 p.m. and are closed tomorrow. Email to staff cites "security reasons." "Employees will not be permitted in any ED facility on Wednesday, March 12th, for any reason." @jodiscohen.bsky.social and I are following
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This is a lie... First of all town halls aren't being held in "arenas" they are being held in churches, schools and community centers. Second, 90% of the time you have to be a resident who lives in the district to register to attend with a valid address.
Mike Johnson: "The problem is they're being ambushed by right now by in many cases paid protesters. You've got George Soros-funded groups. They are very well organized ... the actual constituents of these Republican members can't actually make it into the arenas."
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INTERESTING: Within minutes of posting on social media about it, Apple has decided to publish today’s show. News with swearing. It’s free. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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There are very few people in America who think tax dollars should be spent to juice the net worth of a small handful of crypto billionaires — yet that’s exactly what’s happening here. Donald Trump’s idea of a crypto slush fund is pure corruption.
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This is an utter disaster and the lies they are trying to sell that its for efficiency are complete horeshit
🚨 Trump’s VA is planning to cut 83,000 employees—slashing staffing back to 2019 levels, before the PACT Act expanded care for over a million Veterans. This will mean longer wait times, worse care, and more red tape for those who served. Veterans won’t stand for this.
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Breaking: Hayden Haynes, the chief of staff to House Speaker Mike Johnson, was arrested early Wednesday morning — hours after Trump's speech — for drunken driving after his car struck a Capitol vehicle. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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This guy is a lunatic. Like an actual psycho Christian Nationalist who states that witches have taken over NAS Coronado. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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lol, DOJ, rehire your proofreader storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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NEW: Tomorrow, The Daily Beans podcast will run without any ads in solidarity with the 2/28 economic blackout. We'll be forgoing any advertising revenue for the day. You can listen and subscribe for free: link.chtbl.com/TheDailyBeans
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WATCH: When Angela Sequera learned that her son had been transferred from an El Paso immigration facility to Guantanamo, she panicked. Her son wasn’t a terrorist. “It hit me like a bucket of cold water.”
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Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans newrepublic.com/article/1918... via @newrepublic.com
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NEW: DOJ once said Trump’s pardon clearly did not apply to unrelated crimes by Jan. 6 defendants — like possessing guns, drugs, grenades and classified info This week it changed course saying most (but not all) are pardoned. A judge is demanding answers. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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This Marine wanted to help fellow vets. DOGE fired him instead. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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@blueswordresist.bsky.social If the EU impounds the $30+ billion they have in Russian assets, they could fund the Ukrainian defense, put Russia down once and for all, and obtain lasting peace.