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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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We should not be cutting health care for working families to deliver massive tax breaks for billionaires.

Repost if you agree.
February 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.

She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.

RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Buckle up everyone this is going to be a LONG thread but if you are a current Fed you are going to want to bookmark it because it’s the roadmap for what’s coming. #SaveUSAID #SaveAmerica 1/
February 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.
January 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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NEW:

“Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [Phyllis Fong] out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration.”

www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
Exclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The White House seems to have rescinded its nationwide funding freeze via the obscure procedural tool known as “backsies”
January 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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TEXAS: “The Chronicle reports that in 2023, at least 100 minors had to leave Texas for abortion care; at least six of the minors were children under 12 years old.” 😳 #ForcedBirthNation

www.jezebel.com/texas-aborti...
January 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is bad. Send info to anyone you know who works as federal employee. This is full-on Putin sh*t.
Follow @altyellonatpark.org for more info.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
What is happening inside the Office of Personnel Management?
From an anon OPM employee on Reddit. OPM employee here, we are not the bad guysHR (self.fednews) submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284 I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (...
www.dailykos.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I am completely unsurprised
January 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Our new Sec of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, promoted this anti-drug slogan as Governor of S. Dakota. I wish I were kidding.
January 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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David Fotouhi, Trump’s No. 2 EPA pick, recently challenged the agency’s ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. He argued the EPA “failed to demonstrate that chrysotile asbestos presents an unreasonable risk of injury.”

By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
David Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on asbestos, worked to roll back climate regulations and water protections while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s…
propub.li
January 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 56. Gavin Newsom crashed Trump’s visit to CA, and it did not appear to be a friendly conversation. Here is everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 56. 1/24/25
… Obama Derangement Syndrome continues, as Rep.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Republicans own every disaster Pete Hegseth causes for eternity. A reckless choice. Someone who is susceptible to blackmail, with a slew of serious allegations against him. What an abomination.
January 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Time flies…

“The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.”

Thomas Jefferson, quoted by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
January 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Bravo, Costco!
January 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Executive orders can't erase the truth of who we are.

Transgender and intersex people deserve the freedom to do what's right for our own bodies and lives.
Trump’s ‘Biological Truth’ Executive Order is Not Based in Biology or Truth
Donald Trump recently signed an executive order which attempts to ban the mentioning of of intersex people.
time.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ files letter with Supreme Court withdrawing its prior brief supporting Louisiana congressional map having a second Black opportunity district. Says this "no longer represents the position of the United States." Also withdraws request to participate in oral argument.
🚨 New Filing in Callais v. Landry
Read the latest filing in Callais v. Landry.
www.democracydocket.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Republican: "i am going to fucking kill you and everyone you say you care about."

Democrat: "maybe we can find some common ground here. what if you just kill everyone i say i care about?"
January 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka:

ICE agents, during a warrantless raid, detained undocumented residents as well as citizens.

“One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.”

www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...
ICE raids establishment in Newark, detains undocumented residents
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed in a statement that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a local establishment in the city.
www.northjersey.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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We know Trump’s anti-trans executive action is creating fear, confusion, and chaos for so many in our community.

Here is what we know about federal identity documents as of Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. We will continue to provide updates from our experts as more information is released.
January 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!
January 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM