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They/Them, Pro Choice, Liberal
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"As of yesterday, all front-line investigators will now be spending significant time processing their own travel and related administrative requirements, rather than spending that time in firms ensuring the American consumer is protected," one FDA official told CBS News.
FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Around 170 staff were cut from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations this week as part of wider cuts at U.S. health agencies.
www.cbsnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE

This was before the tariffs

It's just...unbelievable
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Chris Coons is absolutely demolishing Martha MacCallum right now on Fox News
April 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice-elect, Susan Crawford:

"As a little girl from Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin...and we won!"

Yaaaaaaasssssss!!!!
April 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Nebraska sheriff’s deputy, Zachary Pohlmeier, has been arrested for possessing images of young children being sexually abused.
ruralradio.com/krvn/news/fo...
April 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The House is voting on the SAVE Act this week, a bill that could silence millions of voters by creating new barriers to voter registration that make it harder for Americans to make their voices heard.

Congress must reject this bill.
April 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Excellent news! Alabama can’t stop organizations that help women in Alabama get abortions out of state.

www.cbs42.com/alabama-news...
Alabama can’t prosecute groups who help women travel to get an abortion, federal judge says
Alabama’s attorney general cannot prosecute people and groups who help Alabama women travel to other states to obtain abortions, a federal judge ruled Monday.
www.cbs42.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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They meant “doing fraud waste and abuse” not “finding fraud, waste and abuse.”

www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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US House Democrat blasts Trump for using ‘antisemitism’ to attack universities https://twp.ai/4imCht
US House Democrat blasts Trump for using ‘antisemitism’ to attack universities
Jerry Nadler of New York says president ‘weaponizing real pain American Jews face to advance desire to wield control’
twp.ai
April 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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In 1952, Rosalind Franklin captured ‘Photograph 51,’ an X-ray image that revealed DNA’s double-helix structure. But sexism in science buried her contributions. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we honor her legacy and the women still fighting for recognition in science.
March 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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At least two-thirds of the staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are expected to be laid off as part of a restructuring ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This will seriously jeopardize worker safety.
RFK Jr.'s layoffs expected to gut worker safety agency NIOSH, officials say
More than 800 employees at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are expected to be cut.
www.cbsnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The Resistance is alive and well and angry: Reports of our demise might have been premature
The Resistance is alive and well and angry
Reports of our demise might have been premature
www.thealtmedia.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Russians are rebelling in the streets. Putin thinks tяump can save him by getting Russia back into the SWIFT system, which requires EU support. But he can't. Putin's days are numbered.

Also, I love the way she says, "pewtin." It's fitting.

youtu.be/5EvOmc7aK5U?...
Big Crack in Russia: Russian People Are Rioting in the Streets!
YouTube video by ANKA Daily News
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.
April 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I’m sorry. Couldn’t help myself on April Fools Day (sic).
April 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Baby mama drama continues for the DOGE man.
April 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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April 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Senator Jeanne Shaheen is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, for allowing greater transparency in campaign finance.
www.shaheen.senate.gov/shaheen-rene...
Shaheen Renews Push to Overturn Citizens United Ruling, Rid American Elections of Dark Money and Excessive Corporate Campaign Spending | U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
(Washington, DC) – On the anniversary of the bipartisan McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform...
www.shaheen.senate.gov
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Here’s an update on the guy in charge of finding fraud in our government.
April 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Kansas police chief, Joel Womochil, has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for producing child sexual abuse videos & sexually exploiting multiple children via social media.

One of the videos involved a child under the age of 5 who had a pacifier.
www.kansas.com/news/local/c...
March 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This keeps getting worse and worse.
April 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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This image makes me uncomfortable. But the sad story is that there is truth in it.
March 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM