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a bit fluffy, full of steam, yet unsure of my next deluge
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After Trump buys a Tesla, Elon Musk wants to contribute $100 million to groups aligned with the Trump’s political operation.
March 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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NEW: Unions representing career diplomats and federal workers filed an emergency motion against the Trump administration to prevent officials at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from violating federal law by destroying classified records.
Union Groups Ask Court to Stop Trump Officials from Destroying USAID Documents
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The House Republicans voted to strip themselves of their own prerogatives laid out in the Constitution, and to cede power to Trump and Musk to illegally loot the government for their own benefit.
March 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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We should get a lot more French about this situation . . .
March 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.
March 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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March 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is not up to this task. he's the wrong man for the job.
March 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put *14* individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint.

W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid.

BRAVO.
Perkins Coie, which helped defeat Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, fights Trump's order targeting the firm as a violation of the 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments and the separation of powers.

"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Making significant cuts to the VA hurts our nation’s heroes and will make the essential services they depend on less reliable.

DOGE is playing games with veterans’ lives. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
DOGE plans to cut VA contracts may harm veterans' care, employees say
The list of contracts on the chopping block hasn't been made public, and the VA declined to provide it. NBC News reviewed documents identifying 200 of the contracts scheduled for cancellation.
www.nbcnews.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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JD Vance whines, video proves him wrong. Musk picks fights with Poland. Trump comtinues to wreck the economy and goes golfing. And more. Catch up with our weekend recap (no paywall):
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 87
… JD Vance made another cranky post whining about citizens bothering him again: “Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters followed us around and shouted as my d...
www.meidasplus.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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To be clear: a tariff is a tax.
March 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The first amendment is under direct attack.
March 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Some Democratic member of Congress should propose a bill saying that a POTUS may golf at government expense no more than, say, once every 14 days, and must reimburse the Treasury for anything beyond that.
A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
So…..fraud and waste? Eh?!?!
March 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Alert for D.C. bar members. - please take note of Diane Seltzer’s candidacy. She is running against Pam Bondi’s brother Brad Bondi for President of the D.C. bar. Voting begins in April. Pls make your voice heard.
#lawsky
I'm delighted to announce that I have been nominated to be the President of the DC Bar! Please share this information and vote for me during the election period of April 15 through June 4, 2025. Here is my Candidate Statement: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
March 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"Bondi's opponent running for DC Bar president is Diane Seltzer, an employment law attorney who has served on the Board of Governors for the past five years. She also said the bar president has limited influence over discipline and other matters.
"This is not a one-person show," Seltzer said."
March 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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If you are a member of the D.C. Bar, please be on the look out for your ballot. And VOTE for Diane Seltzer for D.C. Bar president.
March 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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In other news another SpaceX test flight ends in flames, with debris grounding planes
March 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Our tax dollars lighting up the sky with SpaceX debris--and causing flights in FL to be stopped. All thanks to the man making the federal government more "efficient" 🙃

please call your reps and tell them to use EVERY power to fight Musk & DOGE: reps.fyi
March 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Opinion | The FAA is in great hands with Elon Musk. SpaceX hasn't had a rocket explode in over two hours.
March 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
excellent information but this only accounts for half of the month of February and the numbers are skewed from the beginning of the seasonal hiring season. but the stark farming numbers will be dark and different in comparison to years past. ie these are recession type numbers.
Payrolls rose +151k in Feb, and unemployment ticked up to 4.1%. There's not much news in revisions of past months. All of this is broadly in line with expectations.

This is a fundamentally healthy labor market, continuing its earlier momentum, albeit at a slightly slower pace.
March 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
i'm ready. lmk when. until then keep supporting this guy and his teams work
Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
March 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
x.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Elon Musk says he is trying to slash US federal spending, but he himself he has received $38 billion in aid, funding and government orders over 20 years on behalf of his Tesla car company ($15.7 billion) and his SpaceX aerospace company ($22.6 billion).

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a....
Elon Musk's empire has benefited from $38 billion in contracts and government aid
According to an investigation by 'The Washington Post,' his Tesla and SpaceX companies have been benefiting from large orders and tax credits from local states and the federal government for the past ...
www.lemonde.fr
March 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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In 1928, founder Charles Walgreen Sr. demanded that Black and white pharmacists be paid an equal wage-- decades ahead of the industry norm.

Anyway, so much for Walgreens.
March 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM