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A Veteran who won’t betray my country because of the oath I took and who will fight agent orange with my last breath if need be!

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NPR @npr.org · 17/04/2025
Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
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Stem cells to treat Parkinson's? Two small studies hint at success
Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/04/2025
"The goal is to encourage these people to 'self-deport' by enshrining a lie in law. Kafka couldn’t have made this up." Trump's Social Security death list and more in the latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
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Trump’s Zeal to Ruin Immigrant Lives Could Backfire
After a similar situation in California in the 1990s, Democrats took advantage. They could again.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Source at VA tells me an emergency data request went out demanding info any on relationships the 2nd largest Fed department and largest healthcare system in the US has with Harvard. We know there are significant research connections. This won't hurt Harvard. It will kill veterans. They don't care.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/03/2025
Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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White House plans to expand mass layoffs to IRS and Veterans Affairs
Trump administration looks to axe half up to half of the tax agency’s workforce and fire up to 83,000 workers at the VA
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇
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AARP Urges Outreach to Congress to Protect Social Security
Older Americans continue to raise concerns about payments, customer service
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Black Pearl @blackpearl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The president United States just made a threat of genocide.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.
Social media post by Isis Wise (@Libs4Canada
) and Canadian and American flag icons, reading: 'A Dutch pension fund sold its entire stake in Tesla, reportedly worth $585 million.' The post includes a photo of a Tesla dealership building with the Tesla logo and two Tesla electric vehicles parked in front, under a cloudy sky.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/03/2025
Deir el-Balah’s mayor Nizar Ayyash warns that without fuel, treating sewage and pumping clean water will be nearly impossible, five days after Israel cut supplies to Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates:
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Updates: US reveals talks with Hamas as Trump threatens Palestinians
US confirms it held direct talks with Hamas for the first time since 1997 as uncertainty prevails on Gaza ceasefire.
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squirrelsrule.bsky.social @squirrelsrule.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Glad I have my own orange tree!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/02/2025
There were certainly signs
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Weak men who enjoy Elon Musk in the WH dressed like a 90s coke dealer are deeply upset at Zelensky's WH attire.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
1776🇺🇸Revolution 1789📃Constitution 1863🖋️Emancipation 1865⛓️‍💥Liberation 1920🗳️Women’s Suffrage 1964🗳️Civil Rights & Universal Suffrage 2015❤️Universal Right to Marriage 2020🦠Corruption 2021💥Insurrection 2024🔥Regression 2026🗳️Resilience 2028🗽Restoration
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
Marco Rubio today.
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a man with a skeleton mask on his face is wearing a tan shirt
ALT: a man with a skeleton mask on his face is wearing a tan shirt
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We could have had Kamala!!! AGHHHHHH!!!!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy. A Nixon-era policy gave the public the ability to comment on HHS decisions relating to “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.“ RFK Jr. ended that on Friday. www.lawdork.com/p/rfk-jr-rad...
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RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy
The Nixon-era policy gave the public the ability to comment on HHS decisions relating to “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.“ RFK Jr. ended that on Friday.
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squirrelsrule.bsky.social @squirrelsrule.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Truth!!!!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It's the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign
The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This sort of thing happens I would say…. Never. Flagrant weaponization, and kudos to career prosecutors for standing up to it.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In a sane universe, no politician would want to be within a continent of anyone as vile as Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan. This would especially apply to politicians who had pledged to crack down on sex trafficking; and who had demagogued immigrants as rapists. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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"A Country That Has Forgotten How to Blush"
“Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.” — George Santayana
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“Nature finds a way”…
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
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RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/02/2025
Exclusive: FBI agents this week questioned Environmental Protection Agency employees regarding a Biden administration grant program for climate and clean-energy projects, escalating a criminal probe that already caused one veteran prosecutor to resign.
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FBI takes up EPA probe amid pushback from judge, prosecutors
While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Marco Rubio’s self-gelding proceeded apace this week, as he signed off on massive cuts in foreign aid programs that he had previously supported. (I’m tempted to call the Rubio this year’s Lindsey Graham, but I’m afraid that may turn out to be unfair to Lindsey.) open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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"A Country That Has Forgotten How to Blush"
“Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.” — George Santayana
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/02/2025
New book by RFK Jr, a sequel to his first book, The Very Hungry Brain Caterpillar.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
what the actual
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 28/02/2025
The Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off at least 7,000 people from its workforce of 60,000, according to a person familiar with the agency’s plans. The workforce reduction, according to another, could be as high as 50%.
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Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce
Advocates warn that layoffs will reduce the agency’s ability to serve recipients in a timely manner.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Roll over and play dead"? Democrats and other Trump opponents debate how to respond to his blitz on Washington -- take to the streets to protest or lie low and assume he will self-destruct. @sbg1 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Why Aren’t We in the Streets?
On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A tough one to see, especially because it’s so accurate.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 28/02/2025
@drneilstone.bsky.social 🤦🏻 #measles #MedSky #IDSky #PedSky #PediSky #AcademicSky
This is a tweet from Dr Neil Stone from Feb 27 that reads “someone is going to claim ivermectin can treat measles” and a retweet of a pseudoscience post claiming that exact thing. Dr Stone says “Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/02/2025
Hamas has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel “to immediately enter the second phase of [the Gaza ceasefire agreement] without any delay or hesitation”. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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Hamas calls for global pressure on Israel to enter 2nd phase of Gaza truce
Israel has sent a delegation to Egypt to see if there is enough ‘common ground’ to negotiate an extension to the truce.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 28/02/2025
"Musk has decided to make it his personal mission to elect Brad Schimmel to ensure that the far right has a rubber stamp in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.” @benwikler.bsky.social explains why WI is the "Fulcrum of the United States" & makes the case for his pick in the state’s Supreme Court race.
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Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation
YouTube video by The Contrarian
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
So you’re telling me there’s a chance
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We love merit, don’t we folks?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
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New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 23/02/2025
Sign of the day…
How many Tesla’s should we throw in the Boston Harbor?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Here’s a prop bet that I wouldn’t take the other side of: That within two years there’ll be wars over Taiwan and the Baltics. And that the Trump administration will stand blame the Taiwanese and Baltic states for starting the conflicts against their larger neighbors.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We are in this current nightmare in part because too many members of the media were more interested in access than seeking the truth.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“I wanted to say thank you to the Ukrainian people for reminding the world what it looks like when a citizenry comes together to fight against evil in defense of decency and democracy. Glory to Ukraine! “ ncnewsline.com/2025/02/24/n...
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NC Army vet: Americans must reject Trump's shameful stance on Russia and Ukraine • NC Newsline
Army vet says that Trump/MAGA movement's embrace of Putin's Ukraine invasion is an immoral betrayal of America's core values
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
For those of you who watched the video of an Idaho woman experiencing handmaid‘s tale treatment, now is the time to decide what you would do in that situation—whether it's you or whether you're nearby when this happens to someone else. We are in a moment where we all have to decide who we are.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
tbh I don’t see why we waste all this money guarding gold in Fort Knox when we can just buy a lot of crypto with it and keep track of it on a server in the trunk of one of Elon’s cybertrucks
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Pete Buttigieg is seriously considering running for Senate in Michigan after Gretchen Whitmer says she wouldn’t run for the open seat. Smash that RT if you agree Secretary Buttigieg would make a FANTASTIC Senator!! 💙💙
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