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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/02/2025
From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett, after accusing colleagues of castrating their Constitutional duty, said, “My job is to make sure we don’t have any kings or queens in this country, but it seems like you all have decided it’s going to be Mr. King and his queen. And y’all can pick which one is which.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2025
AOC 🔥🔥🔥
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Flu hospitalization rates are higher so far this season than at the same point during each of the past FIFTEEN YEARS, at least Chart shows Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET) cumulative hospitalization data; red line is current (2024-2025) season gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluvie...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
If Democrats are looking for a great, clear, forceful spokesperson while they are in exile from power, this is the person.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Money talks
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
It's the worst flu season in about 15 years, so surely removing relevant information about vaccination will help us get a handle on it.
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tenacious-p.bsky.social @tenacious-p.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Unpopular opinion. By calling everything fascism we've desensitized people to it. First off, they don't know what it means. Then, when the sky doesn't fall people think you lied and the opposition looks even better... 🫤
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2025
NEW: Marocco has tried shutting down nearly all USAID programs & freezing foreign aid. He’s led the charge to place nearly all USAID staff on administrative leave. Officials said they see the move as retribution against those who opposed his earlier work. By @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign ...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 16/02/2025
We are not making this up.
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'Greatest Generation': MAGA lawmaker compares Elon's DOGE tech bros to WWII 'heroes'
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) defended the so-called young tech bros staffing Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by comparing them to the "greatest generation" of American soldiers who ...
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tenacious-p.bsky.social @tenacious-p.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How long can one sustain a ketamine addiction? Asking for no particular reason...
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The U.S. Army and U.S. Navy have removed all web pages highlighting women’s military service. Weak men always fear and are threatened by strong women. I’ll never regret voting for VP Kamala Harris.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
He does, and he used to, too.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 08/02/2025
Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee cited the presence of Venezuelan crime syndicate Tren de Aragua in the state as a reason for the bill.
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New bill aims to stop migrants owning guns
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Judge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison "Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The FBI is NOT investigating the alleged mishandling of Treasury data by Elon Musk's DOGE, senior intelligence official tells me.
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Taking DOGE to Court Is a Doomed Strategy
The new Russiagate is here
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 07/02/2025
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist. www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/02/2025
Quick reminder: DOGE isnt real. Its a figment of President Musks imagination and has no power, and isn’t an agency
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🫤🇺🇸
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/02/2025
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Endorsing the crime of ethnic cleansing.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them at one point as “targets.” The website lists mostly Black employees.
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Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets'
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies.
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tenacious-p.bsky.social @tenacious-p.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
WHERE ARE THE ATTORNEYS?
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractor, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the Treasury Department.
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Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors
Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/02/2025
The Trump administration removed two top USAID security officials over the weekend after they tried to stop representatives from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to restricted parts of the building reut.rs/4hmspfa
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More USAID staff ousted after Trump administration dismantles aid agency
Two officials were removed for trying to prevent DOGE access to restricted areas.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!
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Senate Finance Committee @senatefinance.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
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Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is a national emergency:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
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tenacious-p.bsky.social @tenacious-p.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Donald Trump thinks he's our boss not the other way around.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the federal judge’s stay of Trump’s order and implement the spending pause. Note that the director does not take the limited interpretation the admin pushed publicly but instead takes the broad interpretation the admin pushed privately.
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼 Call your Senators, Republican or Democrat. Their offices need to feel this chaos too! Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator. From Indivisible:
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trump's nominee to lead OMB, Russ Vought, submitted this response to the Senate Budget Committee when asked by Sen. Whitehouse about who won the 2020 election. The Senate Budget Committee is currently scheduled to vote on whether to advance Vought's nomination on Thursday.
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tenacious-p.bsky.social @tenacious-p.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Who appropriated the funds for this?
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Who appropriated the funds for this?
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tenacious-p.bsky.social @tenacious-p.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Imagine being so small that you do whatever TRUMP tells you. Thats the GOP...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/f...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a midday press briefing that she would have to “check back on” whether Medicaid was implicated by the funding pause. Leavitt said more broadly that “assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause.”

The federal government does not pay individual Medicaid members directly, unlike with programs like Supplemental Security Income. Rather, Medicaid funding is paid as grants to states, which run the programs, said Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.
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