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A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...
A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain
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September 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...
Trump's enablers are close to dumping him — and it's threatening a real disaster
www.rawstory.com/trump-s-enab...
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Trump's enablers are close to dumping him — and it's threatening a real disaster
The worst crimes of Donald Trump and dangers to America from the unstable, monomaniacal, lying outlaw in the White House have yet to come. He is not satisfied with tearing apart our country’s social s...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Trump's enablers are close to dumping him — and it's threatening a real disaster
www.rawstory.com/trump-s-enab...
www.rawstory.com/trump-s-enab...
Our President Is Economically Illiterate www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Opinion | Our President Is Economically Illiterate
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August 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our President Is Economically Illiterate www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen.
July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
July 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen.
July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
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Any current or former Medicaid Navigators out there that could uses AI agents to create an app that sources the newly needed information and can fill out the Medicaid forms with that data ? Effectively automating the entire process and making what could be a difficult process, easy
July 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Any current or former Medicaid Navigators out there that could uses AI agents to create an app that sources the newly needed information and can fill out the Medicaid forms with that data ? Effectively automating the entire process and making what could be a difficult process, easy
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
This will result in fewer ck sents to donate. Clean this up fast! UNOS.
This will result in fewer ck sents to donate. Clean this up fast! UNOS.
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
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July 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
This will result in fewer ck sents to donate. Clean this up fast! UNOS.
This will result in fewer ck sents to donate. Clean this up fast! UNOS.
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It’s a cover up.
July 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s a cover up.
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force
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July 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
In Flash Flood Hotspots, Many Federal Meteorologist Positions Remain Unfilled www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In Flash Flood Hotspots Like Texas, Many Federal Meteorologist Positions Remain Unfilled
An analysis of National Weather Service job vacancies found that in more than a third of offices overseeing flash flood hotspots, one or more of three senior leadership roles are open.
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July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In Flash Flood Hotspots, Many Federal Meteorologist Positions Remain Unfilled www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Fascism. Call it what it is.
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
July 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Fascism. Call it what it is.
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Pretty encouraging that the guy who is about to direct the largest law enforcement organization in America by far with the new expansion doesn’t know anything about the 4th Amendment. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
July 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Pretty encouraging that the guy who is about to direct the largest law enforcement organization in America by far with the new expansion doesn’t know anything about the 4th Amendment. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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For the “deport the criminals” crowd…
Let’s get the facts straight:
📌 Being in the U.S. without papers is not a crime.
It’s a civil violation, like a parking ticket—not a misdemeanor, not a felony. That includes folks who overstayed a visa.
🧵
Let’s get the facts straight:
📌 Being in the U.S. without papers is not a crime.
It’s a civil violation, like a parking ticket—not a misdemeanor, not a felony. That includes folks who overstayed a visa.
🧵
July 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
For the “deport the criminals” crowd…
Let’s get the facts straight:
📌 Being in the U.S. without papers is not a crime.
It’s a civil violation, like a parking ticket—not a misdemeanor, not a felony. That includes folks who overstayed a visa.
🧵
Let’s get the facts straight:
📌 Being in the U.S. without papers is not a crime.
It’s a civil violation, like a parking ticket—not a misdemeanor, not a felony. That includes folks who overstayed a visa.
🧵
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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With this awful terror attack in Colorado, Congress needs to ask how many federal resources have been pulled from counterterrorism to deport Hispanics?
June 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
With this awful terror attack in Colorado, Congress needs to ask how many federal resources have been pulled from counterterrorism to deport Hispanics?
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jfc. they really do need to be dismantled
ICE is now posing as the electric company to get access to people’s houses. tucson.com/news/local/b...
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
jfc. they really do need to be dismantled
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So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!
May 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
May 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes
M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
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Watching Kristi Noem's face as Democratic House Rep. Lauren Underwood absolutely torched her on the Constitution in the House Oversight Committee hearing was amazing.
Bravo, Lauren!!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Bravo, Lauren!!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
May 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Watching Kristi Noem's face as Democratic House Rep. Lauren Underwood absolutely torched her on the Constitution in the House Oversight Committee hearing was amazing.
Bravo, Lauren!!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Bravo, Lauren!!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏