Harvey Milk served his country in the U.S. Navy. He was an early and powerful leader of the modern gay rights movement. Stripping his name from a Navy ship—and doing so deliberately during Pride Month—is a shameful insult to his legacy & to LGBTQ+ Americans who serve.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
They installed the TV...
At his request...
So he can play video games...
In his office...
In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ...
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NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the urgent release of DOGE records, citing the office's "unprecedented" power and "unusual secrecy."
Judge Cooper wants "rolling" productions of records to begin within weeks. Details TK
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Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
Donald Trump, hard at work honoring America's veterans by cracking down on waste, like for example the **sterilization of medical instruments** at the VA:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
You know what's definitely not part of the American Dream? All of us paying higher taxes on food and other necessities so billionaires like Secretary Bessent can get a bigger tax handout.
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...
“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...”
"Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..."
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
💉🧵The trend to ban mRNA vaccines is extremely concerning. Montana recently voted down a ban and Idaho is introducing a bill to criminalize their use. mRNA vaccines have been studied since 1990 and are a critical scientific advancement. An mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer is in clinical trials
We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.
INTRODUCTION 1. "The vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms is nowhere more vital than in the community of American schools." Keyishian v. Bd. of Regents of Univ. of State of N. Y., 385 U.S. 589, 603 (1967) (citation omitted). Our schools cannot fulfill their role as the nation's "nurseries of democracy," Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L. ex rel. Levy, 594 U.S. 180, 190 (2021), without teaching students about the world, including the historical and lived experiences of people of different races, genders, and abilities. Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are critical to that effort by both expanding equal educational opportunity and providing students with an education that prepares them to succeed in a diverse democratic society. 2. On February 14, 2025, the Department of Education ("ED") issued a Dear Colleague Letter threatening schools and colleges across the country with the loss of federal funding in a matter of days if they continued to pursue vaguely defined "DEI programs" that "teach students that certain racial groups bear unique moral burdens that others do not" and/or "stigmatize students who belong to racial groups." ("Letter") (attached as Ex. A). The Letter radically resets ED's longstanding positions on civil rights laws that guarantee equality and inclusion and impermissibly infringes on the authority of states and school districts over public education as well as the First Amendment rights of educators and students.
BREAKING: The National Education Association, backed by the ACLU, sues the Trump administration over its anti-diversity "Dear Colleague" letter issued Feb. 14.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Colleague letter: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has been on a tear for much of this hearing on CFPB dismantling.
She's concerned the agency will be "choked out of existence before I get to rule on the merits."
She wants an evidentiary hearing.
My favorite
NEW: An Oval Office shitshow for the ages.
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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.
JUST IN: The Pentagon has issued its formal guidance for currently serving transgender members of the military.
It says they will be separated from service unless they obtain a waiver meeting these criteria:
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"daddy, what did you do in the war"
son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet
we all did our part
Post by Tammy Duckworth with the text: '@SecDef Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?' The post includes two screenshots from Fox News broadcasts, each showing a news anchor in a suit standing in front of a map of Ukraine, with headlines reading 'TRACKING RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE' and 'WAR ON UKRAINE.' Both screenshots are circled in red to highlight the content.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!
Trump’s second-term honeymoon is ending fast. His approval is plummeting, his policies are unpopular, and even some Republicans are pushing back. The cracks are showing, and there’s no hiding it. Catch up on the latest with The Big Picture's 'Week In Wins.'
Good Trouble
Kudos to Gov. Janet Mills of Maine for standing up to Trump. He threatened loss of federal funds for her state simply because it allows trans girls to play in sports. She said, “See you in court.”
Trump is a weak, shallow, callous leader who wants desperately to be a despot. #BullyPolPot
Follow their friends?
NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes.
It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes.
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