Merkley Calls to Rein in Trump’s Warmongering YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

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Merkley Calls to Rein in Trump’s Warmongering YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

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Trump Should Look to An Unlikely Predecessor If He Wants Peace in the Middle East Jimmy Carter pulled off the kind of peace agreement that Trump dreams about.

I know, there were a few things not so great about Carter, but he remains a hero of mine. And as long as so many are "looking back" on Biden's weaknesses... might as well go back to a pretty awesome person who surprisingly became president. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Another US fighter jet falls into sea from Truman aircraft carrier, US officials say A U.S. F-18 fighter jet was lost in the Red Sea on Tuesday after tipping off the flight deck of the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier, in the second such incident in about a week, two U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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Sad and very true.

In an ongoing effort to "slash spending", the Department of Government Efficiency has targeted the mining agency in a move that surprised local inspectors and raised questions about the future of federal regulation in one of the country’s most dangerous jobs.

Trump halts historic orphaned well-plugging program - High Country News Western states were using funds from the Infrastructure Act to clean up pollution left behind by industry. Now, the Trump administration has canceled them.

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Trump orders airstrikes on Yemen in warning to Houthis over shipping route At least 19 people killed in strikes on Sana’a and Sa’ada on Saturday, says Houthi-run health ministry

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Pentagon Keeps Pouring Cash Into Golf Courses — Even As Trump Slashes Government Spending The Pentagon owns 145 golf courses. As Trump cuts key government services, we found its plan to spend on sand traps and clubhouses.

Who knew that golf courses have been funded by the Pentagon for decades?? Nothing that DOGE has any concern about of course. theintercept.com/2025/03/10/p...

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.

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Study suggests how measles depletes body’s immune memory — Harvard Gazette A new Harvard study shows measles wipes out 11 percent to 73 percent of antibodies against an array of viruses and bacteria, depleting a child’s previous immunity, which underscores the importance of ...

#Measles infection *can* kill, but it also does this insidious thing where it makes your immune system forget how to fight other infections — for as long as three years. That’s always a bad thing, but worse in our #pandemic times.

#ImmuneMemory

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Veterans are being hit hard by Trump administration firings | CNN Politics When the Department of Government Efficiency swings an axe, it’s bound to hit a veteran who voted for President Donald Trump.

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Just heard about this on Democracy Now this morning; The Wayback Digital Archive website that has been archiving U.S. government stuff (for around 25 yrs) every 4 yrs before & after elections... over the past month, many many gov't websites have completely disappeared. archive.org/about/

MSNBC Reportedly Takes A Hatchet To Rachel Maddow’s Staff The star host recently scolded MSNBC for canceling Joy Reid’s show and accused the network of mistreating staffers facing layoffs.

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And the 72 million folks about to lose Medicaid coverage.

I am very worried about Common Dreams... and Mother Jones... and Rachel Maddow said that there have been immediate cuts in the hosts on MSNBC.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell | Listen to Podcasts On Demand Free | TuneIn The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell podcast on demand - Drawing upon his experience as a former chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee and as an Emmy-winning executive producer and writer of...

Senator Warren isn't being silent. tunein.com/podcasts/New...

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Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

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Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be let go Federal employees received an email Saturday afternoon, and gave them a deadline of Monday night.

Sounds like... "I have no idea what any of you do, so please educate me before I fire you" to me... www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Elizabeth Warren to Elon Musk: 'You Don't Get to Slither Around in the Dark' The Massachusetts senator decries Donald Trump’s vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Musk’s "Mount Everest of conflicts."

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House GOP Advances Budget After Blocking Amendments to Protect Food Benefits, Medicaid | Common Dreams "Instead of choosing to protect the American people, they chose to protect billionaires and corporations," said the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

1000 people who work at the VA were just fired; they had worked there for less than a year, as the agency has been trying to lower wait times for the increasing number of veterans trying to actually use their VA benefits... www.commondreams.org/news/house-r...

Forest Service fires 3,400 people after ‘deferred resignation’ deadline passes - NewsBreak The cuts amount to about a 10 percent reduction in the agency’s workforce.

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Watch: Russian drone blows hole in Chernobyl’s protective shell UAV collision with Reactor 4 site ignites fears of potential radiation leak

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This is the time of year when new firefighting contracts get worked out, and firefighters get trained and re-trained and reassigned and other preparations for when the fires season starts... based on budgetary allocations for the coming year.
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