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Cat mom that loves to chat about politics, history, music, tv shows, court, Taylor Swift, and The Chiefs! I have a wide range of interests & I hope to keep expanding what I learn on this app.

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NPR @npr.org · 27/10/2025
With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.
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In the rural South where Medicaid has been a lifeline, residents brace for cuts
With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
.. “I’m not worried about Florida,” Smith said .. "But the early calculation of the odds that Cannon would get the case — and Smith’s faith that the evidence could win her over even after she did — turned out to be wrong." @carolleonnig.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed
Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crashed in separate incidents in the South China Sea on Sunday, the 13th and 14th US military aircraft to crash this year.
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2 U.S. Navy Aircraft Go Down in South China Sea
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2025
New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein wrote, “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed, and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way." One problem: Kirk's advocacy was laced with racist and bigoted statements.
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No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
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VA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductions
About 2,500 VA workers have been forced out of their jobs in the last few weeks.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts. One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether.
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House Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cuts
A number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This seems bad
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In a heathy democracy, the WHCA would fight this by boycotting all WH and travel events until the old system was restored. But they’re going to roll over and do whatever it takes to maintain “access” so they can be lied to in comfort
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
So much for government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
and on day 36 in shambolistan... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Congrats to everyone who insisted they were better off four years ago -- you made it right back to the safety and security of "early COVID pandemic"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
January price hikes are just the beginning. Pharma companies are lobbying to strip away cost controls, meaning even higher prices ahead. Congress must stop this. Read more here: bit.ly/4gu5A86
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Big Pharma hikes prices of 250 drugs in January
Several large drugmakers, including Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi, increased the list prices of their drugs this month.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“CISA will pause all elections security activities until the completion of this review,” Bean added. The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities” electionlawblog.org?p=148644
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"Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work" #ELB
Eric Geller for Wired: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secur...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I still cannot believe this is real. It’s psychotic. There are many, many (SO MANY) more consequential heinous things they’ve done, but somehow the crassness of this seems like a new low. The White House shitposting like an especially mean and stupid 14-year-old.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/02/2025
WOW: Canadians ruthlessly BOO the United States during the singing of the National Anthem before their game in the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off. Three fights then erupt between the two teams within the first 10 seconds of the game.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I remember when Attorney General Pam Bondi said she'd protect federal whistleblowers in her confirmation hearing. Now they're being threatened with illegal "discipline, including dismissal."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.
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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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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The Maryland National Guard will not participate in the annual Frederick Douglass parade due to guidance from Trump's Defense Department.
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Citing DOD order, Maryland National Guard to skip Frederick Douglass event
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/02/2025
Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
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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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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...
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National Archives Workers Unsure If Marco Rubio Has Secretly Been Their Boss for Weeks
The current Archivist of the United States held an all-hands this week in which she still seemed to be in charge, 404 Media has learned.
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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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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Project 2025 states clearly it doesn’t matter who is president. That’s why JD Vance is there and they will never leave if they accomplish what they are intending to do they’ll never leave and democracy is over. I spent three days at CPAC last year and they are deadly serious
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Putin just got what he wanted from the DOJ last night and it didn't even take a week from Pam Bondi's confirmation. They have disbanded The Kleptocracy Project. Russian oligarchs are free to yacht now.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Breaking (NYT): Judge Delays Federal Worker Resignation Plan The judge suspended a deadline for federal workers to apply for a delayed resignation offer until at least Monday afternoon, when a hearing will be held. The offer had been set to expire at 11:59 p.m.
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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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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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The logic is this: their boss votes for an Ag or Energy Sec because their state could use a friendlier relationship there, and they don't think they'll get much heat for breaking with Dems. The staff tell me: If we want blanket opposition, we have to raise the temperature on their bosses back home.
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