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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@annecaprara.bsky.social the following was prompted by a family discussion about Bears maybe using Ryan Field::: The reality is the outstanding debt on soldier field means the Bears must stay put until there is a new stadium. --continues--

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social Can you please respond Steve I sent you the following on twitter (X): @carlquintanilla please follow so I can DM you a quick question (about a DM your wife sent me)

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Bill Walter @billwalter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Mahan is doing what he's supposed to do and won't back out. MAGA's will use every manipulation and dirty trick. We need to make every reasonable voter wise to all their tricks. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain

Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/04/2026

WE NEED TO KEEP CALLING THIS OUT BECAUSE IT MATTERS: California is the 4th largest economy on Earth, and the most populous state in the country. This isn’t a place for amateurs. Becerra has the experience for a state this big, this complex, and this consequential. 🧵

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social I sent you the following on twitter (X): @carlquintanilla please follow so I can DM you a quick question (about a DM your wife sent me)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/10/2025

You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

LenaSun @bylenasun NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; MORE

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Much as I hate to say it, I think the best long run course may be for the rest of the world to band together to jointly punish the U.S. for its current behavior.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Both internationally and with the domestic assault on universities, law firms, and the press, Trump has been relying on divide & conquer. You strongarm a few targets into compliance, it become harder for the rest to resist. Best chance of successful pushback is to plan a united front.

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

@annecaprara.bsky.social by @MalcolmNance WARNING: ASSUME TRUMP WILL ARREST TX DEMS -next move for #Texas attack on Democracy is for Trump to use US Marshalls, DoD, FBI & DHS/ICE to track & arrest/kidnap the @texasdemocrats as fed'l fugitives 1) DISPERSE -DON'T CONCENTRATE. STAY SEPARATE -more-

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Bill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is misleading. Dr. Kugler was appointed to fill the remainder of an unexpired term that ends in Jan 2026. So, she is just leaving a few months early (probably to be available to start the coming school year). This has no impact on "Trump's takeover of the Fed".

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).

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Over 250 Photos From Around the Nation and the World From the Historic “No Kings Day” Protests

Almost no one showed up to Donald Trump’s surprisingly timid, depressing, and generally lackluster birthday party in Washington, but protests against him were bursting at the seams across the globe.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Here's an EXCELLENT visual timeline of the last 24 hours to help us manage our perceptions. Whatever comes next, in #LA and elsewhere, remember what was and was not true. This admin wants to rile and incite us. Let's not fall for the bait. Stay strong & keep it peaceful! 🎥 @jessicayellin (Insta)

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Tariffs & ICE raids are connected insofar as they are attempts to blame economic & social conditions entirely on the actions of foreigners while attempting to paint domestic enemies as a traitorous fifth column working with the foreigners to undermine the country

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This is why healthcare is too expensive. "Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 10/06/2025

As I’ve said before: I don’t necessarily have a problem with M4All in theory…but imagine RFK Jr. having complete control over the ENTIRE U.S. healthcare system instead of “only” half of it as he does now.

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Leo Kottke At Garcia’s (Chicago)

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Kids will starve. People will die. All so billionaires can get a tax break. #TrumpsBillWillKill 🗣️ my favorite - Jenifer Lewis

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon's family is worth $3.2 billion. The administration is trying to give her a huge tax cut, paid for by cuts to Medicaid and food assistance -- including for kids. I asked her to explain why she needs the money. She refused.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 134 is out! The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

trumptyrannytracker.substack.com

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 134

June 2, 2025

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Don’t print lies in the newspaper Don’t keep hosting the far right authoritarians who engage in serial performative lying on your TV shows Don’t keep asking “Is the sun going to rise in the east?” when you can simply look outside & observe the direction of the sunrise What is journalism, anyway?

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

To sum up. latest GOP defenses of House-passed reconciliation bill and its draconian #Medicaid cuts are: 1) there are no Medicaid cuts (2) we are all going to die anyways and (3) ignore the upcoming nonpartisan CBO estimates inevitably confirming massive cuts & coverage losses as they are partisan.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I wrote a short primer on unitary executive theory for public administration scholars. Time was, you used to be able to ignore crackpot constitutional theories. Not any more! #pasky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In the Schedule F Executive Order and elsewhere the Trump administration is explicitly relying on unitary executive theory. This is the novel legal theory that the founding fathers of the American constitution wanted a President with King-like powers. More specifically, it is a theory that the vesting and take care clauses of Article II of the constitution gives the President previously unrecognized powers over the executive branch, and protects him from traditional constraints. Bill Barr, Trump’s Attorney General in his first term, put it this way: “Constitutionally, it is wrong to conceive of the President as simply the highest officer within the Executive branch hierarchy. He alone is the Executive branch. As such, he is the sole repository of all executive powers conferred by the constitution” (emphasis in original, Moynihan, 2022, 175).

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

left field idea: @annecaprara.bsky.social Anne, been thinking about Governors (D and R) putting forward their own bill in the Senate that will prevent the closre of hospitals and retain Medicaid services to ppl in need The idea is conversation and messaging

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Jake Tapper is a lubricious sell out. He sold his soul to appeal to the worst of humanity. And he used a book title to appeal to supposed “Christian” Nationalists, who likely don’t even know that original sin isn’t even biblical. They’d have to have read the Bible to know that.

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

youtu.be/xUMATTj3Ai0?... Is Trump’s America still a democracy? | Ruth Ben-Ghiat, autocracy scholar, on the Prospect Podcast

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Is Trump’s America still a democracy? | Ruth Ben-Ghiat, autocracy scholar, on the Prospect Podcast

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/05/2025

DEMOCRATS! Throwing Joe Biden under the bus won’t help you. •It won’t win over the base. •It won’t boost your approval. •It won’t bring back voters who sat out 2024. •It won’t fix 2026. It makes you look petty while Trump is burning it all down. REPAIR AND BUILD THE PARTY!

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

needed some Trump? 12-19-24 "The US economy grew at a 3.1% annualized pace in the 3rd quarter — stronger than previously thought...2024 was yet another shocker year in which the US economy surprised to the upside, as other major nations grappled with sluggish growth." www.axios.com/2024/12/19/u...

axios.com

U.S. economic growth revised up to 3.1% in third quarter

It suggests 2024 will be another shocker year where the U.S. economy surprises to the upside.

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

youtu.be/xUMATTj3Ai0?... Is Trump’s America still a democracy? | Ruth Ben-Ghiat, autocracy scholar, on the Prospect Podcast

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Is Trump’s America still a democracy? | Ruth Ben-Ghiat, autocracy scholar, on the Prospect Podcast

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

tl/dr: City girls just seem to find out early

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So Navarro here is expressly admitting that it was Trump’s tariffs that caused the economy to contract in the first quarter of 2025.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Still wild that all that time in 2023-4, when wages were outpacing inflation & Joe Biden was in office, that we obsessively covered the Suffering From Inflation™️ as if it were the 1970s all over again

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sam Grisman Project tonight at Garcia’s

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

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IL Steve @21law.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

x.com/Emolclause/s... #BREAKING: Erin: "Inside the Putin meeting Witkoff arrived ALONE and met an interpreter there for the 1st time. ...Putin sat with TWO of his TOP advisers...career KGB officer for Russia w/ 2 top advisers going up against a solo real estate lawyer w/ ZERO diplomatic experience."

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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 22/04/2025

New filing: "Perkins Coie v. DOJ (EO punishing firm)" Doc #159: Summons Returned Executed as to Federal Defendant Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69725919

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