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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?
I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"I think this president thinks we have the world's largest economy ever because of real estate investors. It's not—it's because of science." Sen. Mark Kelly criticizes Trump's cuts to critical scientific research.

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The Sleeper's Sleep @thesleeperssleep.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see

Hulk Hogan, lying inexplicably sideways in his open coffin, being visited by a chihuahua dog, who looks distraught. The people behind the coffin do too

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

On Capitol Hill, I joined Sen. Bill Nelson @gretchentg.bsky.social @adamconner.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social to sound the alarm about the systematic dismantling of the US research infrastructure. The question isn't whether we can afford to invest in research. It's whether we can afford not to.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Get on the phone. It's appropriations season in Congress. #StoptheCuts #ProtectScienceandInnovation.

Alt Text:

A graphic with a dark blue textured background features bold white text that reads:
“The future of American science and innovation is at risk, but there’s still time to prevent more devastating cuts.”

Below that, smaller white text says:
“The Trump Administration slashed billions in federal research grants to universities, attacked scientific journals, restricted legal immigration for highly-skilled scientists, and proposed billions in budget cuts to the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, NASA, and more.”

At the bottom, white text with a call to action reads:
“Go to ProtectScienceAndInnovation.org and tell Congress to reject these funding cuts.”

To the right is a stylized illustration of the torch from the Statue of Liberty with multicolored flames, overlaid by white atomic orbit lines.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I didn’t start out thinking there was some genuinely incriminating info about Trump in the DOJ files on Epstein but I’m definitely changing my mind!

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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

After a brutal few weeks of work, of course I stayed up late writing about the afternoon before a three day weekend release of the TikTok Letters and my obsession with the TikTok ban non-enforcement for my new Substack, "The Fun's in the Fight." thefunsinthefight.substack.com/p/the-tiktok...

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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · 03/07/2025

The FOIA releases are available here. Congratulations to Tony Tan for his dogged pursuit of these documents! www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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25-3980 (N.D. Cal.) Response 07.03.2025

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

REQUEST: If anyone still at DOJ knows anything about where these TikTok nonenforcement letters came from, who vetted them, if OLC had anything to say, or anything else of note, please reach out on a non-work phone and contact me on Signal: crg.32

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The idea that "I am genuinely outraged by Mamdani's college application, and therefore will shift my allegiances to Cuomo or Adams" is pretty funny

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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Some people asked me why I, a guy who was indifferent about the TikTok ban, was so obsessed with it after Jan 19th. Because presidents can’t abdicate laws via EO and issue preemptive get out of jail cards. www.americanprogress.org/article/publ... techpolicy.press/apple-and-go...

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Public Companies Should Be Transparent About Not Complying With TikTok Ban

Public companies’ reliance on Trump’s questionable executive orders allowing them to not comply with the TikTok ban raises questions about their potential liability and whether they should disclose th...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

If I’m an Apple or Google shareholder I’m looking at this letter from Pam Bondi promising not to enforce the TikTok ban and saying this is nowhere close to good enough given the potential scope of damages. It’s basically a pinky swear based on nothing. www.theverge.com/tiktok/69798...

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Appetire ent of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled
Dear Ms. Adams:
Article Il of the United States Constitution vests in the President the responsibility ove ational security and the conduct of foreign policy. The President previously determined that a abrupt shutdown of the TikTok platform would interfere with the execution of the President's constitutional duties to take care of the national security and foreign affairs of the United States.
See Executive Order 14166 (E.O. 14166). The Attorney General has concluded that the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the "Act") is properly read not to infringe upon such core Presidential national security and foreign affairs
Executive Order 14166 instructed the Department of Justice not to take any action on behalf of the United States to enforce the Act for any conduct that occurred during the period of time from January 19, 2025 through April 5, 2025 (the "Covered Period"). Pursuant to the President's responsibility to protect national security and to conduct foreign policy, the President determined that a 75-day extension of the Covered Period to June 19, 2025 is appropriate and has signed a subsequent Executive Order to effectuate that determination (the "Extended Covered Period"). See Executive Order, Extending The TikTok Enforcement Delay (April 4, 2025).
In the Executive Order signed on April 4, the President directed "the Attorney General to issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred during" the Extended Covered Period as well as for any conduct from the effective date of the Act. Based on the Attorney General's review of the
Katherine Adams
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Apple Inc.
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facts and circumstances, Apple Inc. has committed no violation of the Act and Apple Inc. has incurred no liability under the Act during the Covered…

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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New from @nicole-alvarez.bsky.social and I, a new @americanprogress.bsky.social analysis of the Senate Commerce reconciliation bill’s rebranded “AI Pause,” & how contrary to the claim it’s optional for the new $500M in funding, the text implicates the entire $42.45B in BEAD broadband funding.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law barring lifesaving medical care for transgender minors. In response, @calebllsmith.bsky.social, director of LGBTQI+ Policy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement: www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

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STATEMENT: Supreme Court Ruled Against Bodily Autonomy in Skrmetti Case

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/06/2025

i'm developing a heuristic for interpreting republican governance

Flow chart: Does this own the libs > No Is it a handout for a rich sociopath? > No Does it reward an influential conspiracy theorist? No > Love of the game

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Workshopping a take about how National Treasure, a movie about a conspiracy theorist who proves all those sneering academics wrong and also uncovers the true, dark origins of the US, is a proto-QAnon movie

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 16/06/2025

They’re chaosmaxing.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I wrote about Democrats' obsession with calling Trump's actions a "distraction," and how it reflects their failure to understand the modern media ecosystem.

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The Politics of Eternal Distraction

To some Democrats, everything Trump does is designed to distract you

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Finance Committee text is out - this has the Medicaid cuts and the tax cuts. Will go through it in this thread. But what we can say for certain is that, like the House version, this would be BY FAR the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking many millions of people off their health insurance.

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Cal Smith @calebllsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Today's Something Censored - The VA used to have a comprehensive resource page for providing medical care to LGBTQI+ veterans. The page included resources everything from serving trans and non-binary vets - to details on suicide prevention services. All have been wiped from the VA site.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"Personalist" is key. Trump foreign policy doesn't have a coherent vision; "isolationist" springs to mind because he's dismantling alliances, but he's also imperialist, routinely threatening and meddling abroad on a whim. It's all less an ideology than a reactionary's emotional urge to cause damage.

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PC @pcfromnyc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too." -Zohran Mamdani

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2025

spoken like a diehard White Sox fan

In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Checked in with Tim Walz spokesperson and as of three min ago, President Trump had not called him, according to the governor’s office

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/06/2025

i am running for office on a platform of nationalizing chick-fil-a and giving popeye's a modified liquor license that allows them to sell go cups. a better world is possible

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

“IN THIS ARTICLE: CRYPTO, DONALD TRUMP, JD VANCE, LOS ANGELES, MILITARY, PROTESTS, UFC, WAR ON TERROR”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

so proud of DC rn…the crowd at that dumbass birthday parade couldn’t have filled the times square olive garden

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 15/06/2025

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Less lethals are authorized. LAPD getting hit by LASD less lethals

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Politico @politico.com · 15/06/2025

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing. “I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

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Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed

The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

OK. This is incredible content.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/06/2025

1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...

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More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies

The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

One of the weirdest things about the current moment is the way, from time to time, the White House puts out totally normal statements, but you know Trump didn’t write or approve them because they sound normal and don’t have random capitalized words and letters.

Donald Trump’s statement on the Minnesota shootings.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Two phrases that need to be retired: “We are better than this.” (We’re not.) The U.S. president is “the leader of the free world.” (He’s not.)

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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Los Angeles. Just wow.

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PhishatMSG @phishatmsg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Philly showin' up today

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Pretty much everything in this story is horrifying. And yet another reason why *real* law enforcement needs to be showing their faces and IDs, given the many vigilante edgelords out there looking to inflict violence upon protesters and immigrants. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/06/2025

there should be one new video game console, it should only be updated once every 10 years, it should play all the games, and it should have cigarette style warning all over it about the perils of the Gamer lifestyle

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/06/2025

After targeted shooting of two state representatives overnight, Indivisible Twin Cities says #NoKings rally will still go on today: “In the face of this horror, we will mourn and mark our determination for a peaceful, just, democratic future”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2025

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Every fiber of my being needs the Pope to enter the field to “Sirius” the Bulls intro song: youtu.be/6HYj-uV9NGc

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Chicago Bulls Theme Song | SIRIUS - The Alan Parsons Project | KNUCKLES TV Series Version

YouTube video by Borna Matosic

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