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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The war in Ukraine will be over in 24 hours. So will Gaza. There will be 90 trade deals in 90 days. No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. Interest on car loans will be tax deductible. No tax on Social Security. He will balance the budget. Tariffs will pay for everything.
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Eileen Marie Sarah @eileenmariesarah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 22/04/2025
The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“During Trump’s first term, his defenders frequently pretended that his tweets and ad-hoc political approach simply didn’t matter in the real world. It was a convenient fiction that markets largely indulged. Now, however, Trump has cured investors of that cheerful nonchalance…”
thebulwark.com
The Market Is Discovering Trump May Be Crazy
It’s not just the tariffs Wall Street hates—it’s the impulsiveness of the president behind them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.
Miriam Jordan
By Miriam Jordan
Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent.
April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET
In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful.
The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela.
That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world.
But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/04/2025
Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen. She has been on a govt salary for years. Something aint right
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 16/04/2025
Remember this isn't even the guy that the Supreme Court is insisting be brought back. This is ANOTHER guy picked up and shipped to the gulag for no reason.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
here's today's post: "Harvard to Donny: fuck straight off with your fascism" — go peddle that shit elsewhere. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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Harvard to Donny: fuck straight off with your fascism
go peddle that shit elsewhere
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Buddahcjcc @buddahcjcc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The U.S. says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia. El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia. It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
😕🇺🇸
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 14/04/2025
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Stalin’s police investigator explained to his victim: ''We never arrest anyone who is not guilty. And even if you weren't guilty, we can't release you, because then people would say that we are picking up innocent people.’’
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
msnbc.com
George Conway on ‘foolish’ law firms capitulating to Trump
George Conway joins The Weekend to discuss the ramifications of law firms striking a deal with the Trump administration.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Don't overlook this: Trump is leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in a foreign gulag even though the admin can always bring him back and *retry him for deportation in a lawful way.* That they won't do this shows their case against him is nonsense. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1939...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Horrifying Removal of Man in “Error” Takes an Even Darker Turn
The Trump administration could allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into the U.S. and try to deport him through proper channels. So why won’t it even do that?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Political appointees within the Department of the Navy's leadership picked a list of books on antiracism, sexuality and gender to ban from the U.S. Naval Academy's library while keeping many favorites of white supremacists, like Mein Kampf and The Camp of the Saints www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
nytimes.com
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 10/04/2025
A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.
jsonline.com
Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced Milwaukee cop's report
Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on the Brady list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So absurd: Trump's aides are telling him working class voters love his tariffs. But recent polls actually show majorities of non-college voters say tariffs raise prices, and disapprove of his handling of them. I looked at the data. It's striking. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1937...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Own Aides Keep Him in State of Delusion About Tariff Fiasco
His inner circle is telling him that working-class voters are with him. In the real world, all the tariff chaos gives Democrats an opening to try to crack his vaunted coalition.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
WATCH— @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Why are you making fun of smart people that calculate things?” Jessica points out Trump is making it seem like he paused all the tariffs but the Yale budget lab says those remaining will cost each 🇺🇸 household $4400, the highest tariff rate since 1909.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Get involved locally and change your part of the world for the better.
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Taniel, with the handle @Taniel
. The post reads: "RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, were pushing anti-LGTB policies, incl. a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all 3 of these city councillors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by local LGBT group." The post reports on a local election outcome in Rolla, Missouri, where three city council members who supported anti-LGBT policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship, were voted out. The winning candidates were supported by a local LGBT group.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The world economy is gyrating wildly, war rages in Ukraine and Gaza and the president of the United States just signed an executive ordered titled: "MAINTAINING ACCEPTABLE WATER PRESSURE IN SHOWERHEADS."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/04/2025
Trump says the US has spent $350 billion in Ukraine, and Europe has done less than us. Is this true? Nope, take a look and be sure to like and subscribe to my new YT channel youtu.be/ZROD0LjN3HU?...
youtu.be
TRUMP LIED: The Truth About US Spending in Ukraine Revealed!
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Omar: They want you to think it is ok to snatch people in the middle of the night and disappear them.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
here's today's post: "shut up and eat your shit sandwich, MAGA. you voted for it" — the cultists are having a big sad because it turns out tariffs suck. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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shut up and eat your shit sandwich, MAGA. you voted for it
boo fucking hoo
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BeckyIB @beckyib.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It’s all lawlessness that affects the cost of goods AND destroys democracy. Good 🧵
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/04/2025
On Tuesday, thousands of federal employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning were notified that they were subject to a reduction in force, sources tell WIRED.
wrd.cm
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Trump and Republicans have gone after health care, food assistance, Social Security, veterans’ benefits, education, and cancer research. (Just to name a few...) For what? More money for billionaires. Higher prices. Chaos and cruelty for hardworking people.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Bribery. www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/wisc...
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Wisconsin's attorney general asks the state Supreme Court to stop Musk's $1 million payments
Wisconsin’s attorney general has asked the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸 (From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Musk is at it again in Wisconsin (cartoon from 2024)
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Influencer Paid by Russia Added to White House Press Pool www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-was...
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Influencer Paid by Russia Added to White House Press Pool
Tim Pool was one of several conservative social media stars who says he was duped into taking Russian money during the election.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Trump is privately warning CEOs of automakers not to hike prices when his tariffs hit. This blows up Trump's lies about the tariffs, because it shows he knows they'll push up costs in the US, and knows "other countries" don't pay them! New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1933...
newrepublic.com
Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner
In a call with auto CEOs, the president warned them against raising prices. Isn’t that an admission that his argument for tariffs is bogus?
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/03/2025
Safely rewriting the code that underpins Social Security systems would take years. DOGE wants it done in months. What could possibly go wrong?
wrd.cm
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
People were mean to him on Twitter, so he bought Twitter. People were still mean to him, so he bought the US government. And he is going to use it to hunt down those bad people!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is horrifyingly correct.
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers
.bsky.social). The post reads: "I learned this week that you can put our troops’ lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn’t like, you will be abducted on the street and disappear."
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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Wisconsin voters are extremely friendly & nice! I did 3 phone bank shifts today through @wisdems.bsky.social! WI on 4/1 VOTE Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Ct; Dr. Jill Underly for Superintendent; vote NO on the GOP’s voter id referendum! WI isn’t for sale! Don’t let Musk buy WI! Donate & volunteer!
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Colleen Boland 🇺🇦🌏🏳️‍🌈🫡 @colleenboland.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
As a whole, the response from the French government, companies, and industry groups to the innane demand that French companies comply with Trump’s anti-DEI executive order is, va te faire foutre! Loosely translated: go get fucked. Merci beaucoup, la France. 🫡 Vive la résistance! 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 #Resist #DEI
nytimes.com
U.S. Presses French Companies to Comply With Trump’s Anti-Diversity Policies (Gift Article)
A letter from the American Embassy in France gave firms that do business with the U.S. government five days to indicate their agreement.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
BREAKING: Donald Trump says he "couldn't care less" if car companies raise prices because of tariffs and "hopes" they do, he won't rule out taking Greenland with military action, and Confederate monuments are likely coming back. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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BREAKING: Donald Trump Says he "Couldn't Care Less" if Car Companies Raise Prices
Donald Trump says he "couldn't care less" if car companies raise prices because of tariffs and "hopes" they do, he won't rule out taking Greenland with military action, and more.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Do you agree with me that Elon Musk should’ve already been arrested?
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Saturday’s Great News That’s Bad For Trump
Onward!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
These men behind bars are not in prison after being charged with crimes. They are "enemy combatants" being detained in a concentration camp. As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'm mad that Trump is projecting by 'weaponizing' the federal government to go after law firms who have employees he dislikes or is mad at. I'm mad that the media isn't treating this as a bigger story. I'm mad that the Dems & ex-AG Garland's fecklessness enabled much of this.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.
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