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Bputt @bputt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🙏🏽👏🙏🏽 substack.com/@bluepowerde...
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KRISTEN STAFFORD -HOWE on Substack
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Coco @cocolightning.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I wonder if they'll figure out the little code I left for them.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Yle News @handle.invalid · 17/02/2025
US and Russian officials are planning to meet in Saudi Araba to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Tuesday, according to media reports.
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Finnish PM calls cross-party meeting on foreign, security policy
US and Russian officials are planning to meet in Saudi Araba to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Tuesday, according to media reports.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Musk’s staffers now accessing heavily guarded IRS system, which has detailed financial information on every US taxpayer, business, nonprofit. They already accessed the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), system used by IRS employees to get acct info. Musk SW engineer Gavin Kliger in the data.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/02/2025
The family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police in Illinois in July 2024, will receive $10 million as part of a settlement with officials from Sangamon County, the attorney representing the family said reut.rs/4hwgOdu
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Family of Black woman killed by Illinois police to get $10 million in settlement
The family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police in Illinois in July 2024, will receive $10 million as part of a settlement with officials from Sangamon County, the attorney representing the family said on Wednesday.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NEWS: Judge Jackson in DC has granted an even longer extension to federal ethics watchdog Hampton DELLINGER, who Trump tried to fire but has since been reinstated. She's keeping him in until at least Feb. 26, when an injunction hearing can be held storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Inbox | Substack
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/s...
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Westminster 2025 Preview: Why Can’t Golden Retrievers Win Best in Show? (Gift Article)
They are among the most popular dogs in the United States, but at the biggest dog show in the world, they are never (never!) best in show.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.
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katastrophesue @katastrophesue.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A deep dive into Project Russia (podcast) pod.co/dave-troy/pr...
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Project Russia and the Kremlin's War on the West - Dave Troy Presents
You've heard of Project 2025, but there's another framework that may be even more important for understanding the current assault on Western democracies. "Project Russia" is a series of books publishe...
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Difference between types of imaging
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Call your congress members daily at this number. It’s ok to leave voice messages. Tell your top concerns. You can call daily. Silence = death of democracy.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From Jay Kuo - 7 Feb 2025
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I have no problem with 25-year-old DOGE apparatchik Marko Elez being fired. But Elon Musk has said things as bad as Mr. Elez, and more often and more consequentially. The DOGE fish rots from the head down. So the question is: Why is it ok that Musk himself is a "special government employee"?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
it’s my strong belief that repetition and continuity are essential right now. members of congress not let into USAID today? go back tomorrow. keep going back and asking “what are you hiding?” until you get an answer. one press conference isn’t going to impress upon people how important this is.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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The US pepper that was nearly lost
Once grown almost solely by enslaved people, the fish pepper was nearly lost forever until a chance find in a freezer revived the plant and it's now more popular than ever.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Treasury OPM, GSA. They encountered resistance demanding access to systems managing 6 trillion annually to programs under SSA. Musk’s aides also at OPM accessing systems, including vast database EHRI contains sensitive info.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Nordiska försvarsministrar samlas i Helsingfors
Natoexperten Iro Särkkä säger att det finns ett klart behov av ett nordiskt försvarsmöte.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
2/2 A short, non-paywalled post on the crash this evening. Including ATC tape, and the vast realm of the unknown. fallows.substack.com/p/it-had-bee...
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It Had Been 16 Years Since a Fatal US Airlines Crash.
But there appears to have been another one this evening.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
you know shit’s crazy when a catholic group can condemn a nazi salute but the ADL can’t
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Closer to the Edge | Substack
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding. 2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding. 3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze. 4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant. Sigh.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Australian police find explosives for possible antisemetic attack
The explosives located in a caravan could have caused a 'potential mass casualty event', authorities have said.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The new general counsel for OPM—the office issuing all those deranged memos—is Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and a temporary restraining order for domestic violence who most recently worked for Matt Gaetz. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
Kloster is a fierce partisan. While he was working as deputy general counsel at OPM in 2020, the Associated Press reported that “Kloster worked as an observer for the Wisconsin Republican Party on election night and was accused of yelling at election workers and police in Green Bay, a claim he disputes.” He was directly involved in efforts to legally challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election by working for a controversial, taxpayer-funded effort in Wisconsin that ultimately found no widespread fraud. Days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, he responded to a tweet raising a scenario that could spark a “civil war” with hand clap emojis between the words “Do it.”
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Adobe Acrobat
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. •John Cage•
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Professor @alanrozenshtein.com hosted Professor @nicholasbednar.bsky.social '16 on the @lawfare.bsky.social Podcast to discuss the impact of President Trump's executive orders on the civil service. z.umn.edu/a4eg
Prof. Nick Bednar ’16 and Prof. Alan Rozenshtein
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
The US Office of Personnel Management is telling federal workers to get in line—or get out.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Lawfare Daily: Nick Bednar on Trump's Civil Service Executive Orders
Podcast Episode · The Lawfare Podcast · 01/28/2025 · 1h 5m
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Gift article - share!
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Next scene in the shitshow… The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance[…]Hundreds of billions of dollars in grants to state, local and tribal governments. Disaster relief aid. Education, transportation funding, small business loans.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
yle.fi/a/74-20129227 Hui!
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Prosecutor files charges in third Oulu racially-motivated stabbing
The victim, a high school student of foreign background, suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack, which happened on a pedestrian path in broad daylight.
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Yle News @handle.invalid · 04/12/2024
About 58 percent of passenger alcohol imports to Finland came from Estonia or on Baltic ferries between the countries, according to THL.
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Finns still head to Estonia for cheaper drinks despite rising prices
About 58 percent of passenger alcohol imports to Finland came from Estonia or on Baltic ferries between the countries, according to THL.
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alumniresources.bsky.social @alumniresources.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
OK, I keep seeing people saying that Smoot-Hawley wasn't inflationary. Folks, look at the numbers. In 1929 goods imports were 4.3% of GDP. S-H raised tariffs ~20 points, so any inflationary impact would have been <0.9%. And there was this thing called the Great Depression: overall prices fell 25% 1/
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Lots of "Is France the new Greece?" out there. No. Big problems, but as far as I can tell they're political rather than strictly fiscal; a closer analogy would be the debt ceiling standoffs that happen when Republicans control the House and a Democrat is president 1/ www.ft.com/content/b7d0...
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French bond yields surpass Greece’s for first time as budget worries swirl
Investors fear dispute over planned tax rises and spending cuts could topple Michel Barnier’s government
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Then she had a conversation with Trump, after which he claimed to have won big concessions, but she said she promised nothing. Her version seems a lot more credible 3/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/u...
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Mexico’s President and Trump Describe a Positive Talk but Differ on Migration Details
The discussion between President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and the president-elect came after Mr. Trump threatened tariffs unless Mexican authorities stopped migrants and drugs from coming across th...
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'm having doubts about how far Trump will actually go on tariffs once he realizes that other countries can hit back. But if he did go through with his campaign pledges, it would be a bigger hit than Smoot-Hawley, which caused the Great Depression. Except it didn't 1/
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