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Amy Passas

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Believer in democracy #BeAVoter Cynical optimist

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SANGER: “.. why, if sanctions as airtight as these are possible, they were not employed before Mr. Trump ordered the U.S. military into battle, exposing shortages of key munitions and the limits of American military power? “ @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A trailer park in deep blue East Palestine, Ohio might seem like a strange place to meet a Trump supporter. But over heated discussion of Brandon Aiyuk's contract status, you can hear whispers that DEI is the reason a good prostitute costs $140.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
sorry but this is the most obviously entirely-AI-generated op-ed ever. It has an "it's not X, it's Y" construction in both the first 2 paragraphs. Pangram has it as 100% AI. One of the most prominent billionaires in finance submitted this? The WSJ allowed it to run? are there no standards anymore?
The Treasury Department announced on Aug. 19 that it would double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks, from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation, aimed at the 10- to 30-year sector and running from Sept. 9 through Nov. 4. The announcement came after the 30-year yield touched a 19-year high. Yields fell within minutes. By the next afternoon they had round-tripped to levels above where they started. The market’s verdict was swift and correct: This wasn’t liquidity management, it was price management—and a mistake far larger than $4 billion suggests.

Treasury’s announcement gave the game away. It justified the larger operations as liquidity support in sectors with “consistent strong sponsorship from market participants,” but strong sponsorship is the definition of a healthy, working market. There were no failed auctions, no dealer balance-sheet seizure, no forced unwinds, nothing resembling Treasurys in March 2020 or U.K. gilts in September 2022, the sort of genuine dysfunctional episodes that justify official action. Volatility was contained, and trading was orderly—not a malfunction but the machine doing its job.a screenshot of Pangram showing the article is 100% AI
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026
Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste each year underground — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells. But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem. (Published June with @readfrontier.bsky.social)
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To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk
Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one ...
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW: Flaming robots. Haywire Turkish machines. An actual dumpster fire. General Dynamics received $533 million from the Army to produce artillery but hasn’t made a single usable shell. ProPublica got the inside story of what went wrong. It’s a wild ride: www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 11/08/2026
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Rescued after a Russian missile attack in Odesa, Ukraine yesterday.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Cats doing Cat things 😸 #PurrsDay
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Totally normal stuff from the… <checks notes> …the leader of the free world. At least AI is winning the war that we’re not winning bc we won it already 30x. And good thing AI has plenty of munitions bc ours are depleted cuz “Biden”, but they’re not, we have plenty, but we’re rationing during a war🙃
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Rep. Boyle: Republicans’ new reconciliation bill is 44 pages and costs $95B. It’s got 73B for the Iran war and 10B for voter suppression. Not one word of it helps you.
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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Released on this day in the US in 1979: The Clash, the debut album by #TheClash youtu.be/7R2_4-421GM?si…
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Wanna bet 😏
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The Clash @theclash.com · 19/07/2026
The Clash - "The Magnificent Seven" #TheClash
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It remains hilarious that his cult will still insist, to this day, that Donald Trump is an "expert deal maker."
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Could “God” be busy stopping: natural disasters, famine, diseases, murders, sexual assaults, abuse of children, etc… Sure, but apparently “God” is busy talking to religious zealots and right wing politicians to deal with these catastrophic issues inflicting the world.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
4. Kushner’s LLC was granted that status “just weeks before the new US president’s inauguration, even without a business plan or feasibility study for the construction"
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Kushner’s Albanian resort faces corruption probe, mass protests
Jared Kushner’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran War are not going well.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
9. In December, Kushner's plan to build a Trump tower in Belgrade collapsed amid a corruption scandal and mass protests.
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Kushner’s Serbian boondoggle collapses amid corruption scandal
This week, Jared Kushner abruptly canceled his plans to build Trump Tower Belgrade after the project became enmeshed in a criminal corruption scandal involving Serbian government officials.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The Trump government wants to probe the medical records of Americans . . . WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. This is the "deep state" MAGA claimed existed, but didn't until Trump. And the new Trump-friendly @CNN ownership is referring to this as a "peek" at our records. 🤮 www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/h...
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RFK Jr. seeks to peek at Americans’ medical records for clues on autism and vaccines | CNN
U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medic...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump continues his hard work today to bring down rising prices and solve the affordability crisis.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Imagine laying off employees because you believe AI can do their jobs only for AI vendors to raise their prices. 😭 And that’s before you find out that AI actually cannot do their jobs.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/06/2026
it’s because there’s raw shit in the milk. consuming cow shit can lead to illness
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
TL cleanse….😻
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The NAACP asked a federal court to stop the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing a rule that could block voters from receiving mail-in ballots — arguing the plan violates a court-enforced settlement that requires USPS to prioritize election mail through 2028. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS rule advancing Trump’s mail-voting attack violates settlement, NAACP alleges
The NAACP warned that election officials are already preparing for the 2026 election cycle, and that the proposed rule could sow confusion among USPS workers, state and local officials and voters.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump 2.0 is a continuation of Trump 1.0….farm bankruptcies skyrocketing (again) tHe GoLdEn aGe “the Dow is at 50k” for the Epstein regime = Farmageddon for Americans
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Day 500 of this administration and no, the economy is *not* strong and has not been improving since January 21, 2025…. #TrumpsAmerica
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/06/2026
BREAKING: Senate Republicans have just begun a marathon vote-a-rama in the Senate. Why? Not to lower health care or housing costs. Instead, they are fighting tooth & nail to give ICE another $70 billion blank check with ZERO reforms. A disgrace.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If Scott Bessent absolutely insists, I'm sure we could assemble a panel of historians to evaluate precisely where his incompetent hackery ranks in the all-time list of Treasury Secretaries.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's fitting that the face of the Trump administration on this issue is Dr. Oz, a billionaire snake oil salesman.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Again, Bill Pulte is a 38-year-old -- no really, 38 -- who only holds a BA in broadcast journalism and absolutely zero experience in the intelligence field. He has no qualifications for this job at all. Aside from being a psychotic lickspittle to the president.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 03/06/2026
If you have a fire extinguisher with a plastic handle, check to make sure it's not part of this 2018 recall.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The US is now spending more on construction for data centers than public transportation infrastructure. Data centers contribute to higher electricity costs and air pollution —all while enriching a handful of Big Tech CEOs. Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop them?
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Bill Clinton: I balanced the federal budget Barack Obama: I won a Nobel Peace Prize Joe Biden: I passed the largest long-term investment in US infrastructure since WWII Donald Trump: I can identify a camel
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/06/2026
After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.”
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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 26/05/2026
Whereabouts of missing Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) remain unknown, but he’s trading stocks again. From today’s @notus.com newsletter:
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I want a future where I can pay to punch Sam Altman, on a sliding scale depending on how hard and where
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A timeline of the Iran War negotiations last weekend
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
So,…. then they can: be drafted; pay taxes; indicted, convicted and sentenced for crimes, including murder; and have their records be open to the public like the rest of us…. The “artificial entities” sure enjoy privileges afforded citizens without the obligations of “law & order”.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Surprise, surprise. Ret. Army major general, Fox News analyst and birther conspiracy theorist Paul Vallely might be on the Kremlin's payroll: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
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Leaked Documents Reveal Russian ‘Cognitive Strikes’ Against the West — Including Islamophobic ‘Pig Head’ Attacks in Paris
Leaked chats and documents showcase the Russian presidential administration’s role in false-flag vandalism attacks and election interference campaigns in Europe and beyond.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/05/2026
CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...
I.R.S. officials prepared a 25-page memorandum outlining what they saw as flaws in Mr. Trump’s suit and advising the Justice Department to move to dismiss it, according to two people familiar with the memo. That memo was provided to Treasury officials in April, and it is unclear if they passed it along to its intended recipients at the Justice Department, according to the people, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal government deliberations.

No lawyers from the Justice Department ever appeared in court to respond to the suit or disputed any of Mr. Trump’s claims, which demanded at least $10 billion from the I.R.S. for not doing enough to prevent the leak of his tax information. The Justice Department instead made to a highly unusual deal in the case. In exchange for Mr. Trump dropping the suit, the Trump administration created the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for people who say they were wrongly targeted by the federal government.

The existence of the internal memo, which has not been previously reported, shows that the Trump administration disregarded readily available defenses to a lawsuit filed by the president against an agency he controls. While the Justice Department has said that Mr. Trump will not receive money from the new fund, critics have slammed the arrangement as a corrupt attempt at paying Mr. Trump’s political supporters, including, potentially, those who were convicted and later pardoned for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#copolitics @coloradodems.org You have corrupt Trump GOP “endorsements/ unendorsements/re-endorsements” 🥴; GOP endorsing *now arrested* pedophiles (not Trump, a local Colorado GOP chairman 🥴); and a lying corrupt “Democratic” term limited Governor trampling the Constitution and rule of law 🥴
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Great reporting from Kyle… @colorado.gov just trampled all over the state & federal Constitutions and the RULE OF LAW! If @coloradodems.org thinks this UnAmerican corrupt 🗑️ move will help motivate Coloradans to vote for “Democrats”, I have a ballroom to sell you. #ImpeachPolis
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/05/2026
FYI
Neil Stone @ @DrNeilStone • 2h
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one of the few labs in the world which can study
Ebola virus.
In March 2025 RFK Jr had it shut down.
We now have a huge Ebola outbreak on our hands.
What a foolish move
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
SHOWN: When you got an F in history and a D in gym.
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Amy Passas @amyp5280.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
How it started…how it’s going - springtime in the Rockies Still a beautiful day in the mountains ….peaceful and quiet with the occasional birds chirping 🥰
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