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Amy Ruffo

@amyrulocal.bsky.social
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focused on state and local news and politics. I repost as a filing method, which means - a lot.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10h
Trump just threw a massive lifeline to Vladimir Putin. And to do it, he’s breaking the law. Back in 2022, Congress banned Russian energy imports. I voted for it. The law says the president has to consult Congress before he changes anything. He didn’t. Illegal. Deadly. Disgraceful. Link below!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h
Anyone else think we’re headed for a massive data center bubble? We’re going to end up with a bunch of empty, useless data centers. 🇺🇸 US: 5,427 data centers 🇨🇳 China: 449 data centers The U.S. already has 46% of the world’s data centers. This is insanity.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15h
Trump is raising electricity costs by blocking low-cost clean energy, forcing grids to meet demand with high-cost fossil fuel units. Sucks for you; but Trump’s corrupt big fossil fuel donors make a bundle.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h
WOW: A federal judge ERUPTED at Trump administration lawyers after hundreds of trees were chopped down for Trump's DC golf course project despite repeated warnings to provide advance notice. Our Scott MacFarlane was inside the courtroom for the extraordinary showdown.
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Trump Admin's Golf Course Scheme Sparks Explosive Courtroom Showdown
“You did your absolute worst!” A federal judge accused the Trump regime of destroying its credibility after hundreds of trees were cut down at a D.C. golf course, triggering an extraordinary courtroom...
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Roadrunner33 @roadrunner33.bsky.social · 17h
I am old enough to remember Biden getting hammered over Gaza Yet Trump has been President for almost two years and he barely gets questioned about it Trump even put out a video redeveloping it as a Casino resort Where is the same outrage for the current President and his stance over Gaza?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 10h
I do. It’s a reminder of history that we should not forget.
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oothoon.bsky.social @oothoon.bsky.social · 14h
No one should ever forgive Republicans for failing to do their jobs, to rein in this weaponization of the DOJ, corruption of government in general, illegality, etc. etc. etc.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h
POLITICAL RETRIBUTION Federal agents raided Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home this morning. A sitting member of Congress who has repeatedly been targeted by Trump, now facing a federal investigation over immigration paperwork her father completed when she was a child. A CHILD.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10h
Heat killed a 24 yr old farm worker in Mississippi in Sept. Republican-backed AB6213 would block all national heat regs. We must stop this bill. Email your US Rep today. We must stop these heat deaths. Two minutes of your time can save lives. 1/2
A photo of farm workers laboring on what looks like a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez

Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North MississippiFarm workers working on a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Perez had barely started working for the season.

Mississippi has some of the most dangerous working conditions in the country.

Second highest worker death rate in the country.

The state is one of the five states that doesn't have its own labor enforcement agency.Farm workers working on a very hot backgrounds with the text overlay: 

"If heat regulations became a standard and the employer was in full compliance with that standard, that worker would likely be alive today."

- Jordan Barab, Former OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary

Heat regulations save lives.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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FairDistrictsPA.com @fairdistrictspa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The more we know, the more effective we can be in supporting fair & transparent elections. Join @LWVPA & @CarterCenter guests for a 2-session virtual introduction to election observation. Find those events & more: www.palwv.org/events
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
abc7.com
ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/10/2026
I’m sick of this tired talking point from Trump and now Darline Graham… “China has already said they want to be the global leader… If we don’t build data centers for 2 years… we are going to be in trouble.” 📌 The US already has 4,978 more data centers than China.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to U.S. democracy, but a symptom of a deeper struggle over who belongs and deserves equal rights.”
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Seriously though, he needs to read muse.jhu.edu/article/1001...
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
David Brooks can pound sand.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The total amount Trump has embezzled from the Treasury to run political ads glorifying himself: $19mn.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amazing photo in New York Times of Gen Z protests in India.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
BRENNAN: Nidal Hasan is in a wheelchair. Doesn't the administration risk livestreaming this and making him a martyr? Couldn't this be a risk to the homeland? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No one has to watch it B: Well then why are you livestreaming it? MULLIN: The president is restoring American values
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, not fascism, was the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right." bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/10/2026
A quarter-century after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and five years since the return of the Taliban, what is the legacy of "America's longest war"?
democracynow.org
Afghanistan, 25 Years Later: Journalist Emran Feroz on the Legacy of “America’s Longest War”
This week marks 25 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of what would become the longest war in U.S. history. After installing a pro-Western government in Kabul in December ...
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 10/10/2026
A crude oil pipeline spill in the Detroit suburbs has gotten little public attention but has caused federal regulators to initiate a nationwide investigation into the safety of all the hazardous liquid pipelines operated by the Dallas-based industry giant Energy Transfer.
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Michigan Spill Prompts Federal Probe of Energy Transfer Pipelines’ Safety - Inside Climate News
The spill just north of Detroit, similar to a jet fuel leak last year in Pennsylvania, comes as Republicans face political peril in Michigan.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And yet, they slow walk renewables and Trump cancelled renewal projects that would have added to PJM. PJM is the worst grid operator.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Bearcats Grad @gobearcats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Apparently the FOX propagandists don’t understand that Zelenskyy works for the people of Ukraine and not the President of MAGA.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In WA State farm workers are harvesting Granny Smith apples. Hector says, "I feel very unhappy about what they're paying us. Last year, we were paid $33/900lb bin. This year they are only paying us $30/bin. It's increasingly difficult to cover my family's expenses. #WeFeedYou
A farm worker hand holding up a granny Smith's Apple
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
People memory-hole that many many folks wanted to broadcast the execution of McVeigh. McVeigh himself wanted that. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
nytimes.com
Executions, After Christa Pike, Are on the Minds of a Divided Public (Gift Article)
A botched execution and a planned execution that might be livestreamed have renewed debate and divisions over the most severe form of punishment.
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is disturbing. Also frustrating that this man is still walking around free.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"John" is an H-2A worker harvesting apples in Western NY. "We spend our day climbing up and down ladders, filling up a 30-40lb bag full of apples. Because of the Trump wage cuts we're earning less this year than in the past for the same thing. That isn't fair." #WeFeedYou
A New York apple orchard
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Melanie is Right, don’t bother with Bezos….
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Most people in the USA have been very willing to allow a great deal of state violence so long as they do not need to witness or experience it regularly. MAGA has used this to push the limit of how much violence the USA will tolerate. There is no reason to think the escalation will stop.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 09/10/2026
What's the status of transit projects awaiting federal funds? I built a tracker: www.thetransportpolitic.com/openlines/fe... There are 20 transit projects that should have been funded by the Trump administration by now... but are waiting. For each project, you can see delays & cost increases ⏬
Project cost increases and delays for the Veirs Mill Road BRT project in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This seems totally …unproblematic. share.inquirer.com/Eys8Hv
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Anthropic’s artificial intelligence gave a false homicide tip to Philly police, triggering a meeting with the company
The incident happened on July 18 but was not discovered by the Silicon Valley company until September, authorities say.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three weeks ago: @pbsnews.org #Russia www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great piece by Lisa Needham for Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice: Trump meme coin investors, including rich foreigners, have lost $3.81 billion but gained an opportunity to bribe the president of the United States. It’s mindblowingly corrupt.
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