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Andrea Purse

@andreapurse.bsky.social
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Diet Coke, political comms, docs, frenchies, Steelers, and whatever my kids are into. Not in that order.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
No surprise that RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz are trying to undermine Americans’ access to affordable health care. I’m grateful to @democracyforward.org and everyone else who’s fighting back.
Wall St Journal: RFK Jr and Mehmet Oz quote about Democracy Forward filing more than 150 lawsuits in 2025 alone
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If Trump is serious about ending Noem’s tenure, DHS should immediately reverse her decisions to: **put ICE in schools, hospitals, and houses of worship **make it harder for people fleeing autocratic nations to seek asylum **deprive people of due process Until then, we will still be in court.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Frey: "I've seen conduct from ICE that is disgusting & intolerable. If it were your city, it would unacceptable there too. ICE can leave & this massive deployment can come to an end. We have filed litigation to hopefully make it so, but I'm deeply concerned we don't have that kind of time."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026
These are absolutely monstrous people "Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
nytimes.com
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is not the law.
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
On fifth anniversary of January 6th.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Listening to NPR to the reaction to the shooting in Australia- "this will change us forever"- knowing that shootings are the leading cause of death for children here and we won't be talking about Brown after Tuesday
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Me a week ago: I hope the Steelers lose the rest of this season so we get better picks and stop being mid Me mid-Steelers-Ravens game: My life is on the line if we don't win today
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Republicans want to starve children to pressure Democrats into gutting healthcare. How do we know? Mike Johnson just admitted it.
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 29/10/2025
Starting Saturday, millions will log on to sign up for health coverage. But this year, too many will see premiums that doubled or tripled. Why? Because Republicans shut down the government to rip away the tax credits that keep care affordable.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2025
NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
propublica.org
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 26/08/2025
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
As people in DC experience occupation, here are some tips to know your rights: 🧵🧵 (1) you do have rights; neither the White House or law enforcement can take them away — know them (2) you can remain silent if you are stopped — you can say nothing and say that you want to speak to a lawyer.
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What if I told you that the Republicans just passed a bill that cuts health insurance, takes away jobs, raises energy prices, and gives tax breaks to billionaires... And there's literally no benefits. No trade offs. That's the bill.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
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Kristina Costa @slashklc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
At 9:30 AM today the DC Circuit will hear arguments on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $20 billion program aimed squarely at lowering energy costs for families and communities that the private market consistently fails to reach. A refresher on Trump's attempted bank heist: 🧵
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...
chron.com
Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books
A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the most quietly effective tools the federal government has. It is the center of our industrial policy providing loans that banks won't give for energy innovation. It funds real projects. Battery factories. Nuclear reactors. Geothermal energy. Car factories.
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I wish that this administration would use tax dollars on therapy FFS
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
👀Marko Elez, who was fired from DOGE's team at Treasury after the discovery of racist social media posts, was apparently rehired at the Labor Department and detailed earlier this month to HHS. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
All the right's fearmongering over George Soros, and this guy is literally out here buying votes for the world to see.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The president is insisting he was out of the loop when his underlings were planning a military strike?
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a man says okay but that 's worse in front of a woman
ALT: a man says okay but that 's worse in front of a woman
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Trump says the phone lines seniors use to get their Social Security checks have to be shut down for security reasons, but his staff is planning bombing campaigns over text message.
theatlantic.com
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What could go wrong!
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Let me be clear: NO www.si.com/nfl/steelers...
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Steelers Closing in on Aaron Rodgers Deal
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers are closing in on a deal for former New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, according to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Gerry
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”
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US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters
The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink service after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communicati...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'll just say there are a lot of lessons from the Shaye Moss Ruby Freeman litigation against Rudy Giuliani.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Meanwhile, egg prices.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
nytimes.com
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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Jessica Silver-Greenberg @jsgatnyt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Job training in West Virginia, unemployment help in Wisconsin, assistance for disabled kids. It's all been thrown into disarray because of Trump's federal funding freeze. Our story. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Attempt to Freeze Grant Funding Leaves Nonprofits Reeling (Gift Article)
Some groups said their funding was still blocked, even after the freeze had been rescinded. Others saw their money reinstated but worried about future cuts.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If you are a special educator who will be affected by President Trump's executive order on the Department of Education, I'd love to speak to you via Signal. My Signal number is 909-957-6133. I'll protect your identity. #SpecialEducation
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/02/2025
Unions representing federal workers sued the Treasury Department and its head, Scott Bessent, on Monday in an effort to block Elon Musk and his team from accessing the federal payment system.
nytimes.com
Unions Sue to Block Musk’s Access to Treasury Payment Data
The suit was the latest effort by unions representing federal workers to push back against Trump administration directives aimed at undermining the federal bureaucracy.
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm going to try to calm my brain by watching a show about murder- me, every day in 2025
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It seems like we should FREAK OUT NOW about the unelected nazi billionaire with seemingly unlimited power
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/02/2025
Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter on Monday to the Treasury secretary demanding answers for why the Dept. of Government Efficiency was granted access to the federal payments system, giving Elon Musk's team a powerful tool that could be used to track and potentially limit government spending.
nytimes.com
Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System
In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Every attacker in these pictures are free and forgiven by Trump. Americans turned their backs on us. I don't know if I can ever forgive us for this. Forgiveness or not... I'll keep fighting because it's what's right.
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Andrea Purse @andreapurse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Oh CBS no
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps
For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders.
Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the
Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle.
In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets
that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.
Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that
has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps.
This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical
office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025:
Print - The New York Times
TV - NBC News
Radio - National Public Radio
Online News - POLITICO
In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the
Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets.
Print - New York Post
TV - One America News Network
Radio - Breitbart News Network
Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously.
The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new
outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps.
Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media
Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon.
(John Ullyot
Acting
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