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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Nothing to see here folks, just the woman who made the Trump University case go away, sending the guy who tried to make the hush money case go away, to talk to the only person alive who can make the Epstein files go away. Obviously this is fine.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 10/07/2025
tldr; Yarvin is the Ur-Incel of the Technology Fascists
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Art Boxwood @artboxwood.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A good piece. www.telos.news/p/luttig-the...
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle. But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 21/05/2025
Already decimated honeybee colonies are the latest victims of President Donald Trump's policies, a new report revealed Wednesday.
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Trump launches knock-out assault on dying honeybees
Already decimated honeybee colonies are the latest victims of President Donald Trump’s policies, a new report revealed Wednesday.Since June last year, the U.S.’s honeybee industry has seen its worst period ever, The Atlantic reported. More than 60 percent of the insects mysteriously perished.It thre...
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Then he arrived a decade ago: someone who gave them what they needed to finally abandon the performance completely: permission to be horrible; a person who erased any semblance of decorum, any expectation of decency, any level of accountability. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-presi...
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This President Exposed Many of My White Christian Friends
This President has been many things since descending an escalator a decade ago: a national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/04/2025
VARNEY: Are you advising the Europeans to ditch their climate programs? ENERGY SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT: Absolutely ... everything they're doing is not having any meaningful impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
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Art Boxwood @artboxwood.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is rather surprising. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, who died on 4 April 2024, was the son of top-ranking US spy Juliane Gallina
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
VA order slammed for directing workers to snitch on each other over 'anti-Christian' bias twp.ai/4ilodQ
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VA order slammed for directing workers to snitch on each other over 'anti-Christian' bias
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"I really, really, really believe that this will create a moment where the corporation will have to think about the way we operate, the way we’ve always operated, and allow us to operate like that," Owens told staff. Much more detail from inside the room in @status.news: link.status.news/4iyxpgD
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 22/04/2025
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I'd say this is a pretty important story. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Trump HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for at Least 80 Million People - KFF Health News
Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The law bars the government from relaxing finalized appliance standards. But Trump and DOGE believe they can sidestep this provision by simply terminating the consulting contract that the Energy Dept. relies on to develop and enforce these rules. New, @propublica.org @peterelkind.bsky.social
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Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos
Donald Trump has long railed against everything from low-flow showerheads to LED lightbulbs. After failed attempts to undo appliance regulations in his first term, he may have found a new end-run to a...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Again, 90 percent of these men have no criminal record.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 10/04/2025
Congressional Republicans passed a bill that would revoke Biden-era rules limiting overdraft fees and increasing oversight of fintech firms. From @ddayen.bsky.social: prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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Congress Stops CFPB From Capping Overdraft Fees, Monitoring Big Tech
The two Congressional Review Act resolutions now go to President Trump.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/04/2025
Private equity firms are increasingly targeting the little-known companies that fix planes for commercial airlines — preying on an industry with already weakened oversight and further stoking aviation safety advocates’ fears.
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As US Airlines Outsource Plane Repairs, Private Equity Is Moving In
Some warn that private equity’s cost-cutting playbook could be particularly dangerous in the aviation industry.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/04/2025
my question is why? why are right wingers eager to destroy deposit insurance? what do they imagine they are accomplishing?
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Supreme Court’s New 5–4 Bailout for Trump Couldn’t Be More Ominous twp.ai/4imYsR
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The Supreme Court’s New 5–4 Bailout for Trump Couldn’t Be More Ominous
The Supreme Court handed Trump a major victory, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. government has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, leaving experts aghast and fearful about what lies ahead.
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CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Wait, we should be reassured that financial systems handled high trading volume as the S&P fell by $5 trillion in two days???
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Since taking office, Donald Trump has... -Attacked federal workers' bargaining rights -Fired workplace safety & health researchers -Paused a rule protecting workers from extreme heat -Put a former Amazon exec in charge of worker health & safety He's on an anti-worker warpath.
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lavandedusud-24.bsky.social @lavandedusud-24.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Devastating news on stock futures market. Stock futures plunge as ugly stretch for Wall Street looks set to worsen Dow Jones futures are currently down to 36,831. In addition, Bitcoin has seen a dramatic drop, falling from $100,000 to $78,603 by Sunday evening. www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks...
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Dow futures plunge 1,700 points as ugly stretch for stocks looks set to worsen
U.S. stock futures opened sharply lower on Sunday evening, with contracts tied to the S&P 500 falling more than 5% during the opening minutes of trade as an ugly stretch for stocks looked set to worse...
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
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Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Of course, his method is to keep the tax rate the same while zeroing out the capital gains.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW at PROOF: An admittedly terrifying report on what is likely to happen in the United States over the next twelve months. Reader discretion advised.
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The Dozen Most Likely Paths to Mass Civil Disorder in America, Now That Trump Admits He Will Seek An Illegal Third Term
America will never be the same, now that a burgeoning fascist in the White House has simultaneously announced plans to ignore judicial rulings he dislikes and illegally seize a third term in office.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Senate Pencils in $5 Trillion for Tax Relief, Leaves Blank Spaces for Spending Cuts. Here let me fill those spending cuts in for you. Medicaid SNAP Medicare Social Security. That is the only path to 5 trillion and they know it.
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Art Boxwood @artboxwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Trump Goes Crazy on Trade
“Liberation Day” is even worse than expected
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/04/2025
"Based on what he said, he’s gone full-on crazy."
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'Full-on crazy': Nobel-winning economist aghast at Trump's tariffs and wildly false claims
Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political commentator Paul Krugman was completely aghast at President Donald Trump's new round of so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs, which impose new import taxes...
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/04/2025
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
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Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I've seen this elsewhere too. Apparently half of the regional Head Start offices were nuked today, specifically the ones serving blue America.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
President Trump made a bold promise to “end the chronic disease epidemic.” Here’s what’s needed if he’s serious about fulfilling that promise.
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Ending the Chronic Disease Epidemic: A Roadmap for Systemic Change in the US
Today, in his inaugural address, President Trump made a bold promise: to ‘end the chronic disease epidemic.’ This declaration reflects a key focus of the Make America Healthy Again movement, spearhead...
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Art Boxwood @artboxwood.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.facebook.com/share/r/1XXH...
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Redirecting...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Everything you need to know about Trump's tax cuts.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The final quote here - the tension between US oil dominance and keeping oil prices low - has been a very obvious contradiction at the heart of Trump energy policy for a long time.
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Art Boxwood @artboxwood.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Jeff wants to kill consumer product safety. Of course he does. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A History of American Cults, from the Pilgrims to MAGA ... utterly fascinating and totally relevant open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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A History of American Cults, from the Pilgrims to MAGA
A new book examines the Doomsday thinking that drives our politics
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Art Boxwood @artboxwood.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Silicon Valley elites are reportedly taking ketamine and attending psychedelic parties to bolster their focus and creativity. Here’s what the drugs do to your brain
Psychedelic use is growing, and the business elites are taking an interest.
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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
READ THIS ⤵️, whether you want to or not. Seth has a 'conversation' with Musk's Grok AI about the probability of a civil war in the US by Nov. 2026. Scary in Grok's replies, but also in the depth and thoroughness of the analysis. Lacks human insight, of course, but....damn. You need to know.⤵️
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/03/2025
Last month, the Canadian Armed Forces announced that after years of declining enrollment, it had seen a surge in enlistments since Trump took office. (Canadian officials couldn’t attribute the new rash of interest to Trump’s threats, but they didn’t rule it out, either.)
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What If Trump is serious about annexing Canada?
Don't expect Pete Hegseth to stand in his way.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
France 24 news is fact-checking live - as all the media should. The videos recently circulating on social media showing "Ukrainian soldiers surrending in Kursk region" are from 2022 #journalism
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Radicalized by life @balloonatic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine: An Introduction | Tenth Amendment Center
The anti-commandeering doctrine provides a powerful tool to undermine overreaching, unconstitutional federal power. So, what is this doctrine? What is it based upon? And how can it be used as an effec...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It's interesting. The so-called "guarantee clause" in the constitution which says the US will guarantee a republican form of government in the states has generally been interpreted as the federal government having a responsibility to intervene if a state lost it's republican form of government.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13/03/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, officials say.
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Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say
Potential plans range from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Trump insults and threatens Ireland during leader’s White House visit
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Trump insults and threatens Ireland during leader’s White House visit
President Donald Trump turned Irish leader Micheál Martin’s visit to the White House ahead of St. Patrick’s Day into another opportunity to insult a longtime American ally. x x YouTube Video “You took our pharmaceutical companies and other…
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Take a minute to read this whole deep-dive on Brad Schimel's no-holds-barred loyalty to Donald Trump. This link is paywall-free. And then share it with anyone you know in Wisconsin—or who could donate or volunteer to help Susan Crawford in the April 1 Wi Sup Ct race. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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Brad Schimel, a Trump Loyalist, Aims to Flip Wisconsin’s Supreme Court (Gift Article)
Brad Schimel, a judge who is so supportive of the president that he dressed up as him for Halloween, is hoping to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court for conservatives.
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