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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New: The Veterans Affairs system is already down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year. At several VA facilities, more 1/3 of the positions for doctors remain unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social @propublica.org
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Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2025
NEW: The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act pumped tens of millions of dollars a year into a program to help fund state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. It’s now at risk of being cut. By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social
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“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out
Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”
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Oeishik 🐸 @oeishik.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The rant about inner city people not wanting farm jobs & 'those people' being good at farm jobs & 'they' evidently die if they hurt their backs was a real reminder of how racist Donald really is at his very core.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Trump firing the labor statistics commissioner and bringing back confederate statues are both part of his “fascist impulse to rewrite history” When they tell you who they are, believe them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-conf...
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Federal funding for a program that helps states investigate pregnant and post partum deaths runs out next month. The president’s budget proposal cut the program, too. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/mate...
propublica.org
“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out
Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/08/2025
Relentless climate disasters are wiping out local businesses
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Relentless climate disasters are wiping out local businesses
Cash shortfalls, insurance delays, and feeble government support make their survival difficult.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Every day
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"How MAGA Mainstreamed Fascism Through The Manosphere" MAGA radicalized and influenced an entire generation of young men by weaponizing culture to Trojan Horse their authoritarian politics. This is how we fight back. W/ @ilyseh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
What is $25 today is going to be $60 tomorrow. Real test of the Trump Mass Psychosis coming.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
With the tariff exemptions, it looks like the US has already given up bringing back manufacturing of iPhones and Macs. At least there’s still the hope we can bring home the manufacturing of MAGA hats and fast fashion hauls from SHEIN.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
HITTING THE DOCKET: The Trump Administration tells Judge Xinis that Kilmer Abrego Garcia is “currently behind held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/04/2025
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that approximately 5,000 military and overseas voters should have to cure their ballots to have them counted in the 2024 state Supreme Court election. Justice Riggs is now asking the federal courts to intervene. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
North Carolina Supreme Court Rules to Count Some Ballots, Reject Others
Read more here.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Trump administration pays El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government $6 million to house prisoners it sends to CECOT. That’s the prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently being held. If the US controls the purse strings, then don’t pay El Salvador until Abrego Garcia comes home.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Mycarlisle @mycarlisle.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
'It’s already in the cards': Trump impeachment urged by WSJ editorial board member www.rawstory.com/trump-impeac...
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'It’s already in the cards': Trump impeachment urged by WSJ editorial board member
In a column published late Friday, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board claimed it would be "desirable" to subject Donald Trump to a third impeachment to make up for the damage he has d...
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It's kidnapping.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/04/2025
UPDATE: bsky.app/profile/muel...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/04/2025
Why? Because if Trump can legally say “We can’t bring him home” without having to prove it, that means he doesn’t have to bring anyone home. And if he doesn’t have to bring anyone home, he can send anyone there forever. END/
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barbaraven.bsky.social @barbaraven.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
He’s a sociopath.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/04/2025
THREAD: Some folks have asked why Donald doesn’t just pick up the phone and bring Abrego Garcia back. Besides the cruelty, what’s the point of defying the lower court’s order? Basically, he wants to see if he can get away with it. 1/
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Importers aren’t paying the Trump tariff. Businesses aren’t paying the Trump tariff. WE are paying them.
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barbaraven.bsky.social @barbaraven.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Thank you!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/04/2025
NEW: Federal district court orders North Carolina to move forward with plan requiring approximately 5,000 military and overseas voters to cure November ballots. But North Carolina cannot certify the contested state Supreme Court race until further direction from federal court. Background:
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North Carolina Supreme Court Rules to Count Some Ballots, Reject Others
Read more here.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I did a video with @vanityfair.com about Trump and tariffs
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Tell Republicans in Congress: PROTECT MEDICAID, NOT TAX BREAKS FOR BILLIONAIRES!
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I saw someone post, "It's too late to save America." No it's not. Not even close. We will NEVER stop fighting the lawlessness, the unconstitutionally, the tyranny. The time is NOW! In fact, "THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW." (Artist: Peter Tunney)
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
How fast do people forget that Trump's policies toward Iran caused the very nuclear problem he's using to drag America into World War 3. Even worse, there's a presencial link between tariffs and his war plans. So much for Mr. Peace in the campaign trail last year.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
THIS: There are large Jewish organizations dedicated to freedom and justice for Palestinians—Jewish Voices for Peace @jvp.bsky.social, Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Standing up for human rights is not antisemitic. #MahmoudKhalil @aoc.bsky.social @peterbeinart.bsky.social @zeteo.com @msnbc.com
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 12/04/2025
Worse than silent! Asked about Mahmoud Khalil last month, Chuck Schumer said: "If he broke the law, he should be deported." With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025
they want jim crow history for a jim crow society
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/04/2025
"The president is no longer bound by law, but he is protected by laws. The same laws that now permit him to, say, instruct Seal Team Six to assassinate the chief justice, also provide for him to complete his presidential term."
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America Is a Powder Keg
Four scenarios of what the explosion could look like.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"To that end, I have twenty questions for Mr. Rubio, and I encourage all reporters covering him and the State Department to be candid in seeking clarification on what constitutes 'anti-Christian bias' under his new policy..." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/questions-...
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Questions for Rubio About Christianity
Easy questions, I promise.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”
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FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline
"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12/04/2025
Judge Jamee Comans—who worked for ICE 2012-2021—has ruled that the US Govt can deport Mahmoud Khalil simply because Rubio wants him gone. To be sure—let alone entering evidence that he broke the law, the Govt admits no such evidence exists. His "crime" is his speech for Palestine. 100% Fascism.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
When Rubio announced the agreement with El Salvador in February he touted it as a way to outsourcing the federal prison system by allowing the US to send American citizen inmates there to serve their . This undercuts the Trump administration’s claim to the courts that it can’t get people back.
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Rubio says El Salvador will house deportees from U.S., including Americans
A U.S. official said the Trump administration had no plans to try to deport American citizens. The U.S. government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be met with legal challenges.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025
i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
They’ll do it in a few high profile cases to set examples. People will say, “No way this holds up in court.” Maybe. But we now know the plan: they’ll do it first, then dare the courts to stop them. And this too will be very difficult for courts to undo. This is end of democracy stuff.
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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/04/2025
WATCH LIVE: Fighting Oligarchy Tour with AOC And Bernie Sanders in LA
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LIVE: Fighting Oligarchy Tour with AOC And Bernie Sanders (LOS ANGELES, CA)
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Mitch the Infovore (he/him/his) @informitch.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
As a Jew, I agree one hundred percent. (But then, as a proudly woke Jew, I knew this.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer.  So much for "Make America Healthy Again." www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
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barbaraven.bsky.social @barbaraven.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Admittedly, I think Al Green has already filed articles of impeachment. But otherwise, WSJ has most of the Dem caucus beat. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again
It’s already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 12/04/2025
Bill Maher is the Marco Rubio of comedy.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
So all the White House political reporters are spending the weekend getting up to speed on the Abrego Garcia case and litigation related to the gulag in El Salvador so that they can prep good questions for Bukele’s visit on Monday, right? Right????????
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
WSJ Editorial page welcome to the resistance?
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