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Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
DOGE savings are heavily overestimated as firing thousands of veterans and other workers is costing us $135 Billion, analysis shows.
nytimes.com
Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs (Gift Article)
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/04/2025
Welcome, @katiephang.bsky.social!
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Andry Romero, a gay makeup artist came to the US last year in search of asylum. He did not show up for his scheduled court date - ICE had seized him & took him to brutal prison in El Salvador. His family is desperately worried. Senator request to see him was denied. Proof of life denied.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
People are mad at Trump for gutting childhood cancer research, but it seems he has a different plan to end child cancer in the US. Deportation.
rollingstone.com
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/04/2025
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
npr.org
Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23/04/2025
NEW—Disturbing nugget in this story: Apparently, "immigration judges have begun trying to dismiss the cases of those sent to El Salvador...effectively washing their hands of the fate of these men." This would make them even more invisible to the U.S. government—even more fully "disappeared."
thebulwark.com
‘We Know Donald Trump Wants the Story to Die’
Democrats return to El Salvador, looking for 19-year-old gay makeup artist thrown into CECOT.
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NPR @npr.org · 23/04/2025
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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NIH autism study will pull from private medical records
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
UNREAL: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Hide in Safe House After US Government Publishes Her Address. Trump wants his MAGA terrorists to target her. www.mediaite.com/news/kilmar-...
mediaite.com
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Hide in Safe House After US Government Publishes Her Address
The wife of Kilmar Abrego García revealed she has been moved into a safe house following officials posting the address of her and her children to social media.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
RFK Jr. is launching a government registry to track autistic Americans using private medical records.
newrepublic.com
RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People
And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.
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Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Without $595M in automotive regulatory credits, which other manufacturers buy off Tesla to comply with emissions requirements, Tesla would have posted a loss this quarter.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Trump placidly presiding over the largest measles outbreak in 25 years, with no end in sight. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
nytimes.com
Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000
Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Reuters: A federal judge in Colorado just directed the Trump admin to give notice to Venezuelan migrants detained in the state 21 days in advance of any deportations under the Alien Enemies Act — and to inform them of their right to challenge their removal.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.
Miriam Jordan
By Miriam Jordan
Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent.
April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET
In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful.
The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela.
That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world.
But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/04/2025
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
motherjones.com
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Since Trump took office: Dow: DOWN 13.8% Nasdaq: DOWN 20.5% S&P: DOWN 15.5%
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful. Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
nytimes.com
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to end routine food safety inspections.
cbsnews.com
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Just went and knocked on a bunch of doors to let people know about the June 10th special election in HB - most were unaware and happy to be informed! If you are an HB resident or know people who are, please ask them to vote YES on both measures to protect our library!
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 16/04/2025
If you are a NY-14 constituent and have questions, please call our office at 718-662-5970.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
BREAKING: Senator Chris Van Hollen is taking action on the imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and is currently on the ground in El Salvador to demand his release.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Elon Musk spent over $277 million to elect Trump. Jeff Bezos spent $1 million on Trump's inauguration and paid $40 million for a Melania Trump documentary. They're reaping the rewards of their investments. Trump's entire administration is a giant corporate handout.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/04/2025
A federal judge just ordered intensive expedited discovery into Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Garcia. The latest:
meidasnews.com
Federal Judge Set to Order Two Weeks of Intensive Expedited Discovery in Abrego Garcia Case
This is another step in a long legal process. But, it's moving fast.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is just gutting
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
BOSTON (AP) — Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard after university defies its demands over campus protests.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Every House Republican wants to cut taxes for billionaires while taking nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid. Every American should know this.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
El Salvador's president says he won't release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Maryland man, back to the U.S.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Donald Trump wants to use your tax dollars to pay January 6th insurrectionists.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Mark Zuckerberg gave Trump $25 million after the election in a settlement. He gave another million for Trump's inauguration. He wined and dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Now Trump might pay him back by ending a trial that would break up Zuckerberg’s monopoly.
politico.com
Washington worries Trump could bail out Zuckerberg
With a historic antitrust suit looming against Meta, could the company get a reprieve from its new ally in the White House?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was set on fire this morning — while he and his family were inside — Shapiro says. No one was injured. The incident is being investigated as arson by state police.
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 11/04/2025
This is yet more rank corruption by Trump and Musk. Seniors use social media far less than the average American, yet Trump/Musk are forcing them to use Musk’s private platform to make him money. Just because the corruption is in the open doesn’t mean it isn’t unacceptable.
wired.com
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
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'Triggered chaos': Trump admin sued by 16 states after funds suddenly yanked from schools
New York Attorney General Letitia James leads a lawsuit against the Trump administration's Department of Education over the slashing of $1.1 billion in funds.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.
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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 11/04/2025
President Trump and Republicans are trying to take away your healthcare to pay for tax cuts for millionaires. And over 1 million Wisconsinites on Medicaid, including kids, families, folks with disabilities, seniors, and so many others, will suffer because of it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Some businesses now showing the “Trump Tariff Fee” on their bills to customers.
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NPR @npr.org · 11/04/2025
The State Department didn’t reveal the rationale for having these visas rescinded. (via @keranews.org)
keranews.org
Visas revoked for students, graduates at multiple Texas universities amid deportation efforts
Dozens of students and recent graduates in Texas have had their legal status changed by the U.S Department of State over the last few weeks.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 10/04/2025
🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 10/04/2025
When Social Security wrongly declares someone dead, it ruins their lives. Imagine, in one Trump administration keystroke, losing your income, your health insurance, access to your bank account, your credit cards, your home, and more.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/04/2025
🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10/04/2025
NEWS: 70% of congressional Republicans could be enriched by Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy, according to federal data. Nearly ONE THIRD of Senate Republicans would benefit from a specific tax cut for the rich that less than 1% of America qualifies for. www.levernews.com/thanks-to-tr...
levernews.com
Thanks To Trump’s Tax Scam, Death Isn’t The End For GOP Lawmakers’ Riches
A new report finds Republican lawmakers stand to massively financially benefit from Trump’s renewed push to end the “death tax.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“A recently created Department of Homeland Security task force is using data analytic tools to scour the social media histories of the estimated 1.5 million foreign students studying in the United States for potential grounds to revoke their visas.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
nbcnews.com
Inside the DHS task force scouring foreign students' social media
A critic called the review a return to “McCarthyism,” a reference to tactics used to identify alleged communists during the Cold War.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Every American citizen should be registered to vote automatically.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 10/04/2025
Right now, millionaires and billionaires only pay into Social Security on their first $176,100 of wage income and not at all on unearned investment income. The rest of us pay in all year long. Say it with us: #ScrapTheCap! (@jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social)
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