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Barry Hirschowitz

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Baltimore - DC - Sacramento NatSec/Health legislation and Medtech development Dog guy

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nature is healing: A poacher hunting rhinos was ambushed by a herd of elephants and trampled to death.
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Poacher sneaking up on rhinos ambushed and trampled to death by elephants
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026
Trump is trying to sack DC out of spite. the people hate his fucking guts so he's going to impose a Trumperdammerung on everything beautiful he can reach people.com/dozens-trees...
people.com
Dozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: Report
Over 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
J.D. Vance killed this young man. bsky.app/profile/reic...
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🌬Arctic Char 50501 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺 @arcticchar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The motherfucker cut down 60 Cherry Trees, gifted to us by the Japanese government 60 years ago ….. to make room for his fucking golf course. The whole world is his China closet and he’s the bull. #FascistGOP #GOPSabotage #FascistUSA #FuckDonaldTrump!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 05/08/2026
In today's GOP, violence against women is prerequisite, not a disqualifier.
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yaaas! Good news on a Sunday! The senate moves to temporarily ban the OMB proposal that would allow political appointees in charge of approving federal grants, especially #NIH grants. Recall that the OMB rule yielded 500k comments, 95% of them against it. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Bernie Moreno still not saying anything because he’s a gutless sack of shit.
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
the fuck is wrong with this guy
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/07/2026
Balint on Hegseth's obsession with testosterone and his attacks on women in combat: "I think it is indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have some weird, intense, homoerotic, feelings towards men while also being incredibly homophobic..."
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Dear Dem leaders: If you must speak, express your condolences to Lindsey Graham's family. That's it. This isn't hard. They mocked the attack on Paul Pelosi and the murders of Minnesota Dem Melissa Hortman and her husband. They villainized ICE murder victims. Stop acting like these are normal times.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
it's smart politics, frankly. trump and republicans recognize that increased violence and crime rates in our society help reactionaries politically even if they are themselves the direct cause of the increased violence and crime.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We are living in a country where the president can touch an underage girl's genitalia and there will be no repercussions—but if you DARE touch a pool of green water, you *will* be arrested and jailed. What a world . . .
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
this court is reactionary, anti-rights, pro-corporate, anti-Democratic and anti-democratic. if full renovation of the supreme court is not a leading element of future reform, we will never have a democracy or a rights-abiding apex judiciary, just never.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In 1933 Adolf Hitler shook down German industrialists for millions of Reichsmark to establish what he called the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft—a slush fund he used to pay off Nazis whose violence got them into legal trouble. In 2026, Donald Trump is quietly doing the same thing.
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Obscure Group With Trump Ties Plans to Route Funds to His Allies for Legal Fights
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Where the fuck is WH press corps response to attacks on women reporters? Shameful bootlickers and enablers
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/06/2026
Lawmakers must reject VPN bans to ensure that U.S. journalists can rely on this important privacy tool, and that all Americans remain free to access information online. Now is not the time to outlaw resources that can keep our freedoms secure.
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How journalists rely on VPNs to protect press freedom
Recent attempts to ban VPNs to stop users from evading age-verification laws are a growing threat to journalism
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2026
NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
these are truly awful people. i wish them the worst. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/05/2026
Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And onnot stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 27/05/2026
This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.
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whattheactualf.bsky.social @whattheactualf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The truth is. All Republicans do is lie.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Drunkard rapist scumbag Pete Hegseth addresses West Point graduates with his stupid racist bullshit and says “diversity cannot be tolerated in our formations." It enrages me that we went from a highly decorated black 4-star General leading the Pentagon to this Nazi piece of shit.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Mary S. McElroy, United States District Judge.
The United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") possesses immense
prosecutorial authority and discretion. As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors,
when wielding this awesome power against a state, a company, or certainly against
vulnerable children, will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the
judiciary.
DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the "Texas court"). It did so in an obvious effort to shield it's recent investigative tactics-previously rejected by every
other court to review them-from this Court's review, in favor of a distant forum that
DOJ deems friendly to its political positions. 1 Its representatives have, under oath,misrepresented salient facts. It has misled the parties with whom it was negotiating in Rhode Island, who have now been placed in an untenable and unprecedented procedural position. And when its attorneys came to this Court to explain their conduct, the senior attorney-who was present at many of the events that took place
in this case sat silently by as his counterpart, a junior attorney who has been
practicing law for approximately six months and had no relevant information, was forced to answer questions about DOJ's blatant disregard for the proper course of
negotiations.
Now before the Court is the petitioner, the Child Advocate for the State of Rhode Island's (the "Child Advocate") Emergency Motion to Quash a subpoena duces tecum issued by DOJ as well as Rhode Island Hospital's ("RIH") Motion to Quash the same subpoena. (ECF Nos. 1, 28.) For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents
related to this now invalid subpoena.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If you're looking for a shot of joy — and who isn't? — check out the new John Candy documentary. Bittersweet, but like spending time with a grand old friend: johncandy.com
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John Candy: I Like Me
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 11/05/2026
The Supreme Court’s disdain for lower courts, their findings, and the record amassed in these cases knows no bounds.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Every Roberts court ruling simply exists in a vacuum where the only precedents that apply are the ones they want to follow for that particular case. What does it matter that people have already voted? Just have them do it again, only in districts that don't exist. Every case is a blank slate.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Virginia has a VRA Sec 2 district (the 3rd CD). Maybe they should hold an emergency legislative session to fix this constitutional defect, per Callais, like other Southern states?
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The most important issue in the nation is the federal government’s attack on Black women in power. Today the FBI raided Virginia Sen president pro-tem Louise Lucas, continuing the political genocide against Black political power. All large platforms dems should be covering this.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
From raid to triumph. 🏆 On Monday, Hannah Natanson and the WaPo won the Pulitzer for Public Service for coverage of the Trump-Musk "DOGE" initiative. The win follows a chilling escalation in government pressure.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵
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ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 months
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
When I learned what Samuel Alito and the other Republican appointees to the Supreme Court did to the Voting Rights Act, I thought of my friend Mickey Schwerner. He and countless others sacrificed their lives fighting for the VRA. robertreich.substack.com/p/sam-alit…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Democrats convert empty warehouses into shelters for the homeless. Republicans turn them into concentration camps to torture people without due process. The two parties are not remotely the same.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
As he takes his last breath, may he be told that history will forget him, that America will scrub away the fake gold, and that he will be erased.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/04/2026
Must be a total coincidence that the FCC launched this probe right after Jimmy Kimmel told another joke Trump didn't like.   The FCC can try to dress this up however they want, but this is just another flagrant attempt to silence Trump critics & stifle free speech. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Trump’s FCC Orders ABC to File Broadcast TV License Renewals Within 30 Days in Wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Joke
The FCC ordered Disney's eight owned ABC stations to apply for early renewal of their broadcast licenses -- by May 28 -- citing an investigation into the company's DEI practices. The action comes afte...
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Hexagonal @hexagonal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It’s a testament to the stupidity of modern conservative ideas that their intellectuals are such openly gutter racist morons.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 24/04/2026
This 5 year old girl lost her father in the Key Bridge collapse & now ICE is deporting her mother. Trump’s ICE operation is going after the weakest, not the worst. This is the kind of inhumanity we must end.
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The Key Bridge took her daughter’s father. Now, ICE is moving to deport her.
Zoila Guerra Sandoval, a native of Guatemala who has lived in Maryland for nearly two decades, is the former partner of José Mynor López, one of the workers repairing the Key Bridge overnight when the...
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