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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/07/2025

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled. Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Stop what you’re doing & listen to this!

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/04/2025

If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We haven’t reached bottom yet. Because there is no bottom to his moral depravity.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I mean, if they want to make it harder for married women to vote, I say let them do it.

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Michael @bodhi56.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Dems made a huge mistake in not making Ben Winkler the DNC chair. Susan Crawford"s victory underscores how good he is.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I think I like the real leader of the Democratic Party. (He's leading but maybe too far ahead for some of them to see?)

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

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News Breaking LIVE @newsbreakinglive.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Federal Judge blocks Trump administration ban on transgender troops, citing the administration's "unadulterated animus" towards transgender people READ FULL DETAILS AND SUBSCRIBE

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BREAKING NEWS: JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP TRANS TROOP BAN

The judge cited "unadulterated animus" towards transgender people by the Trump administration in her ruling

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

•SHOCKING. •TERRIFYING. •DEMANDS AMPLIFYING. Presenting: The Trump administration’s list of words and phrases these “anti-woke” weasels deem so highly objectionable they are essentially banning them from use in government agencies. Included on the list: Black, Native American,…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just want to add that "restoring" a program or team or mission is like glueing the fragments together after you broke something. It's not as though it didn't happen, as though you didn't damage it (and in this case, the glue has not been supplied or applied).

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Amy McGrath @amymcgrath.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Worth a read - written by former US Army general, Charles Luckey, @luckeystrikes a man who clearly sees what’s happening in our country. “As a free people in a free land, we do not have — and can ill afford — the luxury of sitting this one out.” www.thepilot.com/opinion/colu...

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Column: There Is Always a Reckoning for Those Lacking Humility, Empathy

We are a month into the second Trump administration and, as advertised, the “shock and awe” of executive orders, firings, security clearance revocations, cannibalization of congressionally chartered a...

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Media & Political Elite demanded Biden let insane partisan lunatics ruin his son's life for sport then yelled he was ruining rule-of-law by pardoning him, but don't even blink when Trump just takes full control over prosecutorial decisions, turning the DOJ into MAGA's government-backed lawyers.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

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It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/02/2025

BREAKING: Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that the FBI will have to release documents related to Trump's mishandling of classified documents in a FOIA case brought by Jason Leopold. From Kyle Cheney: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It's not the most important thing here (and honestly the NYT headline on this one was good) but you do not have to keep accepting their bullshit rationale

...section of Project 2025. Its existence in that document should help the media covering the move uncover the purpose here, but alas — places like the New York Times insist on letting the arsonists describe the point of the fire, saying the policy change is “aimed at saving $4 billion.”

No it isn’t. Not really; these people aren’t interested in saving taxpayer money, they’re interested in making the government incapable of functioning, and in this case undercut universities in general, perhaps with a soupçon of gleeful punishment for supposedly “elite” institutions. Per Project 2025: “This market-based reform would help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” Leftist agendas like, say, curing cancer, or Alzheimers, or Parkinson’s, or whatever the next pandemic virus is.

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Michael @bodhi56.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

what is going on at MSNBC tonight- right now - they have a panel criticizing Democrats on Gaza??? While the Republicans are robbing us blind in plain site? While they are shutting down medical research? While they are stealing our data?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I am told the NIH indirect costs thing came as a shock to many people even inside the extramural research division, meaning the people who would theoretically be involved in such policy.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...