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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
call me crazy but i think inviting someone under federal indictment to an interview, peppering them with questions about the indictment that you know they can’t answer until you cause them to leave, then calling it a “Katie Porter moment” is not good journalism
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I was asked to be on a bi-partisan committee supplying congress with information on food insecurity. Yes, there are going to be A LOT of people surprised when they see the extent of our fellow citizens who use SNAP (about 40 million, lots of veterans) and WIC (over 6 million) programs.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
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Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/10/2025
You understand the assignment, California— VOTE YES ON PROP 50
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Over Andrew Cuomo's more than decade in power, homelessness rose, inequality widened, public services were starved of funding, working people were priced out of this city and he resigned in disgrace. That's the experience he won't account for tonight.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Someone should let her know that she is currently the chair of the (normally) powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and do a lot more than weakly protest this shit.
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Climate Disconnect @climate-disconnect.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Newsom's on a roll here. First vetoing a bill to get PFAS chemicals out of cookware, and now vetoing a bill to require data centers from disclosing their water use ... in very water stressed California.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 14/10/2025
Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.
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California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed
Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. My latest video for @propublica.org.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Yes, "bypassing rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power for partisan purposes" is sort of their deal. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal referrals, according to seven people familiar with the matter, bypassing rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power for partisan purposes.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2025
One of the reasons the Jack Smith investigations seemed to take forever is because Biden's DoJ *did* have their hands around the evidence before they indicted. And they'd have convicted, too, if it weren't for those pesky SCOTUS fellas. 1/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2025
Didn't Trump already have his annual check up in April?
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Yaaas! We need to stop acting like a guest at the GD table, the kids table no less. FFS, ratchet up and let’s go!
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/10/2025
Today in Judiciary, the MAGA Attorney General falsely accused me of taking money, “not only once but twice,” from “one of Epstein’s closest confidantes.” She brought it up twice, in response to different questions, so no accident.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2025
It's like when they say, "equal opportunities, not equal outcomes." They have no idea how incredibly radical it would be to take that seriously. Similarly, giving "equal scrutiny" to both parties would *revolutionize* political media. It would be unrecognizable.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2025
Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
They voted for all of this he campaigned on all these things and they voted for him
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It looks like folks at Fox knowingly destroyed text messages involved with the case even though they were told not to by attorneys at the company. www.rawstory.com/fox-corporat...
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5 eye-popping revelations in newly released filing of Smartmatic's case against Fox News
On Friday, a court ruled that Smartmatic could submit a filing with fewer redactions in the interest of public transparency. On Monday, the company did exactly that, revealing new details in a 469-pag...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
QT image of CNN headline “Retired teacher sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after tweeting criticism” above tweet from Variety with headline of “Dave Chapelle Jokes ‘It’s Easier to Talk’ in Saudi Arabia ‘Than it Is in America’ While Performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival”
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lorno.bsky.social @lorno.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I came across this video by Sarah Taber, who shows that farmers voted for Trump in '24 because they benefitted from bailouts in his 1st term. And they expect more loot in his 2nd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...
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Why Farmers Voted For Trump
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 02/10/2025
The California Senate killed a reform expanding affirmative defenses for domestic violence survivors convicted of harming their abusers. The state Assembly passed it by a large margin in June.
boltsmag.org
For Third Year, California Kills Bill to Help Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors
Advocates in California have pushed for relief for people convicted of harming their abuser, hoping to build on states across the political spectrum that have adopted such reforms.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2025
They dismembered a journalist. I think Chapelle thinks free speech means people have to laugh at unfunny jokes.
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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I reported this months ago. In the 1st term, Trump could hand out $$ to farmers by tapping the Commodity Credit Corporation fund, a New Deal-era program that had a lot of cash in it. But it's down to under $4 billion now, meaning he'll need Congress for the rest. Another point of leverage.
politico.com
Trump making plans to send billions in cash bailouts to farmers with taxpayer money
The president has also said he wants to use direct tariff revenue for the payments, but that could trigger a major fight in Congress.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee. As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...
Detailing the reality of ICE and immigration enforcement, Young wrote:

ICE has nothing whatever to do with criminal law enforcement and seeks to avoid the actual criminal courts at all costs. It is carrying a civil law mandate passed by our Congress and pressed to its furthest reach oy the President. Even so, it drapes itself in the public's understanding of the criminal law though its "warrants" are but unreviewed orders from an ICE superior and its
"immigration courts" are not true courts at all but hearings before officers who cannot challenge the legal interpretations they are given.
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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Several people have made me aware that it's not free for "over 65s" as I state below, it's free for 65 year olds ONLY. So if you are 66, too late, you missed your chance! 🤯
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/10/2025
Feel like @durbin.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov should maybe answer that fairly basic question?
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Treating recurrent C difficile cases cost hospital millions, study finds At a New Jersey hospital, treating 29 patients with multiple recurrent CDI cases resulted in a net loss of more than $2.2 million over 4 years.
cidrap.umn.edu
Treating recurrent C difficile cases cost hospital millions, study finds
At a New Jersey hospital, treating 29 patients with multiple recurrent CDI cases resulted in a net loss of more than $2.2 million over 4 years.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2025
i woulda assumed Whitehouse would know better tbh since he's spoken so much about the need for court reform
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"Scandal at the UN—Donald Trump denies climate change and calls it 'the greatest scam in history' while scientists and island nations accuse him of betraying the most vulnerable" | Article by Victoria Flores for Blanquivioletas EN: www.blanquivioletas.com/en/un-donald...
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Scandal at the UN—Donald Trump denies climate change and calls it “the greatest scam in history” while scientists and island nations accuse him of betraying the most vulnerable
Donald Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” At the United Nations General Assembly. He also added that, “If you
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The big one was to withhold $18M from, basically, New Jersey commuters right before NJ-GOV. But he's also cutting energy products in states w/some key GOP MoCs, apparently forgetting that Congresspeople exist. bsky.app/profile/empt...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This morning, I wrote that that shutdown would make Russ Vought visible in a way he was not, to normies, and might become a villain like Elon Musk was w/DOGE. Since then, he has stepped on his dick several times. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...
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The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government-ICE but No Healthcare-Visible - emptywheel
No one knows how this shutdown will go. It truly is unlike any shutdown that has gone before. But it will serve to make the reality of Trump's abuse of power visible in a way that has not fully happen...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/10/2025
Republicans can try to change the topic, but they can’t change the truth.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/10/2025
I know small business owners that are already cutting jobs because the quotes they're receiving from insurance companies are significantly higher than last year.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/10/2025
Where’s he been as this came to a head? Why shut down before negotiating? Why believe he will negotiate now, when he hasn’t until now? He’s the Senate President and the Trump shutdown plan was no secret.
politico.com
Vance says he’ll talk Obamacare premiums with Schumer — but only with government open
The federal government shut down in the early morning Wednesday, with furloughs coming for up to 750,000 federal employees, per the Congressional Budget Office.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
this was heartbreakingly cruel to begin with. but the detail about the ICE agent smiling for a selfie with her as she cried? rage.
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 29/09/2025
Guess that particular woman-beating was done by the ICE handbook after all.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I saw a video of Don Lemmon saying that Hakeem Jeffries isn’t endorsing Mamdani because Mamdani didn’t endorse him in his reelection campaign. If that is true, that’s just infantile bullshit. Mamdani was a local politician with no national voice. He was NOT one of the LEADERS OF THE PARTY!!
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BrandxB.bsky.social @brandxb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
🤮 Does Google hate its users?
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I have received comment from the federal agency overseeing offshore wind development confirming the agency will let construction resume The statement also implies a fresh hunt for reasons to find national security concerns with Revolution Wind … when those “concerns” were the reason for the order
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 26/09/2025
Really proud of Dick Durbin for not insisting on dragging Roberts in front of the Judiciary Committee because it would encroach on the separation of powers. Classy move. Very good. Much accountability.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Californians, please write or call our governor and demand that he sign this bill.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Agriculture fully collapses at 3c as do the oceans. Sea level rises 20-30m, the poles collapse, Amazon is kaput. Everyone moves north as the center of the globe becomes a baking, burning hell. 2c is catastrophic. But 3c is borderline the end of the human story.
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