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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Amazing that it takes a lawsuit simply to get ICE to obey the law.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless. Shocking.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/08/2025
Trump trying to fix a historically bad jobs report by firing someone.
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Beginning to understand how this guy bankrupted six casinos.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Heard this happened yesterday as well. It's completely unacceptable. By law, the courts are open to the public and the media.
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@nytimes.com stop perpetuating the fantasy that trump has some grand scheme driving his actions. He’s a chaos agent fueled by spite, ego, and McDonald’s
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Trump’s Vision: One World, Three Powers?
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The trump tax bill kicks 8.5 million Americans off of Medicaid to give a handout to the top 1% (3,.5 million). And it’s still increases the deficit by $1.5 trillion. Nothing else needs to be said.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly." I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza: Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
A few (not enough) headlines about the incredible corruption behind the Qatar airplane bribe to Trump but the security implications of using it as Air Force One must also be enormous.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 04/05/2025
Donald Trump's memecoin is the equivalent of posting his Venmo on the internet. Corruption in it's most obvious form. We need accountability.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
How Trump uses crypto to grift and channel illegal payments to himself and his friends and family, all as surveyed by NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
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Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NY Times Editorial Board: “The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts…” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
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Opinion | Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It (Gift Article)
The patriotic response to today’s threat to American democracy is to oppose Trump soberly and strategically.
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Is it odd that I believe China over our own president?
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China Rejects Trump Claim of Tariff Talks With Xi
President Trump said “we’re meeting with China” on tariffs, comments aimed at soothing jittery financial markets. But Chinese officials say no talks have taken place.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Trump’s appointees at DOD, NSA. DHS, NSC, and the other agencies that are our first line of defense agnst terrorist attacks from within and abroad are wholly inept. This cd well be deliberate: the worse the attack, the better the excuse for invoking the Insurrection Act and declaring martial law.
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“Cessation of U.S. aid will lead to people in poor countries dying, in genocidal proportions, of preventable and treatable diseases.”
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trump issued an executive order undoing a Biden-era regulation that raised the minimum wage for private sector workers on federal contracts to $17.75 per hour.
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Trump Just Cut the Minimum Wage for Hundreds of Thousands of Private Sector Workers
By tearing up a Biden-era executive order that set a minimum wage for workers on federal contracts, the Trump administration has made some private sector workers vulnerable to pay cuts of up to 25 per...
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The Justice Department is playing one of trump’s favorite cards - delay, delay, delay. They’re hoping media and the public move on to another story. Keep saying his name. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2025
bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record
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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This part
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Even doge admits Elon musk is cutting cancer research
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/04/2025
BREAKING: The House just adopted a budget resolution that sets the stage for deep cuts to Medicaid. People with disabilities, seniors in nursing homes, and children in schools will suffer the brunt of these misguided cuts.
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The future of energy is distributed #energytransition
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/04/2025
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery theonion.com/pete-he...
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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery model. “We must cut through the red tape bogging down what could be a far more efficient AA,” said Hegseth, who slammed the 12-step program as […]
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/04/2025
Chris Murphy: "That's what's coming at scale. Not just on washing machines, but virtually on every consumer product. A big price increase, little to no domestic job creation, all the pain on the middle class."
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, explains that the financial and global trading system dominated by the U.S. dollar ended yesterday:
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/04/2025
I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I guess this is what liberation means to a guy who paid someone else to take his college entrance exams.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Today is American Liquidation Day
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/03/2025
Wikler: Musk deleted that tweet because he knows that that tweet was a crime, and it's still a crime in Wisconsin law. It is plain as day. You cannot promise something of value in order to induce someone to vote or refrain from voting. This is Wisconsin statute, and it's a felony to cross that line.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Unforgivable. And needless to say THIS IS WHY WE HAVE DUE PROCESS.
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A DHS staffer accidentally sent email to a reporter in January with unclassified info about an upcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation. But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, she was put on administrative leave and told last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance
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A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email
The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025
It turns out Jeffrey Goldberg wasn't the only unauthorized individual in the Signal group chat. Trump nominee Joe Kent, who has yet to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, was also in the group as they discussed top secret war plans.
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Trump Admin Signal Group Chat Included Member Still Waiting for Senate Confirmation
Unconfirmed Deputy Director of National Intelligence nominee Joe Kent texted on behalf of Tulsi Gabbard during the war plans leak
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
is that bad? Seems bad
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is why @democrats.senate.gov need to cease confirmation of ALL trump appointees.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Trump's emissary to Putin, Steve Witkoff, was physically in Moscow as he was added to Hegseth Signal chat. Russian intel is known to have penetrated Signal. It is therefore likely that the Russians had detailed extensive prior knowledge of US attack plans on the Yemeni Houthis, says Olga Lautman
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brjones146.bsky.social @brjones146.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
As if Tiger’s life wasn’t fucked up already.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one. This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay. AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
At the very least, NSA Michael Waltz – who set up the group chat and made the mistake of roping in the editor of a goddamn magazine – should be forced to resign. A former solider, Waltz filled DeSantis's old seat in the House of Representatives when he was first elected governor. He's literally a replacement level politician, and I can't imagine he'd be hard to replace again. (It's not just that he screwed up massively here. He screwed up because he had a journalist's contact info in Signal to begin with. That might cause some trouble in Trumpland.)
But Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should also be on the block. Despite the very real concerns that his background as a weekend host for Fox & Friends and a semiprofessional alcoholic and sex pest might not have prepared him to oversee the American military machine. The bumbling approach revealed in this incident surely isn't a one-off, and suggests a slapdash approach to national security. (And yes, there have been even bigger warning signs. And even bigger than that.)
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/03/2025
This should INFURIATE you
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/03/2025
The Sunday shows are keeping it real—Schumer gave away the game for nothing. Jen Psaki lays out what he could have done. He played this wrong on every level. And with a Social Security, Medicare, and a tax cut fight coming, do you really want @schumer.senate.gov leading the fight?!
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