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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives. (gift link, no paywall) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 07/04/2025

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite: ‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Their crime is being Latino in a country quickly emerging as majority non-white. Tell a conservative Latino friend.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is what happens when you’re willing to risk it all over ending pronouns and Black history. Hope those cultural wars pay the bills.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Damn Straight @damnstraight42.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#HandsOff DC! Fight! Resist! Protest! ✊

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/02/2025

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

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Heroes

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/02/2025

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How it started/How it's going

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

1. All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

4. USAID’s contract supporting deadly outbreak prevention, detection, and response, including Ebola and Bird Flu, in 50 countries – terminated.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

6. All U.S.-backed development programming in Afghanistan, including maternal and child health services and girls education – terminated. (Estimated to cause >1,200 maternal deaths by 2028.) betterworldcampaign.org/funding/what...

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Impacts of the U.S. Foreign Aid Pause

We're tracking recent Executive Orders. Below are developments as of Feb. 26. Impact from Funding Freeze The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), a lifeline for distributing humanitarian aid in hard ...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

a few years ago if you said "college republican clubs are hotbeds of white supremacism and enthusiastic support for rape" people looked at you like you were wearing a barrel on a street corner and if you said it today most people would still do that because the newspapers won't print it

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Ukrainian Defense Forces are jamming Russian guided aerial bombs (KABs) with electronic warfare along the entire front line, destroying one of Russia's main advantages on the battlefield. The enemy now needs up to 16 bombs to hit a single Ukrainian target - Forbes

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

There’s something happening in this country.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21/02/2025

Nicely done, Gov. Mills. This is how you stand up to a bully.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Trump’s appeasement of Putin is a disgraceful surrender to Russia, an outright betrayal of Ukraine, and a stark warning to the world that America under Trump is no longer the defender of democracy but a willing collaborator with a terrorist state. My latest...

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Trump Capitulates to Russia, Betraying Ukraine and the West

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🇺🇸👀 CNN poll: ▪️8% of Americans view Russia positively; ▪️61% see Russia as an enemy; ▪️4% Russia as a partner. ▪️ only 9% like Putin! ▪️ 52% support Ukraine using U.S. weapons in Russia.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 18/02/2025

In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

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Measles outbreak in Texas rises to at least 58 cases — the state's worst in over 30 years

A measles outbreak in Texas has led to 58 confirmed cases, making it the state's worst in over 30 years — and local health officials say additional cases are likely to occur.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

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Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI

In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

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Nagual @nagual4444.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I predict at some point in the near future Trump will severely restrict passports... He'll need to lock the door both ways... Renew your passports while you still can...

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a passport with a stamp from ben gurion border control

ALT: a passport with a stamp from ben gurion border control

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