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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:
NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.NYT on March 16, 2026:

On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said.

Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/12/2025
“Many people on both sides of the hiring equation—whether because of convenience, self-protection, or resentment—have abandoned even the pretense of courtesy, resulting in a job market that’s as rude as it is dysfunctional,” Franklin Schneider argues:
bit.ly
When Did the Job Market Get So Rude?
Employer ghosting is on the rise. Now candidates are punching back.
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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A profile in courage, @schumer.senate.gov — sliding ever further toward irrelevance. #VoteZohran
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The President gets no special new powers during a shutdown. He can't eliminate agencies. He can't use federal funds to punish his political opponents. As Trump's illegality grows during the shutdown, Democrats' spines should stiffen to oppose his corruption.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025
Elizabeth Warren: "If fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare and avoid a coming catastrophe is not worth fighting for, then I don't know what is."
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
8/ Governor Kathy Hochul just posted this statement on X.
Masked ICE agents shoved and injured journalists today at Federal Plaza. One reporter left on a stretcher. 

This abuse of law-abiding immigrants and the reporters telling their stories must end. 

What the hell are we doing here?
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Republicans are shutting down the government because they don’t want to fix the health care crisis they created. They’re holding the entire government hostage so they can raise health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throw millions off their health care. NO.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/09/2025
Whole-body-deodorant ads often imply that you stink from head to toe. But we may be losing something when we clear the smellscape, Franklin Schneider writes:
bit.ly
Why Are So Many People Convinced They Stink?
Whole-body deodorant is thriving. And nobody really needs it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2025
The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant.

“I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.
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Slate @slate.com · 28/08/2025
Most Americans would psychologically implode the minute their bedroom hit 77 degrees. slate.trib.al/ZXTYdHM
slate.trib.al
I’ve Never Been an AC Person. But This Summer, Something Changed.
It takes a degree of cognitive dissonance to blast the AC. Such is the American way.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨NEW AD🚨🚨🚨
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The King’s Parade vs No Kings Protest
A picture of a sparsely populated grassy area near Washington Monument in DC awaiting the start of the Army ParadeThousands packed tightly in Daley Plaza for the Chicago #NoKings protest
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/04/2025
President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings. Now, as he prepares to step back from his presidential assignment to cut bureaucratic fat, Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only about 15% of what he originally pledged to save.
nytimes.com
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2025
We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 07/04/2025
spotted in the toronto star
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
In the President Harris timeline, we all have fun plans for the weekend that don’t include hoarding coffee or medicine.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 04/04/2025
This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 04/04/2025
I just introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
Haley Britzky @halbritz

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 03/04/2025
Robert Panton, a formerly incarcerated community activist in Harlem, went in for a routine check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month. He hasn’t been home since.
gothamist.com
A Harlem activist appeared for a routine ICE check-in. Now, he faces deportation.
The community activist, an ex-felon, has been applauded for his work with neighborhood young people.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/03/2025
China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
nytimes.com
Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar
While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.
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wkow27news.bsky.social @wkow27news.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Attorney General Josh Kaul said he plans to take legal action against Elon Musk in response to a cash prize related to Wisconsin's Supreme Court election.
wkow.com
Wisconsin DOJ plans to take legal action against Elon Musk for election-related cash prize
MADISON (WKOW) -- Attorney General Josh Kaul (D-WI) said on Friday he plans to take legal action against Elon Musk in response to a cash prize the billionaire is giving
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
You coming?!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Why are we letting the Trump administration make us debate whether the attack info was classified, or war plans? If an enemy or a journalist had obtained it wrongfully & made it public, is there any doubt in your mind how the Trump government would’ve treated them? Let’s not play their game.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/03/2025
Rather than bunker down, Sanders is in the arena, communicating that he is a fighter, that he’s not cowed, and that he’s willing to take on Trump and his kleptocratic regime.
newrepublic.com
Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done
The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16/03/2025
The issue with people like Schumer and Carville is that they refuse to accept that politics is not the same as it was 20 years ago. They refuse to accept they are the remnants of a system that doesn’t exist anymore.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 14/03/2025
It is one thing to watch a dictator grab power. It is another to hand it to him. I’m headed to the Senate floor now. To cast an emphatic “no.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/03/2025
I’m calling for new leadership in the Democratic Party. So many democrats want to do the right thing, but leadership is stopping them with the unspoken threat of refusing to give them leadership positions down the road. NEW DEM LEADERSHIP NOW!! #NewDemLeadership
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process. Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/03/2025
letter from the biggest federal employee union: "AFGE members have concluded that a widespread government shutdown has been underway since January 20 and will continue to spread whether senators vote yes or no on HR 1968" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
ALERT: I've heard from a high up source that Slotkin is against the GOP funding bill, but Gary Peters may vote for it. If you're in Michigan, please call both. Tell Slotkin thank you, and urge Peters to vote against cloture (not just against the bill). Peters: 202-224-6221 Slotkin: 202-224-4822
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
☎️ NYers light up the phones to @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and tell them: 👎NO on Cloture vote 👎NO on final vote for Republican bill that gives Musk blank checks Schumer: (212) 486-4430 Gillibrand: (212) 688-6262 @indivisible.org
Call script:

Hi, my name is... and I’m a constituent from (city, zip).
I am calling to make sure that the senator will vote AGAINST any long-term government funding bill while the Trump-Musk shutdowns continue. Please hold the line and do not provide cloture votes on the MAGA CR. A vote for cloture would be a vote for the Trump-Musk shutdowns. Will the senator commit to vote no on cloture for the Republican's CR?

Schumer: (212) 486-4430
Gillibrand: (212) 688-6262
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 13/03/2025
Burning and shredding classified documents and personnel files? That doesn’t scream “what we’re doing is legal” to me. This should alarm every House Republican and they should sign onto my bill to protect USAID and our national security.
washingtonpost.com
USAID workers told to shred, burn documents, unnerving Congress
The directive to destroy USAID documents raised questions about how sensitive records are being handled amid the Trump administration’s drive to cut foreign aid.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/03/2025
A Republican lawmaker abruptly adjourned a congressional hearing after being challenged for referring to Representative Sarah McBride, Democrat of Delaware and the first openly transgender lawmaker in Congress, as a man.
nytimes.com
Republican Refers to Sarah McBride, Transgender Congress Member, as a Man
Representative Keith Self of Texas insisted on calling Representative Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, “Mr. McBride,” and adjourned the session when challenged about it.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/03/2025
No, Mr. President, you cannot illegally arrest and detain legal US residents because of their political views or opinions. In America, we have a little something called the First Amendment. Throwing protesters in jail is yet another step on the path to authoritarianism.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 12/03/2025
Trump is on a mission to (illegally!) eliminate the Department of Education – and he just started by cutting its staff in half. This is a betrayal of students, parents, and educators.
apnews.com
Education Department cuts half its staff as Trump vows to wind the agency down
The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s staff -- a prelude to President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency.
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@schumer.senate.gov WHIP YOUR CAUCUS and stop this shit in its tracks ☎️ Schumer: (212) 486-4430☎️
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