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Charlie Persinger @charliep84.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wonder how Laura Loomer is handling being replaced by Natalie Harp as Trump's favorite girl?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Passage of Trump’s cruel multi-trillion tax and spending bill depended on intrasession Democratic deaths.
CSPAN VOTE PAGE SHOWING TRUMP’S TAX AND SPENDING BILL PASSED BY ONE VOTE, 215-214
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Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Great article if you have a few minutes. TL;DR they are destroying the renewable energy industry, and people are feeling it hard in WV
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH www.cbsnews.com/news/west-vi...
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West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH
The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Lisa Greco was pregnant, homeless, and struggling with addiction. Thanks to a federally funded nonprofit in Phoenix, Lisa is now in recovery and is helping other families going through the same situation. DOGE just slashed funding from this lifesaving program:
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Phoenix nonprofit loses $500,000 in federal funding after HHS cuts
Hushabye Nursery, a Phoenix nonprofit that cares for substance-exposed newborns and helps parents get clean, is set to lose $500,000 in grants.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...
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Notice to Stakeholders
Temporary Enforcement Pause: Silica Rule Issued: April 8, 2025
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 08/04/2025
COMMENTARY: We hear our politicians constantly talking about supporting coal. They say they want to stand up for coal. In reality, they’re only standing up for the coal mine owners to have less regulations so they can make more money, writes @leannray.bsky.social.
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It’s time for West Virginia leaders to be friends of coal miners, not coal
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Liam Niemeyer @liamniemeyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
An analysis from @appcitizenslaw.bsky.social found mine safety inspectors done thousands of inspections from field offices designated for closure by DOGE. A short trip to inspect an EKY coal mine could turn into hours if inspectors have fewer/farther offices. kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/07/c...
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Coal miners could pay for savings if inspectors lose offices on DOGE list, advocates warn • Kentucky Lantern
Federal inspectors conducted more than 300 safety inspections at coal mines in Harlan County over a recent 14 month-period, checking that toxic gases were ventilated, flammable materials under control...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Donald Trump did warn you that he was going to pursue insane trade policy, you can't say he didn't tell you he wanted insane tariffs, but this is significantly larger than basically anything promised on the campaign
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The average household will pay around $1,800 from Trump’s tariffs, but the poorest Americans will be shelling out the largest share of their incomes. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
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Chris R. @rchris.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Charlie Persinger @charliep84.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I didn’t card too much for the halftime performance but I’m glad it pissed off the right-wingers!
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Sean O’Leary @olearysw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Amid Gov. Morrissey's call for a "backyard brawl" & further tax cuts to supposedly increase WV's regional competitiveness, our new report finds WV's tax system already compares favorably in the region. Where we fall short is in quality of public services. wvpolicy.org/improving-we...
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Improving West Virginia’s Competitiveness: How the Mountain State Matches Up With Our Region Where It Matters Most - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy
Introduction Nearly everyone agrees that policymakers and citizens should do all we can to make West Virginia a place where families and businesses can thrive. Vibrant communities, safe neighborhoods,...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨Trump’s first major tariff hike has officially gone into effect—a 10% tax increase on all imports from China, including the suspension of the “de minimis” exemption for small packages (like from Temu/Shein) is effective as of 12:01 am. That hits roughly $430B in US imports
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
TRUMP TRADE WAR UPDATE: Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered. 🇨🇴 Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before. 🇲🇽 Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed. 🇨🇦 Two-step process established: 1. Try to look tough 2. Just fold 🤡
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Amelia Ferrell Knisely @amelianews.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Appalachian Center for Independent Living, which serves West Virginians with disabilities, announced mass staff layoffs following President Trump’s EO freezing federal dollars. wchstv.com/news/local/a...
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Appalachian Center for Independent Living announces layoffs due to federal funding freeze
Following an executive order by the Trump administration that aimed to freeze federal loans and grants, organizations across West Virginia.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
OK, you can't have it both ways, Donald. You can't stupidly brag about how you ended DEI to bring back safety at the FAA and then stupidly blame DEI the first time there is a crash on your watch.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025
REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director? DUFFY: *walks away* (The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
WIC. They are pausing WIC. That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
democrats should probably be talking about the fact that not one but two of the January 6th rioters pardoned by Trump are pedophiles
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Mint Hill man recently pardoned for Jan. 6 also charged with child
pornography, exploitation
by: Doug Coats
Posted: Jan 27, 2025 / 06:38 PM ES1
Updated: Jan 27, 2025 / 07:11 PM EST
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) - A Mint Hill man who was pardoned for his conviction from the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack was also arrested last fall on child pornographyARREST
HOUSTON MAN PARDONED FOR JAN. 6 RIOTS WANTED IN DEER PARK FOR ONLINE SOLICITATION OF A MINOR
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Updated 41 minutes ago
ABC13 went looking for Taake at his last known Houston address. A man living at the listed apartment says they still get Taake's mail, but no one has seen him around for years.
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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
we are going to see how much consumers are willing to pay for the privilege of living in a more openly racist country
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
wait why did Donald Trump make egg prices so expensive
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Sean O’Leary @olearysw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A reminder that when looking for potential cuts in the budget to pay for tax cuts, 60% of the base budget is k-12 education and health care for low income families
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Sean O’Leary @olearysw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Here’s West Virginia’s distribution
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 07/01/2025
“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which, um, advises the government on Medicare payments, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage cost taxpayers $83 billion (!) more than those enrolled would have cost under traditional Medicare.”
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Democrats are rightfully highlighting how Republicans dropped childhood cancer provisions from the spending bill. But why is @repdingell.bsky.social the only one talking about the absence of critical funds for victims of domestic violence & child abuse? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Why Is Congress Leaving Abused Women and Children in The Lurch?
The latest Trump-backed spending bill leaves out needed funding for domestic violence and child abuse victims.
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 20/12/2024
West Virginia’s broad education savings account program, the Hope Scholarship, permitted families to spend $22 million last school year on things like private school tuition, piano lessons, dance studio fees, iPads and water tables, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.
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$22 million in WV Hope Scholarship spent on out of state schools, iPads, dance studios and more • West Virginia Watch
The Hope Scholarship permitted families to spend $22 million last school year on things like piano lessons, dance studio fees, iPads, etc.
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 19/12/2024
A new final rule was issued by the federal Department of Labor last week that will require coal operators who self-insure to post adequate security bonds that cover all of their black lung benefit liabilities, reports @caitycoyne.bsky.social.
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New labor rule will prevent coal operators from putting black lung liabilities on taxpayers’ backs
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Manchin and Sinema with a final act of cruelty, voting against the NLRB chair's renomination and ensuring that the Board will flip to Republicans immediately upon Trump's ascension to office.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
new republican day one priority: making it harder and more expensive to file your taxes
NEW: Reps. Adrian Smith and Chuck Edwards wrote Trump a letter today urging him to terminate the IRS’s new free tax filing service, otherwise known as Direct File, on “day one” through an executive order. 

It’s co-signed by 27 House Republicans. 

https://adriansmith.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/adriansmith.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Letter%20to%20President-Elect%20Trump%20re%20IRS%20Direct%20File%20-%20Version%20%232%20-%2012-10-2024%20%40%2005-22%20PM.pdf
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Trump officially fires Lina Khan, to replace her with generic pro-corporate Republican hack www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/12/trum...
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Trump officially fires Lina Khan, replaces her with generic pro-corporate Republican hack - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Your latest reminder that red-brown alliances are just brown: President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday named Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission, installing a current Republican mem...
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Ramaswamy: hundreds of billions of dollars can be cut from Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare through “basic program integrity measures.” Seemingly a starkly different position than Trump took in his first term
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CONFLICT NEWS FELLA @warosintfella.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Oh right, like Christine Blasey Ford did? Or E. Jean Carroll did? Did that count with you?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
You hear a lot more about people stealing a stick of deodorant from a drug store than corporations stealing millions from their workers
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/11/2024
The most dangerous person in women's spaces in Congress isn't Sarah McBride, it's actually Nancy Mace's staffer Sean Brislin, apparently, who it appears she hired shortly after he broke into a woman's house and slept in her bed. www.advocate.com/politics/nan...
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Nancy Mace fights to keep transgender women out of bathrooms while her aide broke into a woman’s home
Mace’s legislative director, Sean Brislin, was arrested in 2020 for breaking into a woman’s home and sleeping in her bed.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“Those seeking to curry favor with the incoming administration now have the opportunity to donate directly to the winning candidate without their names or potential conflicts ever entering the public sphere. And … foreign nationals are allowed to donate to the transition.”
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Ed Kilgore @edkilgore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Get ready for a big assault, mostly conducted by budget reconciliation, on Medicaid and other federal programs essential to low-income Americans. It's a matter of fiscal arithmetic plus long-standing Republican malice. nymag.com/intelligence...
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How Poor People Will Pay for Trump’s Agenda
Trump’s campaign promises, from tax cuts to mass deportation, all but guarantee another attack on Obamacare, Medicaid, and other low-income programs.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sort of staggering how quickly they pivoted from “we’re a republic, not a democracy” to “we’re not actually a republic anymore, because of democracy.”
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tax cuts for the rich, austerity for the poor www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump allies eye overhauling Medicaid, food stamps in tax legislation
As Republican leaders look for ways to offset the costs of a new set of tax cuts, social safety net programs are under discussion.
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