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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"If you are angry, if you are outraged, if you are absolutely beside yourself about what Donald Trump is doing to our country right now, you are far from alone."
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is increasingly willing to condemn the actions of the conservative majority, even when that means breaking with her Liberal colleagues By Ruth Marcus www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Declaration of Independence
The newest Justice is increasingly willing to condemn the actions of the conservative majority, even when that means breaking with her liberal colleagues.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/06/2025
Breaking News: The sprawling tax and health care bill that Senate Republicans are trying to pass would add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.
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Senate Bill Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says
A new analysis showing the legislation would be far more expensive than the House version could complicate its chances of final passage in that chamber, where fiscal hawks have said the cost must not grow.
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CBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 29/06/2025
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Full transcript of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," June 29, 2025
On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Sen. Mark Warner and Amir-Saeid Iravani join Margaret Brennan.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Lisa Murkowski and John Thune deserve this. Trying to exempt Alaska from odious parts of this bill to buy her vote is overruled by parliamentarian. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Senate rulekeeper deals blows to revised ‘Big, beautiful bill’
A Medicaid carveout for Alaska was among the “Byrd bath” casualties.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/06/2025
Breaking News: Senator Thom Tillis said he won’t seek re-election after President Trump threatened him with a primary for opposing his domestic policy bill.
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Thom Tillis, Republican Senator, Won’t Seek Re-election Amid Trump’s Primary Threats
The day after President Trump castigated the North Carolina Republican for saying he was opposed to the policy bill carrying his domestic agenda, the senator announced he would not seek a third term.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 29/06/2025
Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c...
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G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years, married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter. She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away. apnews.com/article/iran...
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After decades in the US, Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Some Iranians are getting arrested by immigration authorities after living decades in the United States.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Trump’s exact quote to Fox today on this: “We’re doing coal. I don’t want windmills destroying our place. I don’t want these solar things where they go for miles and they cover up half a mountain and are ugly as hell.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It’s a shame that so many Republicans vote for something they know will hurt their constituents & the country simply because they are afraid that Trump will threaten them if they don’t go along with it, & they are more concerned about his vindictiveness than they are about them.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
How awesome is MacKenzie Scott! ( jeff Bezos first wife & mother of his 4 children) ). As of mid-December 2024, she had given a total of $19.3 billion to over 1600 charitable organizations
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Josh Hawley acted like he was going to fight the Medicaid cuts that will hurt many thousands in his state - most his voters in rural areas. Then he ran away.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Whenever in my lifetime, a lawmaker, a public servant had been assassinated, every siting president, regardless of party, would have attended their funeral, expressed condolences to the family, tried to comfort them, their community and the country. I really miss that grace, that compassion
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I can't think of a more simple way to describe what trump's big, ugly bill does other to say that it robs from the poor to give to the ultra filthy fucking rich billionaires. If you favor that, you are a moron and a reprehensible asshole, plain and simple.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2025
By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to: • At least 38 destination vacations; • 26 private jet flights; • 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events; • 2 stays at luxury resorts; • 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club (Published 2023)
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Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel
The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/06/2025
1. Trans troops are now being separated from their jobs, and we have learned what discharge code they are being given: "JDK," a code that was used to remove communists and gay people, and can be seen as a "black mark" on their service. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trans Troops Given A Black Mark Discharge Code Under Military Ban
“This is the kind of code that they gave to homosexuals and communists in the '50s.”
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/06/2025
Incredible
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump assumes we have forgotten that he called fallen soldiers “losers”
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
As we get ready to celebrate #FathersDay, let's think of the farm worker fathers who works so hard to bring food to our tables. Many are currently living in fear due to raids by immigration enforcement. #WeFeedYou
A photo of a farm worker's worn hands.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/06/2025
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/06/2025
In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and meaning in their lives through God and in service to others.
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In White Sox stadium broadcast, Pope Leo XIV sends message of hope to Chicago and the US
In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and meaning in their lives through God and in service to others.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 15/06/2025
Authorities asked for the public’s help in finding Vance Boelter. A nephew said John and Yvette Hoffman were both in stable condition as they recover from surgery.
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Search for Hortman assassination suspect broadens to South Dakota
Authorities asked for the public’s help in finding Vance Boelter. A nephew said John and Yvette Hoffman were both in stable condition as they recover from surgery.
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CBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 12/06/2025
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Walmart heiress Christy Walton promotes "No Kings" protest in ad
Walmart heiress ad placed in New York Times urges people to participate in nationwide "No Kings" anti-Trump protest.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
These Republicans in highly competitive swing-districts get their nice write-ups in media about how independent they are because of their social media posts, then they vote with Trump every time and offer up some lame excuse.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Same here.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/06/2025
A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
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Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Caught in this culling were projects to curb stillbirths, child suicides and infant brain damage." -->the damage is unfathomable. Such important work by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @asiafields.bsky.social @ashleyclarkejourno.bsky.social @zisiga.bsky.social and photographer Bethany Mollenkof
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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A few observations about where we are right now: The Trump administration is clearly targeting Democratic politicians through arrests and repression. This rightfully scares academics like myself who have seen this movie play out in other countries (Ukraine, Turkey, etc.). It doesn’t end well.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/06/2025
The ban, which revives a controversial measure from Trump's first term, took effect Monday morning. Here's what to know about who's affected, who's exempt and how foreign leaders are responding.
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Trump's travel ban is now in effect. Here's what to know
The ban, which revives a controversial measure from Trump's first term, took effect Monday morning. Here's what to know about who's affected, who's exempt and how foreign leaders are responding.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/06/2025
Debra Lynch, a nurse practitioner who operates the service Her Safe Harbor, prescribes and sends abortion pills to patients in states with abortion bans after assessing their medical eligibility. She's one of about several dozen providers in the U.S. taking legal risks in doing so.
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A Day With One Abortion Pill Prescriber
A nurse practitioner spoke on the phone with patients in states with abortion bans, assessed their medical eligibility and sent pills. She took some unconventional steps to protect their privacy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Mike Lindell unwisely decided to take the stand in his own defense today in his defamation trial.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/06/2025
Dozens of National Institutes of Health employees accused the Trump Administration of illegally withholding money, endangering participants in studies and censoring critical research, in a letter denouncing what they described as the degradation of U.S. medical research under President Trump.
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N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
In a scathing public letter, employees of the National Institutes of Health accused the administration of undermining the agency’s work and endangering people’s health.
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CityofTrees2 @cityoftrees.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
RFK Jr. is committing a 'genocide of public health'. Please protect our farm workers. #WeFeedYou
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Working in the sweet potatoes in the San Joaquin Valley in summer months is hard. Workers walk miles across the fields bent over as they weed the plants. As temps get hotter, they start in pre-dawn, as it's too hot to work 8 hrs under a searing sun in an open field. #WeFeedYou
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A farm worker in Delano, CA is pruning young pistachio trees - shaping them for future harvests. He's glad that it's cool this day as the young trees cast very little shade. #WeFeedYou
A farm worker in Delano, CA is pruning young pistachio trees
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hamilton on TV while police shoot tear gas and rubber bullets at reporters live on air. Feels like 2020 all over again
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 09/06/2025
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett insisted that the Trump administration would consider cutting Medicare even though the president has said the program would not be touched.
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Oops: Kevin Hassett says 'of course' Medicare cuts are on the table
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett insisted that the Trump administration would consider cutting Medicare even though the president has said the program would not be touched. During a Sunday interview on CBS, host Margaret Brennan noted that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) had a...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 09/06/2025
At least five women have died as a result of abortion bans since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Trump Puts Lives at Risk by Revoking Emergency Abortion Guidelines for Hospitals
The Trump administration revoked EMTALA guidance for emergency rooms to provide abortions when pregnant patients’ lives are in danger.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 09/06/2025
Letter: The expected cost of Donald Trump’s “military parade” is about $45 million with $16 million estimated to repair the street damage caused by heavy tanks. I guess DOGE missed the memo on that one.
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Letter: Where was DOGE when the cost of Trump’s military parade came up?
Letter: Where was DOGE when the cost of Trump’s military parade came up?
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 09/06/2025
⚡️Ukrainian opera tenor and volunteer killed in Sumy Oblast. Vladyslav Horai, a renowned tenor and soloist of the Odesa National Opera, was killed in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy Oblast while on a volunteer mission, the opera house reported on June 8.
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Ukrainian opera tenor and volunteer killed in Sumy Oblast
Vladyslav Horai, a renowned tenor and soloist of the Odesa National Opera, was killed in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy Oblast while on a volunteer mission, the opera house reported on June 8.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Save Elmo!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Let’s spend funds on infrastructure that actually keeps us moving forward.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/05/2025
Kaja Sokola, a former model, testified in court for the first time on Thursday in the case against Harvey Weinstein. He was charged with committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree against Sokola, one of three women whom prosecutors say he attacked.
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Former Model Testifies That Weinstein Molested Her When She Was 16
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NPR @npr.org · 09/05/2025
Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that American troops went to sleep or shook hands. "And some just couldn't believe it."
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80 years after VE Day a veteran says, 'I hope people will see the futility of it all'
Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that American troops went to sleep or shook hands. "And some just couldn't believe it."
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Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Pete Hegseth’s culture war hits West Point. Books banned, syllabuses scrubbed, two professors resign in protest, the librarian quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Nailed it, Pete! 😂👏🏼
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Buttigieg Epically Drags Education Secretary For Confusing A.I. With 'A1 Steak Sauce'
Pete absolutely nailed it 😂👏🏼
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
World War II officially ended on Sept 2, 1945, with the signing of the surrender document by Japan aboard the USS Missouri. This day is also known as Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day). While Germany had surrendered earlier on May 8, 1945, the war continued in the Pacific until Japan's surrender
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