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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🚨 LA: “Fake ICE agents targeting the schools” It was only a matter of time. How is anyone supposed to tell the difference? And now @MarshaBlackburn Jack Johnson & Speaker Sexton are codifying masked Secret Police vigilantes into law?

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Aaaaaaand it didn’t even work.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

SCOTUS did what now

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2025

Fox News brings on Rebekah Koffler to talk about the military parade, but she seems to be heavily intoxicated so they cut away with quickness

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

At this point, Judge Xinis should order the immediate return under threat of contempt and let the Supreme Court tell the Administration otherwise.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025

The Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity right before our eyes. They are disappearing people who are in this country legally and sending them to El Salvadoran prison camps to be tortured. Every official involved deserves nothing less than to be tried at The Hague.

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

SignalGate is not only a national security scandal, it is a scandal about breaking the law. As a former SEC enforcement attorney, I take the law seriously. Clearly, Oversight Republicans don’t. Watch more from @newsnation.bsky.social

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Medicare is so weird sometimes. My mom ran out of skilled nursing days. So, we appealed. That appeal was denied. We started to do the 2nd level appeal, but it turns out the 2nd level appeal is handled by a different contractor. Neither appeal is handled by the government.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“Scott? Hello? Look at me. You and I are talking.” You can tell Scott Jennings knows how un-American this dismissal of due process is by how red-faced and petulant he gets when Abby Phillip is simply trying to have an adult conversation with him about what our laws actually say.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Gonna have to update the punishment theory section of my Crim Law casebook.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/03/2025

Reacher is equal opportunity competence porn, everyone is allowed some extrajudicial murder Neagley kills someone this season while making a world class dad joke (“call me an ambulance” “okay, you’re an ambulance”) Reacher: what if a man was Large and Woke and Supported Women’s Wrongs

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 27/03/2025

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

it's nice of the New Right to explicitly write out what i've been talking about (for months now) is their plan

Trump’s tariffs are currently being used essentially as coercive tools of foreign policy. But they have the potential to do more. The first stage involves ratcheting up tariff duties (and bringing back some tariffs which had wholly disappeared from the scene) in order to compel multinational corporations to relocate their factories and businesses to America. This brings jobs and production back to America, while also ensuring that the wages are not undercut. As incomes rise and spending power increases, taxes can be slashed, because tariff revenue and exports will replace them.

Trump has floated the abolition of Wilson’s income tax, but tariffs will not be able to bring in enough revenue to replace it. That means a major part of the Administrative State built by FDR and expanded by LBJ will need to be liquidated. DOGE cuts must be almost absolute before a true American economic revival becomes possible. But revival is at least now conceivable. Trump has put the pieces in place for the tear-down of the US government’s worst excesses, and the rebuilding of the America once envisioned by Clay and McKinley. Tariffs are the key to unlocking this great American future.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I can’t compete with this

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/03/2025

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Our cultural default will be to sneer at Rachel Cohen, dismiss her as privileged, question her tone, scorn her ability to make a difference, conclude that by working at BigLaw she’s part of the problem. Among other things, that’s a self-indulgence you can’t afford during fascism. /1

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

either floating a SS payment shutdown is the world’s worst ever attempt to bluff a judge or they already broke SS

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back. These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/03/2025

we believe we are special and we simply are not

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but really feels like there is one of these every day.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

There’s a Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert is acting as Dilbert’s criminal defense attorney and he tells Dilbert “I made a deal, if you plead guilty and take the death penalty they’ll give me a Walkman, but I think I can get you a Walkman too,” but I can’t find it so I can’t post more about Paul Weiss.

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 20/03/2025

Secretary Duffy now has a whole extra month to read Streetsblog's coverage of how congestion pricing is benefiting New Yorkers -- and working better than predicted. 🧵

Tweet from USDOT Sec. Sean Duffy:

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@GovKathyHochul
— the federal government and
@POTUS
are putting New York on notice.

Your refusal to end cordon pricing and your open disrespect towards the federal government is unacceptable.

Just as your high tolls and no free road option are a slap in the face to hard working Americans, your refusal to approve two vital pipelines that will lower fuel costs by 50% are against the public’s best interests.

Your unlawful pricing scheme charges working-class citizens to use roads their federal tax dollars already paid to build.

We will provide New York with a 30-day extension as discussions continue.

Know that the billions of dollars the federal government sends to New York are not a blank check. Continued noncompliance will not be taken lightly."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/03/2025

this is where the analogy to Brexit is really useful. A similar attitude that the US is completely self-sufficient and needs nothing from anyone. Too bad a lot of innocent people are gonna find out the hard way that this isn’t true.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

At the risk of being a parody of myself I think the roots to the "new" misogyny lie in the theology of slavery and the rationalization of mass rape for centuries by people who thought of themselves as the most devout people in the country www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...

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Guys Win: Andrew Tate, Rape Politics, and the Authoritarian Right

Misogyny is a preeminent feature of authoritarian politics.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Not every day that a case you worked on leads both @nytimes.com & @washingtonpost.com! Musk & DOGE unconstitutionally hijacked & destroyed USAID—our case w/my wonderful colleagues @sddaction.bsky.social & Marziani Stevens Gonzalez proved it

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.” That’s fatuous. /1

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

NEW: Judge Chutkan has blocked the EPA from terminating grants for climate programs held by Citibank, saying the Trump administration failed to abide by legal procedures and provided no evidence of impropriety. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

So, it's not just the press secretary - the DOJ is arguing in a motion that oral orders don't count.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It's a bold move to piss off all your constituents when your name rhymes with "fuck."

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I continue to feel separated in every meaningful way from people who think this is okay. I’m not sure being their neighbor or their fellow citizen is an achievable or desirable goal.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

*sitting down* damn, Dictionary got hands

mango tree 444 posts: What exactly does one have to do to merit first name basis mentions from Miriam
Webster?

merriam-webster: Spelling 'Merriam' correctly is the first step

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates

The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Rep. Nadler speaks.

Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
I am monitoring the situation regarding the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and look forward to receiving additional information regarding the specifics of this case.
But let's be clear: The warrantless arrest of any legal permanent resident seemingly solely over their speech is a chilling, McCarthyesque action in response to the exercise of first amendment rights to free speech.
Such action is a frightening violation of immigration law that will not make Jewish students safer on campus and will only feed the Trump Administration's political war on education and hollow lip service on discrimination against minorities.
If the Trump White House were serious about rooting out antisemitism in America, they should start with their own Administration.
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