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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.” @jburnmurdoch.ft.com (via @kellycnbc.bsky.social) bsky.app/profile/jbur... DOGE “cost cutting” goals chart by @steverattner.bsky.social:

Steve Rattner DOGE cost-cutting goals chart from Morning Joe on MSNBC: “Musk’s cost-cutting goals are getting exponentially smaller as he’s slowly realizing that the government is not a car company.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Either way this is not great

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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

youtu.be/iSU8wW80xTo?... Every word of this is what I’ve been screaming obnoxiously for months. It’s commentary on David Brooks’ recent piece. He’s conservative—conservative-centrist—so this piece is extra powerful and very surprising. PLEASE SHARE! youtube.com/watch?v=iSU8...

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Important voices are calling for a "Comprehensive National Civic Uprising"... What does that mean?

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Important voices are calling for a "Comprehensive National Civic Uprising"... What does that mean?

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that 1/

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Helen Vendler left us one year ago today but her genius is there for anyone to engage with & be changed by in any library you should decide to enter. 🙏🙏🔥

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.

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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Guy’s a trip. Pakistani-American artist Huma Bhabha www.amazon.com/dp/164423166...

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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I think this is a must-see. Very moving. She’s always good. And taking a perspective on the coup I don’t hear many talking about. She’s also funny. “It’s not really an oligarchy. It’s a broligarchy.” youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2025

Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

She’s way too centrist for my liking, and her silence on Gaza is appalling. But this piece from 2016 is so sane, how could a MAGA even object.

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Rage is: hearing seemingly nonstop ads for HIMS, talking about how “it’s never been easier” for men to get treatment for their sexual dysfunction. You know what, guys? Now is probably not a good time to be bragging about easy and affordable gendered care.

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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The pettiness on top of the horror…

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RNS @rns.org · 07/04/2025

OPINION: Trump, who has been in an ongoing fight with Pope Francis over migration, Gaza, Ukraine and global warming, has imposed tariffs on indulgences and other products imported from the Holy See.

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President Trump imposes tariffs on indulgences from the Holy See

(RNS) — The 'pope penalty' will also include tariffs on rosaries and medals blessed at the Vatican.

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"It's an incredible piece of important real estate." "... controlling and OWNING the Gaza Strip"

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

So-called “errors” like this — and like the one involving Abrego Garcia — are likely to become endemic as Trump wields his power with abandon and without even a semblance of due process

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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Man. If you can do Facebook, watch. www.facebook.com/reel/1057311...

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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

oh christ Tap each to expand & read.

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

Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🇺🇸 😕 www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

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Emma Curtis @emmacurtis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I used to work at UK’s International Center, hand-in-hand with our international students. Lexington is a better city because they are here. This move from Trump’s DHS should alarm all of us. I will be watching as this story develops and taking action accordingly. www.kentucky.com/news/local/e...

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UK student visas revoked by Department of Homeland Security, university says

The University of Kentucky said late Friday afternoon “a small number of international graduate students at UK” had their F-1 student visas revoked.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone
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Cindy Nichols @cinichol.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Will April 5th be just another big feel-good kumbaya feel-good fest? kennorphan.substack.com/p/stay-woke?...

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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

SCOOP: Before the IRS fired nearly 7,000 probationary employees, a senior lawyer raised the alarm that: - the terminations contained "false" information - they amounted to a "fraud" on the US judicial system Don't miss this @propublica.org exclusive: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts

The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had n...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2025

NEW: Tens of millions of dollars slated for violence prevention have been cut or are frozen as DOGE steamrolls the national security sector. “This is the government getting out of the terrorism business,” said one grant recipient. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

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Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump’s Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention

Tens of millions of dollars slated for violence prevention have been cut or are frozen as DOGE steamrolls the national security sector. “This is the government getting out of the terrorism business,” ...

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

DHS insiders tell @propublica.org Trump’s Homeland Security agenda is now a single issue. “The vibe is: How to use DHS to go after migrants, immigrants. That is the vibe, that is the only vibe. ... It’s wild — it’s as if the rest of the department doesn’t exist.” By @hannahallam.bsky.social

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Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump’s Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention

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