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ckijovsky.bsky.social @ckijovsky.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@jamesebriggs.bsky.social Perfect column today
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ckijovsky.bsky.social @ckijovsky.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
REPOST IF YOU'RE READY FOR OCTOBER BASEBALL
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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The 18,500 children killed in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21/06/2025
President Trump says he'll decide whether to bomb Iran "within the next two weeks," a common timeframe he's used to promise updates on everything from tax reform and healthcare to infrastructure — often with no follow-through.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/06/2025
The Trump administration reopens arrests of immigrant workers at hotels, restaurants and agricultural businesses — backtracking on the brief reprieve after President Trump stated they were necessary, good, longtime workers whose jobs were almost "impossible" to replace.
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Trump yanks brief reprieve for immigrants he said are 'good, long time workers'
The president said 'we're going to look everywhere' for immigration arrests, reversing last week's exemption ICE gave hotel, restaurant and agricultural workers.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Irony: The manager’s amendment of revisions that got House conservative hardliners to vote for the bill ended up INCREASING the deficit by more, overall.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 31/05/2025
The cost to repair Washington, D.C., streets after the upcoming military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials.
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Army estimates that Trump's military parade could cost $16 million in damage to Washington streets
The repair costs are part of the estimated $45 million price tag for the upcoming parade.
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ckijovsky.bsky.social @ckijovsky.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@kbowen1070.bsky.social You guys were discussing this: From FanDuel: Per our House Rules: Bets will be settled on the result at the time of the podium presentation regardless of any subsequent disqualifications. The post race DQ and O'Ward moving up to 3rd place does not affect settlement.
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Tony East @tonyreast.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Knicks 106, Pacers 100 the final score. Pacers were up 20 in the second quarter and up 10 after three quarter. Knicks dominated the fourth quarter, led by Karl-Anthony Towns. Pacers offense was a mess late. They'll be kicking themselves, and this series is not over. KAT with 24.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/05/2025
The bulk of the financial benefits in the House Republican tax bill would flow to the wealthiest Americans, experts say.
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House Republican tax bill favors the rich — how much they stand to gain, and why
The Congressional Budget Office estimates income for the bottom 10% of households would fall by 2% in 2027 and by 4% in 2033 as a result of the bill’s changes.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22/05/2025
The massive domestic policy bill that House Republicans passed Thursday by one vote would reshape the federal budget to the tune of trillions of dollars, affecting millions of Americans.
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Here's what's in the sprawling Trump agenda bill House Republicans just passed
From taxes to Medicaid to immigration, the GOP's party-line bill would reshape the federal budget and affect millions of Americans.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/05/2025
More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report.
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CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years.
The deaths surpassed last year's total of 207, and are the highest number since the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/05/2025
Former President Biden launched a $26 million program to help Alabamans who have dealt with raw sewage and human waste ruining their homes and making them ill for decades. President Trump ended the program through an executive order describing it as "illegal DEI."
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Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it 'illegal DEI'
A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11/04/2025
The people tasked with keeping the country safe from foreign government hackers and cybercriminal gangs say they feel like they’re under attack from the administration they work under.
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U.S. cyber defenders shaken by Trump's attack on their former boss
“Every day feels somehow more bizarre than the last. It is incredibly difficult to focus on our mission,” one current Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employee said.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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James Briggs @jamesebriggs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The small men governing Indiana need big, expensive, taxpayer-funded cars — and they'll cut programs you depend on to afford them.
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Micah Beckwith and his Indiana DOGE bros are livin' large | Opinion
The small men governing Indiana need big cars — and they'll cut programs you depend on to afford them.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
ChatGPT ass presidency
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/04/2025
Fifty years ago, life expectancy in the U.S. and wealthy European countries was relatively similar. That began to change around 1980. As European life expectancy steadily increased, the U.S. struggled to keep pace — and its life expectancy even began declining in 2014.
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Not even wealth is saving Americans from dying at rates seen among some of the poorest Europeans
Experts said a new study of wealth and mortality in middle-aged and older adults points to deep-rooted health risks in the U.S.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2025
Lesotho is one of the world’s poorest nations. The Trump administration cast a 50% reciprocal trade tariff on it, the highest levy on President Trump’s long list of target economies. The charge could kill entire industries in the tiny African kingdom, an independent economic analyst tells Reuters.
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Trump's highest tariff will kill tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, economist says
Ridiculed for imposing trade tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Trump’s formula for calculating levies has a serious side: it is also hitting some of the world’s poorest nations hardest.
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James Briggs @jamesebriggs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Indiana's lieutenant governor needs an $88,000 SUV because the previous person in his role was a woman and he's a man who needs room in the car for other men. That's not even a joke, that's the actual explanation. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
One of the most memorable news events, where a policy announcement made the stock market tank in such a direct way. I've seen other press conferences/speeches where the market tanked, but it was always in the context of an ongoing crisis where the response looked insufficient.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/03/2025
President Trump has been concentrating power in his hands, pushing the bounds of executive authority while effectively marginalizing voices that pose threats to his agenda — delving into social and cultural realms past presidents largely avoided.
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Trump quickly works to concentrate power and muzzle critical voices
From law firms and universities to the arts and the press, Trump has targeted these independent actors and tried to bend them to his worldview — willingly or not.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/03/2025
Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned, an HHS official says. A person familiar with the matter tells NBC News that Marks was forced out of his position.
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FDA’s top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out
In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/03/2025
Elon Musk's DOGE is moving to downsize the Social Security Administration with office closures, cutbacks on phone services and new rules requiring in-person visits for some prospective beneficiaries. And he's making those changes without consulting some of the most senior Republican lawmakers.
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Top Republicans say they're out of the loop as DOGE downsizes Social Security Administration
They aren’t complaining about it, at least publicly. But some would like a heads-up on office closures, staffing cuts and other changes that affect their constituents.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12/03/2025
A House hearing ended abruptly after a Republican congressman misgendered Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12/03/2025
The Trump Administration is slashing the size of the Justice Department's unit that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption, three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity tell NBC News.
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Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size, sources say
Only a small fraction of the Public Integrity Section’s employees — roughly a half-dozen — will remain in an office that had dozens of employees and oversaw cases nationwide.
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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is crazy. I know there are many crazy things happening right now, but this is a very high density of crazy:
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 08/03/2025
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking info about immigration operataions.
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DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan have blamed lower-than-expected ICE arrest numbers on recent leaks about planned operations.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 06/03/2025
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will remove Black Lives Matter Plaza and the "Black Lives Matter" ground mural will be painted over, a spokesperson says. When pressed about why, Bowser said it was fair to say the White House didn’t like it. nbcnews.to/4kwdpNY
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/03/2025
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
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People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/03/2025
From the Grand Canyon to the Rocky Mountains to Yellowstone and beyond, thousands gathered at national parks across the country on Saturday to protest sweeping federal cuts to the United States’ historic public lands. nbcnews.to/4h0hWoR
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 25/02/2025
Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The U.S. military budget is well over $800 billion, and it hasn’t been able to pass an audit in years. But Senate Republicans voted today to advance a budget that adds another $150 billion for the military. The only GOP senator who voted against it: Rand Paul. Democrats voted NO.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Counterpoint: It's actually fine, and necessary, to have an opinion when 16 different women accuse one man of the same behavior
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Chiefs fans when this loss keeps Burrow out of the playoffs
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CandidCubs’ Cards @candidcubscards.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Bump. 1,000 followers, if you RT, you could win a BBTI Shirt, or FREE TICKETS TO A GAME. And a bonus entry? Yeah, do it.
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