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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

PHOEBE BRIDGERS: and what *I'M* saying is that pre-snap motion has become such a staple of Shanahan Tree coaching schemes that modern defenses have fully adapted by filling any potential leverage gaps ANDY REID: (nodding while eating a big bowl of spaghetti)

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/12/2025

An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/12/2025

Conspiracy theorist Mike Benz will start looking for proof of non-existent plots at USAID. He won't find any. What then? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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USAID Hired the Right-Wing Influencer Responsible for Its Decimation

Mike Benz was brought aboard to find evidence for his claims that the agency is secretly a spy operation.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2025

"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence" The logic of revolution is always the same www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts

The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/04/2025

Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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America’s Future Is Hungary

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

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Shirtgood @shirtgood.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

These are our shirts and signs! Amazing to see them at the protest. See them all here, we sell them at our cost shirtgoodhq.com/collections/...

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From the American People. Support USAID. These are priced at our cost so that anyone can buy them and get the word out. If we make any money from them we will donate it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We can stop this power grab over DC's local budget. We are worth fighting for. Whether you're a DC resident or acting in solidarity with the people of DC, we have everything you need to tell the Senate VOTE NO on cloture and VOTE NO on the CR: bit.ly/dcs-budget 🎥: @survive.show

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Words fail me. What a betrayal of Ukraine and the entire democratic world. What a gift to Putin and despots everywhere. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Live updates: Trump administration to pause deliveries of military assistance to Ukraine, officials say

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is just so disgusting. www.ft.com/content/7380...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/02/2025

"the assumption that a cease-fire will end Russia’s primary threat to Ukrainians misunderstands the nature of the conflict" From Nataliya Gumenyuk. A warning www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti...

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Putin’s Ukraine

The end of war and the price of Russian occupation.

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ClujCavalier @clujcavalier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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ClujCavalier @clujcavalier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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ClujCavalier @clujcavalier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Bought 66,000 metric tons of crops from American farmers and shipped them overseas to feed 8 million people on the brink of famine youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

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ClujCavalier @clujcavalier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).

For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.

Thank you for your service”

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John Lyndon @johnlyndon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

USAID= .5% of fed budget. Americans spend more on bubblegum than on aid. ROI in terms of power projection, soft power & institution shaping— never mind lives saved/societies rebuilt— makes it one of smartest things US does. Its why China, despite flat growth, will now increase aid budget. Just watch

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Big national media outlet still failing. Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID. *Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves. *Not conveying illegality. *Not communicating constitutional crisis.

Top Officials at Aid Agency Put on Leave After Denying Access to Musk Team

Trump and allies make more moves to wrest control of USAID

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

NEW: The Trump admin told a US-funded aid group that gives food & medicine to starving children in Sudan to shut down. Children would die. They’re defying the order. But the aid world is in chaos. Brett Murphy & Anna Barry-Jester: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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JS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Lest I repeat myself: www.usaidstopwork.com

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USAIDStopWork

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ClujCavalier @clujcavalier.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Please share with your networks! www.usaidstopwork.com

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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 10/01/2025

This is exciting and long overdue — DDOT is studying protected bike lanes on Lincoln Rd NE from V St to 4th St. I wrote then CM McDuffie about the need for these in 2020. Hope they happen. #bikedc @cmzparker5.bsky.social

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am publicly and admittedly wrestling with how to cover Trump given how over the top some of the plans are that they have discussed. This was my best stab at it yesterday. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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Off The Rails And Off To The Races

President Trump has created a massive gulf in America. No, I am not talking about the half baked promise “to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America” that Trump announced in…

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We are facing a moment when much will change for the worse, not just in policy, but in the structure of politics itself. We need to be imagining a better America. A Shadow Cabinet would be a positive form of opposition. snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cab...

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Shadow Cabinet

A Positive Form of Opposition

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/01/2025

Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The New Rasputins

Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

“…the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” People cite this essay for its central idea, but it’s also damn good writing.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.

Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938. (Photo by AP).

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Doug Klain @dougklain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Nobody in their right mind wants a third world war. So let's not bring it about by abandoning the people who are holding it back.” @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been on fire as of late. His latest 👇

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A Third World War?

Let's help those who are holding it back

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...

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A Third World War?

Let's help those who are holding it back

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...

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