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NPR @npr.org · 25/04/2025
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
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Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 25/04/2025
At last, the Stable Genius admits his tariffs will be paid by American consumers: “you add that to the price of the product,” he says. “Duh,” as my kids used to say.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/04/2025
A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, gave $10 million to nonprofit political committees that helped the governor defeat a ballot measure.
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Why Did a Charity Tied to Casey DeSantis Suddenly Get a $10 Million Boost?
The Hope Florida Foundation quietly gave the money to two nonprofit political committees that helped Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies defeat a ballot measure.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is so alarming.
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RFK Jr. Sparks Outrage After Announcing 'Disease Registry' To Track Autistic Americans
Incredibly alarming.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
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House oversight committee demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/04/2025
Donald Trump and his unelected billionaire co-president are going after people’s Social Security — money they’ve paid in over a lifetime of hard work. Let’s talk about what’s going on and how we're fighting back.
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What’s going on with Social Security — and how we're fighting back.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 22/04/2025
Hey, DOGE Bros -- The fraud you claim to be looking for is happening in your own GOP playground.
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DeSantis diverted $10M of Medicaid cash to wife's charity: report
A newly revealed document shows Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration diverted $10 million in Medicaid dollars to a charity controlled by his wife.Lawyers working with the state drafted a settlement agree...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The most concerning part about the DOGE / NLRB story is that the whistleblower claims a login attempt using VALID DOGE credentials was made from Russia shortly after DOGE started moving data.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Now it’s Wendy Brito. New Orleans mother taken by ICE. Wife, mother, school volunteer. Legal resident. No charges. No criminal record. No explanation. Routine ICE check-in & she never came home. 3 weeks detained. No reason given. No answers. This is not due process. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Westbank mother doesn’t return home after routine ICE check-in
Kremly Marrero says that she’s detained over 100 miles away
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2025
NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.
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Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.” He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“Terrible things
are happening outside.
Poor helpless people
are being dragged out
of their homes. Families
are torn apart … children
come home from school
to find that their parents
have disappeared.”

Anne Frank, 1943
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/04/2025
Yet another security breach that put American troops and lives at risk. Pete Hegseth has no business serving as Defense Secretary. Donald Trump must fire him.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/04/2025
Back in January, I reported on DOGE entering an agency system, exporting the data, OPM server info left open to the public, and someone signing in from a foreign country using a DOGE account. Almost identical to what the Whistleblower reported to NPR this week www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
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A Fork in the Road: Is Federal Employee Privacy Compromised?
In this interview, I speak to a systems security specialist who found privacy problems surrounding the HR@opm.gov email servers
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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2
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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
1/ I never took DHS's scary-sounding notice that I had 7 days to leave the country too seriously, because it was obviously some kind of mistake. But what about the people the emails were actually aimed at? Let's talk a bit about immigration "parole" and what Trump is doing here
Email from DHS to unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni
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MS NOW Reports @msnowreports.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
‘The federal government will find you’ Immigration attorney Nicole Micheroni, a U.S. citizen born and raised in Massachusetts, was told to “immediately” self-deport last week in a DHS email that was mistakenly sent to her. Micheroni joins Chris Jansing to share more. www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
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‘The federal government will find you’: DHS mistakenly tells U.S.-born woman to leave country
Immigration attorney Nicole Micheroni, a U.S. citizen born and raised in Massachusetts, was told to “immediately” self-deport from the United States last week in a DHS email that was mistakenly sent t...
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crosskeys72.bsky.social @crosskeys72.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Small businesses trying to maneuver these untenable economic policies
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Johns Hopkins University @jhu.edu · 16/04/2025
Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
An image with a prescription pill bottle. Text on the image reads: 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through NIH
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Doctors for America @drsforamerica.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
RFK Jr.’s failure to endorse evidence-based medicine amidst a growing measles outbreak should immediately disqualify him from continuing to lead this Agency. Furthermore, he has used his position to advance misinformation and dismantle public health services. doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...
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Statement - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Unfit to Serve as HHS Secretary
STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. DFA General -
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/04/2025
Senator Chuck Grassley faces pushback from frustrated constituents at a town hall in Lee County, Iowa who pressed him about Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland father of three who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/04/2025
“They are living in a self-created delusion.” Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, talks with David Remnick about his Republican colleagues and how they enable Donald Trump’s actions because they are “deeply scared of him.”
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We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy
Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 15/04/2025
Teacher ‘rubber room’ hearings called off by Philadelphia City Council after officials cite progress www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2025…
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Why the Philly City Council called off hearings on the ‘rubber room’ for teachers
Superintendent Tony Watlington said the district has cleared up a huge share of backlogged cases of alleged teacher misconduct and made other improvements. It’s unclear how many Philadelphia teachers are in the rubber room.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/04/2025
JUST IN: The judge presiding over the case of the Maryland man who was deported by the U.S. government to a prison in El Salvador is weighing contempt proceedings against the Trump administration.
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Judge in Abrego Garcia case indicates she's weighing contempt proceedings against Trump administration
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis also ordered the administration to provide evidence about what steps it's taken — or hasn't taken — to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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crosskeys72.bsky.social @crosskeys72.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Business are highly concerned about potential for economic downturn
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 15/04/2025
37 Johns Hopkins students had visas revoked in nationwide crackdown
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Over 30 Johns Hopkins students had visas revoked in nationwide crackdown
The Johns Hopkins University revealed on Tuesday that 37 graduate students and recent graduates have been impacted by the federal government’s nationwide barrage of visa revocations.
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 15/04/2025
💉MedSky💉 A two-day meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which was originally scheduled for February but was postponed by new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is underway today in Atlanta and will conclude with panel votes on several vaccines on Wednesday afternoon.
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After delay, first CDC vaccine panel under RFK Jr. meets to hash out recommendations
A two-day meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which was originally scheduled for February but was
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 15/04/2025
You've been averaging a rate of *50 calls a minute* all day today on 5 Calls to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home and stop Trump’s plan to traffic civilians to a foreign gulag. ✊📞🔥
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Darlena Cunha @darlenacunha.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Gainesville's Hand Off Social Security protest today. #handsoff One small thing
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Judge Xinis is set to haul the government in front of her bench over the next two weeks and make them explain under oath what they're doing. I know the timeline seems awful given that Kilmar remains locked up. But this is not a case where she can just order him brought back tomorrow, given Bukele.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Out of court. Fascinating to see Judge Xinis in action. My read is that she’s FAST losing patience with the defendants, and skeptical that they will comply with her orders in “good faith” (a phrase she used many times, pointedly). She’ll keep trying, but now she’s building a record for contempt.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
DOJ's Ensign giving away store in Abrego Garcia hearing.⤵️ He seems to be admitting here diplomatic efforts with El Salvador are within four corners of Judge Xinis's order (per Supreme Court ruling) and fair for court to ask about them. Removes barriers to compliance and, if no compliance, contempt
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
HAPPENING SOON: At the courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., a sizeable protest has gathered in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Judge Xinis is set to take the bench at 4. She was right on time Friday (as opposed to some judges who are chronically late)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 15/04/2025
The government continues to cancel grants and funding for non-profits for entirely political purposes.  This will not save taxpayers’ money, but will put the ideals of liberty and justice for all further out of reach.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Exactly how it's done.
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Obama Praises Harvard For Refusing To Cave To Trump Administration's Demands
That's how it's done.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Millions fewer tourists are visiting the US under Trump, according to new data. This could cost the economy nearly $90 billion this year.
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US Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk ...
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Pay attention #America
"The people who told you to calm down about Roe v. Wade are the SAME people telling you to calm down about Donald Trump DISAPPEARING American citizens into foreign slave-labor gulags, in case you hadn't noticed!"
— JEFF TIEDRICH

OCCUPY DEMOCRATS
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Congressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 14/04/2025
Seems like now's as good a time as ever to re-up this.
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