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Rennie @crwaxlax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is Rennie's wife. He passed away recently and I know he had a number of friends here and I wanted to let everyone know. He was a great guy and I very much miss him.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

They defunded schools at the same time they rolled back child labor laws…

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The trouble with tarrifs

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/04/2025

SpaceX gets up to $5.9 billion in new DOD launch contracts...more than it's competitors, United Launch alliance and Blue Origin.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

JD Vance claims that 40% of the people calling the Social Security system are “actually committing fraud.” This is a preposterous and baseless lie.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/04/2025

THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I went table to table in a Vero Beach Waffle House asking retirees how the market crash has impacted them. Most laughed with satisfaction, explaining that they’d long ago sold their stocks to invest in $TRUMP coin, $MELANIA coin, and limited edition MyPillows.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

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April 3, 2025
Dr. Joseph Rezek
Dear NEH Grantee,
This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement.
Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant
Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340.
For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/04/2025

PUT THIS ON BLAST: Trump’s tariffs just pushed the risk of a U.S. and global recession this year up to 60%—up from 40%, according to J.P. Morgan. THATS NOT ALL: The White House made up the numbers—Trump Math 🤡

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

These greedy individuals went for wool and came out shorn. Karma works in strange ways...

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Kamala Harris warned us many times that we would have a recession by the middle of the year…

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/04/2025

Trump circumvented Congress on tariffs by declaring a Fentanyl emergency. A handful of Republicans in Congress can stop the tariffs by joining with Democrats. Call your electeds and tell them.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“A federal judge gave the Trump administration until the end of Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who was inadvertently deported to El Salvador last month despite a court order allowing him stay in the country.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Trump Extends TikTok Deadline by 75 Days: Live Updates (Gift Article)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Trump says he’ll use revenue from tariffs to “offset” more big tax cuts. Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations. But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people. See how this works?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Stay away from whatever this man is taking

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Newsom: The world we’ve come to know—and some of us revere and love. The country. All of that is now at risk because of the recklessness—and there’s no other way to describe it—of one individual: the President of the United States.

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Rteefact @rteefact.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history as market loses $11 trillion since Inauguration Day www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-st...

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U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history in wake of Trump’s tariffs

Stocks erased a combined $6.6 trillion in value on Thursday and Friday.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Regressive tax hike on everything you buy plus tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy plus increased deficits plus slashing cuts to all public services and the social safety net... this is a very bad combination.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

BILL BURR: “You journalists need to get your balls back.” @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#TrumpCrash hit a historic mark. It is only the fourth time in history that the DOW has lost 2,000 points in a single day - and that follows a huge drop yesterday, too. The DOW is down nearly 4,000 since the #TrumpTariffs were announced on Weds night. #Trumponomics

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

While doing some research, I stumbled across this great listing of YA books on Japanese internment in WWII, which feels like good reading for today's kids, so, I'm sharing. densho.org/catalyst/you...

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Dive into These YA Books on the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

Here are some new and classic books on Japanese American incarceration during WWII for young adult readers.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

HOLY SHIT. DOW CLOSES WITH 4TH WORST DAY IN ITS HISTORY. 4000 PTS DROP IN TWO DAYS. $6 TRILLION GONE IN 48 HOURS

Screenshot of CNBC showing the Dow down 2265 points. The ticket says the 4th largest drop un Dow history

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Texas measles outbreak update today, up 14% since Tuesday (actual cases likely 4-5X reported) And further spreading in New Mexico and multiple other states throughout the US.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

* NASDAQ 100 SET TO ENTER BEAR MARKET AFTER FALLING 20% FROM PEAK @reuters.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Insurrection Act gives the president an exception to the prohibtion against using the military to enforce laws (& arrest protesting citizens). Learn more here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-insurr...

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The Insurrection Act

Can Trump shut down protests using the military under the Insurrection Act? What would it take? The answer is complicated, but as more and more protests take place, understanding that legal terrain ha...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/04/2025

NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race. Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.” From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

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Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy'

Read more here.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Stay woke, people. And go listen to We All Scream, now out in audio form! Listen here: hypeddit.com/pattonoswalt...

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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is complete madness......

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My three-yea-old was watching CNBC when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the nice orange man want to put tariffs on the penguins?" And when I told her "Because penguins are globalist shitlibs who steal American manufacturing jobs with unfair trade practices," she started crying.

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Jerrad Christian @jerradchristian.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

What an arrogant ass. What a disgrace. Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.” #UnitedStates #Senate

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I don’t even think I’m exaggerating to say that if a Democratic president tanked the stock market, bragged about doing it intentionally, and then went golfing for the weekend, a mob would lynch them on the golf course.

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k. radke @kradke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

‚Good night, and Good Luck‘ George Clooney makes his Broadway debut ‚with a well-timed warning about the threat of McCarthyism.‘ The play opened April 3 at the Winter Garden Theatre New York. Play youtu.be/U8bGvf3ODrk (1/2)

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GEORGE CLOONEY IN GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK ON BROADWAY

YouTube video by Good Night and Good Luck Play

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney 🇨🇦 - We will make no compromises on supply management, culture, or the French language. Full stop. #cdnpoli

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Republicans’ proposed tax cuts — predominantly benefiting the rich — will now cost $5.5 trillion over the decade according to new CBO estimates. Previous estimates were were tagged at $4.6T, but Republicans added in even more tax cuts. They really can't help themselves.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Jeffries: He somehow sold himself to significant numbers of Americans as a businessman—but he’s a failed businessman, having bankrupted multiple companies. And now Donald Trump is trying to literally bankrupt America.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ontario ordered all businesses to stop selling American products. Annual US alcohol sales in Ontario amount to $965 million. New Brunswick and Quebec have also imposed restrictions, removing all American brands from their shelves.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Harmful non-strategic tariffs. Reckless use of group chats and personal Gmail accounts. Incorrect deportations blamed on “administrative error.” Mass firings of health and safety personnel. Cuts to Medicare and SNAP. Soaring prices. The American people did not sign up for this.

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NPR @npr.org · 04/04/2025

The U.S. now has more than 600 measles cases in 22 states, most are in Texas. People usually recover, but doctors are stressing how dangerous and long-lasting the disease can be.

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Measles remains a danger to health even years after an infection

The U.S. now has more than 600 measles cases in 22 states, most are in Texas. People usually recover, but doctors are stressing how dangerous and long-lasting the disease can be.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

it would sound insane to tell someone that the president tanked the economy, fired a bunch of his national security staff because a woman who once chained herself to twitter he told him to, and then fucked off to florida for a saudi sports washing tournament at his golf club but here we are

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The President is crashing the economy while dismantling the social safety net to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The devastation his policies are causing will harm every American. Congress must act to stop this.

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