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Cindy

@cskpa.bsky.social
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Political junky, retired, love to read with focus on historical fiction WW2 era, nature lover and lover of cats

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚨 We still have something called the First Amendment — not that this motherf*cker in the WH cares. Expect things to get much worse, bc Trump doesn't want any other narrative about midterms except what comes out of "state regime media" orgs. Note what isn't banned... 🧾 nypost.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House ‘effective immediately’ in latest blast at media
The action, which if imposed would spark lawsuits, follows years of more selective discrimination against outlets by both Democratic and Republican administrations, which limited access to events b…
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 04/07/2026
Almost 1 million people lost more than $3.8 billion investing in President Donald Trump's memecoin, the New York Times reported Saturday.
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Trump's 'legal scam' cost 1 million people nearly $4 billion: report
Almost 1 million people lost more than $3.8 billion investing in President Donald Trump's memecoin, the New York Times reported Saturday. Those are the numbers from the cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen, which just issued its report on Trump memecoin losses through the end of June, according to t...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Statistically undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens. Republicans also want you to believe there are many more than there actually are of them. If that were true immigrants would be EXPONENTIALLY more law abiding. Rs don’t want to talk about this.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Pathologist reveals signs of Trump’s 'deterioration' at birthday event #AlterNet
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Pathologist reveals signs of Trump’s 'deterioration' at birthday event
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Leaked documents reveal desperate push for federal agents as rank-and-file buck orders
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Leaked documents reveal desperate push for federal agents as rank-and-file buck orders
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Abolish ICE. Really.
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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Got some time to watch a good movie or binge watch a good television show? Here's a few that will definitely entertain you and may help you understand the world of journalism a little better: open.substack.com/pub/brianjka...
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Six great Journalism movies
And two great binge worthy journalism television shows
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/11/2025
Gov. Pritzker: “Donald Trump doesn't know anything about Chicago…The man is demented. He really has no idea what he's doing.”
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Staggering
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled'
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'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled'
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 09/11/2025
“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.” — recently retired federal judge www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
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Cindy @cskpa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sure hope so!
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Cindy @cskpa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
WOW! This is insanity!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/11/2025
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CNN POLL: TRUMP APPROVAL/DISAPPROVAL AT 37/63
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Me in the @washingtonpost.com, January 22, 2021, arguing that Garland should appoint *multiple* special counsels to investigate Donald Trump:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/10/2025
"I didn't know the president communicated with his cabinet officers via direct messages, but I bet you every intelligence agency worth its salt in the world already knew that." - @gtconway.bsky.social Watch the latest George Explains with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social right now
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating. Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape. Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Really worth reading Adam Serwer’s latest. He makes the point that whether companies like Nexstar/ABC/Disney are “capitulating because of fear or because they see a financial interest in aligning with the administration is ultimately irrelevant.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Constitution Protects Jimmy Kimmel’s Mistake
Free speech is under assault.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Third Reich had an agency called the Reichskulturkammer, "Reich Culture Chamber". All singers, writers, musicians, journalists, and actors had to apply for membership and were ideologically vetted. Expulsion or failure to gain admission resulted in an occupational ban. Jews were not admitted.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Brief thread.👇
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 18/09/2025
What goes around, comes around bitches!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Wrong headline. Shove the headline writer in front of a moving truck you spineless cowards. “Trump threatens to unlawfully strip an American of her citizenship in brazen violation of the Constitution.” That’s your goddamn headline, Politico.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 08/06/2025
When John McCain took the mic away from the woman lying about Obama, and came to Obama’s defense, that was the best of politics.  There is not a single Republican member of Congress who will ‘take the mic’ from Trump.  That’s the worst of American politics.-Glenn Kirschner
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline:

High school graduates in prison

Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"
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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
From the great David Brooks of The New York Times, in the May volume of The Atlantic. Everyone should read every word of this historic piece. It's worth the price of a subscription to The Atlantic, without question the most courageous magazine in America today.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
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Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New, from me: I’ve been writing about the damage done at the federal level, but am also looking for positive examples. Permitting reform in PA is one such case. Rapid and positive change is possible by improving state capacity rather than destroying it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/permitting...
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Permitting Reform in Pennsylvania
Some good news on the nuts and bolts of making government work better
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
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DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
‘We Humiliated This Guy!’ SNL Absolutely Skewers Trump’s Meeting With Zelensky — Complete With Wild Cameo from Mike Myers as Elon Musk: SNL was utterly ruthless in its portrayal of Friday's Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The post…
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‘We Humiliated This Guy!’ SNL Absolutely Skewers Trump’s Meeting With Zelensky — Complete With Wild Cameo from Mike Myers as Elon Musk
SNL was utterly ruthless in its portrayal of Friday's Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The post ‘We Humiliated This Guy!’ SNL Absolutely Skewers Trump’s Meeting With Zelensky — Complete…
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 27/02/2025
You know what kinds of governments police the place names private organizations and individuals use? Authoritarian regimes Dictatorships Fascist regimes Totalitarian states
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/02/2025
News Analysis: In the first month since he returned to power, President Trump has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions.
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Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 23/02/2025
Sign of the day…#DefendDemocracy
You don’t need to be Ukrainian to support Ukraine.  You just need to be human.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where.
A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were overstated and “woke” cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
And yeah, I used "praetorianism" as shorthand (somewhat breezily) for "establishing a palace guard," but whichever term we choose, it is the winnowing of an apolitical military and creation of a personal military force loyal to a single leader. (The actual praetorianism comes later.)
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SpoonFellas#NAFO NC Gen❌🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛 @spoont51.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Everyone knew RFK was lying when he said he wasn't going to come after vaccines, but even I'm surprised at how swiftly he's moving.
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Ben Meiselas @meiselasb.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Trump spent millions in tax payer dollars today for photo ops at the Daytona 500 as storms in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia killed at least 8 people, injured many more, and caused total devastation…Oh yea, Trump wants FEMA abolished. youtu.be/_yqIudpInQM?...
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Trump STUNT in Daytona BACKFIRES as STORMS KILL
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/02/2025
"USAID is worth every penny. I wish I could say the same for the Department of Defense, which spends money on a scale USAID could only dream of, and often with more waste."
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USAID Kept My Troops Safe in Afghanistan
If not for American aid, we would have faced more enemies and won fewer friends.
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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
OK, time to bust another @USAID myth. Stephen Miller said on Fox today that USAID is a rogue slush fund. Trump & Elon have made the same accusation. FALSE. They're either ignorant of how USAID spends money, or willfully lying about it. Or... Anyway, caffeinate and read on. 🧵
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a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
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