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David Floren

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Fighting good fights like John Lewis. Currently reading Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris & Andrew Weissmann's Liar's Kingdom. 🎷🎹⚖️🇺🇸🔬🔭🇺🇦🍉

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Kennedy Center ordered to pay Chuck Redd $250K for attorneys’ fees and costs after they sued him over canceled gig which was in protest of renaming the center after Trump.
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Kennedy Center ordered to pay Chuck Redd $250K over canceled gig
Jazz musician Chuck Redd prevailed in court months after the Kennedy Center sued him for breach of contract over a canceled Christmas Eve performance.
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
music.youtube.com/watch?v=8iA9... Uplifting opening movement. Provides batteryless power for ongoing gladness.
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Nikolai Medtner - Sonata-Idylle, Op. 56 [with score]
YouTube video by music boi's score-videos
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Patel Said to Have Fired Five F.B.I. Analysts Over Memo on Catholic Extremists
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/05/2026
That's why I'm easy I'm easy like ditching MAGA variety.com/2026/music/n...
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The Commodores Become Latest Act to Ditch ‘Freedom 250’ Concerts in D.C. After Backlash Over Trump Ties
The Commodores arethe latest act to drop out of the 'Freedom 250' shows in D.C., due to backlash about Trump ties, following Morris Day and Young MC.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
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US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/05/2026
BREAKING: Wholesale prices jump 6% as energy prices soar, raising pressure on U.S. companies to pass along costs to consumers.
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Producer prices shot up 6%, adding to pressure on companies to raise prices for customers
U.S. wholesale inflation came in hot last month. Producer prices rose 6% from a year earlier, most since December 2022, as the 10-week Iran war pushed up energy prices and put pressure on companies to pass along higher costs to consumers.
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is Mike Waltz' new argument that a girl's school is now considered "co-mingled infrastructure that powers the Iran military" b/c it's w/in a certain number of miles of a military base & could never constitute a war crime. Don't you just love having these guys on our team? He asks sarcastically.
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b... As the White House continues to use the wholly deceptive (and demeaning) pretext of "national security" to advance policies and programs that have absolutely nothing to do with national security, this article from Adam Kushner (the "good" Kushner) remains apt.
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Can Trump Just Do Whatever He Wants by Declaring Emergencies?
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm a little worried about today's New York times article about the Trump administration attempting to round up all of the names of the Jews at institutions of higher learning. The Trump administration installed someone at Dept Transportation to set up train schedules? Someone named Eichmann?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
So good
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
www.reddit.com/r/law/s/BmNM...
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From the law community on Reddit: Full video of today when Ro Khanna revealed Epstein associate's names on the floor of the US House of Representatives, protected by the Speech and Debate Clause
Explore this post and more from the law community
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
At a time when ice seems to be the villain, why isn't anyone but a panel of academic experts paying any attention of this fact about CBP?
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If we don't oppose the cold blooded first degree murders that are beginning to be committed almost on the daily by malevolent jerks who soil the name of ICE by wearing ICE uniforms and engaging in homicidal maniacal will-to-murder malevolence, this scene will be you soon... youtu.be/2LaoamJ3vbs?...
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Jallianwala Bagh massacre (movie gandhi)
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This, from the man who systematically discriminates against black lessors at his residential real properties. From the guy who paid for a full page ad in 4 major New York dailies calling for death penalty for the Central Park 5, BEFORE TRIAL BEGAN (an unrelated man later confessed to the crime).
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I've talked to Minneapolis DA Mary Moriarty several times, including a few months ago. Former public defender with no qualms about charging abusive cops. She has also been threatened by the Trump administration, is not seeking reelection, and doesn't back down. Shit's about to get real.
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
In human history, no one person has blended moral and intellectual inconsistency more successfully with narcissistic personality disorder than our current sitting president. And deciding that nothing can be done to end his reign of terror is to commit a form of unnecessary suicide.
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cdpositive @cdpositive.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Works for me. bsky.app/profile/cdpo...
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
substack.com/@broadwaybab... It's not a hard decision to make.
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Erika Kirk is getting an entire prime time Town Hall on CBS to discuss faith, grief and loss. The 4 children who died last weekend in the Stockton shooting won’t get a mention. The hundreds of oth...
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The Unitary Executive folks are more than historical revisionists. They're consciously active in destroying history and shamelessly allowing (encouraging even) sloppy authoritarian propaganda to not just leak into BUT REPLACE careful, rigorous analysis of fact and law, even in courts of law!
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u... Interesting contrast btwn the countless Trump pardons handed out to many top conmen whose many billions of dollars of theft was proven in court (collectively signalling a declaration that fraud is no longer prosecutable) & his knee-jerk eff off stance re immigrants.
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How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Trump says he’ll pardon a former Honduras leader convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. A U.S. prosecutor said Juan Orlando Hernández “paved a cocaine superhighway to the U.S.” More evidence that Trump’s threats against Venezuela have nothing to do with drugs.
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Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Kash Patel’s girlfriend suggests that Sen. Mark Kelly’s video is responsible for the shooting of National Guard troops in DC.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 24/11/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2025
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/11/2025
Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The style mavens at YSL seem to have picked their winners in the autocracy v democracy fight. Judging by this YSL ad in today's WaPo, the fascist brutality of Darth Vader's black leather wardrobe is the new "be yourself" individuality.
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
He's just not that into you.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨 Elise Stefanik received this award from her allies involved in the racist text messaging scandal. Elise posed with Bobby Walker who referred to rape as “epic” and Peter Giunta who texted, “I love Hitler,” called NBA games, “monkey …ball” and Black people “watermelon people.”
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JB @jjtb4v.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable." President John F Kennedy
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Needs more cowbell.
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Doug5301 👊 @doug5301.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Someone should read this document you speak of.
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Doug5301 👊 @doug5301.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
He should be subpoenaed by the house for hearing about Epstein‘s blackmailing
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Doug5301 👊 @doug5301.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Every Republican accusation is a confession
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
In case you missed it: an essential piece from Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò from earlier this week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Doug5301 👊 @doug5301.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
No unsurprisingly it did not.
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Senator Hawley grandstands as a concerned public servant worried about how AI might harm children, including sexually. All this while Hawley bends heaven & earth to support the near-elimination of the entire highly trained DOJ team working on active anti child sex-trafficking cases.
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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I emailed. Don't be silent 𝐅𝐂𝐂 +1 888 225 5322 campaignlaw@fcc.gov mediarelations@fcc.gov Remind Carr of his own words.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
They know what they’re doing.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The Justice Department has removed a study from its website which found that "the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”, CNN reports.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Nat Sec czar Tulsi Gabbard sounds like a pro-theocracy Iranian ayatollah these days, accusing Jen Psaki of being an "agent of darkness and hatred" & "the light of God’s love is a threat to [her] dark ambitions" in response to Jen's claim that GOP "hopes & prayers" doesn't prevent school shootings.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The Bolton raid is about fear. Cross Trump at your peril. The biggest love in his life is revenge.
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David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Fox is at it again. This time, elevating mere accusations to the status of proven fact, using phrases like "spate of high-profile killings" and "a crime wave ... that has persisted since the 2020 era" to artificially dramatize what is actually a low crime rate. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 01/08/2025
Smithsonian's American History museum does a White House "content review" then rewrites history, removing Trump's impeachments. A spokesperson says "it became clear that the ‘Limits of Presidential Power’ section ... needed to be addressed" wapo.st/3HhfyxU @janaykingsberry.bsky.social
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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