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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I've now completed 30% of my masters program. At this pace it will take me another 2.5 years to finish. I honestly thought I'd progress more quickly, but I'm really struggling to keep up. Still maintaining a 4.0 though. So I'll just celebrate before the next class starts - Psychology of Leadership.
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giuliano51.bsky.social @giuliano51.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
As I read this article the word contradiction comes to mind.Trump preaching less government regulation for corporations yet seizing control Claiming to make our streets safer yet he pardoned all the 1/6 criminals and he is protecting a pedophile and is using the military against civilians
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
August 4, 2025
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August 4, 2025
President Donald J.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
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Tell Congress: Unmask ICE!
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are re...
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
We’re not just approaching authoritarianism in the U.S...we’re in it now. Trump’s power grabs (mid-decade redistricting, DOJ weaponization, court-packing, civil liberty rollbacks) are the hallmarks of competitive authoritarianism...democracy in name, but ruled by force and manipulation.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
August 1, 2025
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August 1, 2025
Economists have been expressing concern about the accuracy of economic statistics coming out of the Trump administration for months.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...
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170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg
DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
July 25, 2025
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July 25, 2025
“We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Ben Meiselas @meiselasb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
they literally shut the government down in order to avoid the truth about Epstein. an entire branch of government isn’t working for the American people b/c they are terrified of the truth.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
July 18, 2025
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July 18, 2025
[There is a lot about sexual assault in tonight’s letter.]
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
They still sound just like this!
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hehe...love this headline. MAGA Republican Falsely Claims They’re Not Trump’s “Little Bitches” newrepublic.com/post/197561/... via @newrepublic.com
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MAGA Republican Falsely Claims They’re Not Trump’s “Little Bitches”
Representative Derrick Van Orden was defending his vote for Trump’s disastrous budget, which is expected to decimate his state.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
May 31, 2025
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May 31, 2025
“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Received my first graded paper in my graduate program. No promises for the future...but at this moment, I have a 4.0 in grad school.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Last week, Trump claimed that he had already cut deals with 200 nations around the world—five more countries than actually exist.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Can we develop a Project 5202 to reverse the damage?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
April 25, 2025
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April 25, 2025
Today’s major stories must be seen in the context of President Donald Trump’s dramatic losses in court and his plummeting poll numbers.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
They're flooding us with crises to fracture our focus. But pluralism isn't our weakness...it’s our power. If we don’t stand together now, we'll lose the right to stand at all.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
April 20, 2025
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April 20, 2025
Yesterday, on the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Americans across the country protested against President Donald J.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
April 17, 2025
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April 17, 2025
Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
April 15, 2025
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April 15, 2025
A large crowd of protesters calling for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration sent to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador, milled around the courthouse ...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Important.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
April 9, 2025
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April 9, 2025 (Wednesday)
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just wanted to introduce my best friend, Luna.
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WORLDNETWORK @worldnetwork.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Rare devil sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/04/2025
💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
State media.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
April 2, 2025
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April 2, 2025 (Wednesday)
Just five months ago, on October 19, 2024, The Economist ran a special report on America’s economy.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
April 1, 2025
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April 1, 2025
Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW — This AM former HHS staffers confronted Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) about slashing budgets and staff, per video shared with me by Mack Schroeder, a former Budget Analyst for the Office of the Secretary.  Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Starting my Masters Degree program in 1 week.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
March 27, 2025
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March 27, 2025
Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on ...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
March 25, 2025
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March 25, 2025
On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engines and screams.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
USAID is part of the federal government and directly controlled by the administration. USIP is an independent, congressionally chartered organization, meant to operate outside executive control. The takeover of USIP violates USIP’s independent status.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
John Roberts made Trump’s authoritarianism possible. He could still save his own legacy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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John Roberts made Trump’s authoritarianism possible. He could still save his own legacy | Steven Greenhouse
The supreme court judge has emboldened and enabled Trump, but the president’s second term must surely have him worried
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
March 18, 2025
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March 18, 2025
On Saturday, U.S.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump Border Czar Says He’ll Ignore the Courts as Much as He Wants newrepublic.com/post/192826/...
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Trump Border Czar Says He’ll Ignore the Courts as Much as He Wants
Tom Homan is openly bragging about ignoring the courts on deportations.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
March 15, 2025:
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March 15, 2025
March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This. Shout this from the rooftops. Add in the propaganda that tricks voters into thinking this is the American way and you’ve got the MAGA playbook.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Republicans just passed a measure, “each day shall not constitute a calendar day”. Their legislation that a day is not a day seems to prove the truth of Burke’s observation that by trying to force reality to fit their ideology, radical ideologues will end up imposing tyranny in the name of liberty.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I don't know if the Democrats in the House and Senate have the ability to stop the GOP, but any Democrat who votes for anything the GOP puts forth at this time is a traitor to our country. Every Democratic Senator must use every Senate procedural maneuver available to stop this madness.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
March 11, 2025:
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The stock market continued to fall today.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I been checking out Scoopz and that's a bit of a right-wing gathering place. Someone claiming to be from California actually commented, "They say he's trying to be a dictator. I'd rather have a dictator than the hell we've been through the last 4 years with Biden!" And you know what? I believe them.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
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The Stone Ladder @daparvize.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A different set of laws for him and his friends. Trump DOJ Befools Itself Over Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Trump DOJ Befools Itself Over Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...
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