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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Critical piece: destroying civilian govt. and now replacing it with a police state. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Welcome to the nihilocracy
Trump is blowing up essential functions in ways that might take decades or longer to restore. It is nihilistic and deserves a new name.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is a pretty important point!
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: we won vs. DOGE--again This time it is for mishandling of personal data at the on MILLIONS of current & former federal employees Preliminary injunction entered! Kudos to my @democracydefendersaction.org colleagues and the wonderful team listed below 👇
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Fantastic
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This language--"L.A. Immigration Protests and the Federal Response"--suggests that it was "immigration protests" that set off a "federal response." But this gets it backward: at every turn, the Trump administration has been the aggressor and the instigator. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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L.A. Protests Timeline: How Immigration Raids and Federal Response Unfolded
President Trump called in the National Guard on Saturday after isolated clashes between federal law enforcement and people protesting immigration raids.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Don’t forget Trump plotted this before the election: “the bigger problem is the enemy from within…We have some sick people, radical left lunatics… it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.” www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-want...
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Trump Wanted This Escalation
Trump's calling for 2,000 National Guard soldiers to spread fear and crack down on dissent. This is a time for non-violent defiance.
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Amen
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/06/2025
"When conservatives destroy these public goods, it doesn’t necessarily lead to a Democratic backlash at the ballot box, and they see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated."
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Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age"
"They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
When it's too late, all the establishment and corporate bootlickers will realize no matter how much you try to placate MAGA, it's never enough. It's a fascist movement that doesn't care about rules or reciprocity. It's about gaining power by any means necessary. It's all projection all the time.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Weird how he didn’t call up the National Guard on January 6th.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A spectacular indictment of Medicaid work requirements by 2 lawyers who saw the impact up close and won a lawsuit to kill them in Arkansas. Every single member of Congress should read it. And everyone else should read it and call their member of Congress. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
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Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Keep the pressure on the very few republicans who know none of this is okay
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Dave Underwood @oblivionwithbells.com · 08/06/2025
‘The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth’ - 1984 by George Orwell
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"During a Senate hearing, Kennedy told Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester that Matthew Buzzelli is the CDC's acting director. Kennedy called Buzzelli a public health expert. Buzzelli's biography on the CDC website lists no public health experience..." www.axios.com/2025/06/05/c...
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Questions swirl over who's running the CDC
Almost six months into Trump's administration, the agency has no public health official or designated point person at the helm.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Pity the nation that raises not its voice Except to praise conquerors And acclaim the bully as hero And aims to rule the world By force and by torture Pity the nation that knows No other language but its own And no other culture but its own
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
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DatNoFact @datnofact.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
America has to one of the only countries in the world that will try to turn a story about crippling medical debt into a feel-good story.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Contrary to claims made by its proponents, the mass deportations' components of the Big Beautiful Bill will not improve its CBO score. Indeed, it will make it much worse. Accounting for lost net revenue from immigrants adds nearly $1 trillion in additional cost.
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Some of the largest Trump cuts compared to FY 2025 include a 55% reduction at EPA & 56% decrease for the National Science Foundation. It’s sacrificing the planet for political gain. Climate change doesn’t just harm the earth, it harms our health. www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
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Opinion: Trump’s agenda proves to reverse course for planet, not taking climate crisis seriously
The climate crisis is real. Additional warming has effects on health and possibly irreversible changes to the Earth. Data doesn’t support Trump’s hoax claims.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
They said they wanted cheaper eggs, but now they’re losing their weather service, disaster relief, food assistance and health insurance in exchange for a birthday parade, a bro-fight and a ballroom.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
81 years ago, today, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, a brave blow against fascism. I wrote about visiting not the US or UK cemetery in Normandy, but the German one--seeing the senseless costs of war created by authoritarian despots who destroy countless lives for their own vanity.
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A Tale of Two D-Day Cemeteries
Reflections, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, on my recent trip to the American — and German — military cemeteries in Normandy.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Are we clear now a private businessman shouldn’t be in a position to control the space program—that this richest man in the world fueled by drugs, ego & hate shouldn’t be partnering with a malignant sociopath in the WH immunized by the SCOTUS & bent on pocketing billions & flouting the Constitution?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2025
Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."
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Politico @politico.com · 05/06/2025
Trump announced a travel ban yesterday, which can be “painted as a response” to the terror incident in Colorado over the weekend, Adam Wren says. But none of the countries include Egypt — where the suspect is from. We dig deeper into Trump’s messaging on #playbookpod: ow.ly/t3Lm50W4HbV
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Once a TV huckster, always a TV huckster. These aren't "audiences." They're people. The reason these folks didn't go on the exchanges in the first place is because they don't make enough money. Oh, and they're cutting the ACA subsidies too so even more people will lose insurance.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/06/2025
WaPo: The Trump administration has rescinded Biden-era guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions when necessary to protect patients whose health is in jeopardy.
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Trump administration ends emergency abortion requirement for hospitals
The Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era policy requiring hospitals to perform emergency abortions regardless of state abortion laws.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 04/06/2025
The Big Beautiful Betrayal will increase the debt by trillions of dollars. Congressional Republicans want to stick our kids and grandkids with this bill—and raise interest rates for all Americans—to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The US Institute of Peace is alive! Fascinating @joshtpm.bsky.social reporting on what it takes to revive an agency that was left for dead. The broader lesson: rebuilding won’t be easy. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-u...
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The US Institute of Peace Digs Out of Under DOGE’s Weed Stash and Tries to Rebuild
If you’ll remember, back in March we ran a number of stories...
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
If this is “par for the course,” then the course is on fire and the caddies are throwing flaming golf balls at the clubhouse while the flag waves over a sand trap full of unpaid medical bills. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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When Does All The “Winning” Start Again?
Because so far, I’m just embarrassed, angry & afraid.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Remember “pioneering Americans who’ve…pursued justice and sought to create a better life for us all. They remind us what we’re fighting for in the face of Trump cultists who imagine white nationalist rule won’t make us poorer, uglier and increasingly irrelevant.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Snapshot: Trashing the Legacy of Courageous Achievement
By plans to rename ships, Trump's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is seeking the erasure of brave Americans like Harvey Milk, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall and Medgar Evans
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The FEMA head didn’t know about hurricane season and they’ve gutted NOAA weather monitoring. Musk and RFK eviscerated our public health programs. The FAA is in shambles. Trump’s tariff reckoning is coming due. And the DHS head of counterterrorism is a 22-year-old bro. This summer is going to ROCK!
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Bill Walter @billwalter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Katie Couric discusses the rule of law death blow hidden in the big dystopian nightmare bill.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Kennedy and MAHA are a disaster for America ... critical to keep an eye on this open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Kennedy and MAHA are a disaster for America
Anti-science theories are now jeopardizing the core health and science missions of Health and Human Services.
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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The experiment in doing away with meritocracy & just putting random white men in all the important roles is going swimmingly
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The GOP is lying about Medicaid cuts: Neera Tanden on the horrors of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill .. "If you have something terrible to sell and you really can't sell it, you lie." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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The GOP is lying about Medicaid cuts: Neera Tanden on the horrors of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
"The facts are that millions of people will lose healthcare because they take almost a trillion dollars out of the Medicaid program"
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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 03/06/2025
Republicans aren’t being honest to you. Here's the truth. Republicans want to gut healthcare for millions of Americans to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations on the way to increasing the nation's deficit by an estimated $3 trillion. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...
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Trump and Allies Sell Domestic Policy Bill With Falsehoods
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thefirstlevel.bsky.social @thefirstlevel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@maxboot.bsky.social: Even as Trump wants to showcase U.S. military power, he is doing grave and possibly irreparable damage to the real sources of U.S. strength...Trump is declaring war on science, and the casualty will be the U.S. economy. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower
The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
An epidemiologist at Columbia said the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is fake. The paper itself does not exist. Fake scientific papers used by the government to influence policy is fascism.
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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bakedtarot.bsky.social @bakedtarot.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
You should read this. #NoKings
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy…must be exposed; and its crimes against God & man must be proclaimed & denounced.” —Frederick Douglass, 1852 www.americaamerica.news/p/free-to-be...
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Free to Be Their Worst Selves
Trump and his cruel regime are proud to be "not so innocent." The response cannot be tame.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"Maybe it's time for us to be a little bit meaner. Maybe it's time for us to be a little more fierce."
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MrC Careens Haphazardly Through Time & Space @oldmisterc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"The fact that the country has to constantly be in court to fight its own president is really wearying" -- anon
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
While Trump was demeaning Pres. Zelensky in the Oval Office and sneering he has “no cards,” Zelensky was planning a major Russian attack that has successfully damaged or destroyed some 41 aircraft deep inside Russia.
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