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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It's official: US now seen no longer open and free thanks to Trump's "undue restrictions on civic freedoms." The watchdog group says Trump's "Gross abuses of executive power raise serious concerns over the freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression and association" thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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US added to human rights watchlist over Trump moves

The United States has been added to CIVICUS’s monitor list of potential human rights threats due to President Trump’s restrictive executive orders and institutional cutbacks, which are …

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

and another thing:

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's pretty amazing to watch in real time as 78 year old Donald Trump has the realization, for the first time in his life, that national boundaries are historical and social constructions.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

BREAKING: French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine. Their stock has rocketed 390% in the last 3 days as Tesla Starlink SpaceX and X continue their freefall. LMFAO GET FUCKED elonmusk ✨😎✨

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Trump’s allies are all so grotesquely twisted. The South African oligarch in Trump’s orbit knows absolutely nothing about American patriotism and proper allegiances. Sen. Mark Kelly is deeply beloved and honored in this country — whereas Elon Musk is wholly despised. SLAVA UKRAINI FOREVER.

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Alice ❌👑 @a-l-yang.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Our shameful betrayal

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

BREAKING: Trump shuts off intelligence to Ukraine, cutting off data for drones, air attacks, and air defense This is a clear and direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 - in which US gave security guarantee to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up nukes and ships

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Think of all the trouble that would have been saved if opponents of other authoritarian regimes had realised that all you have to do is sync jackets and not clap.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

BREAKING: the U.S. District Court in D.C. has found that Trump’s firing of former NLRB Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox’s firing was unlawful, and ruled that she must be immediately reinstated to serve out the rest of her term as a board member. She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.

Text: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
GWYNNE A. WILCOX,
Plaintiff,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity
as President of the United States
and
MARVIN E. KAPLAN, in his official
capacity as Chairman of the National Labor
Relations Board,
Civil Action No. 25-cv-334
Judge Beryl A. Howell
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 10,
defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 23, the legal memoranda in support
and in opposition, and the entire record herein, for the reasons set forth in the accompanying
Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby--
ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 10, is GRANTED;
it is further
ORDERED that defendants’ motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 23, is DENIED; it
is further DECLARED that the termination of plaintiff Gwynne A. Wilcox was unlawful, in
violation of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 153(a), and therefore null and void; it is further…

DECLARED that plaintiff Gwynne A. Wilcox remains a member of the National Labor
Relations Board (“NLRB”), having been appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate
to a five-year term on September 6, 2023, and she may be removed by the President prior to
expiration of her term only “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in
office, but for no other cause,” pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 153(a); it is further
ORDERED that plaintiff shall continue to serve as a member of the NLRB until her term
expires pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 153(a), unless she is earlier removed “upon notice and hearing,
for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office,
” id.; it is further
ORDERED that defendant Mark Kaplan, as well as his subordinates, agents, and
employees, are ENJOINED, during plaintiff’s term as a member of the NLRB, from removing
plaintiff from her office without cause or in any way treating plaintiff as having been removed
from office, from impeding in any way her ability to fulfill her duties as a member of the NLRB,
and from denying or obstructing her authority or access to any benefits or resources of her office;
it is further
ORDERED that defendant Mark Kaplan and his subordinates, agents, and employees
provide plaintiff with access to the necessary government facilities and equipment so that she
may carry out her duties during her term as a member of the NLRB; and it is further
ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court is directed to close this case.
SO ORDERED.
Date: March 6, 2025
This is a final and appealable order.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It’s an obvious point but apparently we have to keep making it: when Trump weakens Ukraine he created the conditions for a longer and bloodier war.

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Donna A. @donna-nny.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The incessant lying, the "alternate reality" Trump et al. have been manufacturing for years: Probably some of them actually believe what they're saying. But surely not everyone. When pondering this I always return to the question "How do they live with themselves?" It's a sincere question.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Right, so, let’s be clear what’s going on here. A handful of shameless hacks are hoping to cozy up to power by putting an academic gloss on Trump’s crackpot notions. This allows political actors to pretend the plain meaning of the Birthright Citizenship Clause is fiercely contested by legal scholars

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Virtually guaranteeing more loss, suffering, and deaths of Americans. Why would you deconstruct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration? The people who track storms and offer warnings? If not to stoke chaos and invite privatization and authoritarianism?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

That’s right.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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It Was an Ambush

Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

JD Vance can you stick to owning the libs by attacking a "whiny Congressman" like me instead of embarrassing America by losing your cool with world leaders.

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Jodie 🇦🇺 @jodie.sheshed.rocks · 28/02/2025

Trump and Vance Made Russia Great Again today.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 28/02/2025

To review: Putin's intelligence service hacked the DNC email system in '16 to help Trump. In '16, Putin offered Trump a Moscow building development deal. Trump’s '16 campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was in business with a Russian intelligence officer. Those are just the things in the Mueller report.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: I am hearing from multiple sources that Lt General Telita Crosland, Director of the Defense Health Agency, has been pushed out in an on-going purge. Official internal agency news said "retired" but I'm told relieved of duty or at least forced into retirement. www.defense.gov/About/Biogra...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Multiple presidency-ending scandals, for any previous administration, happening daily now, & nothing seems to move the needle. We're a deeply unserious country, with a deeply unserious set of societal institutions.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We need to learn and adapt. Every single Senate Dem vote for Rubio. It got us nothing. "Rollover and play dead" got us nothing. Fight back or lose the democracy. Full stop.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I've been in Washington for 32 years. I have often disagreed with U.S. administrations. But this is the first time in all that time that I believe the U.S. government is an enemy of the people of the United States and our allies.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Agree. He has an audience as well. His countrymen don’t want to see their President groveling before a Putin lackey. Their determination is grounded in their national pride. Zelensky powerfully vindicated that today. To see your President stand up to the two greatest powers in the world? Priceless.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025

my reasonable centrist betters tell me that it is ridiculous to suggest that the trump administration is filled with segregationists but here again they are forcing out a high-ranking, high-preforming black woman for reasons www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

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From the fednews community on Reddit: Our beloved DHA director was just relieved of duty today

Explore this post and more from the fednews community

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Donna A. @donna-nny.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thoughtful assessment of today's high-handed Trump-Vance betrayal of Ukraine and untiring demolition of democracy.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

DOGE has infiltrated the government. It is dismantling services. No one knows what it is. No one knows who’s responsible. It’s secretive & shadowy. It’s undemocratic & unaccountable. And virtually everything it has done has been criminal. If that’s not “the deep state,” I don’t know what is.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Liberty outside the French ambassador’s residence

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Zelenskyy meeting just now is one of the most shameful spectacles in recent memory. This administration is completely morally upside down, and it has turned this country into a joke.

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