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Dr. Benjamin Button, M.D., PhD.

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Debby Williams 💙♐️ @dwilliams1210.com · 14/07/2025
MSNBC’s flagship morning show has rolled a damning montage of just some of the countless times Donald Trump and his allies bashed Democrats for their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and promised to release full details of the financier’s crimes.
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‘Morning Joe’ Rolls Montage of Team Trump’s Damning Epstein Comments
In case you’d forgotten quite how eager the president and his allies were on full disclosure until just over a week ago.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The people I actually know, in real life, who listen to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are 45 and think they're 22, which explains a lot of things.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is excellent journalism and outrageous. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters
A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.
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spooki•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Florida just unveiled ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a sprawling migrant megaprison built on protected Indigenous wetlands in the Everglades. The facility has drawn widespread condemnation as both an inhumane concentration camp and an ecological disaster in the making.
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Guilty🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
If I were Alaskan, I’d be livid. Portraying us as people who will cooperate in screwing America, so long as we suffer a little bit less than everyone else?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2025
It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets." FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I love how the right is trying to scare us by saying the United States is turning into one of those European countries with great mass transit and free healthcare.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Reuters: U.S. JUDGE TEMPORARILY RESTRICTS MILITARY'S LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES IN LOS ANGELES - COURT RULING
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Listen to this great American. This nation is privileged to have a man of this character in the United States Senate. Thank you @padilla.senate.gov. We stand with you.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/06/2025
US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/06/2025
Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed and handcuffed after interrupting a news conference by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, about ongoing federal immigration enforcement efforts in Los Angeles. Follow live updates.
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Live Updates: California Senator Is Forced to Floor and Handcuffed After Interrupting Noem in L.A.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Yes, just imagine.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
You know who didn't identify themselves? The thugs who assaulted Senator Padilla.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.
SEC. l203. RESTRICTION ON ENFORCEMENT.
No court of the United States may issue a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order against the Federal Government (other than a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order issued in a case proceeding under title 11, United States Code) if no security is given, in an amount proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by the Federal Government, when the injunction or order is issued pursuant to rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure after the date of enactment of this Act. No court may consider any factor other than the value of the costs and damages sustained when making
its determination of the proper value of such security, and that determination shall be appealable upon issuance of the preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order under an abuse of discretion standard.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It’s not a game, dipshit.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
An appeals court has rejected Trump’s request to rehear a jury verdict in favor of the sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll.
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Court Hands Trump Huge Blow in E. Jean Carroll Sex Abuse Case
The court voted 8-2 in favor of upholding his unsuccessful appeal.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/06/2025
The Supreme Court unanimously revived a lawsuit from a pair of Atlanta residents seeking to hold the federal government accountable after FBI agents mistakenly battered down their front door and held them at gunpoint during a predawn raid of the wrong house.
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Supreme Court revives lawsuit over FBI raid of the wrong house
Lower courts had dismissed the case brought by Hilliard Toi Cliatt and Curtrina Martin, whose home in Atlanta was wrongly raided by the FBI.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Make "fake Christian" happen.
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Informed politics @informedpolitics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
They should follow their oath to the Constitution and refuse to be deployed.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Reuters: JUDGE ORDERS CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD RETURNED TO GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM'S CONTROL - COURT RULING
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025
"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/06/2025
A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
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Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/06/2025
WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to the ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
Senators are ELECTED to be a VOICE for their constituents. What happens when that voice is stifled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed like Senator Padilla was? We have a democracy, but we can lose that democracy. I took to the Senate floor to speak out—I hope you'll join me.
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025
Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Guess who was right in the thick of the assault on @padilla.senate.gov? Corey Lewandowski. (He may have been the guy instructing that there's no recording at a press conference and seems to have realized how badly they fucked up.)
A screencap from a video posted by Peter Hamby. It shows that a cop taking the cuffs on Senator Padilla, with Lewandowski, wearing a black jacket with what might be a Homeland Security logo, watching.
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scrappyresister.bsky.social @scrappyresister.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Every single DEM in Congress who doesn’t stand up and shout against the goons who battered US Senator Alex Padilla had better get primaried out of existence.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025
Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."
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