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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 08/03/2025

While Trump & Musk DOGE cut the federal workforce and federal contracts leaving THOUSANDS of Americans UNEMPLOYED, Elon Musk & his family are flying for FREE on Air Force. MUSK is a BILLIONAIRE!! Why are OUR taxes paying for this? THIS is fraud, waste, & abuse. tribune.com.pk/story/253234...

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Elon Musk’s use of Air Force One with family sparks backlash over ‘government waste’ | The Express Tribune

Photos of Elon Musk, his mother, and son on Air Force One with Trump fuel criticism over government spending concerns.

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 09/03/2025

Slashing the VA? Arbitrary cuts within our national security? I am all for cutting waste in the government, but Elon Musk is making Americans less safe. youtu.be/qYs7BVPf6gc

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Slotkin: I am all for cutting waste in the government, but Elon Musk is making Americans less safe.

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social has 112K followers on @bsky.app and most of his posts have hundreds of reposts. @chuckschumer.com has 4K followers on @bsky.app and only one of his posts has a 2-digit number of reposts (36). His next highest number of reposts is a post with 5 reposts. So who's the leader?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Trade deficit is up. Stock market is crashing. Gas prices are rising. Consumer confidence is down. Grocery costs are soaring. Trump is terrible at managing the economy. Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 05/03/2025

Trump really managed to piss of the nicest country on Earth with this trade war

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 05/03/2025

Update: President Trump is running late due to the failed policies of Joe Biden

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025

COLLINS: Who do you blame for the war? CHIP ROY: It began on Joe Biden's watch COLLINS: Wait, you blame Joe Biden for the war? ROY: This all started under Joe Biden COLLINS: Putin started this war

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/03/2025

Joe Biden watching Trump blame him for everything.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

He legit ran on this. But the story was buried under Joe Biden old.

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/03/2025

Not mentioned at the #SOTU: how cuts to USAID are affecting American farmers, by potentially undermining the billions of taxpayer dollars they receive to support conservation practices. www.wired.com/story/usda-l...

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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers

The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/03/2025

NEW: The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would you cut back on the revenue side?” one expert asks. By @andykroll.bsky.social

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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save

The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…

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Kevin Romanchik, MSN, RN @kevinro.medsky.social · 05/03/2025

Credit to @knibbs.bsky.social and her great reporting for @wired.com. I highly suggest supporting the great work this publication does. New subscribers: For digital only is $10/year. For digital & print (which is what I do) is $12/year.

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WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED

Unlimited Access| Best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore - plus gear reviews, podcasts, and more.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Good God. The biggest chunk of this is $3 million to determine why women suffer more from asthma than men. They're giving estrogen to male mice to see if that's the culprit. WH describes this as research on "transgender mice". Clearly someone in the Administration can read; they hope you can't.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The U.S. State Dept is killing an air monitoring program that helped pressure China to clean up Beijing's air, and later expanded to cities around the world. "I’ve never seen an initiative of the US government have such an immediate, dramatic impact in a country." www.wired.com/story/air-mo...

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US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself

The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

NEW: DOGE put a not-so-secret CIA training facility up for sale, apparently in error. "Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.

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A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale

Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/03/2025

It’s been a busy few weeks at WIRED, and we’re just getting started. Many of you have asked how you can support our journalism in a bigger way, so we’ve introduced a new option for WIRED Superfans. Thank you all for your support, and we'll keep pushing on the stories that matter.

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/03/2025

And in case you missed this one from earlier in the week, here's how much some DOGE staffers make: six-figure taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/03/2025

Okay somehow it's Friday and somehow we made it (congrats!) 🤯 To make the doomscroll easier, here's a thread of all the wild stuff we learned this week, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social's analysis on why DOGE *is* the deep state (and Elon Musk's extended universe.)

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DOGE Is the Deep State

A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BTW2: @repjasmine.bsky.social has 455.1K followers on @bsky.app. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has 140 followers (140 NOT 140K) Not even all @housedemocrats.bsky.social follow him. So who's the actual leader? It matters who & where one leads, and others could lead--but Jeffries leads no one no where.

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BTW: @repjasmine.bsky.social has posts that have: 3.2K, 6.2K, 7.7K, 8.2K, 9.8K... reposts by others. Compare that to @jeffrieshakeem.bsky.social highest repost being 1 (that's 1 not 1K) & you can see why House Minority Leader Jeffries wants Rep Jasmine Crocket to shut up. He's jealous she can lead!

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

2/2 ...and other @housedemocrats.bsky.social for being too vocal. He's a good boy, teacher Nancy Pelosi's pet, and he is in the process of teaching those under his leadership how to also be good boys and girls. Yeah, that will show folks at home you get their pain & fight for them. Get some huevos!

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Add.: @jeffrieshakeem.bsky.social has 136 followers on @bsky.app He's made 14 posts. A few had 1 repost. @chuckschumer.com has 4K+ followers on @bsky.app, made 14 posts, 1 had 36 reposts, 1 had 7 reposts, 1 had 3 reposts, some 1 repost, others none @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

9/9...& @democrats.senate.gov need new leadership NOW. That a way to meet the madness that did not require D's to sit quietly as their constituents were wailing in pain--is shameful. Current leadership barely have followers on @bsky.app (not even every representative)! cc: @sarajacobsca.bsky.social

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

8/9...to sit in the front & leave early or the back. This is not the only response that could have been done--but something dramatic enough to fit the occasion needed to be done. If it had been done, then @algreen.house.gov would not have felt compelled to speak out. @housedemocrats.bsky.social...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

7/9...all the falsehoods on the spot, they could designate 1 person to sit on the aisle to rise & usher each individual Congressperson & guest up to leave (like some churches do at Communion) & then sit back down until the next falsehood. Those with physical impairments could choose if they want...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

6/9 ...doing when they got there. If R's had 1 person accosted for silently rising and leaving then all D's would silently rise and leave with them to gather with the press (@msnbc.com?) outside the chamber. NO Dem would vote to censure any Dem the next day. If Dems aren't confident in catching...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

5/9...be more interesting & more engaging than the lies being told inside the chamber. Inside the chamber, the visual of each member & their guest rising & leaving would make a stunning silent visual that could not be ignored as R's wondered where D's & their guests were going and what they were...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

4/9...with the press outside the chamber, Dems would move to the next row, and continue until that row has been emptied, & the next, & the next. Over the course of the 100 minutes, the press and many viewers would find the counter-programing event with Dems & their guests outside the chamber to...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

3/9..the 1st) then the next person in the row would turn their paddle to false (as would everyone else) and that person & their guest would rise and leave--to speak with the press outside the chamber. When falsehoods have caused that row to empty, and a group of Congresspersons & guest to gather...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

2/9...leave, they & all others would turn their paddle to false. The person & their guest would then meet with press outside the chamber, explain the falsehood that lead them to leave and then allow their guest to speak. When the next falsehood is spoken (which could be in the same sentence as...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

1/9 @eugenerobinson.bsky.social @chrismathews.bsky.social @msnbc.com @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Ds could have responded to lies by one person standing up with their guest and leaving each time he lied, starting with the 1st row, aisle seat. When that person rose to...

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

These folks probably would have voted to censure @nancypelosi.bsky.social when she tore up his script.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 03/03/2025

Together with Rep. Luna and Rep. Pettersen, I am proud to co-lead a bipartisan effort to allow Members of Congress to proxy vote for 6 weeks after they or their spouse gives birth. Congress was designed by and for old men. It’s time we modernize.

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Rep. Sara Jacobs Leads Parental Leave Effort in Congress

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Radical Pragmatic Centrist @canadianresisters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is my Prime Minister #JustinTrudeau

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

@sarajacobsca.bsky.social I believe I saw you standing in support of @algreen.house.gov. Thanks. Sitting silently present as the Mad King lies for 100 minutes, is NOT keeping focus on disastrous Republican policies, no matter what @jeffrieshakeem.bsky.social may think. It's allowing them to reign.

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drdevorah.bsky.social @drdevorah.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

@theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social @symonedsanders.bsky.social @michaelsteele.bsky.social @aliciamenendez.bsky.social If you believe in miracles; if you observe Lent; now may be a good time to pray and fast that enough Republicans get a conscience and the courage to remove the mad king.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Good morning! I am starting to host "Harry Hours" thru substack (probably will switch to zoom) This was a clip from the first one. Not only do we talk about everything thats going on and what we can do to fight back, but we try to have fun!! Join if you can!!! Lol ofcourse I love dad jokes.

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