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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Isn’t that the first thing you learn in Yale Law?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/04/2025

JUST NOW: Leader Jeffries, Senator Coons, and Senator Booker sat on the Capitol steps, watched the sunrise, and talked about the budget fight. This is what we need—bringing people in and speaking plain truth. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @coons.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

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Angie @angiesuniverse.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I donated to Van Hollen. Thank you, hero.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Montana showing up!!!

A bunch of people lining up outside the UM basketball stadium for the Bernie rally.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025

Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/04/2025

They saw the iceberg, stayed on deck, and lit cigars to watch the ship sink the “others.” Woopsie.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I can’t believe he’s not wearing a tie. Outrageous display of disrespect.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Harvard's resistance is an important watershed in the effort to stop Trump's reign of lawlessness. Robert Hubbell

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Casar: At the end of the day, they believe you pay taxes to make them and their friends richer. They believe you should work longer hours for less pay—again, to make them and their friends richer. And maybe they can even squeeze in a little insider stock trading on the side.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 12/04/2025

The so-called “art of the deal” led to the tanking of a healthy economy – imposing tariffs, weakening the dollar, & sinking the stock market. How long can we let the economy slide until we don’t fall for it? @jimacosta.bsky.social & @michaelrstrain.bsky.social join @10AMET to break it down. #Velshi

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was accidentally deported to El Salvador, says that him and the family have not been able to contact him and don't know his current condition. Absolutely unacceptable! Bring him HOME!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Casar: At the end of the day, this is about taking your hard-earned money and giving it to themselves—or funneling it to their friends. That’s all this is about.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

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