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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Almost no jobs have been added to the American economy since April. In fact, 710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024. More thoughts on today's dismal jobs report — and what it means for America's affordability crisis.

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Why Americans are going batsh*t over the cost of living

Today's added information

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/11/2025

I'm wondering if Kegseth is hell-bent on going after Mark Kelly because he outranked him. Small men do that kind of thing.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” (Psalm 42:1-3)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/10/2025

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/10/2025

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

CBS reports Trump is upgrading the President's bunker under the East Wing. Makes this post pretty fucking prescient.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/10/2025

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Civil & Human Rights Activist “Bad” Brad Berkwitt @badbrad2024.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

20 years & 28 mother fucking days I gave to this country! Never did any VP ever do this! Fuck you J (Just) D (A Dick) Vance and your cosigning beard of a wife too! Go. Fuck. A. Couch.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

@talsmith.bsky.social Since you're apparently not old enough to remember: One of the many reasons we enacted Obamacare is because insurance companies were routinely kicking women off their insurance coverage once they were diagnosed with breast cancer. www.reuters.com/article/worl...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The only way this sort of thing makes sense is if they are against the entire concept of a “public good.” That is, something paid for by the public via taxes, owned by the public via government, and benefitting the public as a whole.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2025

NEW: So it IS a second home and not an investment property. Motion to dismiss for abuse of the grand jury process in 3...2... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Angus: Who else are you going to give military bases to? When’s Vladimir Putin getting his rocket bases in the United States?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Trump has shuttered the office responsible for providing oversight of his activities, separate from the ongoing shutdown. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE),

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/09/2025

The Trump administration shut down a huge wind farm project—even though construction was 80 percent complete. If it's not restarted, the huge, nearly finished wind turbines will end up just sitting out there off the Rhode Island coast doing nothing, a slowly rusting monument to what might have been.

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The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy

It’s not just the agenda. It’s also the shambolic, vibes-based way he’s pursuing it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

During his first term, Trump launched so many failed "Infrastructure Weeks" that it became a running joke. Now he's taking credit for infrastructure projects he opposed. His whole life, Trump has taken credit for things he inherited — starting with his own personal fortune.

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Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/09/2025

NEW: The Supreme Court, in another unexplained order, has for now allowed Trump to oust a Democratic FTC commissioner, posing a serious threat to the independence of federal agencies.

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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner

Read more here.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

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KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U. PEDRO
VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 8, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25-cv-5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In early June, the Government launched immigration enforcement raids across Los Angeles and its surrounding counties. During the raids, teams of armed and masked agents pulled up to car washes, tow yards, farms, and parks and began seizing individuals on sight, often before asking a single question.
A Federal District Court found that these raids were part of a pattern of conduct by the Government that likely violated the Fourth Amendment. Based on the evidence before it, the court held that the Government was stopping individuals based solely on four factors: (1) their apparent race or ethnicity; (2) whether they spoke Spanish or English with an accent; (3) the type of location at which they were found (such as a car wash or bus stop); and (4) the type of job they appeared to work. Concluding that stops based on these four factors alone, even when taken together, could not satisfy the Fourth Amendment's requirement of reasonable suspicion, the District Court temporarily enjoined the Government from continuing its pattern of unlawful mass arrests while it considered whether longer-term relief was appropriate.

Instead of allowing the District Court to consider these troubling allegations in the normal course, a majority of
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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court's order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

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The Fourth Amendment protects every individual's constitutional right to be "free from arbitrary interference by law officers." Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 878. After to-day, that may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little. Because this is unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation's constitutional guarantees, I dissent.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Lots of action from the D.C. Circuit just now on the foreign aid impoundment case. In a nutshell, the original panel amended its ruling (to narrow it significantly and let some claims go forward); the full Court denied rehearing given the amendment, and the new ruling goes into immediate effect:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/07/2025

Heads-up: Medical debt can now go back on your credit report, thanks to a federal judge appointed by Trump.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

BREAKING: Judge in new case challenging Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship grants class certification and blocks enforcement of the order. The injunction is stayed for seven days to allow any appeal.

Case 1:25-cv-00244-JL-AJ Document 63|
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
"Barbara," et al.
V.
Civil No. 25-cv-244-JL-AJ
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, in his official capacity, et al.
ORDER GRANTING PETITIONERS' MOTION FOR PROVISIONAL CLASS CERTIFICATION AND APPOINTMENT OF CLASS COUNSEL
After careful consideration of the parties' submissions, the supporting declarations, the applicable law, and the filings and record in this case, the court GRANTS Petitioners' Motion for Provisional Class Certification and Appointment of Class Counsel (doc. 5).
The Court hereby finds that Petitioners have satisfied the requirements for provisional class certification under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(a) and (b)(2).
Specifically, Petitioners have demonstrated that (1) members of the proposed class are so numerous that joinder is impracticable; (2) there are questions of law and fact common to the class; (3) the claims of the petitioners are typical of the claims of the class members; and that (4) Petitioners and their counsel, as representatives of the class, will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.…
In light of the above, this court grants the petitioners' motion and provisionally certifies the following class for the purpose of preliminary injunctive relief: All current and future persons who are born on or after February 20, 2025, where (1) that person's mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person's father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth, or (2) that person's mother's presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person's father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth.
SO ORDERED.
Laplante
Jnited States District Judg
Dated: July 10, 2025

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
"Barbara," et al. v.
Civil No. 25-cv-244-JL-AJ
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, in his official capacity, et al.
ORDER GRANTING PETITIONERS' MOTION FOR CLASSWIDE
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
After careful consideration of the parties' submissions, the supporting declarations, the applicable law, and the filings and record in this case, the court GRANTS Petitioners' Motion for a Classwide Preliminary Injunction (doc. 6).'
The court hereby finds that Class Petitioners have demonstrated likelihood of iccess on the merits of their claims: that Class Petitioners are likely to suffer irreparabl harm if the order is not granted; that the potential harm to the class petitioners if the order is not granted outweighs the potential harm to Respondents if the order is granted; and that the issuance of this order is in the public interest.
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(a), this court orders that the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security; the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in their official capacity; the U.S. Department of State; the Secretary of the U.S.
Department of State, in their official capacity; the U.S. Department of Agriculture; the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in their official capacity; the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in their official capacity are enjoined and restrained from enforcing the Executive Order "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." The court requires a nominal bond of $1 under Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(c). This
preliminary injunction is STAYED for seven (7) days pending appeal.
SO ORDERED.
/ Lylante
United States District Judg
Dated: July 10, 2025
cc: Counsel of Record
' The certified class has been narrowed by the court from that requested by the petitioners.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Banning abortion in the entire country has long been one of extremist Catholic weirdo Leonard Leo's prime objectives.

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#ProudBlue 📉 Here’s a clearer breakdown of the bill’s tax impact: In 2026, the lowest-income households will see an average loss of $400. That number grows steadily, hitting around $1,600 a year from 2026–2034 as key provisions take effect. Remember, the larger effect will happen after midterms.

Chart showing how households will be affected by the new bill being proposed.
It shows a table broken down by income and how much more people will be paying.

Chart showing how households will be affected by the new bill being proposed.
Line/column chart has the salary and how much more they will be paying .

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 01/07/2025

BREAKING: Republicans just blocked my amendment to ensure Veterans, foster kids and the homeless aren’t denied SNAP benefits. There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Just more lies from Karoline about Trump’s Big Bullshit Bill

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Catherine @accomplishedseer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Domestic Terrorism sponsored by the Republican Political Party places the United States onto Human Rights Watch List. time.com/7266334/us-h...

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U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist

The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.

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