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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025

absolute insanity as Mike Waltz suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow deliberately hacked his way into the Signal group

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Dem leaders: if you fight back, we will rally behind you. This isn't complicated. More of this please.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

Mr. Dudek acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times on Friday that he had concerns about what would happen if the fast changes generated problems that impaired the agency. He told advocates during the meeting that if they disrupted citizens to the point of being untenable, the agency would roll them back.
In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine's Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.

"I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president," Mr.
Dudek said in the interview. "I screwed up.
I'll admit I screwed up."

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/03/2025

DOGE is crippling the Social Security Administration. SSA’s website crashed four times in 10 days and Americans who depend on Social Security have flooded congressional offices with angry phone calls. The AARP says it has been getting 2,000 calls a week.

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Social Security Is Falling Apart Thanks to Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts

DOGE cuts have sent the Social Security Administration crashing.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“.. the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary ..” @nbcnews.com Mhttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Seems like has been very little coverage of protests happening in the U.S.--not necessarily an intentional media blackout (although possibly), but the result of a longstanding stance in legacy media that protests aren't worth covering, activists aren't credible sources (but somehow CEOs are), etc.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

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Dory @finddory.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Hard to believe they descended from wolves. 😝

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is actually in the same Bari Weiss newsletter blast this morning. There is something deeply, darkly funny about the Free Press spending months fomenting exactly this before being concerned about going too far.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Oh no! The leopards are eating Eli Lake and Bari Weiss' faces!

MORE FROM THE FREE PRESS
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Is Starving an Agency That Really Matters
"It's been a bloodbath." That's how one staffer describes the fallout at the National Endowment for Democracy after a DOGE order blocked its funding.
In a Free Press exclusive, Eli Lake reports on the order for the first time, and reveals that it has left the organization-a major instrument of U.S. soft power that helped win the Cold War-unable to meet payroll and pay basic overhead expenses.
Read Eli's report on the latest organization in DOGE's sights-and why its dismantling isn't just another cost-cutting measure, but could cause real damage: "Trump Is Starving the National Endowment for Democracy."

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center? Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him. So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Eric Adams sold out this city to get the Trumps to fix his personal problem, simple as that.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/02/2025

The Musk/Trump junta is exploiting an utterly deadly loophole in the American system: Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to *lay hands* on them to enforce those orders. We must end this loophole now.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Yale Law should be forced to comment on this, since they conferred a law degree on him.

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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

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Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Can't stop thinking about the number of people in the stadium today who "stand up to cancer" yet will cheer for a man defunding cancer treatment and research.

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 09/02/2025

Trump’s latest stunt—renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America”—is peak authoritarian spectacle. It’s a meaningless branding ploy designed to stoke nationalist fervor and distract from his real agenda: dismantling democracy. 1/2

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Indeed, no one could’ve predicted.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

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Dory @finddory.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

So Dunning Kruger is a defense to treason. Cool cool.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

if you live around conservatives, a common bumper sticker reads “liberalism is a mental disorder.” you’ll see effigies of dem politicians, unhinged screeds about satan-worshipping dems written on lawn signs. this stuff gets ignored while any hint of condescension from liberals is treated as endemic

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Another woman, a mom of two young kids and an MBA trying for a third kid with her husband, allowed to die while miscarrying in Texas even as her doctor mother-in-law insisted she needed a D&C

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/11/2024

“For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness,” Quinta Jurecic writes. “For four—well, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice”:

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Trump’s Cabinet Has a Serious #MeToo Problem

And the incoming administration doesn’t seem to mind at all.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

When people complained about Citizens United, I doubt they even had this in mind as a possibility. One man, not a corporation, able to fund primary challenges against anyone who fails to fall in line. Absolutely grotesque.

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Trump team warns Republicans to support Cabinet picks or face primary funded by Musk

As controversy continues to cloud some of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, his team has a sharp warning for Republicans who don't fall in line, ABC's Jonathan Karl reports.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/11/2024

"Firing *every single federal employee* would save a whopping 5 percent of the budget. But the point of this isn’t reducing the national debt. It’s striking fear into the federal workforce in order to make them more compliant."

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Be Not Afraid

Trump and MAGA want to frighten you. Don't let them.

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DemocracyLover #BlueCrew-FBR-FBPE-NAFO 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @martie38.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Blackmail, coercion, or corruption, or all 3 ? Which senator(s) are going to resist the pressure?

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Reporters who wrote "Trump distances himself from Project 2025" will never apologize for printing what they knew was a lie and will continue printing lies because of their longstanding rule to help Trump: if he says something we have to print it

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📎𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒆 🌹💙🐾 @roxierose2.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“On Russian State TV, RFK Jr claimed that Swine Flu H1N1, which killed 284,400 people, “never happened” and was fabricated by pharmaceutical companies so they could make money.” meidasnews.com/news/on-russ...

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On Russian TV, RFK Jr Claimed Swine Flu and H1N1 Were Fabricated and "Never Happened"

The World Health Organization reported 284,400 swine flue deaths worldwide

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Dory @finddory.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I have a senior in high-school taking AP us government and politics and realized the other day, he has zero recollection of living in a world where the Cheeto did not dominate our news and politics. So utterly depressing.

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Dory @finddory.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

To be fair, no one who meets the loyalty bar required is clean from criminality and/or debauchery.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thanks to Donald Trump, we now must contemplate the possibility of a misogynist Christian Reconstructionist secretary of defense. snyder.substack.com/p/the-crusad...

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The Crusade against America

Handmaid Fails 3/3

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My advice to journalists is, every time Trump picks someone, immediately do a deep dive to find out what awful things they've done — things that would be disqualifying in a normal administration. You will almost certainly find them — because they wouldn't have been chosen otherwise 6/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thinking more about this. So far every Trump pick has been a real piece of work — incompetent, corrupt and/or sexual abuser. This isn't because Trump is a bad judge of character, it's because that's what he wants — incompetence and moral turpitude guarantee loyalty 1/

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hegseth is probably guilty of sexual assault but it’s important we not forget that he was also an officer at Gitmo which in a just world would be disqualifying on its own

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Kim Jong-Un’s spokesperson thinks Lindsey needs to tone it down a little.

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