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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I had a Honda that needed this fix and the dealer told me I needed $10k in urgent engine repairs before they could replace the airbags. I drove the car another 100k miles and then sold it to someone who put another 100k on it and never replaced the parts they said were immediately required.

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The US population has doubled since 1950 and has grown by more than 100 million since 1980

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/07/2026

BREAKING: the clock struck midnight and our bipartisan housing bill is now law. Trump refused to sign it, but he couldn't stop it. This law is GROUNDBREAKING. It will build more housing, bring down costs, and for the first time, stop private equity from buying up homes.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This created real labor law and allowed unions to survive. Let's talk about the most important labor law in American history!

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There’s a lot of apples to oranges comparisons but it would be interesting to compare these numbers with working class voters to the same numbers with Collins’ last opponent. Has he closed a gap or are these ppl red no matter what?

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Ed @ed3d.net · 25/05/2026

sure tom steyer might think we have to protect trans kids but he doesn't know who runs wired

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/05/2026

as stephen colbert signs off for the last time let's all remember the one time the WHCD was worth a damn truly one of the all time greats

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Watch Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Corresponde...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This decision puts even more pressure on plaintiffs and district courts outside the 5th Circuit. Unless the habeas is filed before a person is transferred to the 5th Circuit, a person may remain locked in appalling conditions, never even allowed to ask for bond.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/01/2026

NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week. It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

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Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE

(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

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Richard Blumenthal @blumenthal.senate.gov · 21/01/2026

I’m demanding Sec. Noem provide an explanation for this abhorrent policy & that my Republican colleagues hold hearings & join me in demanding the Trump Admin answer for this lawlessness. 6

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Garrison Keillor based his whole career on mocking and celebrating these aspects of being Minnesotan, but he rarely if ever exaggerated it. The women are strong, the men good looking, the children are really all above average.

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mayorsoffice.nyc.gov @mayorsoffice.nyc.gov · 14/01/2026

You probably don't know what SEQRA is - but you should know that it's slowing down the housing that we need. Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg is here to explain why reforming it is key to cutting red tape and building more housing.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 22/12/2025

Nurses are the backbone of our health care system. Today, I had the pleasure of meeting with nurses at Northwestern Medical Center in Vermont. They are doing a great job. I look forward to working with them to improve wages and working conditions at the hospital.

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

curious how the major press outlets would cover a mainstream dem referring to Alabama as a backwoods nowhere represented by people who don't own shoes and go by "coach"

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Josh Goldstein @joshisimmigration.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The full text tells us that the following exceptions to the immigrant visa restrictions on the travel bans have now been eliminated: - Immediate relatives (children under 21, spouses, parents) of US citizens - International adoptions - Afghan Special Immigrant Visas

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

this is the same kind of insane logic employment attorneys use literally every day in union fights

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This very much aligns with my experience teaching over the last few years

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 25/11/2025

The administration just announced the end of TPS status designation for Burma, which will affect anyone from Burma in the U.S. with TPS status right now. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21069.pdf

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This is an perfect example of government waste while also managing to be cruel beyond words

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/11/2025

Tonight was a very bad night.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/11/2025

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

EIGHT Senate Democrats have voted to advance the funding measure so far after the deal was reached: Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Hassan Kaine King Rosen Shaheen If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

possibly the most angry I’ve ever seen him on the floor

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I'm doing more research on Direct File, interviewing people who worked on the project. Cancelling it is just an incredible own goal, not just because it allowed people to pay taxes for free, but because it was an incredible demonstration that government could build top quality tech products in-house

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 31/10/2025

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

of course they’re using a foreign machine for the demo

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

“When it comes to Trump appointing 200 judges with very questionable qualifications, I would want to have a say in those judgeships, for instance,” Mills said. However, Democratic leaders scrapped the requirement for most presidential nominees, including many judges, in 2013.

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

this is mildly humorous because the idea the government must shut down during a funding lapse is mostly based on a couple of legal opinions from 45 years ago and the only people who might try to stop the executive branch from pretending like it’s a normal day also work for the executive branch

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

and we will see dozens of carefully written think pieces praising the chief justice’s careful approach and willingness to give the president wins everywhere else to maintain the legitimacy to overrule him in this one area

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Ezra is right. In 2010, 1/4 of the House Dem caucus was pro-life. Without those votes Dems cannot build a strong majority.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

J.S. Citizenshit and Immigratior
Services
September 20, 2025
Memorandum
TO:
Associate Directors,
Deputy Associate Directors, Program Office Chiefs
FROM:
JOSEPH B
Digitaly signed by
JOSEPH B EDLOW
Joseph B. Edlow
EDLOW
Date: 2025.09.20
Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services **00
SUBJECT: Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, H-IB
On September 19, 2025, the President issued a Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, to address systemic abuse of H-1B nonimmigrant visas. Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C.
1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000. This guidance applies to H-IB employment-based petitions filed after 12:01 AM ET on September 21, 2025.|
This proclamation only applies prospectively to petitions that have not yet been filed. The proclamation does not apply to aliens who: are the beneficiaries of petitions that were filed prior to the effective date of the proclamation, are the beneficiaries of currently approved petitions, or are in possession of validly issued H-1B non-immigrant visas. All officers of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shall ensure that their decisions are consistent with this guidance. The proclamation does not impact the ability of any current visa holder to travel to or rom the United States.
cc: David V. Roy, Chief Counsel (A)
FOUO, For Official Use Only

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

it sounds like they left a nice big loophole to give some companies, industries, or individuals exemptions at Noem’s discretion

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I hate this but if you believe tariffs are fees levied on foreign countries rather than taxes paid by Americas then their argument seems reasonable. it’s absurd but one could imagine how five robed wizards might find presidential tariff power in article II by adopting this view

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Andrew @fuji160s.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I would not have guessed reading Baudrillard in art school was actually preparation for the future fascist regime

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POPVOX Foundation @popvoxfdn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Good politicians don’t just give speeches. They fix the “small” problems that shape daily life. But, Congressional office structures sideline the staff who hear about these problems first. That needs to change. voicemailgov.substack.com/p/legislativ...

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How Legislative Office Structure Creates Bad Politics

Why listening to constituents is at the bottom of the priority list

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