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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h

fiscal year 2025 grant funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality after mass layoffs dismantled the agency’s ability to award grants. Congress appropriated that money for research. The administration was legally required to make it available.

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U.S. GAO - Department of Health and Human Services—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—Application of Impoundment Control Act to the Availability of Funds for Grants

Congress appropriated lump sum amounts to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to carry out various research initiatives for fiscal...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump administration broke federal law by withholding more than $78 million Congress had approved for healthcare research, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The watchdog found that HHS violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

We just wanted to thank you! More than 1 million comments were submitted to the USDA urging them to leave the Roadless Rule alone. Thank you to everyone who spoke up for our national forests! 💚

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Deters: "Kimberly Guilfoyle is a grifter. Kimberly Guilfoyle I have no doubt has done this to more than me. She's doing it right now in Greece. I know Corey Lewandowski did this stuff. I know Kristi Noem did this stuff."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Deters: "They're getting rich ... the Trumps are in the open! They're all -- Jared Kushner, $3 billion fund from Saudi Arabia after he negotiates the Abraham Accords."

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TheRealSparky💙🐸🇺🇸 @funkynassau.bsky.social · 5h

Black women, are the conscience and backbone of American society Without them where would we be? Unrivaled tenacity 🇺🇸🔥👍🏼

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

setting aside that musk is nowhere near this popular, the US is years deep in a pretty massive accountant shortage, a fairly basic fact about the labor market the vice president should know, but doesn’t

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Vance: "When people say Americans won't work on farms or in dirty jobs, what they're saying is Americans won't work those jobs for poverty wages, nor should they. When they say we have to bring in accountants, what they're saying is there aren't enough ppl who can do math in the US, which is absurd"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: You had some harsh words for Microsoft at the job of your speech, so why is Trump today awarding the nation's top tech medal to Microsoft's CEO? JD VANCE: Microsoft is a great American company. They also laid off 6,000 Americans workers while replacing them with 6,300 H-1Bs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

COLLINS: Given inflation, mortgage rates, and gas prices are all higher than when you took office, why does this administration's deserve an A+ on the economy like President Trump says? JD VANCE: You have to remember that we inherited the worst inflation process in 48 years

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: Do you have any reaction to a US ambassador asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to other government officials? VANCE: Well, so -- with that hypothetical, obviously I don't love that, but I, you know, I don't know exactly who you're talking about, I don't know the full details

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: You mentioned you want people like Elon Musk to come here, but he didn't build his companies overnight. So how do you decide who is the next Elon Musk? VANCE: One, does the person fill a position that simply cannot be filled by an American worker? Two, is this person a truly elite human being?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 7h

Who wrote this on p.58 of his autobiography? (Hint: he’s a beardo weirdo.) “You can walk through a [rural] town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than twenty hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

JD Vance leaves the door open to having his "fraud" task force investigate Planned Parenthood

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 6h

As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 6h

So in other words: just some stuff that makes you mad as a bigot?

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 6h

The missing pages of the Das Kapital have been found

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

It also helps if someone is going to give Republicans $250 million in campaign cash.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Note how in all of this, Vance's comments are suffused with the rhetoric of 1930s Nazi eugenics, including the "elite human being" (in German, Herrenmensch or Übermensch). Straight from Curtis Yarvin, and Elon Musk, by the way. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

If the Kennedy Center is 'dangerous,' why is the Symphony rehearsing there? The National Symphony Orchestra is practicing inside a building that Trump and his allies say could fall on their heads.

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If the Kennedy Center Is ‘Dangerous,’ Why Is the Symphony Rehearsing There?

The National Symphony Orchestra is practicing inside a building that President Trump and his allies say could fall on their heads.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely 👇 This.......

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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 6h

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TheRealSparky💙🐸🇺🇸 @funkynassau.bsky.social · 7h

She fits right in with all the old men!

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TheRealSparky💙🐸🇺🇸 @funkynassau.bsky.social · 7h

As a Californian I am still in shock!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

New in PN: Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet "Should November be the disaster for Rs that analysts predict, Trump will morph overnight into something less than a lame duck POTUS with a ticking expiration clock: he'll become politically bankrupt in ways all-too-familiar to him as a businessman."

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Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet

His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

in case it's not clear this is a commentary on the defenses I'm seeing from some surprising quarters of Trump daydreaming about cities in California getting nuked

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 9h

Guess who is going bankrupt again? Except this time he’s burning through his remaining *political* capital. My latest for @atrupar.com Public Notice. Please read, like, share—and subscribe to PN. Thanks, Tom open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet

His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10h

Next he’ll be agreeing to call it “Trump Intelligence.” The new robber barons know what they need to say to appease their master and keep the money flowing.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9h

Claim your free Trump knife.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

NEWSMAX: You're a doctor. How realistic is the risk of the plague becoming a larger public health threat here? REP. ANDY HARRIS: Look, I think this occurred in a very isolated circumstance. It's in Siberia. It's not in a major American metro. Americans have a lot more to worry about than this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Chalian: "Look at Donald Trump's approval rating in the Buckeye State. He is down to 36%, 28 points underwater."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

JD Vance on H-1B recipients: "It's one thing if you were to bring in a person like Elon Musk. I think 99% of American citizens look at somebody like Elon Musk and say, 'if that person wants to come in and build something great in the US, we support that.' But if you're bringing in an accountant... "

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 7h

"Should November 3 be the disaster for Republicans that analysts are predicting, Trump will morph overnight into something less than a lame duck president with a ticking, two-year expiration clock: he will become politically bankrupt in ways all-too-familiar to him as a businessman." Excellent read:

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7h

brilliant example sir, this message is sure to resonate with the peasants

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

President Obama just endorsed Troy Jackson in the Maine Senate race.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

President Obama just endorsed Keisha Lance Bottoms in the Georgia governor's race.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reminder!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why does another presidential retreat need to be at a property owned by the sitting president? Calling it a gift to future presidents doesn’t erase the obvious conflict of interest.

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Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into the new Camp David

The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.

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