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Gia Chevis

@giachevis.bsky.social
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Accounting professor. Bibliophile. Feminist. No, it's not "just" accounting. This is a personal account, and the views expressed in my posts here are mine.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
These kids are all of us. (📸 by evan vucci of @reuters.com ) (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Actual American greatness came after World War II based on a partnership between universities and the federal government to make huge investments in science. It gave America an extraordinary edge over the rest of the world. But people like Atlas want to dismantle that partnership.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
That’s >1000x the amount of money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal, which saw a cabinet member jailed, resulted in new financial disclosure laws, is considered the worst scandal in American history aside from Watergate, and is still taught in schools 100 years later. ONE THOUSAND TIMES
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The notion that the president has absolute power over creations of Congress is already nuts, with no basis in law, but it reaches utterly absurd when it includes an unwritten "but not when some Supreme Court Justices feel like he's messing with the money" exception.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“A foundational rule of computer security is to never create a ‘single point of failure,’ meaning a centralized system or node whose compromise wld cause widespread damage.” The Trump administration’s “SAVE” voter purge system—to which they want all 50 states to submit—violates this crucial rule. 1/
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Why the Trump-Backed Save America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide - Bucks County Beacon
Buried in the legislation is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system plagued by security and accuracy concerns and controlled by the Trump administra...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Did someone mention the so-called “Save America Act”???
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23/06/2026
An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.
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‘I lost everything’: Orlando resident returns home after months in ICE custody in Pa.
The green card applicant was allowed to leave the U.S. temporarily to settle his father’s affairs — only to be turned over to ICE on his return.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Don't be fooled by the fact that none of today's 5 #SCOTUS rulings were "big" ones. Four of them split the Court along its usual 6-3 ideological lines—one of which guts accountability for human rights abuses; one that makes it harder to enforce Spending Clause statutes; and one that's bad for LPRs.
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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth! Here are some basic facts and history to revisit. Feel free to share!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/06/2026
Trump administration to pay $765 million to scrap four more offshore wind leases reut.rs/4aamZT4
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Trump administration to pay $765 million to scrap four more offshore wind leases
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it would pay $765 million to power project developer Invenergy to terminate four wind leases off ​the coasts of New York, California and Maine.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 06/06/2026
I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees. Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
best I can summarize the spacex s-1 so far is that on one axis, it can be seen as a grand experiment in trying to access public markets (bag holders) w/out being publicly accountable in ways the extant (now enfeebled) public-company regimes were (at least in ye olden days) supposed to make requisite
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A “former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public stmt, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, & many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation.” 1/
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Under federal law, workers are owed twice the pay stolen. So instead of receiving $12 million, as owed under the law, Trump administration is settling for ONE-FOURTH of that amount. So J6 criminals get millions, and victimized workers get pennies on the dollar stolen from them.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 22/05/2026
SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy Elon Musk, business genius. When Elon Musk announced his plans to buy Twitter, some of his billionaire friends rushed to text him to say they'd throw whatever money they wanted into the deal. Larry Ellison casually offered "a…
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SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy
Elon Musk, business genius. When Elon Musk announced his plans to buy Twitter, some of his billionaire friends rushed to text him to say they'd throw whatever money they wanted into the deal. Larry Ellison casually offered "a billion... or whatever you recommend." Marc Andreessen offered $250 million, no questions asked. This all came out in the lawsuit when Musk tried to back out of the deal:
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
David Horsey substack.com/@horseytoons
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2026
A @inquirer.com and ProPublica investigation found case after case in which court-appointed attorneys did minimal work to examine their clients’ claims and rejected what later turned out to be legitimate legal issues.
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With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers
Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bid for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers ...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Miranda Yaver and I wrote about this last August. @mirandayaver.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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Kennedy is gutting health advisory panels to weaken the Affordable Care Act
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are critical in ensuring equitable access to care.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The footage of that day still exists. The testimony of officers still exists. What has changed is not the historical record but the willingness to look at it honestly. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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What the Confederate Flag Came to Collect
Five Years After a Confederate Flag Marched Through the Capitol, Trump Is Paying the People Who Carried It
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Democratic presidential candidate who vows that everything Trump built, bedazzled, renamed, or tore down in office will be torn down, shorn of bling, restored, or rebuilt within their first 100 days in office with the bill sent to the Trump Organization will win every swing state.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 08/05/2026
This Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re honoring some of the civil rights heroes who championed equality and justice for all.
Elizabeth Kuma Ohi
First Japanese-American female lawyer in the United States. She was detained by the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Undeterred, upon her release, she joined the U.S. Navy.Fred Korematsu 
Civil rights hero who defied the U.S. government's 1942 order to move into Japanese internment camps during World War II. He later fought his arrest in Korematsu v. United States. The Supreme Court originally ruled against him in 1944, but his conviction was overturned in 1983.Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole 
Served as the Territory of Hawaii's non-voting delegate to the U.S. Congress for 10 consecutive terms, during which he championed Native Hawaiian rights and spearheaded the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1921.Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
An Indian American lawyer who fought to retain his U.S. citizenship when the government moved against naturalized South Asian Americans in the mid-1920s. In 1927, he won a final decision in his favor before the Supreme Court in United States v. Pandit.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:
Update: All attorneys from the United States Attorney's Offices have withdrawn from participating in this year's White Collar Crime Conference.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...
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VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti | CNN Politics
Becky Halioua, who was investigated after attending a vigil for Pretti shortly after his death, feels the VA probe is a “scare tactic” and an attempt to silence those “with the loudest voices.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.
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Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.
ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/04/2026
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21/04/2026
still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work. Pure hackery.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):
Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer. For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” 

Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”

Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.”

“He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT.

In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.)

The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school.

“I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com "Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."
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Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The simpler a potential change appears, the more likely that it has not been implemented because it features deceptive complexity that others have tried and failed to resolve. From an interview of an IRS employee who worked on Direct File donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
I think that anyone who comes into government and wants to make change goes through a period of, like, understanding just how difficult it is to accomplish and just how just what the scope and scale of complexity that you’re dealing with…someone should patent a law that states that the easier a project looks in government, the harder it is to do in reality. The justification being: if it looks really easy and common sense, it means that 20 people have already thought about it and tried it before you, and they’ve all failed because it’s still around…They don’t know what skills are necessary to do this work because I don’t think they understand the complexity of the work. And meanwhile are creating an environment where the people who do know how to do that work either are being forced out by being fired or are not interested in sticking around.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
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What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
We CAN have nice things - if we want them
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/04/2026
If you can automatically register people for the draft, then you can automatically register people to vote. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
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Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December
Automatic registration into Selective Service was mandated in December 2025, when President Donald Trump signed into law the fiscal year 2026 NDAA.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process. Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.
Screenshot of sophiafornc from Threads: This is eleven year-old Genesis and six year-old Denis, two Durham elementary school students whose families came here to seek asylum. On Monday, they were detained by ICE and immediately sent back to Honduras without due process. Don't you dare tell me that this is making our country safer.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This should be the headline in every newspaper.
Headline in Le Monde: 'The president of the United States is clearly insane': Donald Trump's escalatory rhetoric raises questions over his mental health
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Calling for a cease-fire in the evening does not somehow erase calling for the genocide of an entire civilization the same day. This is erratic and reckless leadership. In fact it isn’t leadership at all. He is unfit. He has always been unfit for the presidency.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/04/2026
Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz: • paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee” • diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees • failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families He also received a Trump pardon.
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
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Gia Chevis @giachevis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Brought to you by the "pro-life" party www.npr.org/2026/04/04/n...
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Congress gave money for global HIV work. The Trump administration isn't spending it
U.S. work combatting HIV/AIDS has saved millions of lives globally. Under the Trump administration, funding has been slow in coming and unpredictable, wreaking havoc on people trying to do the work.
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