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David Noll @david.noll.org · 15/07/2025
a bona fide scandal, imo www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
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Contempt Plan for Trump Aides Has Been Paused by Appeals Court for Months
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Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This is genuinely the news every day
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
U.S. District Court Judge Sean Jordan of Texas’s Eastern District, who was appointed by Trump, removed a Biden-era finalized ruled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports.
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Federal judge reverses rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports
A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized ruled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports.U.S.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15/07/2025
Thank you, @dahlialithwick.bsky.social. Much appreciated.
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This Is the Most Inspiring Thing I’ve Heard About Democracy at the Supreme Court in Ages
It’s not every day that a political leader talking about the state of U.S. democracy is able to hit two tricky notes at the same time: realism and hope.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Republicans just unanimously voted to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
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A Blue View @ablueview.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
100-Year Catastrophes #ABlueView🧵1/3
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Changing the rules of the game when you fear you can’t hold onto power under the existing legal rules. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thanks to people like RFKjr & the Fotus administration, measles cases are on the rise. A once vaccine-preventable disease is now harder to handle as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength. This shouldn’t be happening in 2025!! #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Because the DeSantis administration refuses to allow lawmakers to inspect the Everglades concentration camp, all the public has to go on is reporting like the below... @annaforflorida.bsky.social @shevrinjones.bsky.social
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Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz allege inhumane conditions at detention center
YouTube video by CBS Miami
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.
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ElizabethC 💙🐸 @econklin44.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
#ProudBlue Trump is busy claiming credit for Biden's accomplishments. His website claims credit for $2.6 T in new investments in the US, But Reuters review found $1.3 T originated under Biden, or represents routine spending. Meanwhile, he's shut down many others. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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'Trump Effect' website takes credit for US investment made under Biden
Within hours of taking office in January, President Donald Trump boasted about attracting $3 trillion in new corporate investments to the United States. Since then, Trump has said the investments have swelled to $14 trillion, or roughly half of the nation's annual gross domestic product.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Good column here by @sulliview.bsky.social that captures a lot of my frustration: "We need the American press to be at its best right now. But it’s not. Not even close." margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-big-me...
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Two big media companies, two troubling developments
CBS News's parent caves to Trump and The New York Times publishes a made-up scandal.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN
inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members:
1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual.
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Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160
Filed 07/07/25
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The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned.
Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).
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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: Trump just slapped massive new tariffs on U.S. companies importing from a dozen countries, starting August 1: Bangladesh – 35% Bosnia – 30% Cambodia – 36% Indonesia – 32% Japan – 25% Serbia – 35% South Korea – 25% Thailand – 36% Tunisia – 25%
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Here's Kristi Noem saying that she is taking money away from FEMA in order to fund the construction of concentration camps to house members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Per DEA, number of Tren de Aragua gang members in the US: zero.
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Mike tee @miketee.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Oh now tiny countries the problem www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
politico.com
Trump team moves goalposts on tariffs again
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns tariffs will ‘boomerang back’ Aug. 1.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
It's betrayal, not failure. They don't see themselves as failures, but as huge successes. The guys who pushed EMAILS story all got promoted. They like Trump and want to help him. The pro-Trump forces that now run most of the mainstream media are not wayward allies, they are our enemies
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“The question Trump and his team ought to face is simple: 'Why has American job growth slowed this year to a 15-year low?'” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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New U.S. jobs report shows 2025 is off to a discouragingly sluggish start
Over the first six months of the year, American job growth has slowed to a 15-year low. It's worth asking why.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
🚨CONFIRMED WALL OF WATER Around 8.5ft to near 12.0 Ft moving down the Guadalupe River in the next few hours per River Forecast says Officials in Texas Please tepost & notify friends & family
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I feel like I heard something about grocery prices last election. Maybe it was just the wind.
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US threatens EU with 17% tariff on food exports
Warning was handed to EU trade commissioner at Washington meetings
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
ICE’s $175 billion windfall: Trump’s mass deportation force set to receive military-level funding ICE is set to receive a massive infusion of cash aimed at building the capacity to detain more than 100,000 people www.salon.com/2025/07/03/i...
salon.com
ICE's $175 billion windfall: Trump's mass deportation force set to receive military-level funding - Salon.com
ICE is set to receive a massive infusion of cash aimed at building the capacity to detain more than 100,000 people
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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Who will the Republicans blame for Trump’s shit economy now that they’re taken away federal Medicaid from the undocumented immigrants who NEVER USED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s lobbyists spent tens of thousands of dollars on things like gifts and meals for Texas elected officials this year. But, in most cases, state transparency laws do not require them to disclose which elected officials they wine and dine. With @kutnews.bsky.social & @texastribune.org
propublica.org
Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 03/07/2025
The nation’s immigration detention centers will have more funding than the federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Trump’s Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids.
The budget gives $175 billion to immigration enforcement. “The orders of magnitude are going to be multiplied,” immigration experts say.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 03/07/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Details How CECOT Is A Torture Camp People have referred to CECOT, the Salvadoran gulag, as “The Prison that Nobody Leaves.” That’s one reason (of many) that it was so concerning that the Trump regime was renditioning people there with no due process. Indeed, most had no…
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Details How CECOT Is A Torture Camp
People have referred to CECOT, the Salvadoran gulag, as “The Prison that Nobody Leaves.” That’s one reason (of many) that it was so concerning that the Trump regime was renditioning people there with no due process. Indeed, most had no criminal record at all. This is why there were concerns that it would, in fact, be impossible to ever get Kilmar Abrego Garcia (who goes by Kilmar Abrego) back: because El Salvador’s dictator, Nayib Bukele, would never let anyone out to say what they had seen.
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🤬 #CutMedicaidLoseYourJob 🏥 REPUBLICAN MONSTERS 👺 VOTED TO DESTROY 🚫 MEDICAID ⛑️ 🚩 we VOTE THEM OUT in 2026 🔥
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Yes, the budget funds a vast expansion of concentration camps at home and will spur a larger system abroad. After looking at countries that have gone this way (including the US, which has been on this path for some time), I can say many of us are still in a position to fight it. But we need to act.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It's striking how different the coverage of Obamacare (Democrats just signed their death warrant by defying The People) at -3% approval was in the mainstream media vs the coverage of this bill (Another glorious win for Trump!) at -33%
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 02/07/2025
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congressman Tim Walburg is so excited to give billionaires amazing tax cuts he is willing to let the Ascension Borgess-Lee Hospital in Dowagiac. No concern for the people of SW Michigan but lots of love for the billionaires. Call him and tell him #VoteNo
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The death toll from the Trump Administration’s foreign aid cuts could total more than the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust, Ukrainians killed in the Holodomor, and Cambodians killed in the genocide by the Khmer Rouge, combined. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
nbcnews.com
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
Chris Murphy: "By taking away the power of courts to restrain the president when he is clearly acting in an unlawful manner, as he is when he says children born in the US are no longer citizens, you are assisting him in trying to undermine the rule of law and undermine our democracy."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/06/2025
Don’t let the name fool you—“Think New Mexico” is protecting corporate interests. They’re trying to hoodwink us. “New Mexico Safety Over Profit” is the one fighting for patients hurt by for-profit hospitals. That’s why they’re under attack.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Yes, they are. Shameless.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
Alright everyone. Republicans are going to force a vote on their gender affirming care provision even though it violates Senate rules. They’ll need 60 votes to keep it in. Now is the time to make your voice heard and ask your Senators to stand on the side of health care freedom.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
While America slept, Republicans voted to advance a bill that will cause the largest: • loss of health insurance in history • cut to food assistance in history • hike in college costs in history • spike in utility bills in history All to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
Mamdani on "globalize the intifada": "That's not language that I used. The language that I used and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights."
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GingerSpice💙 @thedesertginger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Republicans wouldn't dream of passing a bill like this if they were worried about reelection... Take that how you will
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
This is a fraud on the American people that would make even the Enron scammers blush. Senate Republicans are violating the rules to hide the cost of their plan and bankrupt the country — all to give tax cuts to billionaires.
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CBO Tells Merkley that Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is Out of Compliance with the Rules of Reconciliation | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
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OrangeTACO @goodyse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Everything Trump does sucks
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Over 60 percent of people on Medicaid who don't qualify via SSI/SSDI work full-time or part-time. Republican politicians never cite this number. www.politico.com/live-updates...
politico.com
'We don't pay people in this country to be lazy,' Mullin says of Medicaid work requirements
The Oklahoma senator says only the unworthy will lose their benefits.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation." www.politico.com/live-updates...
politico.com
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Me: The liberal media you grew up with is no more. Most of the major outlets are pretty openly conservative now. Audience: <scoffs> NY Times:
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