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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
“Department of Government Efficiency.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/04/2025
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man theonion.com/salvado...
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Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
WASHINGTON—During a visit with President Donald Trump at the White House, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele claimed Monday that he “lacks the humanity” to return wrongly deported legal U.S. resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to America. “How can I return an innocent man to the United States when I don’t have the ability to feel […]
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It’s important to note this is not and was never about citizenship. It’s about removing diversity and dissent to authoritarian power. Every man denied due process deserves basic rights because they are human. But remember that they are just the first and no one is safe: www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
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'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/04/2025
The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid. “It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”
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Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment
"It's really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable...who need technologies to live."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Punch a bully in the nose and see what happens
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 18/04/2025
The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/04/2025
A presidential effort to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status could run up against a number of challenges, including violating federal law.
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History shows revoking Harvard's tax status won't be easy — or fast
A presidential effort to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status could run up against a number of challenges, including violating federal law.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/04/2025
Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
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Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/03/2025
Yep. Warned everyone. Privatization of everything is coming.
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Congresswoman Madeleine Dean @repdean.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The truth about Trump and House Republicans’ budget plan — it would slash Medicaid from 3 million PA residents. Children. Seniors. Adults with disabilities. New moms and newborns. That’s who will pay for Trump’s $4.5 trillion to billionaires and the ultra-wealthy.
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Congresswoman Madeleine Dean @repdean.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The President is lying. Social Security delivers hundreds of thousands of payments with 99.7% accuracy. Cutting the staff that helps Americans access the benefits they earned isn’t efficiency. It’s taking a wrecking ball to seniors' lives.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration." www.politico.com/live-updates...
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No more in-person town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans
Rep. Richard Hudson issued the edict after a spate of testy episodes.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Democrats should make ads out of this. Easy. "This is what Republicans think of you, Veterans." Also pair it up with Trump's comments about veterans who were injured or POWs.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Only been 40 days. The goal is to utterly dismantle America, sell it to billionaires, undo the world order to help Russia, privatize everything, and assume complete control and power for Trump who is never leaving peacefully. They want protests so he can crush them and declare Martial Law.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“Who's Showing Up to Vote in the Senate? Not John Fetterman” ⁦‪Reporting by Pablo Manriquez‬⁩ for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/whos-showi...
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Who's Showing Up to Vote in the Senate? Not John Fetterman
The Pennsylvania senator has skipped more votes than any other lawmaker in the chamber so far this year.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In a heathy democracy, the WHCA would fight this by boycotting all WH and travel events until the old system was restored. But they’re going to roll over and do whatever it takes to maintain “access” so they can be lied to in comfort
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people
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AF @arkansasfred.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Rest of the country forced to be Eagles fans
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
'We Cannot Be Clock-Worked Into Acceptance of This Brutal Violence' Your #longread for the weekend from Zeteo: ⁦‪@fbhutto‬⁩ meets and profiles UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine ⁦‪@FranceskAlbs‬⁩. Fascinating and worth your time:
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'We Cannot Be Clock-Worked Into Acceptance of This Brutal Violence'
Fatima Bhutto meets Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine turned internet idol, who has become a 'reluctant chronicler of genocide.'
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/01/2025
The possibility of a trade war erupted on Sunday between the U.S. and Colombia that could make coffee, flowers and raw materials more expensive for Americans.
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Trump Wants to Impose 25% Tariffs on Colombia. Here’s What Could Cost More.
Colombia is a relatively minor trading partner to the United States, but some industries are much more exposed than others.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/01/2025
This morning I reached 250,000 followers here on Bluesky, which is a gobsmackingly large number for me. Thanks so much for following me; I hope I make your experience in the sky better. To celebrate, I've donated to @aclu.org, which helps defend immigrant rights. www.aclu.org/issues/immig...
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Immigrants' Rights | American Civil Liberties Union
The fundamental constitutional protections of due process and equal protection embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to every person, regardless of immigration status.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Good day to re-up my piece from a couple years back on how the ‘lab-leak’ folks have won over much of the media & the public, without producing much hard evidence, in comparison with the scientists who still point to a natural origin for Covid. Receipts: www.msnbc.com/the-mehdi-ha...
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Mehdi Hasan: The case for Covid's natural origin has never been stronger.
People who believe the novel coronavirus was the result of a lab experiment don't have any evidence to support their theory.
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Says the white South African immigrant to America.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration. Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excellent post
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 21/01/2025
There's no better way to honor King than to build community. As we brace for the next four years, I’m grateful to everyone who joined us to create a space for healing & empowerment. Together we're powerful & together we'll create the just & equitable world that King envisioned.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley poses for a photo with MA-07 leaders at her ‘Day of Beloved Community’ event.Rep. Ayanna Pressley stands behind a podium delivering remarks. A photo of attendees at Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s  ‘Day of Beloved Community’ event.Rep. Ayanna Pressley holds a little girl.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“On Day 1, Trump Declares War on Migrants, Mexico, and the Constitution” Trump, writes Zeteo’s @premthakker.bsky.social, marked being ‘dictator-for-a-day’ flanked by four of the richest people on Earth – one of whom appeared to do a Nazi salute.
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On Day 1, Trump Declares War on Migrants, Mexico, and the Constitution
Trump marked being ‘dictator-for-a-day’ flanked by four of the richest people on Earth – one of whom appeared to do a Nazi salute.
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 21/01/2025
I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.
Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.

People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
He accidentally did a Nazi salute... TWICE. While talking about the future of Western civilization. He is who we think he is.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/01/2025
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/01/2025
Anthony Mitchell and his son, who both used wheelchairs, called for help in evacuating from the Eaton fire in California. They were found dead later that day, and now their family is asking what happened.
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A Father and Son Called for Help to Escape the Eaton Fire. None Came.
The man and his son, who both used wheelchairs, called for help in evacuating from the Eaton fire in California. They were found dead later that day, and now their family is asking what happened.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/12/2024
Breaking News: California and 11 other states are expected to receive permission to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars after 2035. nyti.ms/3ZW0JHW
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Biden Administration Is Said to Allow California to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars
California and 11 other states want to halt the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to try to stop them.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
genocide www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Last bone surgeon in northern Gaza killed, Palestinians say
Dr Sayeed Joudeh had come out of retirement to help during the war between Israel and Hamas.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A major development in western North Carolina. After a 53-day water crisis brought on by Hurricane Helene, Asheville's tap water is clear to drink.
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Asheville taps are clear to drink; boil water notice lifted
The City of Asheville lifted the boil water notice this morning.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/11/2024
A test site off the Oregon coast could be key to unlocking wave power in the United States. Surprisingly, residents aren’t opposed.
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This seaside town will power thousands of homes with waves
A test site off the Oregon coast could be key to unlocking wave power in the United States. Surprisingly, residents aren’t opposed.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/11/2024
The first Trump administration tried to remove two mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from government control. The second could finish the job.
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The upcoming housing battle that could roil mortgage costs even more
The first Trump administration tried to remove two mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from government control. The second could finish the job.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/11/2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs to offset the enormous cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts next year.
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Trump allies eye overhauling Medicaid, food stamps in tax legislation
As Republican leaders look for ways to offset the costs of a new set of tax cuts, social safety net programs are under discussion.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/11/2024
Wow. Bowing to fascists for ratings. It’s not like Morning Joe is investigative journalism requiring access for comment. This is for entertainment purposes only.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/11/2024
Civil-liberties lawyers alarmed by President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to launch mass deportations of undocumented immigrants sued the federal government Monday for information about how authorities might quickly remove people from the United States.
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ACLU files lawsuit seeking details on Trump’s plan for mass deportation
The lawsuit alleges that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to respond to requests for basic information about matters including flights.
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