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@greatk8.bsky.social
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On the socials to stay informed about politics, disinformation, pandemics, public health, and climate issues. Side interests in social work, mixed methods research, audiobooks, rescue dogs. Bluesky is flooded with scam accounts so I block liberally. 🫘

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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/04/2025
Multiple collisions and near collisions at the D.C. airport where 67 people died on January 27 are bringing Trump's decision to eliminate the membership of the Aviation Security Committee, and Elon Musk’s firing of around 400 employees at the Federal Aviation Administration into the spotlight.
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Another DC Plane Collision Puts Trump and Musk’s FAA Cuts in the Spotlight
The administration has fired key employees and threatened to cancel major contracts, making plane crashes more likely.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Nothing will ever match the cruelty of the first Trump Administration’s child separation policy, but they’re really trying hard to match it in their second term with these deportations.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Perhaps media should look at possible motivations here? Gabbard isn’t a _real_ Texan—and the Texas GOP doesn’t need her—so her residency declaration there (likely a fraud) was to save money. The reason she needs to remain a _Hawaii_ voter is Trump and the GOP think she can flip a Senate seat there.
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Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii | CNN Politics
Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity ...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Robert F. Kennedy today, talking about his past work with persons with disabilities. Shameful.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Elon Musk cutting that waste, fraud and abuse!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I keep coming back to this and wondering why Politico didn't ask Bessent to ID who he thinks are still our allies. Denmark? Canada? Germany? Seems like a faulty starting premise. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Bessent has offered few public clues about how the administration will approach the task, other than to say he’s “putting a process in place” to work with the Commerce Department and U.S. Trade Representative. He’s said that countries that reached out to the Trump administration quickly, like Japan, will be prioritized. And he said earlier this week that the U.S. can *“probably reach a deal with our allies”* and then “approach China as a group.” Other White House officials, such as National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, said the administration has gotten “offers on the table” from more than 15 countries.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
NEW: Palantir is helping DOGE with a massive IRS data project. @makenakelly.bsky.social has the scoop:
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Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a "mega API," WIRED has learned.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...
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Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a "mega API," WIRED has learned.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/04/2025
he Trump administration this week reportedly classified thousands of immigrants living in the United States as dead in a Social Security database in an effort to force them out of the country
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Trump Admin Lists Many Living Immigrants as Dead in Social Security Database
The agency’s acting commissioner reportedly said in an email the financial lives of the immigrants would be terminated.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
No! Stop this, major media! That’s _not_ what just happened! DOJ at _no_ point made _any_ commitment to “bring Garcia home,” nor did it ask for “more time” to “bring Garcia home.” It said that Garcia is in the custody of El Salvador and the court has no jurisdiction there. Get it right, dammit!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/04/2025
A lawyer who represents a pro-Palestinian student protester in Michigan was separated from his family and detained on his way back from a family vacation. “This wasn’t something that was random,” says Amir Makled. “They had a whole profile about me.”
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Lawyer Representing Pro-Palestine Protester Detained at Airport, Phone Seized
Amir Makled believes he was targeted for his work: “They had a whole profile about me,” he says.
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K8 @greatk8.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I'd love to see her ruined professionally, financially, and deported the fuck to India after she is imprisoned.
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K8 @greatk8.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Wait, she's an immigrant. Born in India. Brown-skinned. What is she doing working for the white supremacists, anti-immigrant, Nazi-lovers? Same with Antonio Gracias, brown-skinned immigrant billionaire pal of Eldolf Musk, working at DOGE, leaking SS data about immigrants to get them deported.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Jesus Christ..,. these people are totally out of control.
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University
In an unusual move, the government is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal funding.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/04/2025
"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
What if the insider trading the other day didn't come from Trump insiders or even CEOs to whom Bessent blabbed, but instead from RU and Chinese cut-outs benefitting from hacking into the Small WorldTariffFiesta Signal chat?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A third, culminating report on the Trump-El Salvador Scandal—as massive and fully sourced as the first two—is coming to PROOF on Sunday or Monday. I want it out when Bukele arrives in D.C. on Monday. All told, PROOF will have published almost a whole book on this. Stay tuned. Subscribe below:
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Proof | Seth Abramson | Substack
Know Better. Click to read Proof, by Seth Abramson, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
More efforts to advance a narrative of grievance.
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State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
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K8 @greatk8.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Antonio Garcia. A brown-skinned man. His parents were immigrants. Why is is aligned with the world's most famous Nazi who also hates immigrants? He taught at General Assembly back in the day generalassemb.ly/instructors/...
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Antonio J. Gracias Bio
Antonio is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Valor Equity Partners, the private equity firm he founded in 2001..
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 11/04/2025
Every time RFK Jr fails – which is painfully often, especially this week – I'm reminded that Senate Republicans had an opportunity to protect Americans from Kennedy. And they failed spectacularly. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pats himself on the back despite repeated, consequential failures
RFK Jr. boasted his response to a measles outbreak should be seen as a “model for the rest of the world.” That’s ridiculous.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trump has just replaced President Obama’s official presidential portrait in the White House with a painting of himself.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"For now, that means the tariffs are not being collected by the U.S. government..." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ a "glitch" you say? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
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Trump tariff collection for freight shipments delayed by Customs 'glitch'
A Customs notice reported a glitch in a system shippers use to exempt freight from tariffs. Logistics experts say it is a bad sign for the supply chain.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate": "While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
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Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN
The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Judge Rules That Columbia University Activist Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported
A Louisiana immigration judge has ruled that the U.S. can deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil based on the federal government’s argument that he poses a national security risk.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
US measles total passes 700 as Arkansas reports first cases The CDC said cases have now been reported from 25 jurisdictions, with though most are part of 7 outbreaks. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Mein Kampf” (TWO copies no less) remains on the shelves, but “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
Did you know that every single active duty service member pays into social security at the full cost but billionaires are capped at what they contribute?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
If you work for the SSA and want bulletins and updates, you have to create a Twitter account. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...
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SSA shifts to X posts for official messaging after cuts to communications staff
SSA is once again walking back plans that would have limited the agency's level of phone support to beneficiaries.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for 80 million people www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
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Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for 80 million people
Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
When do you think the White House will announce that they've had a beautiful call with Xi and the China tariffs are going to be lowered or paused?
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11/04/2025
This was three months ago.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
The only waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid comes from private sector health corporations. And Rick Scott.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
SCOTUS: Facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia JUDGE XINIS: Tell me what you're doing to return him DOJ: We need a week XINIS: You have 3 hours DOJ: No There's supposed to be a hearing in 10 minutes.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
I friggin told you guys... !! A short rant from last night: www.muellershewrote.com/p/is-the-abr...
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Is the Abrego Garcia Supreme Court Ruling Really "Unanimous"
Yes, all the justices agree the Maryland father should be returned to the US, but the Supreme Court shouldn't have intervened in the first place. That may have been what took so long to get a ruling.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/04/2025
🚨 ⚠️ WELP ⚠️ 🚨 I think we know one of the reasons DOGE was infiltrating the federal payroll systems. Multiple sources are telling me that their union dues are no longer being deducted from their paychecks.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Imagine being wrongfully sent to prison in a foreign country—and then simply abandoned. It’s not just un-American; it’s unconstitutional.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
If Big Law firms won't even pretend to stand up for themselves vis-a-vis Trump, why should their clients believe that they would stand up for them?
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K8 @greatk8.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I truly hope Leavitt becomes ruined professionally and financially after this.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is some next level audacity to respond to federal judges the way this cabal of lawyers representing Trump/the Trump Administration has done. But I have YET to see the kind of judicial bench-slap that's frankly needed to put them in their place...
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/04/2025
Elon Musk, who is leading the charge to radically reduce the size of the federal workforce on behalf of President Trump, bought X (then Twitter) in October 2022. The platform has for years battled the spread of misinformation. The full scoop here:
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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/04/2025
The letters and press releases were a crucial communications tool for SSA employees. It could also impact people receiving benefits who rely on the letters for information about access benefits. “Do they really expect senior citizens will join this platform?” asked one current employee.
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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
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