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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

As the shutdown continues, RIFs targeting more than 1,400 Treasury employees include IRS staff who help ensure large businesses pay what they owe. These cuts threaten taxpayers, civil servants, and the agency’s ability to prepare for the next filing season. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

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Reductions in Force; Shutdown Will Hurt Honest Taxpayers, Civil Servants as IRS Prepares for Next Filing Season

November 03, 2025: Last month, the Trump Administration issued reduction in force (RIF) notices to over 1,400 Treasury employees, including IRS employees who ensure large businesses pay the taxes they...

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 04/11/2025

Since 1938, workers have counted on overtime pay when working over 40 hrs/week. But Project 2025 proposes allowing to skirt the rules. States need to act now to defend/protect workers’ right to overtime pay. @dskamper.bsky.social and @jensherer.bsky.social describe how ↴

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Overtime pay: State solutions to the U.S. worker rights crisis

What does current federal law say about overtime pay? The overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provide protections to most hourly workers and many low-salaried workers, guarantee...

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#Justice Now is the time for justice; if not now when.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

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Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

#Constitution Bivens (1971) let people sue federal agents for violating constitutional rights, but the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Egbert v. Boule has made such lawsuits nearly impossible—federal agents are now almost completely immune from civil liability. TRUMP'S PARAMILITARY TROOPS INCLUDED.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Bivens (1971) let people sue federal agents for violating constitutional rights, but the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Egbert v. Boule has made such lawsuits nearly impossible—federal agents are now almost completely immune from civil liability. TRUMP'S PARAMILITARY TROOPS INCLUDED.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Inside Syria's death factory: Assad's regime carried out industrial-scale torture and executions that killed tens of thousands over more than a decade. "The worst atrocity of the 21st century" in terms of government involvement. @jmalsin.bsky.social Hamza Bonduk www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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A Syrian Death Factory Gives Up Its Secrets

Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world.’

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The FBI, which normally uses a polygraph on suspected crooks and terrorists, is now turning the lie detector machine on its own people. Among the questions? Have you ever said anything negative about Kash Patel, reports Adam Goldman www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

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The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This an important step in protecting the 14th amendment's birth-right citizensip from Retrumplican assault. We'll see if SCOTUS is willing to revert to the kind of thinking that led to the Dred Scott decision that blacks were categorically not citizens, overturned by the 14th's grant of citizenship.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

#americangestapo THIS IS SCARY AS HELL. THIS NOT OK. RETRUMPLICANS HAVE GOT TO GO!! ORGANIZE, MOBILIZE FIGHT BACK FOR EVERYONE'S SAKE. My Jewish father's family came from Slovokia and most of us were wiped out in the holocaust. You don't want to experience real fascism!!! abc7.com/post/federal...

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Federal agents blast door off, shatter window during raid in Huntington Park

Federal agents blew off a door during a raid at a Huntington Park residence Friday morning while a woman and her two young children were inside.

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Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’ll Be Glad When You Dead… Buck Woods tells German-speaking Nazis what he thinks of them while performing in France. Somehow feels relevant these days. From REUNION IN FRANCE, starring Joan Crawford and John Wayne, released on Christmas, 1942.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

#RightsinDanger One of our best scholars of Congress shows how what he calls "Trump's Hellscape" is even worse than most of us think, even people like us on bluesky who are paying attention. Thanks Norm. The American people are driven by fairness and decency open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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The American people are driven by fairness and decency

Everyone who has a heart and conscience needs to rail against indecency if we are to retain any semblance of our American ideals.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

#HealthPolicy Childhood vaccine program on the chopping block. Trump is at best an accessory to manslaughter and in this case CHILDSLAUGHTER. TRUMP = PREVENTABLE DEATHS FOR KIDS Trump’s anti-health secretary strikes again open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Trump’s anti-health secretary strikes again

Kennedy's latest move imperils children in America and around the world.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This is important to all Americans, as eventually we transition to health care coverage for all, like every other "affluent" country and that must be a down payment on global justice, whatever that will mean. You Thought Medicare Was Safe? Think Again. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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You Thought Medicare Was Safe? Think Again.

Sequestration threatens more than $530 billion in cuts to the program over nine years. The results will be catastrophic.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Reminder: The "Big Bill" (H.R.1) would raise the uninsured by nearly 60% in the next 10 years, wiping out most of the gains since the ACA So Big Bill is designed to repeal most of the main accomplishments of Obamacare without repealing Obamacare directly timothymcbride.substack.com/p/the-big-bi...

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The "Big Bill" (H.R.1) would raise the uninsured by nearly 60% in the next ten years, wiping out most of the gains since the ACA

The uninsured in the U.S. dropped by about 40% since the passage of the ACA; projected effects of legislation would raise uninsured 60%, nearly wiping out all the gains since the ACA was implemented

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 03/07/2025

His attack on Powell suggests that the report is weak, BLS is honest, & POTUS is scared. bsky.app/profile/just...

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Among other things "We do not know, for instance, just how much data Musk’s gang of pimple-faced coders stole while they were ransacking federal department" newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning

His “departure” from the government is anything but.

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Jennifer Sullivan @jenniferlsullivan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Republican House bill would take away health coverage and raise health care costs for millions of people who rely on Medicaid or #ACA marketplaces for coverage. Read more about the harmful policies in this bill in our summary here: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

A list of five ways the House-passed reconciliation bill takes health coverage away from people and raises health care costs: Medicaid work reporting requirements, enrollment red tape, cuts to immigrant eligibility, higher cost-sharing, and premium spikes for marketplace enrollees.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This week at CBPP, we focused on #FoodAssistance, #immigration, #health, #StateBudgets and #StateTaxes, the #FederalBudget, #SocialSecurity, and the #economy. www.cbpp.org/blog/in-case...

House Republican Bill: All States Face Substantial New SNAP Costs, Likely Forcing Deep Cuts to Food Assistance

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Trump’s war on scientific grant-watch.us/updates.html.

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Updates – Grant Watch

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

#Constitution Lucid explanation of why Trump plane gift violates the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Talking Feds Substack Trump’s “Palace in the Sky” is a Clear Constitutional Violation Also, nice characterization of Stephen Miller as faintly reptilian.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The U.S.-Ukraine Agreement: Legality and Transparency www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-... The chief benefit of the agreement to Ukraine comes not from any U.S. concessions but rather from the fact that it gives the United States a continuing stake in Ukraine’s survival and prosperity

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The U.S.-Ukraine Agreement: Legality and Transparency

The recently announced mineral deal is likely a lawful “sole executive agreement” that the president need not submit to Congress, but subsequent implementing agreements are likely to raise questions o...

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#Imagine there came a time when the Earth reached a critical temperature, the first raindrops started to fall to the surface of the planet, and it probably rained for centuries.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#Imagine an Earth with lots of little volcanic islands dotted all over it. Now imagine one with Trump melting in the volcano. Brief relief.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#FreeUkraine A step in the right direction. I'm not overly optimistic that represents a real movement in Trump's view given the insane signals of appeasing Putin. At least Neville Chamberlain was sincere if naive.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/ukraine-agreement-investment-00319855

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

US Senator John Kennedy: "Putin has reneged on every promise that he has made to President Trump.His latest proposal is, well, nothing. He wants to keep all the territory that he's taken.He wants to prohibit Ukraine from joining NATO,he wants America& Europe to stop helping Ukraine.

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 28/04/2025

In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage ⚠️ In the US, no one can live with dignity on $7.25/hr. But instead of raising the minimum wage, Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid & make it harder for workers to access basic needs programs like SNAP: www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

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The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025

In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (...

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

About 8M seniors living below the poverty line could lose help affording health care, food, & other essentials under proposals Congress could enact this year. Policymakers should ensure that seniors have enough resources to meet their basic needs. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

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2025 Budget Stakes: Proposals Would Mean Higher Costs, Less Help for Seniors | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Proposals that Congress could enact this year, including through fast-track “reconciliation” legislation, would reduce assistance that helps seniors — 8 million of whom have incomes below the...

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#SNAP helps over 40M people afford food. A proposal to shift 22.5% of benefit costs onto states would put that at risk. Our state-by-state estimates show how much states would have to pay to avoid cuts to food assistance. www.cbpp.org/blog/house-r...

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House Republicans Reportedly Planning to Shift Billions in SNAP Costs to States | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

House Agriculture Committee Republicans reportedly are likely to propose shifting billions of dollars in benefit costs in SNAP — which provides food assistance to more than 40 million children,...

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#Constitution "The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court." SCOTUS last night. 7-2. Ultra-reactionaries and corrupt, Alito and Thomas dissented.

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#Constitution "The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order." Wilkonson for 4th Circuit in Garcia kidnapping and stashing in El Salvador case.

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 17/04/2025

Trump's education cuts are part of a larger Republican attack on public education. Behind their culture war complaints, Republicans are trying to starve funding to K-12 public schools at the state and federal levels. www.epi.org/blog/trump-i...

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Trump is putting crucial school funding at risk by dismantling the Department of Education: See how much federal funding your school district could lose

Last month, President Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to move forward with plans to close the Department of Education (ED). While this move is illegal and has been met with litigati...

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Eric Saul Haiman @haimaneric.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

#Constitution. "The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order ... it claims ...that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done."

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/04/2025

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

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