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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 08/05/2025
great moments in book titles theatln.tc/HkXaLShD
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“What Do J.D. Vance, Dimes Square, and the Art World Have in Common? More than You Think…” Not so long ago, Peter Thiel “was reported to be courting influence among a nebulous art-adjacent constellation of downtown NY creative types.” 8/29/24 1/ www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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What Do J.D. Vance, Dimes Square, and the Art World Have in Common? More than You Think
Vice Presidential-hopeful J.D. Vance is part of a new, internet-fueled conservative movement led by billionaire Peter Thiel.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Correct.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Lithuanian president & people paid their respects to 4 American servicemen who died during training exercise. When the soldier’s remains arrived at Dover Air force Base, no US president was there to honor them on behalf of a grateful nation. Trump was golfing & will dine with rich Saudis
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Headless Rex @headlessrex.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The consistent message is "I will sacrifice nothing and you are not sacrificing yourselves enough for me"
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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/04/2025
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:
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Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these…
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Every officer involved in these grabs knows what they are doing is illegal. It is absolutely essential that they be criminally prosecuted once possible, in order to restore basic rule of law. The correct response to an order you know to be unlawful is to refuse it and resign if necessary.
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Cactusdan @cactusdan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They're doing this on purpose. Snatch people off the streets and then try to move them to another state as quickly as possible so a judge in their home state has no time to tell them they can't. It's a disgusting flaunting of accountability and due process.
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Thread Reader by Skywriter | unroller @unroll.skywriter.blue · 26/03/2025
The thread as a shareable webpage: skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:we7sid…. Powered by @skywriter.blue
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“The Rockbridge Transition Project will create a ‘government-in-waiting’ with the people & plans to staff the next Republican Administration. The goal is to be ready to govern effectively…from day one...
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Dale Kirby 👊🇨🇦🔥 @dalekirby.com · 26/03/2025
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, a Claremont Institute alumnus, is throwing a misogynistic tantrum bc Justice Coney Barrett ruled against Trump in his bid to freeze congressionally approved USAID payments. 1/
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I sometimes struggle to describe the radical shift in what’s happening given that, in fact, a lot of the shitty things happening are extensions of things that were long happening to certain groups of people.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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We’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
The Trump admin said a soccer player had a gang tattoo. It’s a tattoo of Real Madrid’s logo.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Steve Bannon has claimed that he’s the guy who “headed up” the “Peter Thiel deconstruct the administrative state part” of Trump’s 2016 transition team and that Thiel protege Blake Masters was his (Bannon’s) “wingman” in that endeavor. (It appears that Thiel has been pulling strings all along.) 1/
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Arthricia @arthricia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Right now - right this minute - DOGE is trying to destroy library services with massive implications.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"Mobilize your alumni networks. Enlist families whose children's lives have been saved in your hospitals; reach out to companies that have commercialized your research, make contact with universities in red and blue states, public and private, who face the same threat. Do it fast." /2
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college president phoned me the other day to ask for advice. He sounded worried. His institution is facing devastating cuts to federal research funding that helps his university maintain a great medical school and pathbreaking science labs. Faced with such a threat, he wanted to know what he could learn from my time as president of Central European University when Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán, tried to expel us from Budapest.
CEU, a U.S.-accredited graduate school in the humanities and social sciences, was founded by George Soros and a group of dissident Hungarian academics back in 1991. For 25 years, CEU stayed out of politics, trained graduate students, and earned a reputation as a serious scholarly institution.
Then in late 2016, right after Donald Trump's first election victory, Orbán attacked. There is a certain kind of populist politician who needs enemies to give someone his base can hate. Orbán chose Soros.
In the election campaign from late 2016 to the spring of 20
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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Trump’s Education Department layoffs will gut the Office for Civil Rights — the team that investigates racial and religious discrimination, sexual harassment in schools, and ensures students with disabilities get the accommodations they need. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complai...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16/03/2025
Our Democratic senators need to step up and call for new leadership. Send your senators an email and urge them to publicly demand that Sen. Schumer steps aside.
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Email Your Democratic Senator and Demand They Call on Senator Schumer to Step Aside
On March 14, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer failed to stand up against Donald Trump’s power grab. Instead of using the leverage Senate Democrats had, he caved—paving the way for extreme funding ...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A must-read for everyone who thinks that things are fine because life is going on normally for most people
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Trump administration has ordered that the Justice Department unit responsible for prosecuting public corruption "will essentially be disbanded." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Admin leader Dudek asked at one point, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know.” (!!!)
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Does this look familiar?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Never enough of YOUR tax money for YOUR Medicare, veterans benefits, or social security but always enough of YOUR tax money to protect THEIR corporations and oligarchs. #3E #TeslaTakeDown #EndOligarchy
Chicago police protecting a Tesla dealership from peaceful protestors
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/03/2025
good advice. while you wait for them to do that, you can subscribe to citationneeded.news
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Citation Needed
Citation Needed features critical coverage of the cryptocurrency industry and of issues in the broader technology world. It is independently published by Molly White, and entirely supported by reader...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“The Frightening Intersection of Christian Nationalism & Techno-Fascism *** Justifying social stratification & the uneven distribution of power through religiosity is a very old trick that has resulted in some familiar social forms.” By Kelly Hayes, 8/8/24 1/ organizingmythoughts.org/the-frighten...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
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asmith17.bsky.social @asmith17.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Why are you not wearing a suit? Why are you not thanking me enough?
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We are on Russia's side now. But it is important to remember, they are not on our side. Our administration will work to advance Russian interests while Russia's works to undermine ours with the ultimate goal of destroying us.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 28/02/2025
Democracy Forward seeks answers for the American public and files suit to release public records on OMB’s role in freezing federal funds. The suit seeks transparency around administration's decision to abruptly pause critical federal funding for essential services for Americans (1/2)
Suit Filed To Uncover Records Improperly Withheld Relating to Federal Funding Freeze
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 27/02/2025
Hungary has requested that EU member countries get full access to grant contracts signed between the European Commission and NGOs.
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Hungary demands to see all European Commission contracts with NGOs
The request follows claims the EU executive was paying nonprofits to lobby on its behalf.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/02/2025
Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?
Pete Hegseth on FOX NEWS with headline chyron that reads: Tracking Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
How much does it cost to feed a child with SNAP benefits? $6 per day.
  How much does the GOP Budget give away to the rich? $6 million — per billionaire.
  The American people won’t forget the GOP's betrayal.
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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here is what the inventor of free markets, Adam Smith, had to say about lawless capitalism:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Posted by @acnewsitics.bsky.social on another platform: “Why is Pam Bondi taking so long to release the Epstein files? What is she hiding?”
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
An American hasn’t died from measles in the past 9 years. It’s only February, and this outbreak is completely uncontained. This isn’t normal.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
BREAKING Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
the pinkscare is upon us
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Yevhen Kompanets keeps cooking amazing food for Ukrainian Defenders. This time, he cooked "combat varenyky", as he called them. 📹: zhenjakmpanec/TikTok
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