Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care 711215276947
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2025It’s Furry Friends Friday! 🐾♥️💕 Have a fantastic weekend. Do some healing of your soul and know that I am grateful for you. After all, we’ve got matching scars. 7461141
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2025NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.projects.propublica.orgTrump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut... 7119661283
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Top brass (unnecessarily dragged away from posts around the world at the cost of $6M to taxpayers) illustrated loyalty to the Constitution. They remained stone-faced and refused to applaud during the most cringeworthy addresses ever delivered by a secdef and potus open.substack.com/pub/contrari...open.substack.comUndauntedPatriots from Boston to Quantico to Portland defend democracy 21522139
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialHakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Trump continues to hide behind deepfake videos. Meanwhile. Democrats are fighting to protect your healthcare. #DonaldTrumpsShutdown 1361136307
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025It’s a rank first amendment violation unless they also fire any trainee who displays any “political signage,”including MAGA messages. Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag 14407105
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialScience and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 03/10/2025@charlotteswwweb.bsky.social speech at the Capitol: “I have been a federal worker for 5 years and have served under 3 Presidents. I came to the FTC to fight for American consumers and workers, not to do favors for the President’s billionaire friends.”open.substack.comI am a federal worker. I choose democracy, healthcare, and the rule of law. Charlotte Slaiman speech…for the Civil Servants Coalition, Mon Sep 29 at the Capitol. 07223
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2025More NIH chaos. NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed. 02017
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialScience and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans: "We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it." youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...youtu.beMark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacityYouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition 6366185
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment. 352588476
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialkinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 03/10/2025🍂 🏛️ Nine Universities Asked to Commit to Administration Priorities for “multiple positive benefits” 001
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialThom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 03/10/2025A historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise… hartmannreport.com/p/twelve-ste...hartmannreport.comTwelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies DieA historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise… 816396
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 10/08/2025Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. But in Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records — even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted. With @bangordailynews.bsky.socialpropublica.orgA Maine Woman Paid Her Back Rent. Her Record Still Says She Was Evicted.Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never… 727677
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 10/08/2025The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 0156
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialHakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Democrats are pushing back hard against the Republican gerrymandering scheme. Why? To stop Trump from stealing the election. 1881286247
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 04/08/2025Dear Humans, Lo; everywhere you look, people are pushing back. From highway overpasses to the courtroom, we will not give in without a fight.thegodpodcast.comBless YOU For Not Giving UpSeriously. 10667231333
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialMoods of Florence @moodsofflorence24.bsky.social · 05/06/2025A new reading from Dr. Lena Rodriguez. youtu.be/6B9mZhLjSFA?...youtu.beWAR OF THE NARCISSISTS - ELON VS THE YETIYouTube video by Lena Down Under 011
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I always say KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! Tonight I’m a part of this community town hall on immigration to EMPOWER the people with knowing their rights in the face of illegal and unconstitutional tactics by the Trump Administration 16679156
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025open.substack.com/pub/contrari...open.substack.comEven Trump-appointed judges are resisting authoritarian ploysJudges have refused to buckle under or bow down 832951
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025NEW: A close look at Nike’s massive supply chain offers a case study in the possible ripple effects of the escalating global trade war and shows how vulnerable factory workers could get squeezed. With @oregonian.compropublica.orgHow Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Nike and Its WorkersThe sportswear company offers a case study in the ripple effects of the global trade war, including how workers can get squeezed. 826671
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialkinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 07/05/2025💥 NJ Fourth Grade Student: on Autism 🧪 First public speech School Board of Education Meeting Apr 29 “I want everyone to know that people with autism and other disabilities are not tragedies, but just different, like all people” 02010
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialTommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Brilliant. "I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat My Face." Just everyone else's face. Oh dear.🐆 #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory 53660226
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialOrange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Texas killed her www.propublica.org/article/neva...propublica.orgA Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency RoomsIt took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Te... 42366218
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025🚨NEWS: I've obtained a list of the Medicaid cuts in the Republican reconciliation package. The big one is that they're going to raise premiums and co-pays on beneficiaries at or above the federal poverty line ($15,650 for single people, $21,150 for a couple). That's what helps pay for the tax cuts.prospect.orgMedicaid Cuts in Republican Bill Would Charge Poor People More for CoverageThe cost-sharing requirements on beneficiaries above the federal poverty line is the most notable item in a menu of Medicaid cuts seen by the Prospect. 39876587
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2025DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...propublica.orgDOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of InterestBefore he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, ac... 721616766
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/05/2025A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.washingtonpost.comAnother Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in monthsThe latest loss of an F/A-18 fighter jet occurred during a failed landing aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. 64340011411
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialChris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 07/05/2025New: Helping to lay off 90% of the CFPB’s staff while holding $715K worth of stocks in companies that would benefit from a weakened CFPB “looks like a pretty clear-cut violation” of the federal criminal conflict-of-interest statute, one ethics expert said.propublica.orgDOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of InterestBefore he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, ac... 13466158
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialThom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 07/05/2025Will we defend the dream of self-rule, or surrender to the very powers our ancestors bled to escape? hartmannreport.com/p/the-republ...hartmannreport.comThe Republic or the Tyrants? The Choice Jefferson Faced in 1776 Is Now Ours in 2025Will we defend the dream of self-rule, or surrender to the very powers our ancestors bled to escape? 1216570
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Treas Scty Bessent told Congress that the Trump Admin is cutting the IRS to root out overly politicized audits. I can't tell you how much this is an invention of an invention. I'm a close student of the IRS & I don't recall even right-wing baseless accusations of Biden's politicization of the IRS. 1922356
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialCongresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 07/05/2025🚨🚨🚨There it is: an independent analysis showing that Republicans’ Medicaid cuts would lead to MILLIONS OF AMERICANS LOSING HEALTH CARE. 910141
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 06/05/2025"The loan’s $4,000 cap is nine times higher than the limit for most payday loans, and the company charges the equivalent of a 279.5% annual interest rate. To allow lenders to circumvent the state’s interest rate cap, the legislature simply called the interest something else: a “customary fee.” 724683
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialdavidmsloane.bsky.social @davidmsloane.bsky.social · 01/05/2025He certainly did a great job of narrowing their majority. 011
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialAlex Lawson @alaw202.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Donald “Uncertainty” Trump sure knows how to pick them. 1102
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Just did a substack live w @klasfeldreports.com to pore over the big AEA ruling by a Trump judge in SD Texas, but it's a game changer. Among other things, makes all the arguments about Abrego-Garcia's supposed gang membership IRRELEVANT. Don't care how bad a customer--can't use AEA to deport ANYONE. 530277
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025“Sinners” is returning to IMAX theaters for a limited release due to overwhelming popular demand “Audiences have spoken and we listened”collider.com'Sinners' Gets Limited IMAX Re-Release Due to Overwhelming Popular DemandSinners is coming back to IMAX theaters in 70mm due to overwhelming popular and critical demand. Here's how to get your tickets. 643888757
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025i.e. every single person down there now is being held unlawfully based on an illegitimate construction of the AEA. It's as if they just rounded people up and used the authority "I said so." It's an unbelievable mess now that, if it hold ups (and I think it will), is Admin's responsibility to remedy 33811199
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Opinion is meticulous esp in historical analysis, which you know will be a focus going up of Admin's nutty analysis that we are having a "predatory incursion" by a "foreign country." Judge doesn't just accept Ps' view of it but goes through history and finds a couple e.g's but they don't help Admin. 525235
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/05/202511 months ago The Guardian wrote a piece exposing the anonymous white nationalist known as "Lomez" on Twitter and who ran the press that published racists books by Steve Sailer. Today, Ross Douthat granted Lomez a friendly interview in the New York Times. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...theguardian.comRevealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing houseGuardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’ 441216495
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialthe mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Tears on Christmas morning? Kid's stockings empty? No dolls under the tree? Fear not, citizens! Give 'em some CHRISTCOIN! Trump's new Evangelical-approved crypto-currency! CHRISTCOIN! "He is Risen... but this Crypto Rises even Higher!" (Available at your local bread line). 2443382
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.social𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 01/05/2025A low income family struggles to buy a single doll at Christmastime, not 30. He is oblivious to how real Americans live. This is his war on Christmas. 1925063941
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025TEXAS: “A federal judge — appointed by Trump himself — has just ruled Trump's controversial attempt to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations is unlawful.”meidasnews.comTrump-Appointed Judge Rules Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act UnlawfulAnother loss in court for the Administration 301439375
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialLinda G @lindag333.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Everyone knows that Republicans don’t need to breathe air. 001
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialLinda G @lindag333.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I don’t understand why people are surprised when a liar lies to them. He was convicted of fraud. He rapes women. He cheated on every wife that he bought. These people are just delusional, and I have a problem feeling sorry for them. 596
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/05/2025Not only did America elect a spoiled five-year-old as president—he’s unraveling because he’s losing and can’t handle being called out. STARTED. GOING. 45080012194
Reposted by @hightidecirce.bsky.socialPatti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 01/05/2025WE COULD OF HAD JOY WE COULD OF HAD A ROBUST ECONOMY WHERE SMALL BUSINESSES THRIVE WE COULD OF HAD BETTER HEALTHCARE WITH MEDICAID AND MEDICARE ENHANCED Kamala last night "Please remember this Country is ours." "It doesn't belong to who is in the Whitehouse. IT BELONGS TO YOU." 571173268