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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW: DOJ is dropping its prosecution of a man it identified as an MS-13 leader and whose capture was celebrated with a huge press conference by AG Bondi, Kash Patel and Glenn Youngkin. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 07/04/2025
Stock market in complete limbo, retirement savings disappearing, farmers facing devastating uncertainty… and he went golfing. If he ran a company the way he ran the country this weekend, he’d be fired.
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Dylan Thomas fan in the house
Sign that says:

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
RAGE RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is a great message tool. Make it go viral.
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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So just to recap: 1. The reciprocal tariffs aren't reciprocal. The rates announced by Trump are unrelated to the tariffs charged by other countries. Imports from Brazil, which imposes relatively high tariffs, will face lower rates than countries that impose little or no tariffs on US goods.
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/04/2025
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This was….five months ago
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 28/03/2025
We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
What happened in Wisconsin is an example of what is most feared: That in a true democracy regular people have more power than a billionaire, that all the money in the world doesn’t change one person one vote.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/04/2025
This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: US federal judge allows DOGE to takeover $500 million office building for free. In fact, the building—and all of the property inside it—had already been transferred on Saturday.
wired.com
Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Takeover $500 Million Office Building For Free
It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Direct evidence of criminal election bribery under Wis. Stat. §12.11: “‘My name’s Ekaterina Deistler,’ she said in a video posted Monday morning. ‘I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.’”
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Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to 'vote'
Elon Musk's super PAC removed an X video from a $1M giveaway winner in which she said she received the money, in part, to 'vote.'
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:
wired.com
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"When he said, 'I have the highest poll numbers of any Republican for the last 100 years,' that wasn’t just wrong, it was the opposite of reality: At this point in their terms, every other GOP president since the dawn of modern polling has had more support than him." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
msnbc.com
Trump and his team pretend he’s riding a wave of popularity (but he’s not)
To defend Trump’s third term ambitions, the GOP keeps pointing to polls, which are a) irrelevant, and b) less impressive than they claim.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is the 20th straight hour of Booker speaking. This is the energy and honesty we need in a Senate leader, not what we have been getting. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, conducting research, regulating food and drugs.
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Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching, regulating food
Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Things are going great www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
S&P 500 and Nasdaq end worst quarter since 2022 as new tariffs loom
The S&P 500 is down by more than 4 percent since the start of the year as trade policy uncertainty has pummeled stocks.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”
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Hanna Herbst @hhumorlos.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Excellent explainer from @SteveVladeck.Bsky.social on why immigrants, including the men deported under Alien Enemy Act, are entitled to due process.
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Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law
Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
GOLDMAN hikes its odds of US recession to 35% — from a prior 20%. The move reflects “the sharp recent deterioration in household and business confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating greater willingness to tolerate near-term economic weakness in pursuit of their policies.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
(AFP) – China, South Korea and Japan agreed Sunday to strengthen free trade in the face of a raft of new tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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China, South Korea and Japan agree to strengthen free trade
China, South Korea and Japan agreed Sunday to strengthen free trade in the face of a raft of new tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is…more freakin lawyers resigning from weak-ass law firms
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a man is playing a guitar and singing into a microphone while another man is holding a drum stick .
ALT: a man is playing a guitar and singing into a microphone while another man is holding a drum stick .
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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ALT: Pm Private GIF
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”
nytimes.com
Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New: Chief Judge William Pryor of the 11th Circuit, who Trump considered a potential candidate for a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during his first term, in a podcast interview said impeaching judges was not the way to address court rulings parties disagree with. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
reuters.com
Conservative US appeals court judge knocks calls to impeach jurists
A conservative federal appeals judge who President Donald Trump considered a potential candidate for a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during his first term said impeaching judges was not the way to address court rulings with which parties disagreed.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Excellent explanatory graphic on front page of the New York Times (With one quibble: The annotation refers to the risk that targets of the operation could have had time to escape if the info was leaked. True. But should have included risk to U.S. crewmembers had this info leaked.)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!
The U.S. government claims on Reyes Mota's I-213 form, a document the Department of Homeland Security uses to support that someone is deportable, that he "may be a Tren de Aragua associate." But in those same documents, the government says he has no criminal records or immigration history in the United States. The government also uses someone else's last name in several parts of the document, identifies him with female pronouns, and uses two different unique identification numbers that immigration authorities use to keep track of individuals, raising questions about the reliability of Trump officials accusations against him.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Elise Stefanik" at her town hall. Questions about disappearing benefits, about her "house" in the district, always guarded, never inhabited. An old man remembered early on when she'd told him she didn't care for Trump. A little boy was afraid of getting killed in school. She had no words.
Black and white photo of a folding chair on an empty stage. In place of a person is a glossy photograph of Elise Stefanik.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
LOL, LMAO even
Newsmax, November 13, 2024: Trump Nominees From Congress- Rep. Mike Waltz, Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Elise Stefanik
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 26/03/2025
Economist/YouGov Poll, March 22-25 % of U.S. adult citizens who say the following is an ally or friendly | an enemy or unfriendly Canada 71% | 14% NATO 60% | 15% Ukraine 60% | 16% EU 58% | 15% UN 58% | 20% Mexico 55% | 27% Russia 11% | 70% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
More from me about the GOP strategy in this race - rev up the MAGA voter by turning it into a "support Trump and Musk" election. www.semafor.com/article/03/2...
semafor.com
Republicans put Trump’s court fight on the ballot
Anti-Musk or pro-MAGA? Wisconsin’s judicial election becomes a proxy war.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
For all the attention on Columbia rn, it feels like this story hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves: Musk/Trump cutting $800 MM from Johns Hopkins — leafing to 2,000 layoffs and termination of programs to stop TB, malaria, diarrhea and other deadly diseases hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/14/j...
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In wake of federal funding cuts, Johns Hopkins scales back USAID-supported work around the globe
Recent cancellation of federally funded grants results in significant changes for the university's global health activities
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
You know who could really make a difference right now by standing up in favor of legal principles, the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession? Fabled Republican BigLaw firms like Kirkland & Ellis, Sullivan & Cromwell and Jones Day. “Yet they remain silent.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Yesterday, Gabbard testified: “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat.” So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
BREAKING (I rarely get to say that): Judge Howell eviscerates DOJ’s motion to disqualify her from the Perkins Coie case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Case 1:25-cv-00716-BAH
Document 36
Filed 03/26/25
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PERKINS COIE LLP,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-716 (BAH)
V.
Judge Beryl A. Howell
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al.,
Defendants.
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Though this adage is commonplace, and the tactic overused, it is called to mind by
defendants' pending motion to disqualify this Court: "When you can't attack the message, attack
the messenger." Defendants filed this motion less than two weeks after this Court issued a
temporary restraining order barring defendants from enforcing against plaintiff Perkins Coie LLP
three of the five sections of Executive Order 14230 ("EO 14230"), issued by President Donald J.
Trump on March 6, 2025, 90 Fed. Reg. 11781 (Mar. 11, 2025), targeting the law firm with punitive measures due to the law firm's representation of clients whom the President dislikes or who sought
relief through litigation that the President opposes. When the U.S. Department of Justice engages
in this rhetorical strategy of ad hominem attack, the stakes become much larger than only the
reputation of the targeted federal judge. This strategy is designed to impugn the integrity of the
federal judicial system and blame any loss on the decision-maker rather than fallacies in the
substantive legal arguments presented.
The opportunity presented by the defendants' motion, which invokes 28 U.S.C. § 455(a)
to disqualify this Court, is welcomed to set the record straight, because facts matter. To begin, this
Court agrees wholeheartedly with defendants that "[fair proceedings free from any suggestion of impartiality are essential to the integrity of our country's judiciary." Defendants' Mot. to
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Der Spiegel reporters able to easily dig up phone numbers, PASSWORDS, and more used by: SecDef Pete Hegseth also Mike Waltz and to a lesser degree Tulsi Gabbard "There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases."
spiegel.de
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
BIG rebuke of Trump administration by the DC Circuit on Alien Enemies Act. Upholds Judge Boasberg's order. Conservative jurist, Judge Henderson's concurring opinion cuts through the noise. "[A]n invasion is a military affair, not one of migration." Great analysis of what USG wanted to do here.⬇️
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