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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/05/2026
Such great analysis. Watch until the end. OP: @marcistook
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/04/2026
Dear maga “Christian’s” Trump is now violating the first commandment
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/03/2026
Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones. Russia helps Iran track American forces. And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil. Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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What Does Russia Have on Trump? Americans Deserve an Answer
As Russia reportedly shares intelligence with Iran that could endanger American forces, the White House chooses to ease pressure on Moscow instead of confronting it.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.
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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Is removing ROTC from these colleges next? And will the VA follow the DoD’s lead and deny vets the ability to use their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits at the same schools? Everything they want to do to America starts with doing it at/with the Pentagon first.🚨🇺🇸
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“Neither the Bivens Act nor the Universal Constitutional Remedies Act is a magic bullet that will save American democracy, but they would provide greater levels of deterrence and accountability” A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
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Opinion | A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is an excellent essay by the great @tribelaw.bsky.social on the adaptibility and endurance of our founding document. I needed to read this because I had started to lose hope (and honestly had not thought about the potential in the 9th Amendment) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’? | Laurence H. Tribe
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remember that the legal standard for deadly force is whether the agent reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. That is the only question that matters. And that standard is plainly not met by what we see in the video.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The DHS Form-205, a “warrant” of removal/deportation, is signed by an ICE official, not a judge. That’s precisely why it does not meet the Fourth Amendment standard. (JD did go to Yale Law School so he legit may not know how the Fourth Amendment works)
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Still reading the whole piece but this made me have to put my phone down, considering that the FBI deliberately did NOT wear raid jackets to search MAL as a courtesy to Trump to avoid publicity www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: 
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/01/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/01/2026
"Guys like Greg Bovino and the masked DHS agents are cosplaying a version of special ops that’s been fermenting in their imaginations since they were kids. These guys dress like they’re storming Fallujah because that’s their frame of reference."
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We Make Our Own Monsters
Foucault’s Boomerang and the road from Fallujah to Minneapolis.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Also this (free) Substack post has a video explainer which you can watch that provides further details on the chart asharangappa.substack.com/p/your-guide...
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Your Guide to What the $#&*! Trump is Trying to Do with the National Guard
An explainer with a chart to help you follow along.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Don’t let the professionally dishonest & the intentionally disingenuous frame an issue as a binary choice of either getting run over or shooting a person. There is literally a universe of options between those two extremes. Stop listening to dolts or liars. Options, create them, and use them…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This message hits hard.
Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Steve Bannon ripped off his own followers with his ‘build the wall’ scam. Trump pardons him. Then photos come out showing him hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was charged with child trafficking, and yet he somehow has an audience because really MAGA stands for nothing.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is guaranteed to make smoke come out of Trump's ears. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued Trump alleging that he can't demolish the East Wing and erect his ballroom without congressional approval. TRO hearing in DC district court next Tuesday.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/12/2025
Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Please watch this. The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill. You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
this is such a vibe
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Epstein’s key conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 and charged with crimes of enticement of minors and trafficking of underage girls. Additional charges were added later including perjury, which required a separate trial. She filed numerous appeals challenging her arrest …
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
As an Iraq War Veteran who served over 25 years in uniform, I know the toll service takes — not just on our servicemembers, but on their families too. That’s why fighting for our military community isn’t just policy for me — it’s personal.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/11/2025
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working. We need new leaders in the Senate.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"Mate, if any of those numbers were true, you know, we could all be on yachts right now. It'd be terrific. I don't know why the bloke doesn't just say eleventy gajillion and get on with it. When you're making numbers up, just be transparent about it."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
To every Trump voter on SNAP, you hear Republicans calling you lazy, right? They’re saying you’re fat and that you don’t work. That’s YOUR party. They’re letting you starve while accusing you of asking for handouts you don’t deserve. Did you vote for that?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.” @justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/11/2025
Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 06/11/2025
You can google this and prove it is a lie yourself. Google Walmart Thanksgiving meal 2024, then google for 2025. The 2024 meal had premium items and more of them. The 2025 meal is barebones and all generic. This is a lie.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected 43 days ago. Republicans still refuse to swear her in because she is the final vote needed to release the Epstein Files.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/11/2025
Looks like “Lameduckmas” came early this year!
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
YES.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 31/10/2025
This is why I am so proud to be a Democrat. We are NOT the same as Republicans. We are just fundamentally different people and the corporate media is WORTHLESS. Well done Rep. Joe Neguse!
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