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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 11/02/2026
RFK Jr. is now blocking an updated flu vaccine for NO reason grounded in science. American vaccine policy has been hijacked by a conspiracy theorist—yet most Republicans are happy to just sit on their hands. They are allowing FDA policy to be dictated by DELUSION.
washingtonpost.com
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
No doubt about one thing: they channel some serious Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood here. If anyone is showing what it looks like to turn empathy into a friggin’ superpower, it is the good neighbors of Minneapolis. bsky.app/profile/whst...
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Are we sure he can still distinguish a camel from an elephant?
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Asked about his relationship with Starmer and Macron, he rambles and adds "they gotta stop with the windmills" ohhhhkaaayyy
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
politico.com
Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I have no words for this: “The goalkeeper told me I’m an illegal immigrant even though I was born in America, and he said Trump was gonna get me and send me back.” How is destroying the spirit of our children making this country great? Who will repair their trauma when this is over? Sickening.
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Irina @irinad.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Irina @irinad.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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Irina @irinad.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Yet another dumb thing... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Visitors at National Parks
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Irina @irinad.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Trump’s priority is building a new White House ballroom. Not you. Not your grocery bill. Not your healthcare.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/10/2025
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
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Congresswoman Erica Lee Carter @repericaleecarter.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This disrespect of our judicial system demonstrates the overall philosophy of this so called President- you can break any law and do anything as long as you’re on my team. 10 Convicted GOP congressmen- 10 freed by Trump. #corruption #disrespect #nokings #werhepeople deserve better.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/10/2025
If you're headed to a No Kings protest this Saturday, make sure you know your rights and others do too. Download a Know Your Rights phone screen background, protest sign, and more.
aclu.org
Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights
Read the full Know Your Rights resource on protesters' rights here. If you're ready to share what you've learned, we've created graphics outlining your protest rights that you can download and share on social media.
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JudyP @jpagir.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"Some 40% of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life." Perhaps that's you. It's for sure someone you know. It was me & I owe everything to those recent breakthroughs. Good job to everyone who voted for cancer. I can't even. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
RFK Jr. is working to single-handedly dismantle the CDC. He’s ignoring decades of research and science to advance his own anti-vaccine agenda. He’s unqualified for the role, and his positions are deadly. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
nytimes.com
Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 13/09/2025
The fact that Mathew Dowd lost his job for pointing out that Charlie Kirk had engaged in hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests that we should euthanize the homeless and there’s zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2025
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about *power*, pure and simple."
publicnotice.co
Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward
Move over, Mao.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 29/08/2025
The conflict of interest and corruption at EPA are its new general modus operandi. Not sure whether a “For Sale” sign or a “Sold” sign should hang on the building. More gangster government.
nytimes.com
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
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Mayor Q @mayorq.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
FREE KANSAS CITY
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 02/07/2025
Democrats would be wise to start naming things the thing they are instead of trying to hide the ball all the time.
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Mark Bauer @thepurplebauer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
America has become a stupid un-serious country.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025
RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.
apnews.com
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/06/2025
"On the trail, Trump declared he would deport massive numbers of 'criminal aliens.' When he came into office, however, he faced a problem: The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are law abiding. But he came up with an answer: Create fake crimes and thereby turn the law abiding into criminals."
publicnotice.co
A felon in the White House is making crime legal
Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol. Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office. Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 09/06/2025
My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.
A statement from Kamala D. Harris:

Los Angeles is my home. And like so many Americans, I am appalled at what we are witnessing on the streets of our city. Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos. In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.

This Administration’s actions are not about public safety —they’re about stoking fear. Fear of a community demanding dignity and due process.

Protest is a powerful tool — essential in the fight for justice. And as the LAPD, Mayor, and Governor have noted, demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful.

I continue to support the millions of Americans who are standing up to protect our most fundamental rights and freedoms.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
wired.com
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 05/04/2025
In the dead of night, the Senate advanced Trump’s budget. A great night for billionaires — a bad night for everyone else.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Irina @irinad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Thomas Friedman, always excellent.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Just Bet the Farm
Donald Trump is upending a world that has brought peace and stability for 80 years. What is it he doesn’t understand?
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“Liberation Day” will be remembered as one of the dumbest economic moves by a modern president.
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Irina @irinad.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court order—and nothing happened. The courts do not have an army. They rely on compliance. But a court that cannot enforce its rulings is not a court—it is a suggestion box.
theintellectualist.com
Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy
Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authori...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
McConnell abused the filibuster to make America worse. Schumer is refusing to use the filibuster to... accomplish what, exactly?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025
This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
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Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce | CNN Politics
The US Education Department said it is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, according to senior agency officials, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the agency altogether.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 07/03/2025
DOGE (Destruction of Government by Elon) is destroying Social Security from within. Even Trump’s own compromised SSA chief, Leland Dudek, admits Musk’s unqualified team is making reckless decisions that jeopardize benefits for tens of millions. I support efficiency, but this is a heist.
newrepublic.com
Social Security Chief Privately Admits Musk’s DOGE Will Wreck Things
The acting head of the Social Security Administration told his staff that Elon Musk’s DOGE is bound to make mistakes soon.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
And a great many of these folks will have been loyal Republican voters up to now.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Measles outbreaks are back. Grocery and gas prices are up. Bird flu is spreading. All our allies hate us. Air travel is getting unsafe. The stock market is tanking. The government is about to shut down. And he’s only been President for six weeks. This is just the beginning.
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Irina @irinad.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Donations are tax deductible toi.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Next Tuesday, we won’t waste a second in responding to Trump’s steam of lies at the State of the Union. I’m not attending in person. Instead I’m partnering w @moveon.org to provide live real time response. Join us to learn the truth about the billionaire seizure of our government.
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