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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“Trump is trying to reinvent 1950 with his tariffs. He should be planning for 2050.” When I saw this CNN headline I immediately thought of Joni Mitchell (you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone) and this @thebulwark.bsky.social piece I wrote in late 2023. www.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-...

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Joe Biden’s Surprising Focus on the Future

From infrastructure to democracy to this week’s action on AI, he’s laying a foundation for coming generations to build on.

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Jack Torry @jacktorry1920.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I think Ira Hayes, one of those six guys raising the flag, is considered a national hero. I don't think he claimed to have bone spurs.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The first official sign that Trump is already slowing the global economy: OECD has just downgraded both the US and global growth forecasts - and raised its inflation forecasts - for 2025 and 2026. Org primarily blames rising uncertainty and trade wars. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

🚨🚨🚨 So we're hitting the crisis point, with the apparent defiance or evasion of court orders on deportations and immigration, plus shutting down agencies, cancelling grants, and firing civil servants contrary to existing law. And claims from DOJ that Article II of the Constitution enables autocracy.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I really don't know how this is sustainable/endurable for four years, by America as a country or Republicans as a party or me as a person.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

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Jack Torry @jacktorry1920.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Best line of the day on Trump's market crash: Brownie, you're doing a heckuva good job."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Well, I guess we’re going to find out if Smoot-Hawley works in a 21st century global economy. The market is betting against it.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Lying, then lying about their lying lies. Pathetic. “These are not savings,” said Lisa Shea Mundt, whose firm, The Pulse of GovCon, tracks federal spending. “The money’s been spent. Period. Point blank.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

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DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead (Gift Article)

Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just when you think Trump's trade wars can't get stupider: We're threatening (more) lumber tariffs, this time on supposed "national security" grounds. Hope you weren't hoping to build more houses anytime soon

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The Stinkfoot @thestinkfoot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Folks, get mad and stay mad. Republicans have the power to stop a lot of Trump's bullshit but they will only do it if they fear for their seats.

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“At one point, McCormick…was pointedly asked about the firings of hundreds of workers at the CDC which is based in Atlanta: “Why is a supposedly conservative party taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy approach to this?” www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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GOP congressman faces criticism and several boos at Georgia town hall | CNN Politics

A Republican congressman from Georgia faced some tough criticism and occasional boos from constituents Thursday night as he fielded questions about the Trump administration’s early actions.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"It’s hard to say which is worse, Trump’s moral depravity or his stupidity, but both have been on vivid display in the past ten days vis-à-vis Ukraine." @monacharen.bsky.social calls this the top depredation of many. I agree, despite tough competition for No. 1. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-jo...

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America Joins the Jackals

Ukraine is only the first victim.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Biting my tongue here. Being prudent. The news speaks for itself.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

NBC News confirms: An IRS employee affiliated with Elon Musk's DOGE has accessed an IRS system that holds sensitive taxpayer information. @msnbc.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If only someone had warned them www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Trump has his enemies list, and GOP lawmakers have theirs. The latter might just include your ability to feed your family. wapo.st/4gIuFMu

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Opinion | To pay for tax cuts, the GOP’s budget plan goes full Scrooge

Trump tax cuts for the rich, austerity for the poor.

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Cristina Maza @cmaza.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

At @munsecconf.bsky.social, Natalia Pouzyreff, the Deputy of the French National Assembly, takes a little dig at JD Vance, noting that freedom of speech is better in Europe than in Russia. Earlier, Vance addressed the conference and argued that Europe doesn’t respect free speech.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Breaking: For the second day in a row, the AP reporter on pool duty who tried to attend a POTUS event was blocked from entering the Oval Office. The reporter was there to cover the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard.

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One more chart illustrates how inflation is normally firmer at the start of the year but has been especially stiff in the post-pandemic high inflation environment January 2025 was a bit worse than January 2024. (These are NSA figures)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

God strikes back: Dozens of faith groups just sued the Trump administration over assaults on religious liberty, via new directive allowing ICE raids at churches wapo.st/42SKlto

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Opinion | Allowing ICE raids at churches is an affront to religious freedom

Faith groups are suing the Trump administration to stop ICE raids at houses of worship.

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Kennedy: "I call that a soft landing.... It seems to me that you and some of the ladies and gentlemen [who are your colleagues] deserve some credit for that."

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Powell is asked about the wisdom of certain uses of tariffs: "The standard case for free trade and all that largely still makes sense. It didn’t work that well when we had one very large country that doesn’t play by the rules."

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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My latest column —

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Jack Torry @jacktorry1920.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

They have never won this battle. Should focus instead of sharing all revenue.

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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A constitutional crisis? Nope. Let's call what's happening what it is: a constitutional collapse: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | The Constitution is collapsing. A lack of character is to blame.

The Founders would not have envisioned a Congress so supine in the face of Trump’s barrage.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/02/2025

Don't let Trump spin you, he backed down on the Mexican tariffs when the market dropped out, GOP electeds finding a backbone to complain, and the WSJ calling it the "dumbest trade war in history". Trump blinked and embarrassed himself plain and simple.

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Jack Torry @jacktorry1920.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You mean the bill Nixon signed into law?https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/29/this-day-in-politics-dec-29-1970-1074961

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So, Mexico has agreed to do what it is already doing? www.reuters.com/article/worl...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"The anti-authoritarian forces in our country have tremendous constitutional, legal, political, ethical and moral resources at our disposal to defend American democracy and freedom, and we will continue to mobilize them and deploy them strategically and nimbly in the days ahead."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 01/02/2025

Trump’s plane-crash presser was reminiscent of his inject-disinfectant one. One main difference is that, this time, his bizarre comments were well-worn right-wing rhetoric and the officials standing nearby were ex-Fox hosts, not experts. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Trump’s air-crash response shows how deep he sits in the right-wing bubble

At a news conference about the D.C. plane crash, a familiar President Donald Trump was on display.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It will *be a payoff. We’ve got to start using the actual words for what’s happening.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Though the Justice Dept has deleted information about its Jan 6 prosecutions from its website, a federal judge has issued an order listing and chronicling all of the cases and prison terms Here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ruth Marcus @ruthmarcus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Counted them up the other day and I wrote 9 columns in 9 days of Trump 2.0. Going to share some here because they involve issues of continuing importance. Let's start with birthright citizenship, where Trump is bound to lose. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Ruth Marcus @ruthmarcus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

And another, on Trump's Friday Night Massacre of inspectors general. The summary firings blatantly violate the requirement that he give Congress notice and explain his reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Trump’s Friday night massacre is blatantly illegal

The firing of at least 15 inspectors general foreshadows a Donald Trump unbound and heedless of the rule of law.

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Cristina Maza @cmaza.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“Putin started the war in Ukraine,” says Tulsi Gabbard during her confirmation hearing. Gabbard has alarmed some intelligence and national security officials with comments sympathetic to Russia.

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Cristina Maza @cmaza.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

NEW for @nationaljournal.com: I spoke to the Afghans preparing to relocate to the U.S. as refugees who had their plans suddenly canceled due to Trump's executive orders. Many worked with the U.S. military. www.nationaljournal.com/s/727406/wev...

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'We've lost hope': Afghans who helped U.S. forces stranded under Trump's refugee ban

Advocates for the refugees who face retribution from the Taliban argue the U.S. government owes them safe haven.

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National Journal @nationaljournal.com · 30/01/2025

In this free Q&A, @cmaza.bsky.social talks to Aseel Baidoun of @medicalaidpal.bsky.social about what has changed since the onset of the ceasefire and the challenges of bringing medical support to Palestinians in Gaza. Read here:

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Q+A with Aseel Baidoun

The advocacy and campaigns senior manager at Medical Aid for Palestinians discusses the challenges of bringing medical support to Gaza.

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