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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

No one is stopping him. Words on paper will not stop him, and the rulings from SCOTUS he is defying are not stopping him. Please tell me you have something else, some action.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

They don’t care. This is the same Biden/Garland thinking that enabled them. They don’t care about credibility or reputation or how it looks or legality. It simply does not matter if they are able to do it with impunity.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Fallguy, Hegseth himself was on the app, on the groupchat. Not an underling or aid!

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Are you creating a California state controlled point of entry? A Canadian woman was detained at a Southern California border crossing for weeks in a detention center.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

True journalists should boycott it

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/03/2025

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/03/2025

Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill

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This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the…

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/03/2025

Russia’s ‘3-day war’ is now 3 YEARS old—and they’re getting wrecked. 800,000 casualties, no tanks, no fleet… and now Trump is cutting Ukraine’s aid to throw Putin a lifeline. Sad! Read how Ukraine is WINNING despite the betrayals adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...

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Trump's Lifeline to Putin: Cutting Ukraine's Aid Amid Russia's Collapse

Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, and their ilk will spend the rest of their lives avoiding Ukrainians for fear of being spit on

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

One thing I used to love about MSNBC before the corporate overhaul was the active role anchors played in informing. You, Rachel, Alex… way back in Obama days, drew attention to stories no one else was covering. Global news, smalltown US matters that were consequential.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump is using his pardon power to try and redefine what is criminal, right and wrong if you will. He pardoned public officials, left and right, convicted of corruption because he wants Americans to no longer view corruption as a crime. He pardons human traffickers and rapists for the same reason.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is absolutely chilling. A glimpse of the totalitarian state to come.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

They stopped them at the door

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Marshall, Cassidy and Barrasso are all medical doctors, Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist, all Republicans and I assume all had to take a Hippocratic oath, all should be absolute NO votes, RFK will harm thousands if not millions.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

But does the nation care? Will enough people care? Nixon / Bush criticism was validated by their actions after they were elected and the nation recoiled. Trump’s don’t require any investigation after the fact, he wholeheartedly embraced it all and was elected for them. We are not that nation anymore

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Every GOP congressman should be asked to go on the record now on this issue

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s not stupid, it’s dangerous. It isn’t an accident that he suddenly started talking about territorial expansion and annexation as he enters office with Putin still waging war in Ukraine and likely eyes on more of Europe. It’s propaganda designed to normalize actions.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s more than this though. When he returns to a topic like Greenland, he has been instructed to do that, to normalize the notion of territorial expansions like Putin is trying in Ukraine and will likely try again in other places.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s not just a hypocritical musing, it’s designed to normalize territorial expansion in the modern era, to normalize what Putin has done in Ukraine and what he may do in the rest of eastern Europe.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We are treating this as an amusement and another crazy Trump ranting. It’s not an accident that Trump is flirting with violating sovereign nations, he has like been instructed to do it by Putin, to normalize annexations and expansion.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Our Tech CEOs and Billionaires have the best advisors money can buy, and they are terrified. Their advisors are looking to the Russian example and telling them to be terrified. It wasn’t campaign rhetoric, they are bracing for horror.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

What people are failing to realize as the Tech CEOs and billionaires fall over each other to try and appease Trump as he comes to power, is they have some of the best and smartest advisors money can buy. They are looking at the Russian example under Putin and Trump’s aspirations. They are terrified!

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 06/01/2025

The January 6th attacks weren’t just a dark day—they were a violent, harrowing warning that our freedoms and democracy are under siege. We can never forget, downplay, or excuse the gravity of what happened. Our democracy demands action, and we must stand firm to protect it!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Yup. They all knew it was disgraceful.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We are not, SCOTUS did, and they have the final say unless congress passes a new law that leaves no doubt.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If only that huge crowd bothered to show up and vote…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”—Gore Vidal

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

No. This shuts off accountability and is too easily dismissed as “liberals complaining, being asses” instead we need to say “this is what YOU voted for” keep the focus on what they did, not what you said. It leaves them with more to think about.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The terrifying thing is she is out in the wild, roaming the streets. Rambling paranoia nonsense like this should be looked into and possibly treated or institutionalized for the safety of themselves and others.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This is what nearly 80 million Americans turned out to vote for. That is the lesson we have to learn. It’s not some distant history.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Exactly this. Until dems understand this is the only lesson from the last election, we will continue to lose. Hate motivates and they turned out, the policy wonks and hope and positivity votes stayed home.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

He’s open to work if anyone is in the market for an “as honest as he can get away with” employee 😂

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Or like many black and brown people said years ago, maybe Bernie bros had some underlying racism issues.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

What people don’t realize is that it doesn’t matter if they successfully prosecute a single case, the process alone is enough to bankrupt most upper middle class Americans and utterly devastate anyone with less financial means.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Sound of Fear on Air

It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

His wife and maybe the Obama’s need to talk to him and tell him to wake up and act with the imagination required to understand the severity of the moment. Not what is normal or ought to be, but the entire realm of what is possible and act accordingly.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Who is he gonna sue? The world? 😂

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Unfortunately panic is needed to elicit a capable response on the left. Passing bills, filling court cases is not going to stop a tank rolling down American streets. We need panic to understand the threat. Laws and judges have no power if we have a leader that says “make me”

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

None of the Obama voters decided to vote instead for Trump, they didn’t “swing” they stayed home. The voters that did turn out are the ones being exposed in cell phone video hurling racial epithets at waiters.

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JAD Vargas @jadvargasphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This is so important and not talked about enough. When you have Trump and his GOP enablers eager to exploit race and gender, there is no communication strategy that can solve that. We have enough bigots that if they turn out, they win. If you give them enough things to hate, they show up.

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