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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
House Republicans want to slash funding for the Government Accountability Office — a nonpartisan watchdog that investigates wrongdoing at federal agencies — by nearly half in the next fiscal year. So much for reining in waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2025
This is a devastating ruling. You can read it, and Sotomayor's biting dissent here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/06/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal notice.
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NPR @npr.org · 23/06/2025
Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.
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One daughter's search for a father detained by ICE
Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
MAGA never got the Epstein files, Fauci isn’t in prison, and Hillary never got locked up, but they got a war for regime change in Iran.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile” Mission accomplished! 🤦🏽‍♂️
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U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2025
Confirmation they did not destroy the uranium stockpiles. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This cartoon was drawn 8 years ago. It seems the right time for it to be reshared. (✍️ Carlos Latuff)
The cartoon depict Trump as a tank being driven by Netanyahu towards Iran. War criminal Netanyahu is seen with a grin standing out of the top of Trump’s hair, through a tank hatch. The Israeli flag flies on top of Trump’s head and he has just run over and crushed a copy of the Iran Nuclear Deal. The whole cartoon suggests felon Trump is steered entirely by Netanyahu.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament approves the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Decision needs ratified by Iran’s Security Council. It would trap 20% of the world’s oil supply and send a catastrophic shock through the global economy.
A picture of the Hormuz Strait with Iran at the top and the slim entrance to the Gulf to its south between UAE and Oman
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
More on this depravity here: documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...
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ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Home. Now His Son Is In Bukele's Mega-prison In El Salvador
Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In Oval Office meeting, Bukele s said that he has no plans to return Abrego Garcia, telling reporters, “Of course I’m not going to do it.” Obviously that was engineered with Trump, who is ready to again double down with his rank confrontation with the courts. Very very ugly situation.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Another court order that Trump is now openly defying. Republicans in Congress assured us repeatedly that Trump would never defy a court order. It is obvious that he simply doesn’t care though after the Supreme Court gave him immunity.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What a contrast between how our allies get treated versus little dictators like Bukele. Not a word about him not wearing a suit either, as he petitions the US to expand his country’s mercenary penal colony by sending him more money.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/04/2025
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Just getting to this @nytimes.com article about what a jawdropping bullshit factory, failure and fraud DOGE is. Musk is an historic disgrace, and what they've done is an incredible national scandal. Gift link. READ IT. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
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DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress (Gift Article)
Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15 percent of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
These are the 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans to censure Al Green. Let's light up those phone lines!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/03/2025
What’s the economic impact of all flights into Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, Palm Beach and Miami being halted for several hours because SpaceX blew up another rocket? and will DOGE be looking into whether that’s efficient /s
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 26/02/2025
House Republicans just took the first step towards passing their plans to cut health care and hike the cost of groceries for millions of people. Why? To pay for tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations. Working people won't forget this. We need to fight back.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their budget resolution 217-215 that would virtually guarantee deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, all to fund a major tax break for the ultrawealthy... and still add trillions to the national debt.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hero
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 25/02/2025
There is NO way to cut the budget as much as Republicans want without CUTTING Medicaid benefits. If Reps. Malliotakis, Lawler, Garbarino, and Lalota vote yes, they are voting to cut Medicaid benefits for their constituents.
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Government funding deal ‘very close’ as negotiations hinge on Trump power struggle
Ahead of the March 14 government shutdown deadline, top lawmakers say there's one huge dispute between them and a deal: curbing the president's ability to withhold federal money.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/02/2025
Musk’s latest attempt to gut the federal workforce through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) isn’t going so well — and it has left his detractors desperate to make his life harder by sending spam emails.
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Elon's Email Demand Is Being Met With 'Very Rude' Flood of Spam
After Musk demanded federal employees list five accomplishments or be fired, internet users are encouraging people to flood the email with spam
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.
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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Here are Don Jr. and Diamantas hunting wild turkeys together, in 2021. /2
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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1
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America’s Food Safety Is Now in the Hands of Don Jr.’s Hunting Buddy
As federal health agencies are gutted with abandon, a Florida attorney with a history of hunting with the president’s son has been put in charge of food safety at the FDA, overseeing the nation’s food...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Elon Musk is not the boss of federal employees. He can’t fire people because they don’t read his tweets. But you wouldn’t know that from his follow on to an OPM memo late Monday www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
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Federal agencies can ignore "What did you do last week?" email, Trump administration says
The office that asked federal workers to document five things they accomplished over the past week​ told officials that agencies can decide how to respond.
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Curious as to what the GOP in Michigan thinks about the cost to women and others whose names don’t match their birth certificate? Listen to Congressman Tim Walberg answer a direct question about the SAVE act. Call your congressman today to share your outrage. And shame on Tim Walberg.
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Auntie Megz ♿😼💙 @auntiemegz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Y'all need to listen to this. These MAGA Cult Congresscritters don't give a damn about you.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...
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Big Big Scandal Brewing at DC US Attys Office
There’s a big, big scandal brewing beneath the already big scandal of...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"yOU GeT whAt YoU VOtE FoR" I pulled a Democratic ballot last August in the primary. Because of that, I couldn't vote for State Rep or Sheriff or County Commissioner or Prosecutor or Assessor or Coroner or Recorder of Deeds or County Clerk or County Collector. There were no Democrats running...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Changes to Indiana law since 2019 include: -Eliminating teen work permits -Removing rest break requirements for minors -Exempting businesses employing fewer than five teens from registering them with the state -Ending citations for brief violations of work hour restrictions And more.
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Lawmakers Roll Back Protections Amid Rising Child Labor Safety Violations in Indiana
Indiana's relaxed child labor laws are part of a national trend aimed at helping businesses boost workforces and bottom lines after pandemic.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In Indiana, 16 and 17-year-olds can now work the same hours as adults and are no longer restricted by school hours and days. They also can work overnight without an adult and perform hazardous agriculture jobs. Many 14- and 15-year-olds can now work during school hours as well.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The House is expected to soon vote on a budget resolution laying the groundwork for $230+ billion in cuts to #SNAP. It's not possible to cut that much from SNAP without widespread harm to low-income families. Our new paper shows the impact in your state: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Millions of Low-Income Households Would Lose Food Aid Under Proposed House Republican SNAP Cuts | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Substantial cuts to SNAP would mean households with low incomes in every state would lose support they need to put food on the table, worsening food insecurity and hardship.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 25/02/2025
Funny how no one is talking about how old Donald Trump is. I thought the media really cared about that sort of stuff.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
At the heart of @gayforcongress.bsky.social’s campaign is a commitment to addressing the critical issues that affect our community & nation. Winning this seat gets us 1 seat closer to flipping the House! We need nationwide support for gayforcongress.com!
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 417 in all, are expected to yield no savings to US. apnews.com/article/doge...
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Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts President Donald Trump's administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save any money.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
[Silence.]


JUDGE KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Okay, so, is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time?

HUMPHREYS: I don’t know the answer to that. 

JUDGE KOLLAR-KOTELLY: You don’t know whether there is an administrator, is that what you’re saying? 

HUMPHREYS: I’m saying I don’t know. 

JUDGE KOLLAR-KOTELLY [directing her attention to Humphreys’ co-counsel]: Okay, everybody at the table speak up over there if you know anything else. 

[Silence.]
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Last time Trump was president, we passed the farm bill without any meaningful cuts to SNAP. A true win for organizers and advocates. This time, they're gunning for a 20+% cut to SNAP, leaving benefits down at a meager $1.60 per person per meal on average.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 25/02/2025
🚨Trump & Musk are coming for Veterans’ care and the benefits millions rely on—VA, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. They think no one will fight back. They’re wrong. If you’re impacted, we need your story. Speak out now: votevets.org/doge-tipline
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“Meanwhile, AIDS clinics shuttered and staff found themselves stranded in unstable countries such as Congo. A pregnant woman in an undisclosed country has sued the Trump administration because she was denied a medevac helicopter.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What’s worse? That the US Attorney’s office for DC call themselves “Trump’s lawyers” or that they don’t know where to put the apostrophe?
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
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What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/02/2025
Three migrants sent to Guantánamo said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating strip searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
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Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention
Three migrants sent to Guantánamo said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating strip searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
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Debby Williams 💙♐️ @dwilliams1210.com · 25/02/2025
Any questions about racist ass @msnbc.com? 🧐
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Potentially hundreds of thousands of people in San Antonio, Texas have now been exposed to measles. The City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District has announced that an individual visiting from Gaines County in West Texas during Valentine’s Day weekend later tested positive for…
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