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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Two-star major general irony. Today’s Age cartoon.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/10/2025
Classes are in session, but Columbia is still struggling to recover from its showdown with the Trump administration.
bloom.bg
Columbia Grapples With Federal Scrutiny After Trump Deal Begins
On the last Friday of summer, nearly 200 Columbia University professors joined a packed lecture hall and video call where speakers blasted the Ivy League school’s $221 million settlement with the Trump administration and threatened work stoppages.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/10/2025
The Trump administration sent 300 federalized members of the California National Guard to Oregon early Sunday, after being blocked by a federal court from deploying the Oregon National Guard in that state, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom denounced the move and said California would sue.
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Trump Sends California Guard Troops to Portland, Ore., Newsom Says
The move follows a judge’s order on Saturday that blocked the Oregon National Guard from deploying there. California’s governor said the state would sue.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Politico @politico.com · 16/09/2025
Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.
politico.com
Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi
The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”
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Texas Bob @txbob.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I laughed when I saw this, yet unfortunately, it is true.
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Politico @politico.com · 07/09/2025
The Florida Surgeon General said that his team did not need to do any studies on the effects of removing state vaccine mandates before making his public appeal.
politico.com
Florida surgeon general denies need for study ahead of end to vaccine mandates in the state
Joseph Ladapo insisted that his position was a principled defense of parents' rights.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
thanks to @karin829.bsky.social, I've changed the cover artwork on today's post, "decrepit draft dodger declares war on Chicago" — Donny’s gonna make an apocalypse ... in his pants. thanks, Karin! folks, please check out my updated post here: bit.ly/485u7Qd
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decrepit draft dodger declares war on Chicago
Donny’s gonna make an apocalypse ... in his pants
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
because nothing says 'I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize' more than renaming your Department of Defense to the Department of War
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is exactly why Dems get their ass handed to them by Trump's world. They have no clue how to leverage social media algos to their advantage. open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
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Silent Coup: How Trump’s Allies Are Gaming Algorithms To Seize Your Feed
New research unravels the secret tactics behind Stop the Steal and other right-wing disinformation campaigns.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/08/2025
Exclusive: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a minimally redacted version of a highly classified document on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after an intense behind-the-scenes struggle over secrecy with the CIA.
washingtonpost.com
Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report
CIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their c...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/08/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
from today's post, wherein America's Imbecile King now claims that he has ALREADY lowered the price of prescription drugs by FIFTEEN HUNDRED percent.. please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/4orQHbJ (and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
the issue of drug prices is solved. Dear Leader has already lowered them by a millionty-thousand percent. it’s true! here’s Donny on the tarmac last evening, coming from from his weekend spent cheating at golf at his New Jersey ex-wife cemetery.

“one of the things we’re going to be talking about pretty soon are the uhhh tremendous drop in drug prices. you know, we’ve cut drug prices by twelve hundred, thirteen hundred, fourteen hundred, fifteen hundred percent. I don’t mean fifty percent. I mean fourteen, fifteen hundred percent.”

oh dear, President Yap Yap is sundowning again.

we talked about this at length yesterday, how Demented Donny’s nonsensical insistence that he’s going to cut drug prices by “fifteen hundred percent” is a mathematical impossibility.

    if you reduce the price of something by one hundred percent, you’ve made it free. you cannot reduce the price of anything by a number larger than one hundred percent, unless you’re suggesting that the vendor pay the customer to take the product off their hands.

but did you notice in the clip above, Donny is no longer talking about how he’s going to lower drug prices. now, he’s already done it — “you know, we’ve cut drug prices.” magically, and overnight. you’re welcome.

America’s Mad King has completely broken with reality and can no longer distinguish between fact and fantasy. words and numbers have completely lost their meaning.

how fucking amazing would it be if some brave reporter stood up and said, ‘Mister President, I have a prescription that costs $100. how much will that be after you lower it by fifteen hundred percent?’

I would pay good money to watch Donny try to calculate the result in his big dumb pumpkin head. I don’t know what his answer to the reporter would be, but I’m sure it would include the words ‘nasty’ and ‘fake news.’
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Good morning 🌞
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Politico @politico.com · 01/08/2025
The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell is indefinitely postponed.
politico.com
Comer says he will postpone Ghislaine Maxwell testimony
The House Oversight chair also rejected an immunity request from the Jeffrey Epstein associate.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Sixty years ago today, Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law - securing health care for millions and saving countless lives. As GOP politicians try to tear them down, it's up to us to protect and expand these programs for Americans who rely on them today and for future generations.
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Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This bird has more IQ then most humans… Can it solve the puzzle… 🧩 🐦‍⬛
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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"I’d be terrified to go back to Texas to practice as an OB-GYN after I finish my residency. I’d be absolutely terrified," writes a resident physician for COURIER's Courier Texas.
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Texas native reveals: ‘Why I’ll be terrified to practice in Texas as an OB-GYN’
‘By my second year in medical school, the effects of SB8 were getting more and more real. One night in the emergency room, the consequences just became so obvious in a real life way.’
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The most recent U.S. ambassador to Orban’s Hungary writes: “After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence”
nytimes.com
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
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TiggsCupcake @tiggsisacupcake.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/07/2025
Congressmember @maxwellfrost.bsky.social visited the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz" immigration jail in the Everglades. He says the Trump administration is “trying to ethnically cleanse the country of Latinos, of Haitians" and notes he didn’t see “Europeans who've overstayed their visa.”
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/07/2025
Exclusive: Trump officials have indefinitely suspended work on a crucial tool to predict extreme rainfall frequency, a move that experts said will make the country more vulnerable to storms supercharged by climate change.
washingtonpost.com
NOAA was developing a way to predict extreme rainfall — until Trump officials stopped it
The tool would have projected how climate change could affect rainfall frequency and intensity in communities across the nation.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16/07/2025
Exclusive: For 15 years, UnitedHealth beat earnings estimates. That streak might have ended sooner if not for some stealth dealmaking
bloom.bg
Stealth Stake Sales Helped UnitedHealth Beat Wall Street Targets
The health giant included gains from asset sales in its adjusted earnings — a move that’s permissible but now has some analysts looking more closely at profits.
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NEW POPULAR FRONT Survivor❤️‍🩹 Ally🏳️‍🌈 Ukraine Must Win🇺🇦 @ouaisouaisdubuffet.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
No one.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 10/07/2025
Don't fall into apathy! Join us ❤️
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July! 249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.
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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The GOP's Big Ugly Bill is a WAR ON THE POOR! They're taking away healthcare, food assistance, and dignity from those who need it most. #VoteHellNO Call your Representative TODAY! ☎️ 202-224-3121
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Angie@blueangie.bsky.social @blueangie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This was in my inbox from my precious little Macon GA organizer lady. Just spreading the word. #Pinks
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Louise @bombaycrone.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
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Tj. @tjeerd001.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Well, we know that about the people around the orange idiot. Bird of a feather...
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Cynthia Hope Laub @bloomlove.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/06/2025
Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.
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Beloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in state
When Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot this month, their golden retriever was grievously wounded and had to be euthanized.
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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the country
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“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the country
The Supreme Court allows presidents to do what judges have ruled illegal.
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Deb Farmer @thewarriorwoman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Why? Why? Why? We keep asking ourselves as does the press - why is F47 doing this or that? He’s not. He’s a figurehead. He’s incompetent. He’s impotent. Who’s running the country? Stephen Miller and the 70% of his Cabinet members who are Project 2025 architects are running the country.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 16/06/2025
A landmark new study finds that after a major SCOTUS decision, child gun deaths soared—but only in states that loosened gun laws. In states that kept them tight, the outcome looked much different. Jeff Nesbit explains.
contrarian.substack.com
We all need to take a troubling, new gun violence study to heart
The more guns are available, the more children will find them and use them.
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm looking forward to having a conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social over on Substack later today. Tune in live at 2pm ET.
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Pete Buttigieg's Substack | Substack
Click to read Pete Buttigieg's Substack, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran has joined Substack. He says he can’t wait to “get at the important work that we all have to do at a time of such trouble in our country.” bit.ly/3HAX77o
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/06/2025
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro vowed Wednesday to protect the right of protesters if President Trump sends troops into Philadelphia as he has in Los Angeles. Shapiro told The Post that it is not the president’s job to police American cities.
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Josh Shapiro says he’s ‘prepared’ if Trump sends military to Pennsylvania
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s comments came during an interview following Trump administration threats to expand National Guard call-ups to other states.
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MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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