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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy:

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In THIS administration we value WARFIGHTERS who WARFIGHT the enemy and if you’re not WARFIGHTING the enemy to DEATH we don’t want you in the DEPARTMENT OF WARFIGHTING, take your “logistics” and “intelligence” BULLSHIT somewhere else this place is for WARFIGHTING WARFIGHTERS WHO WARFIGHT. GRRR!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

it has never been more crucial for cis lesbians to be loud in support of our trans family. this is a chilling escalation of longtime tactics; attempts at a “feminist” case for transphobia ALWAYS include a disingenuous “nooooo won’t someone think of the poor lil lesbians 🥺🥺🥺” and it is such bullshit

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account.

Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes.
Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.”

There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

if you are a Marylander please call in support of this because it's the bravest fucking thing any senator has done in either Trump term

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This guy has family members. He has friends. He has neighbors. People may know him from church or softball or their kids’ hockey league or the corner store. I hope they all see this photo. I hope they all recognize him.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On a day when the administration’s conduct hit stunning new lows, it’s really important to see institutions like Harvard (represented by major law firms) stepping up to fight back

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

MIT following Harvard's lead here

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity

Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Inside the DOGE immigration task force

The taskforce, led by Musk confidante Antonio Gracias, is providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole and terminating visas.

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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline:
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

just blatantly undoing an election because they didn't like the result - a little January 6th in robes bsky.app/profile/lemi...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/04/2025

There won't be any toilet paper by this evening

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

jail for Marine. jail for Marine for one thousand years

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

if Hegseth did this while blackout, that's WhiskeyLeaks

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 23/03/2025

Bea Arthur enlisted in the Marines in 1943, whether Pete Hegseth can handle that fact or not. Fuck these losers. www.msn.com/en-ie/news/w...

Bernice Frankel, later better known as the actress Bea Arthur, in a photo taken during her service in the US Marines during World War Two.

And fuck Pete Hegseth. Bea's waiting to come down to Hell and kick the crap out of the racist sexist SOB.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

i really don’t want to hear another word about why we’re yelling at democrats.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23/03/2025

The Paul Weiss response will be the common response among Big Law. Perkins Coie is the outlier. Law firms are fundamentally conservative institutions and will happily ferret out and fire every Black attorney if their clients allow it. The only reason they're diverse is their clients' DEI goals.

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Kaitlin Newman @kaitlinobscura.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This news cycle sucks, but this story doesn’t. If you read anything today, please take a minute to read this piece that @jasminevaughnhall.bsky.social and I worked on these last few weeks. In @thebaltimorebanner.com 👇🏼 www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

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He once hurt a neighborhood. Now, all he wants to do is give back.

How a man uses fitness, friendship and faith to give back to a neighborhood he’s wronged before.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It’s going fast. Lawyers have to move in unity - law firms, civil rights, law schools, tax lawyers, prosecutors, criminal defense, family law, civil law, immigration. Stand together. Fight for our integrity and our profession.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers

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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

When Huge Law Firms knuckle under to a Lawless President, we're definitely in a Constitutional crisis.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025

1. Andrew Cuomo, a frontrunner for NY Mayor, has tapped an ex-employee of "the Coalition to Protect Kids," an anti-trans org, to serve as his treasurer. His campaign would not commit to EITM that it would protect gender affirming care. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Official for Cuomo’s New York Mayoral Campaign Worked for Ferociously Anti-Trans Group

“The company you keep says a lot about you.”

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jenblossom (she/her) @jenblossom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I wish I could take back every cent I donated to this absolutely useless Dem party. Shame on me for fucking trusting them with anything when the lives of people I love are on the line. Never again.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

the absolute most charitable thing you can say about a lot of democratic lawmakers is that they want to hold onto a political order that no longer exists

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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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Soul Ink 🌬💨 @lucyinthehemlock.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

💥Truth over propaganda💥

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/03/2025

The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities. We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication. This is inhumane and illegal.

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Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/03/2025

There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

'Did you even say thank you?'

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House. He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job!

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is why it matters to know who is behind a campaign. The man taking credit for today's boycott was previously a registered sex offender. He's on IG, mad he was outed www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/s...

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The People’s Union USA’s ‘Economic Blackout’ Organizer Served Jail Time on Sex Charge (Gift Article)

John Schwarz, who organized a viral shopping boycott, was previously registered as a sex offender after pleading guilty to “disseminating voyeuristic material.”

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