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Jim Boisse

@jimboisse.bsky.social
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Redundancy (n): 1. A liberal in Massachusetts. Politics, music, home improvement. #resisting all over again #msnbc-wary #ettd 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social -- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
ICYMI: An incredibly detailed and thoughtful 112-page order from the amazing Judge Amy Berman Jackson within which she issues a preliminary injunction blocking Trump from dismantling the CFPB. Check out the language here in her Conclusion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Seems pretty fascism-y
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/03/2025
NEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous. I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
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Graduating From Dead Mom University
In this op-ed, Lindsay Lee Wallace explores grief, and how no amount of success in school or work could protect her from it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ah, here come the price controls. How befitting. 🤡 @wsj.com $GM $F $STLA www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔥 “Without a level playing field — without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — Meritocracy fails spectacularly… it’s ok to at any point stop and admit you didn’t think this all the way through.” cc: Rep. Aron Maberry (who is carrying yet another an anti-DEI bill)
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer. Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
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RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study (Gift Article)
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is so stupid
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Emanuel: I worked for two administrations that tirelessly fought to get us out of a recession. And now we have an administration that just shrugs and says, “Well, there could be a little pain here.” Well, if you have 11 billionaires in your cabinet, what do you know about pain?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
So one Musk company has just overpaid for another Musk company by ~$20 billion so that the main product of the first company (Grok) can be tampered with by Musk until it stops giving negative—honest—answers about him and Trump. I would say this is unbelievable, but Musk is capable of any depravity.
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Elon Musk says he sold X to his AI company | CNN Business
Elon Musk on Friday evening announced he has sold his social media company, X, to xAI, his artificial intelligence company, in a deal that values X at $33 billion, much less than he paid for it in 202...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Nearly every Republican in the Senate voted to overturn a Biden Admin rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5. This rule, initially established by the now gutted CFPB, was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually. The GOP is the party of junk fees.
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Aaron Nagler @aaronnagler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Khalen Saunders hosting an LGBTQ-inclusive football camp this summer. Love it. Need more of this.
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Super Bowl champ to host an LGBTQ-inclusive football camp - Outsports
New Orleans Saints player Khalen Saunders said at the GLAAD Awards that he will host an LGBTQ-inclusive football camp this summer.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
These men behind bars are not in prison after being charged with crimes. They are "enemy combatants" being detained in a concentration camp. As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is a real tweet posted by the official White House government account. Yes, really.
The official White House government account tweeted: 

“Simply put: WE WILL FIND YOU-AND WE WILL
KILL YOU.”
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
it has to infuriate him that she’s a million times better at posting than he’ll ever be
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
RT if you derive joy from that
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Breaking: A Delta jet just came close to colliding with a US military jet over Washington, DC, causing alarms to go off.
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Collision warning sounds in cockpit of Delta plane due to close call with Air Force jet near Reagan National Airport | CNN
A close call between a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and a US Air Force T-38 jet, often used by the military for training, sounded alarms in the...
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Of. Course. The chainsaw clown show is a fraud Despite Musk’s claims, the Trump administration’s spending is on pace to surpass Biden levels U.S. Treasury is on pace to spend 7.4% more in 2025 than last year www.marketwatch.com/story/despit...
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Despite Musk’s claims, Trump administration spending on pace to surpass Biden’s
The U.S. Treasury is on pace to spend 7.4% more in 2025 than last year.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“‘It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary,but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies’” “Hours earlier..Kennedy asserted..Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research [showing 30% of those who died were healthy]”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/03/2025
This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban. May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/03/2025
Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. “If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Judge releases detained Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status
The judge said the detention of the couple was baseless and unlawful.
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A.S. King @as-king.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I just got a public death threat from a few folks who noticed I am doing a library event to talk about my career and my books. They called me all the familiar names, then “I won’t be sad if someone shoots her in the face.” And a woman’s reply, “Right between the eyes.” I am a children’s author.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Spoiler He’s worried about losing the seat
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 27/03/2025
Pilot to Hegseth: "You’re going to kill somebody.” For the safety of our troops, Hegseth has got to go.
New York Times: Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots. Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/03/2025
Senate Bill 2880 would target online pill providers and tech companies that host abortion-related websites, and make it a felony to pay or reimburse the costs of an abortion, a direct hit on abortion funds.
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Abortion opponents laud bill that would clamp down on pill providers and out-of-state abortions
Some health care providers in support of Senate Bill 2880 said people who are mailed abortion pills aren’t given instructions and do not receive follow-up care.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
March 27, 2025: The author of Project 2025, standing on the White House grounds, celebrates implementing a key pillar of Project 2025. The same plan they all denied was their plan.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
Duckworth: "Hegseth is the most unqualified sec def in history & this is further demonstrating his incompetence. He's literally leaking classified war plans via group chat...if you're our allies, I'd be thinking twice about sharing classified information...All these people need to lose their jobs"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Mike Waltz has now decided to roll out the story that Jeffrey Goldberg somehow hacked his way into their Signal chat. Just admitting a mistake and apologizing seems like a lot less work than lying and peddling a half dozen different conspiracies.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In case you missed it: the Pentagon--that's Hegseth--got warned about using Signal a week ago.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
Wow- Himes during a heated exchange w/Will Cain on Fox: "I'm not gonna listen to to you tell me that this about a partisan advantage...it is by the grace of God that we don't have dead pilots right now...it makes me want to throw up to hear you turn this into a partisan issue. You just need to stop"
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...
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Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said the rationale given by Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is 'infuriating and absurd.'
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
BREAKING: Senator Ron Wyden shared Whistleblower letter received by the Senator & EVERY member of the Senate Finance Committee. Frank Bisignano DENIED Senator Wyden's allegations. Bisignano said he was NOT in contact w/Doge or the Social Security Administration. WHAT DO YOU THINK? NOT FIT TO SERVE!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/03/2025
🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.
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NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat
The National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
Wyden: "I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense."
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ministers have pledged to “tear down” barriers to trade with the European Union after new figures showed Brexit has cost UK business a staggering £37bn a year www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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New figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn a year
Exclusive: Billions of pounds worth of lost business with other European Union countries prompts calls to re-enter customs union and single market
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Wow. Fox refused to put their longtime Chief National Security Correspondent on air since the Signal story broke because she has been honest on social media about it. www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-...
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Fox News Has Benched Its Chief National Security Correspondent for 30 Hours and Counting After Massive National Security Leak
Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has been with the network for over 25 years, providing frontline reporting from locations around the globe, including Jerusalem and Mosc...
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
There’s that airtight logic we’ve come to rely on from Don Jr
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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