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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/11/2025
Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/08/2025
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he loves farmers. His actions, though, are rippling across the agriculture industry as tariffs raise the cost of everything from tractors to fertilizers and squeeze profits for US growers already contending with low crop prices.
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Tariffs Are Starting to Squeeze Profits for Trump-Loving Farmers
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he loves farmers. His actions, though, are rippling across the agriculture industry as tariffs raise the cost of everything from tractors to fertilizers and squeeze profits for US growers already contending with low crop prices.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 06/08/2025
This: weasel words used and her credibility is rightly questioned.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025
The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/05/2025
Has the US really given over $350 Billion to Ukraine as Trump said, or....is that just not true? It's not true of course, it's much less: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROD...
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TRUMP LIED: The Truth About US Spending in Ukraine Revealed!
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.thefarce.org/why-is-no-on...
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Why is no one talking about the millions of Americans the House GOP wants to uninsure?
Thank Punchbowl.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is injecting bleach for the entire global economy. And he's not just floating the idea: he's holding the syringe.
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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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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025
NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
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Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly
The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
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USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/03/2025
The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/02/2025
Dear world, please do not judge us harshly. Most of us are good-caring people, and we hate him too.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yes
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Nailed it www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before
Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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James Taylor @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"I always hesitate to bring my political beliefs into this space. I don’t think my listeners would expect that from me and some of you will find it disappointing: not what you were looking for... " [1 of 2]
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025
Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
These cowardly puppets would’ve stayed mute if their guy had blamed Poland for Germany’s 1939 invasion — something not even Adolf Hitler dared to do www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
nytimes.com
As Trump Turns Against Ukraine, Republicans in Congress Stay Quiet
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/02/2025
“Congress wants to cut government but not their own budgets. Elon Musk's 'Dept. of Government Efficiency' wants to slash spending—except on his own gov-funded ventures. If they’re serious about cuts, they should start with their own staff and perks. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
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Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” and Congress: Hypocrites Cutting Others But Not Themselves
In 2011, when I was a freshman in Congress, we did something that should have become a habit—we cut our own budgets by 5%.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨OH HELL NO! ‘DOGE appears to have busted their way into the Social Security Administration, forcing the resignation of the acting commissioner, Michelle King, when she resisted their demands to give DOGE access to Agency’s most sensitive government records’. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
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First IRS, Now DOGE Busts Its Way Into the Social Security Administration
Hard to keep track of precisely what’s happening at these different agencies....
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I cannot stress how an overwhelming number of Americans would be outraged by this if they knew it was happening. So tell them. You low information voter friends. Your Trump-ish relatives. Tell them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...
nytimes.com
Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records
A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
February 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025
The sixty-first Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy, took place from February 14 to February 16 this year.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The biggest cage match ever will be between Musk and Trump. Elon will try to implement AI in a manner that automates much of what Trump is now trying to control. Trump will have no understanding of what is going on and will have to turn to the AI oligarchs to support him in this battle.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is probably the most accurate take.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“It’s illegal. They know it’s illegal. But they’re doing it anyway.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/02/2025
"The constitutional question of whether the president can delegate authority to a billionaire campaign donor to shut down federal agencies is not one Republicans are very interested in answering." Our loss. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/musks-usai...
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Musk’s USAID Shutdown: ‘This Is What the Beginning of Dictatorship Looks Like’
Plus: Don Jr. shoots the wrong ducks in Italy.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If true, this is the economic ballgame
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.
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