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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

News: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced an amendment to the reconciliation bill to bring back the Medicaid ban on gender-affirming care The Senate removed it this morning and the parliamentarian disqualified the provision from reconciliation amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/G...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/04/2025

The Trump Administration admitted in court that it NEVER should've abducted Kilmar, yet it continues to defy a court order to facilitate his return. Trump claims there's nothing he can do. But as I wrote to him today, the VP of El Salvador told me explicitly — the ball is in Trump's court:

Letter from Senator Van Hollen to President Trump. Full letter can be found here: https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_trump_re_mrabregogarcia.pdf

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 26/04/2025

“Well everyone doesn’t use the Marxist definition of class” maybe they should. Maybe it would be better than vague abstractions leveraged to make people feel better. Maybe it would inspire more solidarity between people that are one cancer diagnosis and a job loss away from bankruptcy. Strange

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2025

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/04/2025

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

AOC: Only 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied.. I saw Mike Johnson saying we have to stop all the able-bodied men from being on Medicaid — as if it’s a crime for someone to have healthcare in America. Healthcare is a human right, and everyone should have it.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/04/2025

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/04/2025

thought crimes are now illegal in the united states. it’s truly baffling that their anyone was ever convinced by the right being pro “free speech”. anyone who gave any credence to that argument is a rube

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/04/2025

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

38. Once they finally took me to the medical center, the nurse took my temperature. She said "you need to take that thing off your head" and took off my hejab without asking my permission. I told her you can't take off my hejab and she said this is for your health. After a few minutes I put my hejab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen.
39. I had a third asthma attack at the Louisiana facility. Again, this happened in the cell and other woman knocked on the window to get the attention of the officers. I was told that the nurse would come to the cell to see me. She took me outside for a short bit and told me that it was all in my mind. She finally took me to the medical center but I was not treated for my difficulty breathing. The nurse left the room and didn't answer my questions
40.I had a fourth asthma attack on Wednesday March gth around noon. I used my inhaler and waited for it to pass. I was in pain and very scared but I didn't ask to go to the medical center because I don't feel that they address my medical needs.
41. I don't feel safe at the medical center because of my prior experiences there.
They complain when I go there and speak to me in an insulting and condescending manner. They also write information in my medical records that is not accurate. The doctor and nurses there are rude and uncaring.

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Dr Girl, PhD @joanohjeez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

this is one of the most massive scale voter disenfranchisement projects in this country i’ve seen in my lifetime. and FOUR (4)!!! house dems just joined every present house republican to pass it www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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House passes bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections

Four Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, which the Senate will need to pass before it heads to Trump's desk for his signature.

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Dr Girl, PhD @joanohjeez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

nearly half of americans don’t have a passport and trans people and married women often don’t have birth certificates that match their legal names. it would basically render online voter registration illegal

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Dr Girl, PhD @joanohjeez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

if you’re not familiar with the SAVE Act that just passed the house- its aim is to prevent anyone from being able to register to vote w/o proof of citizenship matching legal name.

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Dr Girl, PhD @joanohjeez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“it’s fine that i voted to pass this legislation built to repeal the right of women to vote- there’s no way it’ll pass the senate!”

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Dr Girl, PhD @joanohjeez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

really can’t get over Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s reasoning for voting for the SAVE Act. just extremely ghoulish stuff

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Modern journalism's instinct/desire/strategy to lazily accept and pass on, without further interrogation, the nonsense counterfactual framing of whoever is acting in the worst faith, is a huge part of why we are here.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

in colombia, the murder of a trans woman is sparking national outrage and words of protest from the nation’s prime minister in the u.s. meanwhile — where a trans rights activist was murdered only weeks ago — we barely even covered news of the death

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'Savage and cruel' killing of trans woman sparks widespread outrage in Colombia

The death of trans woman Sara Millerey González has sparked outrage in Colombia, with the president calling her killing an act of "fascism".

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Remember when people dismissed the "Abolish ICE" folks as being too hysterical? Now, here we are.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 08/04/2025

Gross human rights abuses at prisons in El Salvador have caused at least 368 deaths, according to Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you're trying to forecast anything about this administration there has been only one reliable principle since the beginning and that's "It will be worse than you think"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

What has always made me sad is how violently people feel about health care that’s femme and lgbtq friendly. Like… going to a urologist doesn’t require bulletproof glass. The people trying to ensure I am safe from things like cancer shouldn’t have to fear for the lives at work.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

i know this isn't even close to an original thought but turning Studio Ghibli's art, the product of countless man hours to create a distinct and beautiful style, into on-demand slop that twenty something White House interns use to gleefully celebrate violating civil liberties deeply disgusts me

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Phineas Delgado - Author @phineasdelgado.com · 29/03/2025

X is not worth 33 billion. He basically just paid himself $33B from another company, presumably to pay off his debts from the initial buy because he knows he'll never be able to raise the capital from X itself. He is his own ponzi scheme.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2025

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

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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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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This is what fascism looks like, folks

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

every single video I've seen of the hearing today, Democratic Senators (including ones I don't even like) were pounding the shit out of administration officials. if the media will not play those clips, it's up to make them go viral, show our friends & family, etc. They did something. Reward them.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Fired? Chelsea Manning was sentenced to THIRTY FIVE YEARS in prison

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I just heard on French radio “Because the United States is no longer an ally.”

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