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Josh White

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On here for mostly history and sports, and to take a break from the news. Annapolis, MD.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The emoluments clause wept
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/07/2026
They arrested a guy for touching the reflecting pool but not the cops who killed two protesters.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Pete Hegseth really thought that his D-Day commemoration speech was the perfect occasion to channel a racist cult novel and warn of a migrant "invasion"—mere steps from where Allied soldiers died defeating the original fascists.
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Pete Hegseth Echoes a Fascist Novel to Commemorate D-Day
To honor the sacrifice of American soldiers, he wants European countries to give up on multiracial democracy and treat asylum seekers as invaders
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the USS Arizona.”
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Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel's Hawaii trip included 'VIP snorkel' at a Pearl Harbor memorial
Government emails obtained by The Associated Press show that FBI Director Kash Patel went on a “VIP snorkel” session last summer at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Highly relevant today with all this Jim Crow 2.0 going on. JD Vance told far-right podcast the Civil War is still ongoing and he’s with the South www.alternet.org/jd-vance-civ...
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JD Vance told far-right podcast the Civil War is still ongoing and he’s with the South
In an interview on a far-right podcast, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) invoked the Civil War, and suggested to the hosts that he's on the side of the Confederacy.Conservative media outlet the Bulwark recently...
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Lindsey Graham wants to spend $400m of taxpayers' money to create "a secure facility" at the White House. The White House already *is* a secure facility! The East Room is secure. Lindsey Graham refused to spend money on health care subsidies for struggling South Carolinians.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“If you have a $600 drug, and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600 percent reduction,” Mr. Kennedy said. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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RFK Jr. Defends Trump’s Mathematically Impossible Drug Discount Claims
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Math is math.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/04/2026
The funniest thing about this insane statement is that he thinks this being true would be an argument FOR what happened next. My dudes, you failed to eliminate their ballistic missile capability and then both you and Iron Dome failed a bunch of intercepts! Can you imagine if they'd had nukes...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System. newrepublic.com/article/2092...
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 15/04/2026
The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.
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Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids
The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/04/2026
BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/04/2026
Buried in the FBI’s 2027 budget is a funding request to hunt so-called domestic terrorists: "Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity ... extremism on migration, race, and gender. And hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality."
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This Is What Trump Thinks Makes You a Domestic Terrorist
The FBI included a detailed list of what constitutes domestic terrorist activity in the 2027 budget.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2026
Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office
Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 05/04/2026
The Vice President’s parents-in-law came to the United States as foreign students, at the University of California.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Vance would happily throw his in-laws under the bus.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments: The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Gaiser claims the Presidential Records Act, which makes White House papers public property for the National Archives, is unconstitutional. Sets Trump up to claim a right to take it all on Jan. 20, 2029--esp if he really does issue a blanket declassification order 1st. www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
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NPR @npr.org · 02/04/2026
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners. n.pr/4c5heWU
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Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 31/03/2026
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Here is how the constitution should understand citizenship" says man selling American citizenship for $1 million.
trump 1 million visa card
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The handful of American officials seconded to UK government departments are increasingly being asked to leave meetings when sensitive information is discussed, in contrast to a more permissive approach previously www.ft.com/content/7b96...
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Cracks appear in US-UK security co-operation after Trump-Starmer tensions
Differences over war in Iran are hitting working relationships between diplomats, officials and military personnel
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2026
wurman, basically: “just because you can find a bunch of ideological white supremacists trying to redefine the 14th amendment to write ideological racism into its substance doesn’t mean you can’t rely in their arguments to, uh, advance the interests of ideological racists”
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 30/03/2026
I enjoyed this part: "George Collins pushed the Justice Department to take up a test case challenging birthright citizenship, writing Chinese immigrants were 'utterly unfit, wholly incompetent' to be American citizens. His career later ended in scandal after he was accused of bigamy and perjury."
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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This week in the USA President Trump… * made a campaign ad in the Oval Office for authoritarian candidate in Hungary * celebrated death of Bronze Star Vietnam vet & FBI Director * voted by mail (despite being at home near voting location) & called mail-in voting “cheating”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Money that was startlingly effective in saving lives now supporting the Dictators Club
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Only Trump could be stupid enough to have formed an alliance with his own enemies.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Shocking US lack of preparation for drone warfare: “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...
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Iran’s Attacks Force U.S. Troops to Work Remotely
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
And yet Trump still won’t call out Putin: “Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to western intelligence reports that detail Moscow’s efforts to keep its embattled partner fighting.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Russia sending drones to Iran, western intelligence says
Moscow close to completing phased deliveries of lethal weapons, food and medicine to Tehran
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Oh, my god
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Trump has also used “ballot harvesting” — having someone pick up and return your mail ballot. And he’s guilty of Florida registration fraud by signing a form under penalty of perjury that the White House is a Florida address
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is grim reading. Even if you dislike aspects of higher education, declines in academic freedom often accompany authoritarianism.
graph showing academic freedom declining in more countries than increasing
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Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
At the end of the day it doesn't matter whether you're doing the work for the regime out of loyalty or fear. What matters is what you do, which is the same.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/03/2026
Election fraud is when you lie about very clean and secure elections being riddled with fraud
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The Voter Fraud Fraud
There just isn’t evidence of significant election cheating—but that won’t stop the GOP from pushing its dangerous SAVE America Act.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
AP follows the @notus.com report on how the Trump administration had already gutted the State Dept’s staff of Middle East policy experts — and “eliminated the dedicated Iran office ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW: President Trump makes four false claims in a 43-word post about Tina Peters. Peters is 70 (not 73), does not have cancer, was sentenced by a judge in Mesa County (not the Governor), and did not expose fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
(1) try as hard as possible to kill alternatives to fossil fuels; (2) start a war that spikes global oil prices; (3) have your people declare it an "energy triumph."
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill." What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.
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