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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/09/2026
Nonprofit groups in Nepal that were funded by USAID said they have had to shut down some of their programs since the Trump administration gutted it early last year, making it harder for them to support relief and rescue efforts after the deadly floods in late August.
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Nepal’s Flood Relief Workers Feel the Pain of Trump’s Cuts to U.S.A.I.D.
The agency played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. But the U.S. and other countries have pulled back, Nepali officials and humanitarian groups say.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 04/08/2026
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination as Attorney General. Todd Blanche led the Trump administration’s Epstein files cover-up. Instead of holding him accountable, they’re giving him a promotion. Shame on them.
A graphic with text that reads: "Todd Blanche led the Epstein files cover-up. These Republicans just voted to promote him." Below are the names, photos, and states of Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who voted to advance Blanche's nomination: Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Thom Tillis, John Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn, Eric Schmitt, Katie Britt, Ashley Moody, and Darline Graham.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A new OMB rule would allow the executive branch to cut scientific research funds on behalf of corporate interests and against marginalized people. Please submit public comments before the deadline on Monday July 13. This link gives excellent instructions: www.faseb.org/science-poli...
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Defend Research
We advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
5 July 1910 | Czech Jewish woman, Stela Ehrlichová, was born. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
Vintage black and white photograph of two individuals wearing Star of David badges, seated closely together
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2026
Yosemite is even more crowded than usual this year after the Trump administration eliminated a summer reservation system at popular parks. Employees of Yosemite say that the hordes of visitors are demoralizing staff and damaging the park. nyti.ms/4v9VhgD
A crowd of people are crossing a wooden bridge and walking on a pathway winding through a forest with large boulders. A headline reads: "Yosemite Offers Many Wonders. Crushing Crowds Are Now One of Them." Photo by Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/07/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.
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jotro72.bsky.social @jotro72.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Birthright citizenship just gave the US a goal. Hooray for the Constitution! #fifa #worldcup
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/06/2026
“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.
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Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The utter failure of this war - and the surrender document Trump just signed - was completely predictable. This war was unwinnable and that's why so many of us opposed it from the start.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Y’all…
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/06/2026
G7 stands for Grumpy.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Absolutely brutal indictment of Trump's epic failure here, made even worse by his inability to grasp how monumentally he failed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I had no idea men played soccer, too! Good for them! Go boy soccer!! ⚽️
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
There are cars honking horns. Someone yelled "GIVE ME A T" They're SO close to the letters now... 15 minutes later, we're at 68,000 people watching.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🔥 SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov: “This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq war, it’s a war built on lies. The ‘America first’ President who said he would end foreign wars, now he says all we can afford is war.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/06/2026
Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin shot. Revisit @deldeib.bsky.social's story, a Sidney Award winner:
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/06/2026
President Trump was booed by the crowd at Madison Square Garden when he appeared on the jumbotron during the national anthem at Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Trump is watching the game with Knicks owner James Dolan.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 09/06/2026
LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/06/2026
President Trump attends Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals to cheer on his hometown team — but as Trump was shown on the jumbotron during the national anthem, the crowd erupted in loud booing.
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Trump booed at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of NBA Finals
The president attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City on Monday, prompting enhanced security measures in Midtown Manhattan.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/06/2026
President Trump, a native New Yorker, was greeted by thunderous boos as he appeared in a suite at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals. wapo.st/4e9ZcUb
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/06/2026
Trump, shown on camera during the national anthem, is booed loudly at MSG
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/05/2026
Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 31/05/2026
The White House has cut or frozen billions in scientific research funds that had been approved by Congress. It’s an assault on the rule of law and on the security, health, and prosperity of all Americans. bit.ly/42ytB9B
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The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Research Funding
Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Comment on the arch. Please!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/05/2026
In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...
There likely is nothing to be done at the moment to prepare for these possibilities (the only body of writing on the subject available in an emergency is science fiction), because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.

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Member, Professional Staff
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) @ista-in.org · 27/04/2026
Indiana ranks 38th in teacher pay and second to last among neighboring states. Educators and local schools are making progress, but we’re not keeping pace—and that’s a problem for retaining experienced educators.
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New NEA report shows Indiana falling behind in teacher pay, raising…
New NEA report shows Indiana falling behind in teacher pay, raising concerns about educator retention
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Feels like this should be a story the press covers.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/04/2026
President Trump has repeatedly threatened to destroy infrastructure that makes up the foundations of civilian life in Iran — attacks that in most cases would be considered war crimes. He said on Wednesday that the U.S. would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
President Trump speaks at a lectern with an American flag in the background. A headline reads: "Trump Repeatedly Threatens to Commit War Crimes in Iran." Photo by Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/04/2026
Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.
Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST! President DONALD J.TRUMP
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 01/04/2026
The federal law prohibiting federal armed agents from polling places has been on the books since the Civil War. If ICE shows up to the polls, voters should report it to their local election officials or call 866-OUR-VOTE if they have any issues. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Sending ICE to Polling Places Is Illegal
Armed federal agents have absolutely no business near election sites. 
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)
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itsmrsespinoza.bsky.social @itsmrsespinoza.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
👋Hi, I'm Mrs. Espinoza 🧮K-8th Math Intervention in CA 🏫Title I School 🍎30 Yrs My sweet students need your help: -Healthy snacks for hungry tummies, -Art supplies for Mother's Day. Any item or RT make a difference.❤️ #AdoptATeacher #clearthelist www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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jotro72.bsky.social @jotro72.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist” is amazing and chapter 9 flipping floors me every time I read it. 👩‍🍳💋
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 09/03/2026
There is a growing sickness in the Republican Party that spawns this virulent hatred. Replace 'Muslims' with any other faith & this man would be run out of Congress. Their tolerance for this bigotry is a cancer in their ranks. Hate, in all its forms, should find no refuge here.
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Tennessee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says Muslims ‘don’t belong’ in America
The Tennessee Republican recently introduced legislation banning immigration from some Muslim-majority nations.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
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