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Katie Crane

@katiecrane.bsky.social
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An ex-DC type who remains a political junkie and sometimes yearns for the good old days in our nation’s capitol.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
At this point, it's not clear if Pirro could get a grand jury to indict an unmasked man caught on camera, flashing his passport while holding a gun to a teller's head, and yelling, "Hello, my objective this morning is to rob this bank, which is a federal felony under 18 U.S.C. § 2113."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is what happens when they finally sit down with someone who knows how to do an interview, which is extremely rare. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In reviewing denials of asylum applications, the circuit courts have held that the State Department human rights reports are highly probative evidence and a reliable source of information on conditions in foreign nations. I expect those precedents will be discarded eventually.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/08/2025
"I remember a time when a Texas governor would never allow the president of the United States to mess with Texas. Those days are gone. We now have a governor who is bending the knee to Donald Trump." ICYMI, @jamestalarico.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 04/07/2025
Goodbye to All That www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI. 
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/07/2025
Although “people in China are acutely conscious of the limits of permissible speech,” Lavender Au writes, Chinese students living in the United States never expected to be contending with similar worries: theatln.tc/s5PrFxuS
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/07/2025
Hours after Putin spoke to Trump And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
America's most important holiday celebrates our refusal to endow any one person with the powers of a king. And then the MAGA Supreme Court and push-over Congress turn around and do exactly that. Shameful. And so very un-American.
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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The 4th of July should always be a reminder to us that, in America, no one is above the law. Not even a white supremacist game show host with a bankrupt necktie business.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If any Democratic president used a military audience as partisan prop, Republicans would melt down. The press would melt down. It was considered unthinkable until Trump showed R's and the media that oligarchic rule was within their reach.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NEW: Federal watchdog finds Trump admin wrongly impounded federal infrastructure aid, defying Congress after it halted funding for electric vehicle charging stations. The finding has significant legal implications, as Trump maintains he should be able to impound. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Trump Administration Wrongly Impounded Infrastructure Aid, Watchdog Finds
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
WTF
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2025
Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.
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More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the…
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Axios @axios.com · 23/05/2025
Foreign students studying at American universities scored a legal victory today when a federal judge barred the Trump administration from revoking the students' legal status while their lawsuit proceeds.
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Trump administration can't yank foreign students' visas, judge says
The injunction comes the same day the administration targeted Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"This is really not that functionally different than if those guests showed up with satchels of cash or briefcases with stacks of bill and then just dumped it all into a big bucket physically held by the President of the United States," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump's crypto dinner.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“It’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency,” @PressSec said, before Trump headed to his golf club to dine with 220 people who bought his memecoin, which generates fees for a Trump business entity.
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Winners of Trump’s Memecoin Contest Begin to Gather for Dinner
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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Trump cares so much about antisemitism. Empowering it, that is.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
As you contemplate that Donald Trump used pro-terrorism conduct as his baseless pretext to prohibit foreign students from attending Harvard, remember that on his first day on the job, Trump freed some adjudged terrorists from prison.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The most corrupt administration in American history by far, we are only 4 months in, and he hasn’t come close to the depths of depravity he is mining. But tune into CNN for updates on a dinner party in 2023 where Biden used the wrong fork.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025
i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 23/05/2025
USDA’s illegal demands for states & 3rd-party vendors to turn over the personal data of SNAP recipients must be stopped. That’s why we filed a lawsuit against the USDA w/ @studentdefense.bsky.social & @nclej.bsky.social on behalf of @Epic.org & @mazonusa.bsky.social.
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Protecting SNAP beneficiaries from government overreach
We filed a complaint in federal court challenging a demand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for states to turn over the personal data of tens of millions Americans.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23/05/2025
A new Louisiana law demands that every voter registration applicant submit proof of U.S. citizenship, but doesn’t clarify what counts as proof. A lawsuit challenging the law calls it vague and unconstitutional. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana Sued Over Vague Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Law
Read more here.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20/05/2025
The Marco Rubio who testified today is not the one I served with in the Senate. He has had a full MAGA lobotomy. Today I directly told him about the many ways he has betrayed American values and interests:
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Senator Van Hollen questions Secretary Marco Rubio in Senate Foreign Relations hearing
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
NEW: The guy in charge of federal policy at HUD once ran a self-described think tank that attacked women’s right to vote, said the U.S. suffered from it, and praised organizations trying to repeal the 19th Amendment. www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/p...
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KFile: Too toxic for Trump’s first term, some officials are back in the fold | CNN Politics
At least four people from Donald Trump’s first term who were deemed too extreme or politically toxic to win Senate confirmation – or even keep their jobs – are now back in the fold and in some cases w...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
McGovern: "What the hell are Republicans so afraid of? What the hell are so scared of that you guys are holding this hearing at 1 in the morning ... if Republicans are so proud of what's in this bill, why are you trying to ram it through in dead of night?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
McGovern: "Now of course you don't want anybody to know what you're doing here. It's because you know this bill betrays the people who voted for you...you are intentionally hiding what you are doing...that's what you guys think is big and beautiful: greed, corruption, & tax breaks for billionaires."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/05/2025
Some professors now say they're fleeing the country over Trump. That sparked a convo between Sarah and JVL. Do you fight or flee fascism? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEt...
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How do WE FIGHT Fascism? Flee or Fight?
Three prominent Yale professors are leaving the U.S. for Canada, warning that rising authoritarianism in America resembles 1930s fascism. The conversation debates whether fleeing is defeatist or a powerful way to raise the alarm, with some arguing it's time to fight, not flee. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
1/ Tonight at 1am ET/12pm CT/10pm PT, cowardly Republics go into a middle-of-the-night session to take up Trump's "Big, Beautiful" budget (also, ironically called the skinny budget) in hopes no one will pay attention. I'm up, making popcorn, & will let you know if anything interesting happens.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"
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Governor Phil Murphy @govmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Shorter Stephen Miller: The president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants--including American citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
lol holy shit
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Trump eying Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC
President Trump is strongly considering installing Fox News host and ex-prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources say.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2025
the story all but says it but hegseth is very clearly trying to purge the leadership of the military of black people and women
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Genuinely good and just news.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 06/05/2025
BREAKING: Overdue justice has been done. U.S. District Judge Richard Myers ruled that the votes of military and overseas voters must be counted and the race for NC Supreme Court certified for its lawful winner, Justice Allison Riggs. Ruling: protdem.org/42WM9jy
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Federal Court Rules NC Supreme Court Race Must Be Certified
Justice is done for military and overseas voters, upholding the sanctity of election results
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Generally speaking, I think pleas for shared sacrifice work better if we’re attacked by another country’s leader, not our own.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
JUST IN: Attorney Mark Zaid has filed a lawsuit against the White House, saying the suspension of his security clearance, which has disrupted his clients' legal representation, is unconstitutional retaliation by Trump. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Yes, this is the same guy who was elected to make things cheaper, who vowed to “end inflation and make America affordable again” on Day 1. But on Wednesday—or Day 101 of the Trump presidency—he was busy blaming Joe Biden …. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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Donald Trump’s Excuses Are Falling Flat
He’s blaming Biden, droning on about dolls, and failing to say he’ll uphold the Constitution. Such head-scratching spin is unlikely to improve his sinking polls.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
For someone who has called the media “really corrupt,” and has complained that news outlets “literally write 97.6 percent bad about me”—which, in his view, is surely “illegal”—Trump has been busy making the rounds with journalists, from The Atlantic to Time… www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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Donald Trump’s Excuses Are Falling Flat
He’s blaming Biden, droning on about dolls, and failing to say he’ll uphold the Constitution. Such head-scratching spin is unlikely to improve his sinking polls.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Donald Trump recently hit the media circuit to make his case to, or perhaps, to plead with the American people, as polls show the majority of them aren’t on board with his extreme agenda and chaotic course for the country. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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Donald Trump’s Excuses Are Falling Flat
He’s blaming Biden, droning on about dolls, and failing to say he’ll uphold the Constitution. Such head-scratching spin is unlikely to improve his sinking polls.
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
And there you have it.
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“We've slid into some form of authoritarianism,” says Steven Levitsky, professor of government at Harvard, & co-author of How Democracies Die. “It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy.” www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
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Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism
Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey.
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