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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. two dozen former #DOGE staffers have parlayed their government experience into relevant private-sector jobs .. looking to win government contracts .. .. at least six DOGE alumni have registered on Sam.gov, a government contracting portal ..” newrepublic.com/article/2165...

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10h

This is the worst news I have heard in a very long time - what a tragic loss. @helenbranswell.bsky.social was, unquestionably, _the_ best in the field and just a wonderful person. Condolences to her family and colleagues - she'll be sorely missed. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rare drone shot taken at the Last Supper - 14th century, Stiftsbibliothek. Cod. 101, f. 45v

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h

"Young people are not being included in the conversation," said the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg as she joined students protesting in France on Tuesday. The country witnessed another day of nationwide demonstrations over chronic teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

As a good Southern Baptist deacon, Mike Johnson believes in the prosperity gospel: that Jesus Christ will insure the wealth and health of his faithful Southern Baptist followers. And that appears largely to take the form of dark money from mysterious PACs. Mike is every bit as sleazy as the worst...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife ministers to Hill staffers, but nonprofit funding is a mystery

Kelly Johnson’s counseling services are the centerpiece of an organization that does not disclose its donors.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...

A woman in a wheelchair with a brown suit that has zippers on the leg openings

A woman in a wheelchair with a grey marbled dress

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 7h

Let's do it 👇

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 5h

She done lost her damn mind.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams

"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p

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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

💪Demonstration against Palestinian genocide in Tokyo, Japan - Humanitarians demanding sanctions against Israel🇵🇸😢🇱🇧

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

hakeem jeffries should be in front of a microphone blasting the regime for unleashing its security forces on a member of congress under his leadership.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

Mean Girl asked to read the next passage in 10th grade Social Studies book out loud in front of the class because she got caught chewing gum

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Contrast this with the lack of serious punishment Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller got, whose conduct was far worse. Scheller then got a senior appointment in the Pentagon from Hegseth.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Erik Prince's mercenaries wounded in Africa on a private contract are being treated at Walter Reed—at least 20 of them—just as if they were US uniformed service personnel. Outrageous. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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At least 20 killed or injured, including popular UFC fighter in Africa

Blackwater founder Erik Prince's private security forces suffered a devastating ambush in the Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving around 20 people dead or wounded.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/10/2026

Walmart is the largest private employer in America, yet 16,055 of its employees were on Medicaid in just 6 states, and 15,515 were receiving food stamps in 9 states. Mostly red states. And those aren’t even national totals. #RepublicanAffordabilityCrisis

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...

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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch

Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

"If they don't want to be called nazis they should stop doing nazi shit, and the media should ask themselves why heated language bothers them more than nazi shit."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Harlem Stoop Sessions: Pure community power in action.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/10/2026

Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026

After a company owned by the billionaire Moroun family erected a concrete plant in their quiet neighborhood, Detroit residents said they began battling air pollution so thick they could “taste the dust.” They say local and state officials have been little help.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/10/2026

If Congress doesn’t act, Social Security benefits are on track be cut in 2032. Not on my watch. We must protect Social Security by lifting the cap so that those with the highest incomes pay the same share as everyone else.

“Just take the cap off” Elizabeth Warren on removing the Social Security tax cap to make the highest earners pay their fair share.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026

SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians, and Europeans Think They'll Be Next. Michael McFaul "Trump’s embrace of Putin and betrayal of Ukrainians are damaging American long-term security and economic interests. Abandoning Ukraine makes the United States look weak in

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Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians

Doing so does not advance American interests or values.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026

Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel

Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11/10/2026

Just read it. Bessent wrote Warren a letter

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
October 9, 2026
The Honorable Elizabeth Warren
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Warren:
Thave received your October 7 letter, which adds to the mounting body of evidence of your complete paucity of knowledge about financial markets. Rather than take my suggestion of studying introductory economics, you have continued your letter-writing crusade and participation in tabloid fodder about the Treasury Department.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to treat your concerns as sincere. As the federal funds rate climbed from near zero to its highest level in 22 years, with inflation hitting a 40-year high, you were a cheerleader for the Biden Administration's reckless spending. You blamed the economic consequences on the Federal Reserve, rather than your own irresponsible fiscal policies. Your view of the economy depends on who occupies the White House, but your woeful understanding of the issues is consistent.
The "interventions" you describe as "unprecedented" have been underway since May 2024. The buyback program has been well received by market participants in bolstering Treasury liquidity, which reduces market volatility, increases the convenience yield of Treasury securities and ensures the best value for the taxpayer. The continued enhancements optimize Treasury market liquidity in primary and secondary markets. The U.S. Treasury market's liquidity and performance versus global peers is evidence.
While you voted for a $5 trillion tax hike on everyday Americans, the Working Families Tax Cuts continue to deliver for families and workers across the country. The average refund this filing season was over $3,400, an increase of 11 percent over the previous year. More than 30 million workers claimed No Tax on Overtime, more than 7 million claimed No Tax on Tips, and more than 37 million seniors claimed their enhanced deduction. More than 34 million families claimed the permanently enhanced Child Tax Credit, and …

These results are made possible by the employees of the Department of the Treasury, who are working around the clock for the American people. Unsurprisingly, you have responded by criticizing their dedication and aptitude for the job in a recent interview.' Despite your malign characterization, the Domestic Finance team you alluded to in your interview is fully staffed relative to historical levels. It is ironic that you have voted against every presidential appointee for a position at Treasury, no matter how impressive the qualifications for the role. Given your newfound interest in Department personnel, I challenge you to reverse course and thoughtfully engage with future nominees and support their confirmation.
Finally, my offer of a Foreign Exchange for Dummies tutorial still stands and if you receive a passing grade on the Yale metric, not the Harvard curve, I would be happy to also include a Fixed Income for Dummies.
Sincerely,
Aver Bout
Happy Indigenous Peoples'
Say in advance to you and your family.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor?

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