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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 09/02/2025
Congress is meant to be a check on Presidential abuse of power—it’s the way our democratic system of checks & balances works. It’s time for Republicans to say “enough” and stand with the people they represent and against the corruption & lawlessness we’ve seen from Trump & Elon.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 06/02/2025
Kash Patel took the 5th before agreeing to testify before a grand jury. Now he doesn’t want to share his testimony about Trump's unlawful retention of classified documents. @booker.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, and I sent a letter demanding that he disclose what he said. It is essential.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 07/02/2025
Californians deserve to know that just as we've been there for every other state in their time of need, our fellow citizens will be there for us.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 07/02/2025
Who could have possibly predicted?
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Denita Long @threecatslady.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
These are legislatively created departments. They can only “legally” be dismantled legislatively. The executive branch has begun an unconstitutional power grab. By the time this is addressed in the courts, the damage done will be astronomical. This is a constitutional crisis. It is a coup.
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willyglen.bsky.social @willyglen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
When the Merchants of Death are put in charge of government agencies, disease and death will ensue. The lawyers are now our best defense. We must help them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/c... @nrdc.org @earthjustice.bsky.social @csldf.org @ucsusa.bsky.social
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E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
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AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is absolutely unacceptable 🤬
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thanks, Experian.
A major data breach exposed 2.9 billion private records. Set up a fraud alert to protect your credit report.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 03/02/2025
No one voted for Elon Musk.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
@artcandee.bsky.social
Senator Brian Schwyz- if you want to change an agency, introduce a bills and pass a law.  You cannot wave away an agency that you don’t like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking our servers.  That is not how the American system of government works.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 04/02/2025
Workers deserve their fair share.
If the profits keep going up, and the CEO pay keeps going up, but the worker pay stays the same, that is not success. It's exploitation.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
They should strip all of his money away, arrest and imprison him as a domestic terrorist.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/02/2025
New York lawmakers are considering a change to the state's special elections law that would keep Rep. Elise Stefanik's House seat open for months, a move backed by Hakeem Jeffries as a way to deny Republicans’ already bare-bones House majority of a crucial vote.
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Jeffries Works With N.Y. Democrats to Weaken G.O.P. Control of the House
New York lawmakers may give Gov. Kathy Hochul more time to schedule special elections, a move backed by the House Democratic leader that could keep a key seat vacant for months.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
All true. Even were it not, one could argue that, given the authority Musk is exercising, and his lack of accountability to anyone (other than perhaps Trump), he is serving as a principal executive officer under the Appointments Clause, and is acting unlawfully unless confirmed by the Senate.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 04/02/2025
This unlawful and horrifying attack on international aid programs means the world will become less safe, less healthy, and less united in the face of the climate crisis. I’m continuing to object to any efforts to move nominees—especially from State—while this effort continues.
Screenshot of an Axios article by Andrew Freedman entitled “Ending USAID climate programs could increase security risks.” Article includes a photo of the American and USAID flags flying in a gray sky. Text reads, “The axing of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which Elon Musk has vowed to "kill" with President Trump's support, could destabilize regions where human-caused climate change is hitting particularly hard. Why it matters: By ending humanitarian assistance and proactive climate resilience and adaptation programs, the U.S. military could get pulled into responding to more future crises.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/02/2025
Much like a gremlin fed after midnight, Elon Musk is staying up late and causing mayhem. As alarming changes continue to spread across federal agencies, employees have found that many of the bizarre communications are happening late at night and on weekends. @annamerlan.bsky.social reports:
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Elon Musk's midnight takeover
The world's richest man and his allies are "avoiding office hours at all costs" as they take a wrecking ball to the US government.
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Rose Fabia @rosefabs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Meet Dr Amy Acton, Democrat, 2026 candidate for Ohio Governor's race · Nurses for America
Dr. Amy Acton, former Ohio Department of Health Director and the first woman physician appointed to Ohio’s top public health position, announced in early January that she's running for governor. "I do...
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WakeMeWhenItsOver😴 @zelbel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Has anyone sought comment from US Marshalls about why they're illegally helping private citizens access gov. computer systems?🤨
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative, an organization founded by former President George W. Bush, have been fired, including some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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all2human @all2human61.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Elon Musk’s Power Grab Is Lawless, Dangerous, and—Yes—a Coup
What do we call it when the president is too lazy to gut the government himself, and gives away his power to a zealous and unaccountable friend?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is correct.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/02/2025
The EPA plans to demote career employees and replace them with political appointees, which would give Trump administration loyalists more influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by nonpartisan experts.
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E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Michael Ozaki MD-for those of us who didn’t give permission to Elon Musk and associates to access secure government data bases containing our private and personal date for unknown purposes, contact your state attorney general to ask for a temporary restraining order on such activities.
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🌺Red Hibiscus🌺 @redhibiscus23.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A couple of (actually serious) thought-experiment questions on where we are and where we’re going: If a bunch of sociopaths are destroying the federal government from within, why should we pay federal taxes? And if they succeed, who’s going to make us pay those taxes?
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 04/02/2025
Every single public school will feel this. It’ll blow a giant hole in school districts’ budgets. Students — KIDS — would suffer. Do not doubt for a second that Trump and Musk want to go there.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Literally have been telling this dude this for a very long time. Keep up, Chuck. Also: WTF are you going to do about it?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 04/02/2025
Elon Musk wants the power to cut off programs that pay for your grandma's nursing home stay. There's nothing "efficient" about ripping health care away from millions. www.nytimes.com/.../musk-fed...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"Shuttered HIV and TB treatment programs have been told they cannot resume work without written instruction that the waiver applies to them. Few have been able to obtain such clarification because their assigned contacts at USAID have been fired or furloughed..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 04/02/2025
No one elected Elon Musk. Now, his minions are editing the code for your Social Security payments and risking a crash. I'll be at the Treasury Department this afternoon to demand a stop. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...
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Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Elizabeth Warren-RFK Jr is a danger to public health.  Every Republican senator who votes yes will own the consequences.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/02/2025
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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/02/2025
FIRST: USAID NEXT: Dept. of Education THEN: Your Social Security benefits? Your health insurance? Your kids' health insurance? Everything is on the table and Trump/Musk don't care who gets hurt. We will not sit by while this happens. We will put up a fight.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 04/02/2025
When the Trump Administration stopped funding child care centers, firefighters, and cancer research, we stood up. Democrats are taking on the Administration’s chaos that is hurting American families. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
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Opinion | The Truth About Democrats, According to Amy Klobuchar
The Minnesota moderate has thoughts on how her party can move forward.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/02/2025
Unions representing federal workers sued the Treasury Department and its head, Scott Bessent, on Monday in an effort to block Elon Musk and his team from accessing the federal payment system.
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Unions Sue to Block Musk’s Access to Treasury Payment Data
The suit was the latest effort by unions representing federal workers to push back against Trump administration directives aimed at undermining the federal bureaucracy.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Some good news for a change…👇 Pay ATTENTION, now!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
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