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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Some really great news: funding for PEPFAR--about $400M for the global fight against HIV and AIDS--has been restored. Millions of lives will be saved. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Global AIDS funding to be pulled from Trump clawbacks request
The White House is backing off $400 million in proposed PEPFAR cuts due to GOP objections.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
BREAKING: OMB director Russ Vought said Pepfar had funded $9.3 million to teach doctors in Russia how to perform abortions. It turned out to be untrue. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h...
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NPR @npr.org · 15/07/2025
Pam Bondi sought to move past questions about her handling of the Justice Department's files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, as pressure continued to grow for her to release them.
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Attorney General Bondi brushes aside questions about her handling of Epstein files
Pam Bondi sought to move past questions about her handling of the Justice Department's files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, as pressure continued to grow for her to release them.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
JPM: “.. prices for a variety of goods .. including home furnishings, appliances .. have continued to firm, indicating tariffs are feeding through to consumer prices. We expect upward pressure .. to build as firms exhaust front-loaded inventories and decide against further margin compression.”
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“.. ‘Whether people are legal or not, they don’t care,’ Alvarado said. ‘If chaos and fear is what they were after, they’ve accomplished it.’” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/ice...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025
Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Page One in Philly: @inquirer.com
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Nevadablue59 @nevadablue59.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Seen in Las Vegas , just now.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/06/2025
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Harry Shannon @harryshannon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"They stood, diplomas in hand, having met every standard of physical endurance, academic excellence, and military discipline. But when the time came for the US Air Force Academy’s class of 2025 to commission as second lieutenants, 3 cadets were quietly held back..." www.advocate.com/news/transge...
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Cadets who met all Air Force Academy graduation standards denied commissions because they’re transgender
Three students graduated from the prestigious service academy after years of hard work, but Trump’s military ban prevented them from getting their commission.
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Aperture Flash @apertureflash.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I've decided to turn any hate towards this into a positive. Every time I get flipped off or thumbs down for this flag I'm gonna make a 3$ donation to www.thetrevorproject.org at the end of the month. #Pride #QueerTrucker #TheTrevorProject #LGBTQ
An inclusive pride flag flies behind the cab of a semi truck.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com
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Carolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital @childrensphila.bsky.social today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT
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Kathy Dissents @kk1647.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
For Handmaid’s Tale fans.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Great review from Zephyr Teachout of David Enrich's fabulous book on assaults on freedom of the press. Critical study into what journalists face in the Trump era. prospect.org/culture/book...
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Beating the Press
In a time of eroding journalistic freedoms, a new book chronicles the deliberate effort to use libel law to bankrupt the independent media we have left.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
NYT, page one: The “$1.5 billion golf complex” and “Trump skyscraper .. are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
RENMAC: “.. Firms need $65 per barrel on average to profitably drill a new well. The decline in oil prices means that it is not profitable to invest in new wells. In the latest week, oil rig count according to Baker Hughes sank to 465, lowest since November 2021.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
RENMAC: “.. The upward drift in continuing unemployment claims continues .. climbing roughly 5-6% against last year. So, don't be surprised if continuing claims are close to two million by July.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“.. ‘We’re looking at it,’ Remolona said .. ‘It’s one thing when other countries’ debt is downgraded, but the US Treasuries, now that’s a big thing.’” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This is my not-shocked face.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Same same. gizmodo.com/billionaire-...
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Billionaire Man-Child Elon Musk Gives His Most Petulant Interview to Date
Is it good when a defense contractor talks about the
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/05/2025
Lead Republican tax bill writer says the quiet part out loud. This “big beautiful bill” CUTS health care for millions of people.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 15/05/2025
📢 Trump and Musk cut mortgage help for Veterans—let them lose their homes. But they’ve got $45 million to force the U.S. Army to march for Trump’s birthday? He’s a draft-dodging coward who treats Troops like props in his fascist fantasy. MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/05/2025
Hey, Jake Tapper! White House aides are covering up the president’s decline! I look forward to your book about it!
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Mass terminations and billions of dollars’ worth of cuts at [HHS] have gutted key programs – from child support services to HIV treatment abroad – and created a 'real danger' that disease outbreaks will be missed, according to former workers." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump health cuts create ‘real danger’ around disease outbreaks, workers warn
Key programs from child-support services to HIV treatment also gutted, leaving global populations vulnerable
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
BUFFETT, after a four-minute standing ovation in response to his retirement: “.. The enthusiasm shown by that response can be interpreted in two ways, but I'll take it ..” 🐐
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Barchart @barchart.com · 03/05/2025
JUST IN 🚨: Warren Buffett to retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway by end of year
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Well, this is horrifyingly empty and had to have been written by Rao. The panel rules that plaintiffs could sue under the APA if the Trump admin didn't "enter a grant agreement" at all, but if it does and then fails to pay the monthly grant, those are "squarely contract claims" under Tucker Act.
To distinguish California, the plaintiffs stress that Congress appropriated specific sums for RFA and MBN.
Accordingly, plaintiffs contend, they may file an APA claim— independent of and antecedent to their grant agreements-to force USAGM to disburse the appropriated amounts. But plaintiffs overread the governing statutes, which do not give the networks an unqualified right to the appropriated funds.
Rather, they allocate funds for the networks, which may be disbursed only as grants. See 2024 Appropriations Act, 138 Stat. at 735. If these statutes created any entitlement for the networks at all, they at most would require USAGM to enter grants obligating the appropriated amounts to the networks. Cf.
Train v. City of New York, 420 U.S. 35, 40-43 & n.9 (1975).4 Thus, any APA claim under these statutes would have to allege that the government failed to enter a grant agreement obligatingthe appropriated amount. See Nat'l Ctr. for Mfg. Scis. v. United States, 114 F.3d 196, 199-200 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (NCMS). But here, USAGM did obligate the appropriated funds through grants, thereby satisfying whatever duty (if any) it had under the appropriation statutes. See Widakuswara, 2025 WL 1166400, at *4*5. Once the agency entered these contracts, it incurred a new obligation: Unlike the relevant statutes, the grant agreements require the government to make monthly payments to the networks—the very obligation prompting this highly expedited stay litigation. Accordingly, the claims of government nonpayment necessarily challenge its performance under the grants. Such claims are squarely contract claims under the Tucker Act. See Boaz Housing Auth. v. United States, 994 F.3d 1359, 1368-69 (Fed. Cir. 2021) (explaining NCMS); see also Ingersoll-Rand, 780 F.2d at 78-80 (Tucker Act applies to claims that the government's termination of a contract violated statutes or regulations incorporated therein).
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
"Trump’s move to dismantle the agency [FEMA] comes as extreme weather events are only becoming more common... The reality of leaving disaster response to states would be devastating... #FEMA exists because there are times when the state can simply not respond." #ClimateSky time.com/7282225/chal...
time.com
The Challenge of Overhauling FEMA In a Climate Changed World
FEMA wasn’t designed to meet our changing climate. But Trump's plan to leave disaster response to states would be "devastating."
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/05/2025
“Never before in American history have foreign governments, as well as people and corporations under investigation, so overtly and directly funneled vast sums to the president of the United States and his family. This is far more than is captured by the term ‘conflict of interest.’"
wired.com
As Trump’s Family Crypto Business Gains Steam, Ethical Concerns Mount
A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign polic...
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/05/2025
A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign policy for sale,” critics claim. www.wired.com/story/as-tru...
wired.com
As Trump’s Family Crypto Business Gains Steam, Ethical Concerns Mount
A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign policy...
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/05/2025
A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop research activities.
wired.com
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/05/2025
Last night was a hectic one. In case you missed it: DOGE put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite housing regulations. Because who needs experts when you’ve got ChatGPT and an economics and data science major? And yes—this may be rolling out across government. Cool cool cool.
wired.com
DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations
A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#BondiMath is really making the rounds. 🤡 @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump is reveling in how he humiliated these big law firms: "You have to ask them, 'Why did you all pay Trump hundreds of millions of dollars?' ... "They just signed whatever I put in front of 'em. I've never seen anything like it. I'm actually surprised myself." abcnews.go.com/US/full-tran...
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/05/2025
The largest investors in Donald Trump’s crypto coin have been promised a private audience with the president. The arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution and add fuel to calls for his impeachment, experts say. www.wired.com/story/trumps...
wired.com
Trump’s Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal Waiting to Happen
The largest investors in Donald Trump’s crypto coin have been promised a private audience with the president. The arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution and add fuel to calls for...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
US stocks are having their worst year vs the rest-of-world since 2006. 🇺🇸 @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
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Chaddeus Stevens 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is a horror beyond belief. Every other sin of this administration combined pales in comparison tbh
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 01/05/2025
The facts are the facts: their proposed budget is not going to make life easier for 99% of us. I can’t WAIT until the day that Republicans decide to show up and work for the people who elected them.
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