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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/12/2025

FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times F: Not a 600% cut L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 18/12/2025

This could have been an email.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

BREAKING MS NOW: FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...

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FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on

Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

axios.com

Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group

The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/12/2025

He'll start a war to: 1. Distract from the Epstein Files 2. Steal oil 3. Justify emergency powers 4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment 5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/12/2025

The Trump admin has changed how immigration fees are paid - instead of directly to the USCIS (which was an independent, self serving agency), the fees are now paid to Executive Office of Immigration Review that is part of the DOJ, connected to the court system and directly governed by Bondi.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/12/2025

If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪 “… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”

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Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says

A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

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Ordinary Magic @ordinarymagic.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A fond look back at 2025....

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It's the opposite of "the buck stops here". He is selling out Admiral Bradley and sending chills down the spines of his chain of command, who now know their boss will sell them out if he is taking heat. A case study in how not to lead.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/12/2025

25th Amendment now.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

War crimes aren't funny, Pete.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

“This frustrating gap between initial ease and final effort is the essence of the Gen AI Paradox: better quality, worse motivation”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/11/2025

In 11 years, Marjorie Taylor Greene will turn 62 and start living with a basic income floor for the rest of her life of about $1,230 a month, thanks to having served 5 years in Congress. 5 years ago, her net worth was around $700k. It's now around $22 million. Just some facts to know.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/11/2025

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"“Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don’t like what your political opponents say, execute them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that’s not what we do in America.” www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...

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'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers | Common Dreams

"Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don't like what your political opponents say, execute them," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that's not w...

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Forbes @forbes.com · 19/11/2025

Almost two-thirds of small and mid-size business owners say they plan to increase prices next year as nearly all wrangle with inflation hitting their operations, a Bank of America report finds, yet many owners still expect higher revenue and plan to expand in the year ahead.

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Most Small Businesses Planning Price Hikes As Inflation Escalates, Report Finds

Despite mounting pressure from tariffs and rising costs, small businesses remain “cautiously optimistic,” according to a Bank of America report.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

When Europeans find out you are an American journalist they have a lot of questions…not about how this happened, they are familiar, but essentially along the lines of: when will America have a general strike?

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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 20/11/2025

Every day, trans Americans suffer immense scrutiny from the far-right. Service members have been banned from the military, and veterans have had their benefits stolen from them. Now, multiple members of Congress have used slurs and called for trans people to be institutionalized. (More below)

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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We finally know the identities of the 9 anonymous authors of the May HHS report on pediatric gender-affirming care. Surprise! It's stacked with people who make money advocating against pediatric gender-affirming care. Here's our writeup from May: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This is brilliant! 🧪“The Monster Slash” By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/11/2025

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination

Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/11/2025

I can usually translate him, but either I’m losing my mind, or he is.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/11/2025

Q: Is it appropriate for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president. Is that a conflict of interest? And your royal highness, the US intel community concluded you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journali--- TRUMP: Who are you with? Q: ABC News TRUMP: Fake news

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Trump just called Mohammed bin Salman a "very good friend" and added, "we've always been on the same side of every issue." This is the first time MBS has been on U.S. soil since Saudi agents murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi. Trump praised MBS's record on human rights.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 13/11/2025

No first family has used the office to make as much money as Donald Trump’s. We're talking hundreds of millions, if not BILLIONS, of dollars.

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Here's How Much The Trump Family Is Worth

President Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. But percentage-wise, his three sons—Don Jr., Eric and Barron—did even better.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group.

Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street.

None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier.

“I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/11/2025

A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy. www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...

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Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say

A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 13/11/2025

Donald Trump spent more money bailing out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA premium tax credits for 1 year. So does MAGA actually stand for Make Argentina Great Again? Because if not, then why did Trump just double or triple millions of Americans’ health care premiums?

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

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