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Lauren Leader

@laurenleaderait.bsky.social
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Fighter for the ladies. Pathological optimist. Founder www.aitogether.org Regular on the 📺 Defender of respectful dialogue. Believer in the best of what democracy can be.

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CNN @cnn.com · 14/04/2025
Fired, then rehired: Federal workers describe an environment of fear, anxiety and stress cnn.it/4cwmoen
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In a federal workforce racked by stress and fear, one family shares a story of death | CNN Politics
Stress and anxiety had been building for weeks in Monique Lockett, a 25-year veteran of the Social Security Administration, about the fate of her colleagues and the sensitive agency data she had vowed...
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Terri Rupar @terri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely is over — for now 19thnews.org/2025/04/prox...
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The fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely is over — for now
The fight over proxy voting pitted two mothers in Congress — one Republican, one Democrat — against GOP leadership.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/04/2025
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia "sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake," his attorneys write in their brief to the US Supreme Court. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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This case is one of one. It presents the "extraordinary circumstances" of the
Government conceding that it erred in removing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia "to a
foreign country for which he was not eligible for removal." Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No.
25-1345, 2025 WL 1021113, at *6 (4th Cir. Apr. 7, 2025) (Wilkinson, J. concurring).
The Government knew about the court order prohibiting Abrego Garcia's removal to
El Salvador, and admits that removing him in violation of that order was an
"administrative error." Id. at *1 (Thacker, J., with King, J., concurring). Abrego Garcia
has never been charged with a crime, in any country. He is not wanted by the Government of El Salvador. He sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the
United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake.
The Government "can—and does-return wrongfully removed migrants as a
matter of course," id. at *4 (citing Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 435 (2009) (noting that removed individuals "can be afforded effective relief by facilitation of their
return")). The district court's order instructing the Government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return is routine. See Abrego Garcia, 2025 WL 1021113, at *4 n. 7 (Thacker,
J., with King, J., concurring) (collecting cases). It does not implicate foreign policy or even domestic immigration policy in any case. The United States has never claimed
that it is powerless to correct its error and before today, it did not contend that doing
so would cause it any harm. That is because the only one harmed by the current state
of affairs is Abrego Garcia.
The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of the case. Its application
to this Court is built on a series of strawmen: first, that ordering the Government to
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Yes tariffs are WAY worse for women. I explain why on @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...
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OP/ED: Why Trump's tariff policy will disproportionately hurt women
Pink tariffs, layoffs and 401k losses all spell trouble for American women, says CEO of All In Together Lauren Leader.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
WSJ: “.. The poll suggests that a president who promised that ‘tariffs are about making America rich again’ is facing unease ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/03/2025
This means I now have negative 4 security clearances
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
What and I mean this, the fuck?
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Best oped evah?
HRC nails is again - the woman is ALWAYS right
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/03/2025
"frustrated with negative headlines"....but not angry about the security breach
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Thinking about my friends in the CIA and active duty who are leaning today their government doesn’t care about their lives and safety.
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Good company always
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Weds. guest list: Richard Haass, John Heilemann, Jon Meacham, Gen. Mark Hertling, Mike Barnicle, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jim Himes, Graydon Carter, Amanda Knox, Sen. Mark Warner, Chris Matthews, Tina Brown, Mallory McMorrow, Lauren Leader, Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Titus Welliver
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Rep. Haley Stevens @rephaleystevens.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Amid rising antisemitism, the pause in FEMA funding means Jewish and other vulnerable institutions don’t have access to the Nonprofit Security Grants they use to harden their infrastructure against threats. jewishinsider.com/2025/03/jewi...
jewishinsider.com
Jewish security grants in limbo amid FEMA funding freeze
Jewish institutions that rely on the Nonprofit Security Grant Program have not received grants allocated to them during a 30-day FEMA funding freeze
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Wtf
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I guess Signal is better than the toilet in Mar a lago right? 🤷
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/03/2025
🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.
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NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat
The National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/03/2025
Disgraceful response. They never take responsibility. Pete Hegseth put our national security at risk. He is completely unfit to lead.
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Honestly it’s not at all funny. I’ve spent 11 years teaching adult women civics. Most Americans could not pass the citizenship test. Now knowing the basics is actually a matter of life and death.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/03/2025
If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
All you need to know about Twitter
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Just stomach turning. This is what happens when the rich are in charge
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
There was simply no one like Nita. A huge loss. May her memory be a blessing. nypost.com/2025/03/16/u...
nypost.com
Former NY Rep. Nita Lowey dead at 87, pol served 30 years in House
Former longtime New York Rep. Nita Lowey, who served in Congress for 32 years and became the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee, died at 87, her family said. The Democrat – a s…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/03/2025
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/03/2025
NEW: The biggest DOGE-related layoffs are in and around Washington, D.C. In the week ending Feb. 22, unemployment claims in D.C. rose 25% from the week prior and were four times as high as one year earlier — and that’s only the beginning.
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Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future
For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate,…
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Amna Nawaz @amnanawaz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“women will control around two-thirds of all private wealth in the US by 2030,” via @semafor.com www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKi...
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Smart
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/03/2025
Ouch. Republican Representative Tom Barrett held a tele-town hall with his constituents in his swing district in Michigan on Monday and ran a survey asking if they support DOGE. 70% of the participants said they do not.
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
...Ben Proudfoot, Alison Case, John Heilemann, Lauren Leader, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, David Enrich, Natasha Rothwell
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
An interesting conversation w/ @laurenleaderait.bsky.social regarding adult civic education (around 5:40). Constituents affected by Medicaid cuts receiving training on how to lobby their legislators - at Town Halls and at their offices. It's never too late to educate. 😀 youtu.be/dpo19AmU-r8?...
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Joe slams GOP for slashing Medicaid to fund tax cuts
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Weds. guest list: Mike Barnicle, Ali Vitali, Peter Baker, Mike Allen, David Rohde, Lisa Rubin, Claire McCaskill, Ed Luce, Eliot Cohen, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, Adi Alexander, Molly Jong-Fast, Sarah Hyland, Ryan McCartan, Lauren Leader, ctd...
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I have been wondering when there will be a class action suit brought by the thousands who were falsely told this.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/02/2025
$19,000,000,000,000.00
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.
nytimes.com
DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Go Tish!
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A federal judge has extended the order keeping Elon Musk's DOGE out of Treasury Department payment systems, ruling that the Trump admin's process for granting access to the sensitive data was so flawed and haphazard that it was likely illegal.
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Good times by Elon Musk
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Lucha @iustitia100.latinsky.app · 22/02/2025
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI. The ruling bars Trump from requiring federal contractors and grant recipients to certify that they don't engage in "equity-related" programs, a term the judge found too vague to be enforced.
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Let’s send Elon and find out.
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In Houston today 200 women, mostly of color and lower income, showed up on a Saturday morning to learn about how to be civic leaders and fight effectively for what they care about. Keeping me ever hopeful.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2025
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A little good news on a friday. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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‘Arbitrary and discriminatory’: Judge blocks Trump’s effort to deter DEI programs
U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson rules that administration’s policy likely violates the First Amendment
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/02/2025
Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
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Lauren Leader @laurenleaderait.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
No words.
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Republicans, explain how denying cancer screenings to veterans like Valerie Jackson "reduces waste." We're waiting. www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-...
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Veteran says her mammogram was canceled due to VA staffing shortage following layoffs
Hampton Roads veteran says VA appointment canceled because of staffing shortage; cancelation comes on heels of mass layoff of VA employees
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