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Martin Moreno

@leftcoasteroc.bsky.social
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Politics, salsa dancing & red wine, not necessarily in that order. L.A. native, now in OC. Progressive, bilingual, 86 47. Good read suggestions? Focus your rage & activism on a Republican close to you. I focus on defeating Young Kim in CA40🇺🇦 🍉 🇲🇽 🇨🇦

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Martin Moreno @leftcoasteroc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Any loser who has to travel to Thailand to find a woman to love him is telling on himself, not on American women.
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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 15/05/2026
The rescue of a turtle caught in a fishing net in the Canary Islands [📹 neptunowhalexperiencetenerif]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/05/2026
Wait, *another* one?
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 16/05/2026
Last year, Donald Trump and his lapdog Republicans chose to increase health insurance premiums for millions of Americans on the ACA marketplace. My budget proposal would KEEP $0 monthly plans for low-income Californians to help clean up the financial disaster Trump created.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/05/2026
Baier: "Gas prices in America are still high. Painfully high." Trump: "They're going to drop like a rock." Baier: "Painfully high though, now." Trump: "Lower than Biden." Baier: "Inflation is going up…It's going up under you."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:
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Subpoena of NYU Langone trans youth health records pierces ‘bubble’ of safety for patients & families
The Handbasket spoke to some of those impacted.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Once again, there are only two solutions to our authoritarian problem, & both involve a lot more Republicans having the courage to do what @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social has done these last years. The <entire> reason we’re here is that too few have followed his example: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 16/05/2026
Weeks after deporting Adriana to the DRC and after a federal judge ordered for her return, the Trump Administration claims they don’t know where she is. The truth? She is exactly where ICE left her.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump pillages US treasury to pay his private militia dog soldiers
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Hi folks: don't try this at home. Specifically to my fellow professors: don't try this in your classroom if you don't want to get pilloried by Trump supporters. Only Trump is allowed to shit on America like this.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 16/05/2026
Huntington Beach is wasting time and taxpayer money defending its illegal NIMBY policies instead of serving its own residents. Enough excuses — every city must follow state law and do its part to build more housing.
Voice of OC: "Huntington Beach to Pay $50,000 a Month Until They Get an Approved Housing Plan"
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16/05/2026
This week's Missouri Supreme Court ruling was already decided before the lawyers ever stepped foot in the courtroom. Oral arguments in the morning. A 54-page unanimous opinion upholding the GOP gerrymander by that afternoon. It gets worse. The Supreme Court pulled the same move just one day prior.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The hits just keep on coming. Trump, Vought and RFK Jr. want to be able to fire at will the people at HHS who actually know what they’re talking about. Their revenge on scientists who embarrassed them for their rank stupidity continues.
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US moves to end job protections for hundreds of health department workers
The Trump administration moved on Friday to strip hundreds of senior U.S. Department of ​Health and Human Services employees of civil service job protections, according ‌to an email reviewed by Reuter...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"The Newburgh, New York ICE solicitation comes as federal plans for detention infrastructure in the Hudson Valley have drawn fierce opposition..." www.projectsaltbox.com/p/a-deleted-...
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A Deleted Filename Reveals ICE's Plans for a New Facility in the Hudson Valley
Federal leasing documents, including a briefly posted file bearing the agency's name, point to a ICE’s interest to lease a law enforcement facility near Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/05/2026
Trump's response to Trump voters who are being hurt by high energy prices is "we just hit the highest stock market price ever"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2026
Having some decomposing fascist moron call me a "traitor" to my face & just grinning like f'ing Reek from Game of Thrones is so inconceivable to me. How do you look at yourself in the mirror?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Reminder of something Trump doesn't know but other people should: -Treason carries death penalty -Thus Trump effectively saying NYT people should be executed -Press gaggle response='oh that wacky Trump' -Couldn't *someone* follow up w "Sir, since treason is a capital offense, are you saying..." ?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Florida Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map violates a voter-approved state ban on partisan gerrymandering, voting advocates argued Friday, asking a court to block the state from using the map in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘Staggering’ evidence of partisanship: Florida court hears arguments for blocking GOP gerrymander
DeSantis and his allies have sought to distract from what their opponents are actually arguing before the court: that the map represents a stark violation of the state ban on partisan gerrymanders.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Amazon AMD Axon Boeing Microsoft Nvidia Palantir Just a few of the major corporations and government contractors Trump has bought stock in lately. Many of his trades directly coincided with regulatory decisions his administration made that affected their profits. Insider trader-in-chief.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is a soon to be shuttered boondoggle that squandered hundreds of millions of dollars and simultaneously engaged in human rights violations. In a functioning political system, it would be a massive scandal.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/05/2026
President Trump picked a former GEO Group executive, David Venturella, to be the new acting head of ICE. Unsurprisingly, GEO Group’s stock is up roughly 7% since his appointment was announced. The ties between the Trump admin and the private prison company go deep 🧵
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Since Jim Costa, Adam Gray, and George Whitesides are on this list, I'm just going to leave this here
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Republicans and Trump voters experiencing chronic illness are significantly less likely to trust that their medications they use for those illnesses are actually effective as well. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps ...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Republicans and Trump voters are significantly less likely than Democrats or Biden voters to visit their primary care doctor, to trust them, or to follow their advice. They will go to the ER, but they don’t trust the healthcare workers there, and they won’t listen to them either.
Fig. 5| Engagement, trust and adherence to doctors and medicines. Points represent multivariate OLS regression coefficients of the political variable of interest labelled in the graphical header (covariates specified in Methods); lines represent 95% CIs. Each outcome variable is listed down the left-hand column; rescaled from 0 to 1, where higher values represent that the respondent is more likely to visit, trust and adhere to their PCP or ER physician. Measures of political preference are listed across the top of each model (higher values represent
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the rightward alternative; partisanship and ideology rescaled from 0 to I). For example, the first row shows the relationship between visiting one's PCP and ideology (left), partisanship (middle) and vote choice (right). A total of 16,541 respondents reported supporting either Trump or Biden, 21,694 reported a party identification and 21,722 reported an ideological identification. Full models, statistical reporting and alternative specifications in Supplementary Section 8.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A new, well-conducted study reveals that Conservatives “experienced worsening health and higher mortality than Liberals during the 2010s”. The authors concluded that this gap is going to get worse, and that public health officials and doctors will continue to struggle to reach conservatives.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 14/05/2026
Attorney: I’m a trial lawyer. I tried the case against Meta and Google in Los Angeles, the first social media addiction case decided by an American jury. The evidence that I saw in that case keeps me up at night.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/05/2026
NEW: Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages New accounts from 17 men, women and children who have filed formal claims after being detained in a late-night raid paint a violent and terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ actions.
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Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages
New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ alleged actions. These descriptions form the basis of claims filed thi...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/05/2026
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026
Rep Grijalva: "The problem I see is that this administration makes blanket statements about what's not happening, and we have a portion of our nation that believe them blindly. We have to realize 91% of the people in detention in these concentration camps are in private prisons. So follow the money"
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/05/2026
This is a TRUMP appointee saying this. What the DOJ is doing to get at the medical records of trans youth is so beyond the pale. It's an ideological crusade targeting a vulnerable minority group using the entire force of the federal government.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/05/2026
The court also stated that they can't hold a presumption of regularity for the government due to DOJ's "unsettling" tactics.
The image displays the concluding pages of a legal "Memorandum and Order" from a United States District Court, dated May 13, 2026.
The document contains the following key elements:
 * **Highlighted Text:** A significant portion of the "Conclusion" section is highlighted in yellow, stating:
   > "But the discrepancy between the honorable conduct expected of federal prosecutors and DOJ’s tactics in this case is unsettling. The Court cannot help but share the sentiment that '[t]he presumption of regularity that has previously been extended to [DOJ] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds.'"
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 * **The Court's Ruling:** The text explicitly states that the Emergency Motions to Quash are **GRANTED**, quashing an administrative subpoena issued by the DOJ. The court finds the subpoena lacked a congressionally authorized purpose and was issued for an "improper purpose."
 * **Injunction:** The DOJ is **ENJOINED** from receiving, using, or retaining any patient-identifying or protected health information regarding "Rhode Island's children" produced by RIH (Rhode Island Hospital).
 * **Signature:** The document concludes with the signature of **Mary S. McElroy**, United States District Judge.
 * **Metadata:** The header indicates this is Document 38, Page 24 of 24, for Case 1:26-mc-00007-MSM-AEM.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/05/2026
Rhode Island district judge Mary Mcelroy has quashed the subpoena from the DOJ seeking to access the medical records of trans youth. She enjoined DOJ as well. She calls DOJ "untrustworthy" and DOJ misrepresented and withheld information from the court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The image is a legal document titled "Memorandum and Order" from the **United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island**, presided over by Judge Mary S. McElroy.
The text focuses on a case involving an administrative subpoena to **Rhode Island Hospital** (C.A. No. 1:26-mc-0007-MSM-AEM). A significant portion of the second paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which states:
> "DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Texas court”). It did so in an obvious effort to shield it’s recent investigative tactics—previously rejected by every other court to review them—from this Court’s review, in favor of a distant forum that DOJ deems friendly to its political positions."
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A footnote at the bottom of the page cites remarks from **Judge Reed O'Connor** regarding "forum shopping" by the Department of Justice.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/05/2026
Senator John Fetterman was the deciding vote Wednesday to dismiss the Democrats’ seventh attempt to advance a resolution under the War Powers Act to stop Trump. trib.al/y7XlcIB Three Republicans—Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul—broke with party leadership to support the measure.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Plans to build Australia’s first Trump Tower have been scrapped just three months after it was announced, with the local developer saying the Trump brand has become “toxic.” “Let’s just say that with the Iran war and everything else, the Trump brand was increasingly unpopular in Australia.”
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Australia’s Trump Tower plans scrapped as developer says brand has become ‘toxic’ | CNN
Plans to build Australia’s first Trump Tower have been scrapped just three months after it was announced, with the local developer saying the Trump brand has become “toxic.”
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/05/2026
BREAKING: Wholesale prices jump 6% as energy prices soar, raising pressure on U.S. companies to pass along costs to consumers.
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Producer prices shot up 6%, adding to pressure on companies to raise prices for customers
U.S. wholesale inflation came in hot last month. Producer prices rose 6% from a year earlier, most since December 2022, as the 10-week Iran war pushed up energy prices and put pressure on companies to pass along higher costs to consumers.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 13/05/2026
Trump (yesterday): “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Somewhat unexpected news from South Carolina: Enough Republican senators *opposed* a vote to add redistricting to the ongoing legislative session, so the measure was DEFEATED. This prevents the GOP from taking up a new congressional map and eliminate the majority-Black district held by Clyburn.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As others have noted, it's good that Trump is normalizing the idea of adding new states with these insane posts, as it'll just soften the ground for Democrats to make DC and PR states.
Trump promoting Venezuela as the 51st state
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Rod Stewart to King Charles on his visit with Trump: “Hello, sir. May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.”
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Martin Moreno @leftcoasteroc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The opposition commercials write themselves.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Scoop: Bari Weiss upstaged Lesley Stahl—who I'm told had spent months trying to secure an interview with Netanyahu for "60 Minutes"—and booked the Israeli prime minister herself, handing the sit-down to Major Garrett. It hasn't gone over well. More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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The Major Trouble at '60'
Bari Weiss’ decision to hand another high-profile “60 Minutes” interview to Major Garrett—who is not a correspondent on the show—prompted backlash inside the newsmagazine, Status has learned.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesn’t make them right, and they won’t survive the real justice that is coming.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 12/05/2026
Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.
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