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Liam Goldrick

@liamgoldrick.bsky.social
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#Philly #EdPolicy #SchoolPR. @donovangroup.bsky.social school communicator & partner. #PHLed parent. #DOOP. Member of Bicycle Coalition of Greater #Philadelphia, 5thSquare & WXPN.🍴🚴‍♂️🎶⚾️⚽️🪴MA-VT-DC-WI-PA

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/08/2026
"The private sector money flowing into Trump’s vanity projects is also costing taxpayers. His ballroom is funded by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars as well as private donations. In this way, we’re all forced to fund Trump’s corruption." — @justinglawe.bsky.social
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How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruption
On top of his self-dealing, taxpayers are spending billions on his vanity projects.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This line from Ross Douthat’s final NYT column is something you see all the time from the soft-MAGA right. Sure, Trump’s *most* alarmist critics weren’t correct, but that’s basically true of every president. Trump’s *median* critic did in fact predict his presidency pretty accurately.
Trumpism has flailed and failed, it hasn't consolidated the kind of authoritarian power anticipated by its most alarmed opponents.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 08/08/2026
Blanche’s confirmation underscores a simple truth: a handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.
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Dan DeFreest @dandefreest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Students deserve a seat at the table when it comes to AI in schools, and these young people proved why. Their recommendations echo what we've been saying: AI should support learning, not replace thinking, with clear guardrails and AI literacy. www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...
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Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it out
Should students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide.
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Liam Goldrick @liamgoldrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Are there any congressional Republicans with any dignity left? (Some of them never had any to begin with.)
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And there it is: With just hours remaining until deadline to release more Epstein Files under lawsuit filed by @KatiePhang — Justice Dept asks judge for two-month delay, claiming it risks revealing victims’ identities.. … (which the Trump Admin has already done)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/07/2026
WOW. Todd Blanche IGNORES the court order to produce certain Epstein files or explain redactions, and INSTEAD claims it needs more time, and should be able to do it UNDER SEAL. We saw this deflection coming a mile away. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Response to Order to Show Cause – #19 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE re 15 Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed by TODD BLANCHE. (Woodward, Stanley) (Entered: 07/02/2026)
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
JUST IN: Todd Blanche has responded to Judge Sullivan's Order on my preliminary injunction and it's...more deflection, bullshit, and attempts to conceal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Response to Order to Show Cause – #19 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
Response to Order to Show Cause
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/05/2026
People who are detained at Delaney Hall have spent months receiving expired food filled with maggots, being denied medical care and experiencing cruel treatment from guards. Make no mistake: This is a direct result of President Trump's cruel anti-immigrant policy.
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Expired food, neglected medical care and hunger strike allegations fuel protests at N.J. ICE facility
Days of protests outside a New Jersey immigration detention center, including clashes with federal law enforcement, continued Tuesday as demonstrators and lawmakers allege the facility, where detainees waged a hunger strike, has inedible food and lacks access to medical care
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Hourly wages are up 3% since 2019. Corporate profits are up 50%. Labor’s piece of the economic pie is the smallest it’s been in over 75 years, while corporate profits’ share is the *biggest* it’s been since 1950. This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/05/2026
We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Anyone Jewish or Muslim or atheist or simply non-Christian has no dflifficulty taking this as the implicit threat it is intended to be
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Liam Goldrick @liamgoldrick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Abhorrent corruption and violence against American democracy and rule of law
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
BREAKING: Trump is essentially stealing money from the pockets of Americans to the tune of $1.7 billion. He's telling his DOJ to give away that money to his allies and supporters under the fake claim that the Biden DOJ was "weaponized." It reeks of corruption. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/05/2026
An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries:
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
HAHAAHAHAHAHAA! They keep coming up with better and better midterm-election slogans: "Gas prices are high, but that's life." YOU GUYS ARE DOING GREAT, KEEP GOING!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/05/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The cruelty of high fuel prices isn’t just about the cost, but also about the unequal burden it places on American households,” Jeff Colgan writes.
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Opinion | Trump’s Iran War is Punishing America’s Working Class
Higher fuel prices are a burden on low-income families.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 15/05/2026
Once, during the time I was working at the White House, I met a guy at synagogue who asked about my work. When I said I worked tech policy, he grabbed my shoulder and said “I swear to God, if the Democrats can stop the spam calls and texts, they will win every election.” I think about that a lot.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
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What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
We CAN have nice things - if we want them
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yeah, he was just joking about being a messiah. As malignant narcissist megalomaniacs do when trying to pander to evangelicals. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One way that Orbán sought to entrench power was adopting a new Hungarian constitution in 2011 that classified many policy areas as 'cardinal laws' that require a two-thirds majority vote to change. With almost 100% of votes counted, the Hungarian opposition has just achieved what seemed impossible.
Hungarian election results.Péter Magyar victory rally.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 08/04/2026
Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.
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Donald Trump Impeachment Backed by Most Americans: Poll
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's good that Trump showed up at the Supreme Court today. The effect is to stamp his face all over this vile effort to end the constitutional birthright of equality and restore hierarchy by blood. Let him be associated with this project forever. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2084...
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Trump’s Crazed New Eruptions of Fury at SCOTUS Already Set to Backfire
It’s a good thing that he showed up in court for the birthright citizenship arguments. It helps ensure that he’ll own this morally repugnant effort to gut the constitutional promise of equality.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 01/04/2026
The central organizing principle behind the Trump administration is white supremacy. The corruption just made it worth Trump's while.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2026
If President Trump’s attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship succeeds, he'll create a vulnerable underclass of people who are born in the United States but unable to fully participate in our democracy. We will not let that happen.
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Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Affect Us All
“President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship is a violation of the 14th Amendment,” writes Deborah N. Archer.
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Liam Goldrick @liamgoldrick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Liam Goldrick @liamgoldrick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Tonight’s @celticsnba.bsky.social performance should elevate Jaylen Brown in the @nba.com MVP conversation, especially given his 1x1s versus SGA. ☘️ 🏀
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In my darkest moments, I fear that this is how democracy dies. Not with a secret conspiracy conducted in the middle of the night. But with a brazen confession made public in the light of day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...
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There are no two sides to a confession
Over the years, I have watched the Republican Party morph into a crime family that boasts about rigging elections.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/03/2026
As Kennedy overhauls America’s approach to vaccines, deadly and disabling diseases could return. “I think there always was a worst-case scenario. I don't think I imagined it could or would be this bad,” one expert said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.
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US Mint takes down video of meeting criticizing proposed Trump 24K gold coin
A coin advisory committee called the design for the America 250 coin something only produced by "kings or dictators."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is vile. After campaigning on "no new wars," Trump is now basically saying, "MAGA = WAR." JD Vance is claiming Trump's war is fine because it's "smart." Their contempt for their voters is extraordinary. I wrote about this here, with some ugly new examples: newrepublic.com/article/2078...
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Trump Accidentally Reveals What He Really Thinks of MAGA Voters
To be a member of MAGA in good standing, you must forget Trump’s promise of “no new wars,” and instead believe whatever he tells you to believe at any given moment.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Under Joseph Stalin the rule was “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!” Now, Donald Trump’s men are learning the same lesson — the humiliating way. Although this time, the question is different: “Who will be the first to take off their shoes?” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/who-...
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Who will be the first to take off their shoes?
Across Washington, D.C., a new fashion trend has taken hold of those in Trump’s circle: embarrassingly oversized clown shoes.
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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A major and really unappreciated fault line in the Democratic Party right now is the divide between the 'tax the rich' populists and the old school 'fix the schools' centrists
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Liam Goldrick @liamgoldrick.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If you’re flying out of PHL do NOT believe what the airport website says. This is *not* a 5-minute wait for precheck. The fundamental blame for this goes to Trump & congressional Republicans in charge who have decided not to make TSA staff essential while they’ve partially the government. #Philly
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
CBS News under Bari Weiss becomes a non-stop cheerleader for war with Iran. But CBS News polling shows that Americans disapprove of this war.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Charlie Kirk dropped out of an Illinois community college after one semester. He later advised Gen Z that today's higher ed probably isn't worth it. A perfect icon for this regime's attitude toward becoming educated
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Patel's FBI is not to be trusted, of course, but there is a real possibility that the deadly terror attacks on U.S. soil feared as a response to Trump's illegal war have already started www.kxan.com/news/crime/p...
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3 dead, 14 injured in downtown Austin mass shooting
Three people have died, and 14 were injured in a shooting on West Sixth Street overnight Saturday into Sunday, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
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Stephen F. Knott @stephenknott.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
More North Korean Style Posters in DC. This time it's Charlie Kirk on the Department of Education.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/02/2026
NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.
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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The presumption created by the surrounding evidence is that this war could very well be about (1) subverting US democracy, (2) enriching the president, or both. These presumptions, while not proof, provide solid lines of inquiry as we learn more about the war.” snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
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Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“‘Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover-up,’ said Rep. @robertgarcia.house.gov of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.” www.ms.now/news/epstein...
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Epstein accuser also alleged Trump sexually assaulted and hit her during her early teenage years
A woman who came forward in July 2019 to accuse Jeffrey Epstein of assaulting and raping her several times in the 1980s, beginning when she was just 13, is also a Trump accuser featured in the Epstein...
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The thing about elected Democrats attending the State of the Union is that Donald Trump used social media to call for the execution of elected Democrats mere months ago, like, if you're calling for my execution, I'm not attending your lie-filled speech. That's the only way to project dignity here.
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