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Defenders of Our Republic @defendersofourrepublic.org · 08/05/2026

The reckless destruction of USAID will go down in history as one of America’s greatest moral failures. Hundreds of thousands dead and counting. It happened on our watch, folks. #WethePeople must demand an end to this regime. IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE. DM DOOR for ways to help. #Resist #ICRI

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

A maze of twisty little passages

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/11/2025

“The story of this country is the story of patience in tribulation, and hope in the face of fear,” Nancy Pelosi argues. “What we choose to do in this hour of our history will determine the shape of America and the world for decades.”

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America Is Great When America Is Good

Those who believe in liberty and dignity must never give in to the forces arrayed against the things we hold dearest.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Obscene. Why are we tolerating this extremity of wealth inequality? Something has to give—or be forced.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026. If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it. So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.” Because that IS what they are going to say.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/10/2025

Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Michigan Lawyer Says The Halloween Terror Plot That FBI Director Kash Patel Described Never Existed

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Michigan Lawyer Says The Halloween Terror Plot That FBI Director Kash Patel Described Never Existed

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I post monthly about the jobs report and inflation…but since we haven’t had an actual report in months, I’m going to talk about how in the moonlit night of Halloween the Fed Reserve injected about $29 billion of liquidity into the banking system — the largest overnight operation since the pandemic.🧵

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

By summer it’ll probably be a good idea to have enough money at hand outside of your bank to survive for an extended period, have your passports or travel docs in order, identify your nearest border crossing, and make arrangements for extended outdoor living situations. #3E

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

So it basically took a month for the U.S. to go from guardian of the western world to the guy you wouldn’t trust to cat-sit Impressive

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It's not in spite of these indicators, it's *because* of them. Affluence and ennui are powerful drivers of modern authoritatianism.

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John Ales AF @johnales.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I wouldn’t call this hilarious…

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Childhood's End🍁 @childhoodsend.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I ran into some lameo Neocon touting the tired PP lie that crime was rampant in Canada & bail was out of control. So just to clarify for the poorly informed, Canada has some issues it is addressing but, as seen here the dark green out of 160 countries are the safest in... the... world. #Canada 🍁🇨🇦🍁

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/02/2025

Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I quote Ortega y Gassett in the Death of Expertise - and in a piece I have coming tomorrow about Musk and Trump

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 16/02/2025

Where does the accumulated debt of this country come from? It comes from Republican presidents. So much for Republicans being the party of "fiscal responsibility"; they will gladly drive up the debt if it means they can pass a Tax Scam for their billionaire friends and corporations.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It takes over 25 ¶¶ before WaPo explains why Trump is failing to meet the deportation numbers he promised: Stephen Miller lied about the number of criminal aliens in the US to fearmonger and get Trump elected. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, said that the Trump administration is justifying its mobilization on the basis of “an invasion that doesn’t exist.”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Journalists are getting the story out, activists are staging protests, courts are weighing in. The Democrats need to tie it all together in high profile daily briefings for the entire country. My latest on the urgent need for a counter narrative to Trump/Musk. ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

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Democrats should fight back with an aggressive, fact-based counter narrative every single day.

They know how to do this, they’ve done it before. The daily COVID briefings by blue state Governors are the perfect roadmap.

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Shelby Kent-Stewart @shelbykstewart.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Hands-down the best thing you'll read today. When your existence is threatened, fight like a warrior, not a wimp.

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Fight ALL the fights

We have nothing left to lose — let’s f**king act like it!

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Reesh @reeshb.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I'm going to post this every day until that man is dead and gone. youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs

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When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Weltschmerz Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The US VP in 1943. Our issues are not because of Khrushchev, they are home grown. Even earlier Louis Brandeis commented "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

He’s right again.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Jesus. 1. It is not true that only "probationary" employees were let go, though that was the claim. 2. Firings directly from OPM; no one at CDC, for ex, has any say 3. OPM ordered HR at DOE to give bad performance reviews to those let go; HR employees refused and resigned

User Trevorghost says:

Just got an email in my spam folder (personal email) titled "Federal Workers on Probation: You're fired!"

Just a reminder in case anyone needed it; the cruelty is the point. They don't care about how many people they just put on the streets or out of dream jobs. All because they can say they owned the libs.

User throwaway13025 says,

I am at NIH. We were told the top institute leadership is next. We lost a significant number of probationary employees. Many of them were schedule A, and a month or two away from their tenure. We did not lose our student pathways with NTE dates. The notifications are on hold right now. We were not given good reason why they are on hold, but it was insinuated that we are reviewing them to see who is on the list in error before it sent. NIH fought really hard for our people. I'm proud of what we tried to do. And I'm heartbroken.

I just want people to understand that if they fire all 28 of the IC directors, is a significant loss to the American people. The IC directors are supposed to be leaders in the disease research area of their institute. Replacing them with a political appointee would do irreparable damage to the research and our mission. They decide what we study based on the most promising scientific discoveries of our time. They are doing this as retribution to Dr. Fauci who was an IC Director for NIAID. Removing the IC Directors and replacing with political means unqualified political people get to decide what science we do, not the experts in the field. Finding IC Directors is a laborious task because a national search happens for the most qualified and brilliant scientists.

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I get exhausted trying to explain this stuff to people who fundamentally don't understand pure scientific research.

It's mostly not profitable, at least in the short-term. Some of the most important scientific breakthroughs are things that we won't really understand the value of until 10-20 years from now or more. Possibly generations.

That's just the nature of science. It can even be true for the seemingly mundane stuff. In the 60s someone gets curious how flies can get around so well with such tiny brains, that answer turns into new understandings, those understandings merge with new computing, and in the 2020s we have autonomous drones and self driving cars who's existence is rooted all the way back to someone's unheralded research that started because they thought bugs were neat.

No for-profit company would fund the first 20 steps in that process, because there's no clear path to profitability until the end. That's why governments across the world are the primary funders of pure research.

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A cnn article stated, "Political officials at the Energy Department told its non-political HR administrators to cite poor performance personnel files as a justification for firing the employees, the source said. Frustrated by the pressure from political appointees, two of those HR employees submitted their resignations on Friday."

As a DOE probationary employee who was fired, I want to thank the HR folks identified in this article for showing incredible integrity in resisting the administration's attempt to pretend that the layoffs were due to poor performance. If you know these folks, please give them your support.

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Ms . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

If true, Donald Trump & Elon Musk & Hegseth now responsible for a Broken Arrow incident

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It's not just the money, either. A venue manager told me that when they're setting up her show, she went out and introduced herself to the locals doing the work to thank them. He said that's the only act he's ever seen do that. You don't have to be a fan of her music to be a fan of Taylor Swift.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We should have told them.

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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We small businesses appreciate this 🙏🏻

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♘ 𝕴𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍 千尺丨几Ꮆ乇 ☘️⚔️ @irish-pickle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

U.S. inflation accelerated last month as the cost of groceries, gasoline and rents rose, a disappointment for families and businesses struggling with higher costs and likely underscoring the Federal Reserve’s resolve to delay further interest rate cuts. #MAGA #TRUMP www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...

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U.S. inflation increases to 3 percent, groceries and gasoline prices heading higher

The consumer price index increased 3% in January from a year ago, Wednesday's report from the Labor Department showed, up from 2.9% the previous month.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

don’t worry, he’ll just release millions of gallons of water in places it won’t help at all

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“Ignore the media headlines reporting that these moves ‘raise questions’ or ‘push the boundary.’ It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Breaking the Law

Just weeks in, the Trump administration has violated rules, laws, and the Constitution.

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Colin Robinson @fermiparasocks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Oh that’s interesting

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