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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
#1 in Social Networking Apps. Let’s keep it that way. Tell everyone you know about ICEBlock!
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/07/2025
Progressive lawyers must stop bringing new cases to the Supreme Court, writes Duncan Hosie. They are fighting “for ideas the justices were explicitly appointed to oppose”:
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The Left’s Litigation Trap
Poorly chosen liberal lawsuits are a gift to a conservative majority eager to recast constitutional law.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/07/2025
Dear Moderate GOP pro Ukraine house members: Murkowski got a cutout, everyone is getting something for their vote. How about demanding money for Ukraine? Even more air defense?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/06/2025
Amid the “No Kings” protests that sprung up across the country, President Trump’s long-awaited military parade in the capital was a low-key affair with sparse crowds. Even most Republican lawmakers sat the event out. nyer.cm/pZj5ISx
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/06/2025
Saturday’s military parade in Washington celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army was sponsored by at least four brands that have strong financial and political ties to President Trump, raising questions about whether the event benefited his allies and supporters.
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Close Trump Allies Sponsored the Military Parade, Raising Ethical Concerns
Federal regulations prohibit government employees from using their public office for private gain.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/06/2025
Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump can never bring himself to show leadership when a Dem is killed or attacked. Can you imagine any other president failing to address the nation, to speak to Minn. families, and victims? He is a monster.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
when 4-5M people march peacefully against the current regime it's the story of the year. NYT cannot bring itself to focus on that reality.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. ... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/05/2025
Gov. Pritzker has taken decisive action against Trump’s unconstitutional deportations — it’s time for other governors to follow his lead. If you live in a state with a Democratic trifecta, urge your governor to use their power to take a stand against Trump’s abuses of power: www.bluestatedefianc...
Governor JB Pritzker speaks at a podium, expressing criticism of Donald Trump and announcing measures against El Salvador for aiding unconstitutional deportation, as detailed in a tweet from his official account.
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Thread Reader by Skywriter | unroller @unroll.skywriter.blue · 21/05/2025
The thread as a shareable webpage: skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:rjr6nf…. Powered by @skywriter.blue
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Page by Sherrilyn Ifill | @sifill.bsky.social
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending ...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14/05/2025
The American public has been inundated with news of the Trump family’s self-enrichment for so long that many of their dealings now barely create a stir. But Trump’s crypto dealings may be the most naked profiteering we’ve seen yet.
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How Donald Trump’s Crypto Dealings Push the Bounds of Corruption
With the meme coin $TRUMP and the company World Liberty Financial, the President is using an underregulated industry to enrich himself and court foreign influence.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Also: Every court to have reached the Q over the past weeks has come to the same conclusion: The First Amendment categorically forecloses the government from deporting people solely because of their political viewpoints. Judge Young in AAUP/MESA; Judge Crawford in Mahdawi; Judge Sessions in Ozturk.
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Courage is contagious. And speaking truth to the powerful must not stop because the powerful threaten this with has power over.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025
The Gates foundation, a philanthropy is devoted to global health, plans to celebrate it's 25th year next week. But as the Trump administration dismantles foreign aid, Bill Gates is trying to talk to anyone with the president’s ear.
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As Trump Cuts Foreign Aid, What Does It Mean for the Gates Foundation?
As the Trump administration dismantles foreign aid, Bill Gates, whose philanthropy is devoted to global health, is trying to talk to anyone with the president’s ear.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/04/2025
Happy birthday to @barbrastreisand.bsky.social, whose 1973 fundraiser kept our co-founder Daniel Ellsberg’s legal fight alive long enough for him to win. She kept Dan out of jail for leaking the Pentagon Papers; now we’re continuing his fight to defend whistleblowers.
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Barbra Streisand Kept Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Out of Jail, Says Filmmaker
Paul Jay, at work on ‘How to Stop a Nuclear War,’ a documentary based on Ellsberg’s book, tells THR about Streisand throwing a party to crucially fund the whistleblower’s legal defense fund and keep h...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/04/2025
We’re turning the massive energy from the Hands Off! protests towards one of our biggest fights yet: Stopping the GOP reconciliation plan that guts Medicaid, crushes SNAP, and shovels trillions of dollars to billionaires. To win, we need to be louder and more organized than ever before.
Indivisible Bucks County and Yardley Indivisible hold up signs at a rally that read “SHAME GOP.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The CNBC survey showed Trump with a 43% approval and a 55% disapproval rating. Big News Flash to anyone who bought his bullshit about grocery prices being down: They aren’t!
CNBC story: 

Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds. 

Story by Steve Liesman

Photo of Trump and FYI, he looks like shit.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 19/04/2025
The times require that elected officials be not just representatives of our communities and states but organizers defending American constitutional democracy and leaders out of this lapse into authoritarian rule. Watch this clip from @podsaveamerica.crooked.com:
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leavingsoon.bsky.social @leavingsoon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Small town America is waking up. Today in Grants Pass, Oregon. Deep red Grants Pass, Oregon. Pay attention Congressman Cliff Bentz.
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David Goldstein @david-goldstein.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Just...wow. This is one for the ages. Get ready to be inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social ’s powerful keynote address last night at the Lantern Service commemorating the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. (She is introduced at about 1:15:00 into the video.) vimeo.com/1074289056?s...
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Lantern Service
The Old North Church is offering a traditional Lantern Service on Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:00pm in honor of the 250th anniversary of the “two if by sea”…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/04/2025
This easy vegetarian sheet-pan dinner has more than 17,000 five-star reviews. "Had to stop myself from going back for more and eating what is supposed to be tomorrow's lunch!" nyti.ms/3RdEB6v
Overhead view of a sheet pan with baked feta, broccolini, tomatoes, red onion, and lemon slices. The title reads "Baked Feta With Broccolini, Tomatoes and Lemon."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2025
Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Boston loves a Revolutionary War reference @ #HandsOff Boston
In front of The Embrace, a sign that reads "Boston beating kings since 1775." There are three red circles with lines through them over a British crown, the LA Kings logo and Donald Trump’s hair. Fun fact: the Boston Tea Party was a protest against tariffs. Not sure this is technically true.Massachusetts still hates kings 250 years later on one sign. On the other it reads 1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by CybertruckA man with a Ukrainian flag draped over his shoulders holds a sign that says "How many Tesla should we throw into Boston Harbor"
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Bishop +Ken Carter, WNC United Methodist @bishopkencarter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff over 1k people gathered in Haywood County, NC. More courage here than in elite law firms and universities.
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Ashley Rebecca @ashleyrebecca.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
You may not realize how huge this is, but for a town in Wyoming, people showed up today! #Handsoff #Casper #Wyoming
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Swalwell: This is what kicking the shit out of fascism looks like
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Raskin: We even have the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth and turning our 401(k) Into a 201 (K). And the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/04/2025
Until now, citizen frustration with the Trump administration “has registered nationally as little more than a distant rumble,” @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes. The “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C., was an attempt to raise the volume:
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The Resistance Rumbles
The “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C., drew thousands of people with a lot of feelings—but as-yet-inchoate anger at the Trump administration.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"‘Point-Blank Range’: How Israel Executed 15 Medics and Rescue Workers in Gaza" Writing for Zeteo, Diana Buttu says she had a difficult time writing this essay because she could not stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.
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‘Point-Blank Range’: How Israel Executed 15 Medics and Rescue Workers in Gaza
I had a difficult time writing this essay because I could not stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/04/2025
A gay makeup artist named Andry José Hernández Romero was among the Venezuelans President Trump deported to El Salvador. Andry’s offense? Having the wrong tattoos.
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The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act
The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/04/2025
obscene lying from Stephen Miller on Fox News as he claims the economy was in "depression" thanks to Biden when Trump took office (the American economy was in fact the envy of the world three months ago ... )
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone
). The tweet reads: "RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research. ALZHEIMERS. One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today. He’s not interested. He’s a nasty piece of work."
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/04/2025
As Trump runs our economy into the ground, Republicans are handing money to billionaires hand over fist, while raising prices—raising taxes—on every American. We could stop Trump’s tariffs today—instead, Republicans are cheering Trump as he drives us toward a painful recession.
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JPMorgan Says Trump’s Tariffs to Send US Into Recession in 2025
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it expects the US economy to fall into a recession this year after accounting for the likely impact of tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/04/2025
Dow Down 2200+ Points Fox:
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Lane Trippe @ltrippe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“While DOGE wasn’t mentioned in the March 20 executive order, getting access to personal information has been an obsession of the so-called agency since day one.” Don’t forget about Musk’s newest venture: xAI. And his Muskrats continue to operate on our government computers, across govt databases.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 04/04/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing everything they can to make it harder for seniors to get their Social Security benefits. It's just plain ugly. I’m fighting back.
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Trump and Musk are doing everything to make it harder for seniors to get their Social Security.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The plan is destruction, not acquiescence. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...
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Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard
The administration has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants and contracts at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Really important read from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: “Let’s start with the title, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”... the goal is to mute or silence voices Trump disagrees with.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-late...
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Trump’s Latest Bid to Rewrite Reality
From the Smithsonian to statues, he wants to whitewash America’s past.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 31/03/2025
The Trump administration’s war on science is slashing funding, shutting down labs, and driving top researchers overseas. The cost? Medical breakthroughs, technological innovation, and America’s future. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-scienc...
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The Science Brain Drain
How Trump's Cuts Are Crippling American Innovation and Ceding the Future
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/03/2025
The president is not a king. The Constitution could not be clearer: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice. Donald Trump would rather fantasize about a fictional third term than do anything to lower costs for working families.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Pushback works, part gazillion: "Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices." popular.info/p/how-the-so...
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How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/04/2025
Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say
Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.
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Mike Madrid @mikemadrid.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If George Conway is saying it’s time to march on the streets…it’s time.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Oh my! Well that’s good. Let’s bring some urgency & drama to the proceedings.
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