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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Stripping millions of immigrants of their ability to legally work will not only just cripple the labor market, it will also reduce demand. Immigrants losing jobs means fewer people paying rent, car insurance, buying groceries, etc. White nativism is terrible for the economy.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump

Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

As POTUS ignores Article 2 and acts like a KING, as innocent people are denied their 5th amendment rights and KIDNAPPED off the street, as the executive branch levies INSANE tariffs usurping Congress’s authority under Article 1, we must seriously consider what comes next… youtube.com/shorts/cPHbH...

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This Is Important To Know

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Just for our retribution watch.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Every Democrat should be telling this story.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

fucking hell abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

State Department moving to evacuate USAID staff worldwide: Sources
The State Department has begun working to assist in evacuating all USAID staff who are on foreign assignments worldwide, sources familiar with the effort told ABC News.

The Department is aiming to recall all USAID employees, including family members, to the United States by Saturday, according to multiple sources.

On Tuesday, new deputy administrator for USIAD Pete Marocco told State Department officials that if the evacuation wasn't completed, the military would step in, a source familiar with the conversion told ABC News.

A federal worker described the move to ABC News as a sudden recall of thousands of foreign service officers, forcing families to uproot with just days' notice—spouses quitting jobs, kids leaving schools, and even pets being relocated.

"To uproot them and call them back to Washington like criminals while dealing with families and logistics is cruel. These people have kids in school," a former USAID employee told ABC News.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2025

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This may not sound shocking, but it is one of the most shocking parts of this coup: why would you shut down all the federal offices unless you're nihilists who've decided we don't need a government? apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration

One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages federal employee worksites around the countr...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2025

A 58-year-old poll worker is among the 60,000 North Carolina voters whose ballots could be disqualified if a Republican judge's election challenge succeeds. “I want people to know today it’s North Carolina, and tomorrow it’s another state,” she said. Read more: propub.li/40Jcbpc

Close-up of Vicki Sykes, a Black woman with medium-length curly hair. She is wearing fuschia lipstick, and her face is turned towards the side.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/01/2025

No number of pardons or lies will change what happened on January 6. Donald Trump can’t change history. It was domestic terrorism, it was treason, plain and simple.

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It Happened

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

All I can say is that the motherfucker had too much time on his hands to think about destroying this country. I will never forgive those we entrusted with maintaining law and order for what they unleashed on this country.

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lisakek.bsky.social @lisakek.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This isn’t a cabinet it’s a junk drawer. Not mine, saw elsewhere.

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 11/01/2025

As California burns, Wall Street is walking back its climate commitments. The benevolence of corporations was never going to save us. It's up to us — not the rich elite looking to make a quick buck — to save our planet and future.

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BlackRock departs climate investment group

Asset management firm BlackRock is leaving a climate-focused investing group, the group confirmed. “We are disappointed to see any investor withdraw, but as a voluntary initiative, we respect any i…

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press..." Great piece! Gift link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/08/t...

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When the Press Stood Up to the President

The Pentagon Papers case shows how brave media owners must be in moments of political turmoil.

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

BREAKING: Matt Gaetz is now seeking a TRO against the House Ethics Committee To prevent public release of committee's report about his alleged sexual and drug misconduct Gaetz argues: "Media coverage would be immediate and widespread" Matt doesn't seem at all worried about this release Right?

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lisakek.bsky.social @lisakek.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Florida, seen lots of degradation here and getting worse. It’s sad bc it’s a beautiful place if the greedy would settle down.

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Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

True luxury is found in the simplest moments.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/12/2024

These next four years will be tough, but the American people have always bound together in crisis. Listen to @ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social and @mayaonstage.bsky.social discuss the reality of America's future, on the latest episode of The Breakdown here:

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TIME MAGAZINE'S 2024 PERSON OF THE YEAR IS... TRUMP!?

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 (MIRI image). 🔭 🧪

Two spiral galaxies take up almost the entire view and appear to be overlapping. They are angled from top left to bottom right. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller and more compact than the galaxy at right, NGC 2207. The background of space is black, dotted with tiny foreground stars and extremely distant galaxies.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Doing a whole long A block riff on this meme tonight. pbs.twimg.com/media/EzcUsB...

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Maggie @courageousgirl2.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

THIS is Our INSTRUCTION

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning

A two panel comic strip.

Panel 1: A light gray human shape (like a thicc stick figure) labelled "THE WEALTHY ELITE" reaches greedily, mouth open in excitement, towards a large floating yellow ball that is labelled "A SECOND GILDED AGE"

Panel 2: same as above, but behind the gray figure (who now has a sweat drop to indicate nervousness on its head) is a VERY large pink blob labelled "THE RETURN OF OUTLAW FOLL HEROES" with one arm wrapped around the gray figure, expression quietly threatening

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I agree, three hundred and sixty billion percent.

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Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com · 14/12/2024

You're welcome, #horror fans.

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VanDammit @chaosagent42.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The whole point is not seeking vengeance through crime because this is wrong. The whole point is realizing THIS is a crime.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/12/2024

Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much. (Published March 2024)

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America Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but Attrition Is At Record Levels

Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Sickening hypocrisy.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/11/2024

Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas, Martha Alito, John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas love it when you blame Garland and Biden for the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the cases against Trump.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Tommy got his Putin talking points scrambled.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is getting overlooked, but the whole premise of Trump's threat of tariffs is based on a lie. He's claiming Mexico must be bullied into stopping migrants. But Mexico is *already* doing this. That's a big reason crossings have dropped. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1888...