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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How did my generation – the baby boomers – squander the potential our parents left us? What can our children do to correct our mistakes? These are the central questions of my new memoir: Coming Up Short. You can preorder it now. sites.prh.com/reich

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dem Rep. Brendan Boyle: “Republicans just voted for the largest cuts to health care in American history — cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. At least 13.7 million will now lose their health care as a result. And why? To pay for tax cuts for billionaires and special interests.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Do you think Lutnick wants *his* kids and grandkids spending their lives in a manufacturing plant, or are these just aspirations for "other people"?

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/04/2025

Every big business should show customers how much Trump's tariffs are hurting their pocketbooks. People deserve to know the impact of the tariffs on their everyday costs.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 22/04/2025

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/04/2025

In mid-March, ICE started detaining immigrants in tent camps in the U.S. for the first time, built by a company once known for operating music festival facilities that is poised to make a fortune on Trump's deportation plans.

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From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans

The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to…

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

DHS is threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to host international students and the IRS is looking at revoking their tax exemption. The “stop the weaponization of government” crowd sure is quiet as fuck on this one.

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Uppity Black Woman @uppityblackwoman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The more this goes on, the stupider it gets. 1st it was abt antisemitism. Then it was about checking their curriculum & classes. Then they threw in DEI. And now it's this. I'm sure Harvard isn't phased. It's a private institution that can do as it damn well pleases. www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/u...

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DHS threatens to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to host international students unless it turns over disciplinary records | CNN

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is threatening to strip Harvard University of its ability to enroll international students if it doesn’t turn over records on international studen...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/04/2025

Republicans are praising President Trump's executive order that bypasses Congress to change election laws and restrict ballot access. The GOP had a completely different reaction to President Biden's 2021 order expanding voter registration. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gop...

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GOP Slammed Biden’s Voting Order as Federal Overreach — But Praised Trump’s

Read more here

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Tax Day Reminder: If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write-off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.

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American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio @acluohio.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Ohio Senators are considering a new bill that would allow public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Public schools are not Sunday schools, and religious freedom thrives best when the government stays out of it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/14/f...

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'Founding documents' act could put the Ten Commandments in Ohio classrooms • Ohio Capital Journal

A measure moving through the Ohio Senate would direct public schools to display historical documents like the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. It also includes the Ten Commandments, ...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

2/The United States Constitution does not permit the deportation of American citizens for committing a crime. That is not legal. But what’s legal doesn’t seem to matter to the Trump administration. The question is whether anything or anyone can still force him to follow the law.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/The Trump admin has made it clear: they will have to be forced to comply with the law. They won’t do it voluntarily. It’s that simple & that complicated. Worst of all, it’s completely unsurprising we’ve come to this juncture. This was in the cards all along joycevance.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

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The Supreme Court Got It Badly Wrong

Today, the Trump administration made it clear: they will have to be forced to comply with the law.

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🌮Happy Tuesday 🌮 🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋 TAX DAY “Of life’s two certainties, (Death and Taxes) there is only one for which you can get an automatic extension.” Make the most of today and enjoy 😉 We WILL be okay Love Foxy 💙🦊💙

1892 General Electric Company formed by merger of Thomas Edison's General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company, arranged by J. P. Morgan and incorporated in NY

1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs

1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people

1931 1st backwards walk across American begins

1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct

1955 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois

1964 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)

2000 Giant Sequoia National Monument proclamation signed by President Bill Clinton in California, preserving one-third of all giant sequoia groves, the world's largest tree

2019 Paris cathedral Notre Dame catches fire, toppling its spire and destroying its roof

2020 US's deadliest day during COVID-19 pandemic with 2,752 deaths reported

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Again, this is how you know the whole DOGE thing is absolute bullshit. We’re apparently on the brink of financial ruin at all times when it comes to Social Security or healthcare or college in this country while simultaneously there’s infinite money when it comes to war.

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AustinBlue @adolphtrump.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Let that sink in.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I discuss this in my book (www.amazon.com/Rot-Revival-...). The Supreme Court and its jurisprudence don't function as a counterweight to majoritarian politics. Instead, operates as a regime enforcer. The fact that 40 years out, the Court works like a well-oiled Reaganist machine is unsurprising.

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Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development

Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development [Kreis, Anthony Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/04/2025

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.

People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is the US budget. Trump/GOP say their agenda won’t cut Social Security or Medicare. They’re *expanding* military spending. And cutting taxes. Now they’re battling over whether to slash Medicaid. There’s not a lot left for savings. Shaping up to hugely increase the debt.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Never actually seen a march like this before, especially not in San Diego

Protesters holding a huge flag that says "no kings in America"

Protesters with a sign in the colors of the trans flag and text that says "we the people means everyone!"

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is the just the beginning

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

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Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘horrifying’ ICE probe in Northern NY

The family has been transferred out of New York state.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 05/04/2025

- Block tax cuts for billionaires - Stand with Ukraine - Secure veterans' health care They're stealing from the working class, giving to the rich, and destroying your benefits in the process. And the night is still young.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 05/04/2025

- Raise wages for working Americans - Ensure caregivers aren't cut - Rein in the national debt - Protect Medicaid - Keep Social Security offices open - Support families on food assistance - Secure the right to organize

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 05/04/2025

It's midnight in Washington, and in case you're catching up... So far tonight, Republicans have blocked amendments that would: – Remove tariffs hurting families – Protect disaster response and recovery - Secure Social Security benefits - Preserve federal lands (Thread 🧵)

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The very next part of the exchange:

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is a real exchange I just had:

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Two big things are happening on Sat: Thousands of Hands Off protests will happen around the country, and the Senate will vote to give more than $5 trillion in tax breaks to the richest, which cutting over $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, nutrition assistance, and other essential services.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

They want to imprison anyone for burning down a Tesla. For 20 years. How much for burning down the stock market?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature. Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

They literally just played his own recorded testimony, in which he says, “People have bowel movements every day where they don’t completely clean themselves and we don’t fuss over [them] too much. People are allowed to be dirty. You know, I would allow him to be a little dirty for a couple of days.”

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A personal note from a former DOJ lawyer who was kicked out by Trump officials.

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

9 police officers to protect 1 Cybertruck, this is where America's priorities are now. Imagine, if you can, that police protected trans people or black people like this or protected our children in school like this. #MAGAPriorities

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