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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When children are shot in their classrooms, all politicians can offer are thoughts and prayers. When a shooting happens near them, they demand a $350 million golden ballroom to protect themselves.
Don't normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children.
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Mark214 #FDT💙💙 @mark214.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
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Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
here's the incredible interview that @chrislhayes.bsky.social did tonight with the woman who was just fired as the pardon attorney at DOJ, liz oyer. really, really, really worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnqv...
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'So frightening': DOJ official fired over Mel Gibson gun rights request speaks out
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ... link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"The drastic action is a departure from the way Congress has handled D.C.'s budget for two decades... "The situation appears to have no modern precedent, and House leadership has provided little explanation for why it is happening..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
House votes for $1 billion in D.C. cuts while seeking to avert shutdown
It is unclear what additional avenues remain for D.C. to advocate for a reversal of the cuts as the bill heads to the Senate.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"He's been absent. I haven't seen him," said Snyder, an Army veteran. "He hasn't had a town hall. It's been a decade." Snyder said the last town hall Rep. Austin Scott held in 2015 was restricted to veterans only, and she wasn't invited despite her military service." www.13wmaz.com/article/news...
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Frustrated voters in Georgia's District 8 to hold town hall outside Rep. Scott's office
Some Central Georgia residents plan to hold a town hall outside the congressman's Warner Robins office. Here's why
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"When asked about Musk’s political activities... 45% of respondents said these actions had a 'negative' effect on the company. Another 40% said they were having an 'extremely negative' impact. 3% said they were 'positive' for the business." www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/t...
cnbc.com
Tesla investor survey shows 85% believe Elon Musk's politics are having 'negative' or 'extremely negative' impact on company
The poll is the latest sign of mounting frustration with the billionaire entrepreneur as he's become a rising politic figure.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Protect your peace.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point. The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math. Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
cutting childhood cancer research… www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
cutting pediatric cancer research… www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...
cnn.com
A kindergartner’s hopes for beating cancer are tied to federal grants now on the chopping block | CNN
A family whose 6-year-old is battling cancer says a move to slash funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research at universities and medical centers would be “devastating.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“We urge the Administration to rescind this guidance…” www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
In other corruption news ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Yeah, ya think? "They are there to make sure we handle and store these materials in a way that avoids a nuclear chain reaction from occurring..... Losing these folks is concerning.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Automakers warn that Trump tariffs will hike vehicle prices as much as 25% www.reuters.com/business/aut...
reuters.com
Automakers warn that Trump tariffs will hike vehicle prices as much as 25%
A trade group representing nearly all major automakers warned on Tuesday that new 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump will lead to drastic price hikes.
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Fun fact about Trump tariffs you won’t see in 99% of the reporting: Trump tariffs are illegal. Congress controls tariffs just like tax rates. President can change a tariff only for national security emergency, meaning war.
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Pre-game fact checking has arrived!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
trump adviser says the veterans trump has fired from jobs in the U.S. government are "perhaps not fit to have a job" www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcn...
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Trump adviser Alina Habba says veterans fired by DOGE are perhaps 'not fit to have a job at this moment'
Emily Erroa, an Army veteran who was fired from the Department of Energy last month, called Habba's comments "ridiculous" and "insulting."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If you’re into seeing Elon & DOGE get called out for their lies about *savings* — this account is doing a very nice job of it: x.com/electricfutu...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
newrepublic.com
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening. An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply: “The same will happen here”.
Photo of text from a newspaper article that says “Kennedy advances the lies that vaccines cause autism, increase cancer risk, and result in higher death rates. None of this is true, but Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines.
His goal is to cause fear over vaccines and public health ini-tiatives, which he does for profit Kennedy will promote decreased vaccine uptake, as he did when he influenced government officials in Samoa to stop measles vaccinations; in the resulting measles epidemic, 83 people died from measles, mostly chil-dren. The same will happen here.”
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/02/2025
If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A trifecta.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Opinion: The American Press Corps Is Not Equipped For This Moment
We’ve never had to contend with a determined autocrat in this country, and it shows.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Day 1 on the left. Day 2 on the right. Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"Congressman Alford struggled to quiet the audience amid shouting. 'Can I have your attention, please? Class? Class?' Alford said, as though he were a teacher trying to calm students. 'You work for us!' someone shouted..." www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall
The Missouri Republican faced an angry crowd during a Monday town hall in Belton.
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
One of the great unintended consequences stories of all time is American liberals buying cars that they thought would save the planet, thereby enriching the man who bought the presidency for Trump, the most environmentally dangerous president in history.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
only the best. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
forbes.com
Trump Media Paid Donald Trump Jr. Nearly A Quarter Of Its Annual Revenue. He Attended Just Two Board Meetings
Despite missing most board meetings, Donald Trump Jr. took in $813,000 from Trump Media—just as he gained control over more than half the company’s shares.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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For Trump, 3 court losses in 90 minutes | CNN Politics
Three different federal judges delivered legal setbacks and slap downs to President Donald Trump in the span of an hour and a half on Tuesday in a series of cases challenging controversial moves taken...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
militarytimes.com
VA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductions
About 2,500 VA workers have been forced out of their jobs in the last few weeks.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I can’t wait to see these old, fat fuck Trumper’s around me locally….having to get up on a ladder in the June heat…and and roof their own houses…because the migrants are either gone, or too afraid to work and get caught. I’ll honk, wave, and say, “Damn! It sure is hot today, eh?!
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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Chrissy @ladycyndaquil.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I don't think I've ever been this angry in my entire life
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
here's today's post: "bizarros, freaks and incels gather at buffoonpalooza" — the CPAC circus is in town. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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bizarros, freaks and incels gather at buffoonpalooza
the CPAC circus is in town
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
You know it’s bad when this is the post’s cover
New York post
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/02/2025
okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 21/02/2025
Today's front page of The New York Post.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"Elon Musk is the undisputed champion of making money for Elon Musk. As effectively the CEO of the United States of America? Very bad. Embarrassing, honestly..." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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