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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/11/2025
Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
“Would have never happened if I were President.”
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 01/07/2025
Amid all of this hilarity, there’s rarely a mention of the detainees as human beings who have been plucked from their lives, sometimes without cause. | Opinion
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The joke’s on us as DeSantis, Trump make light of deporting people | Opinion
Amid all of this hilarity, there’s rarely a mention of the detainees as human beings who have been plucked from their lives, sometimes without cause. | Opinion
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
The ugliness of this bill doesn't stop. Senate Republicans also voted against your right to breathe clean air.
The BBB rescinds funding for pretty much every clean air, pollution control program.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
As a result of clean energy tax credits being killed, household electricity bills in EVERY state will go up.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How did Republicans go from condemning leaders who threaten their own citizens to becoming sycophants for one? Here, too, we find a holdover of Cold War rhetoric: the use of Third World to describe multicultural communities such as Los Angeles.

In the 1950s, the terms First World, Second World, and Third World emerged as a means to describe Western-aligned nations, Soviet-aligned governments, and emerging nations not allied with either faction, respectively. Third World soon came to be used as a pejorative term for poor, nonwhite countries—full of human beings who could be considered disposable.And that’s exactly how Trump officials and their allies are referring to communities such as Los Angeles in order to justify using military force. Last night, following the massive “No Kings” protests across the country, Trump posted on his social network Truth Social that he was directing ICE to “expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities,” which he called “the core of the Democrat Power Center”; he further described immigration as turning America into a “Third World dystopia.”

The post echoed similar language from right-wing-media figures who, last week, began repeating the same rote talking points about the need to ban all “Third World” immigration. The conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk, who spoke at Trump rallies during the 2024 election campaign, displayed on his podcast, as part of an argument for Trump using the military to “take back the streets of LA. Do it and do it fast,” a chart from a white-nationalist website showing the white population of Los Angeles declining. Kirk also made explicit that he wasn’t borrowing just the chart from a white-nationalist website but also its ideological conclusions about the threat that nonwhite people pose. “This is the Great Replacement Theory,” Kirk explained. “Remember we talked about how they want to replace white Anglo-Saxon Christian Protestants with Mexican, Nicaraguans, with El Salvadorians.” The term Anglo-Saxon Christian Protestants is wildly archaic, 1930s racism. What’s next in the Republican-aligned podcast world? Rants about swarthy Sicilians and perfidious Jews?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Attorney General is so unserious. If you’re a prosecutor who is serious about obtaining a conviction, you don’t go on Fox and talk about the (alleged) facts of the case like this. Has Bondi read the Justice Manual? Has Bondi heard of pretrial publicity motions? How about bar ethics rules?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/04/2025
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We are very far over the cliff here, folks
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/03/2025
History books won’t make sense of this either. It will be up to psychology studies.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/03/2025
"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q
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H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...
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Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said the rationale given by Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is 'infuriating and absurd.'
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats. One inside source said, “Putin is on the inside now.”
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Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/02/2025
Elon Musk’s musings at a 2023 dinner party about how he would gut the federal bureaucracy evolved into an operation that's given him a singular position of influence over the government. This is the inside story of the origins of DOGE. nyti.ms/3QElxOE
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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I'm a pilot with engineering Ph.D., worked in both airline and tech industries. I can say there is absolutely zero chance, given the timing of the switch, that FAA had done any review to make the decision based on merits. I hope Verizon sue the hell out of it.
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LaMeep @lameep.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Trump's new EO puts DOGE in charge of creating new tech systems to review all payments from U.S. government, then giving the head of DOGE power to review the payments. This order takes away from Congress the purse, where the Constitution placed it, and moves it to the individual who sits atop DOGE.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“The United States is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. It is not the government of Trump by Elon for X and Trump and his friends.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/it-is-all-...
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It is all a lie
PLUS: Join Beto O'Rourke and me on Substack Live TONIGHT at 8 pm ET
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/02/2025
So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Richest guy in the world is doing this
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
BREAKING: The Senate has confirmed RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary in a 51-48 vote. Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to vote no. God help us all.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 13/02/2025
This is what is happening in America.
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This is what is happening in America
The American crisis is just beginning.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Let's recap: An unelected oligarch is currently taking a blowtorch to the federal government and making unilateral decisions about how/where to allocate your tax dollars. Democrats aren't allowed to ask him any questions. Republicans don't want to know what he's doing. Zero oversight. ...🧵
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
He's never worked a day in government. Yet he gets to decide what is wasteful and what is fraud? Is a program that provides lifesaving medications to our impoverished allies "wasteful"? Is one that feeds starving kids "fraud"? He decides. An unelected oligarch decides our values. ...
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 12/02/2025
"U.S.A.I.D. employees, who mostly joined the agency in hopes of making the world a better place, are in agony," our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. "'We're just paralyzed,' an agency employee in Africa told me. 'No one is in charge.'"
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Opinion | It’s America That Suffers When We Cut Foreign Aid
U.S.A.I.D. keeps children alive and us safe.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 13/02/2025
Elon Musk Is Faking It.
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Elon Musk Is Faking It
The fraudster who cried “fraud”
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Good people feel it. They know we're not well because of this illness that has invaded. And it is the good people who need to be loud right now. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/defeating-...
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Defeating the Cancer of Trumpism
Some things live solely at the expense of others.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Perjury is a very, very serious offense and the FBI should thoroughly investiga– … oh, wait
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Unreal what is happening here: voters elected representatives to help them, they entered office and immediately turned over total control to the unelected richest man on earth, who then proceeded to pulverize many of those voters, following only the counsel of neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. Bishops is incedibly powerful. This stands out to me especially. Every purported Christian faith leader who has endorsed or stood silent before Trump’s ugly immigration policies needs to be confronted with this statement. www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 06/02/2025
FROM CNN: The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
There are some elements of this administration from which the country will never recover.
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Every single day, it is somehow worse and more destructive and malevolent than even the previous day's destructive malevolence prepared me for. It's like an exponential growth curve for batshittery.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which Congress formed in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive or predatory financial practices, was just instructed to immediately cease much of the bureau's work. www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...
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Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB, orders staff to halt work
Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed by email to cease much of their work. Bessent, a wealthy Wall Street investor, replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is now bragging about getting rid of the team that put together the 'Direct File' tax filing system, which allows citizens to easily file their taxes for free. Direct File is a big target of the for-profit tax prep industry including corporations like Intuit and H&R Block.
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