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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 11/09/2025
you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against. tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Interviewer: Other countries experiencing democratic backsliding had opposition parties realize too late they were made irrelevant. Do you think that's the case with the Democrats?

Schumer: No.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/08/2025
1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults. It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage. It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Admin Bans Coverage For Trans Govt Employees, Mandates Conversion Therapy Coverage
The OPM memo states that all health plans for government workers must cover faith-based approaches to gender dysphoria while banning gender affirming care coverage.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
People in the poorest 10% earn aroud $16,000 or less annually. These are not people who have an extra $1,200 toward basic necessities.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
figure 2. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer, percent change. -4% for bottom 10%. +2.5% roughly for top 10%.dollar change. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer.
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Laura Bliss @mslaurabliss.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
That's because, before the fire, the Yus and the Lansdowns lived on a block of almost identical homes. The tract of 28 homes, known as the Park Planned homes, was designed by the Modernist architect Gregory Ain in 1946. It has a unique place in LA's architectural history...
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Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Ugh I’m getting so many of these
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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
USIP has repeatedly told DOGE that it’s not a federal agency or part of the executive branch. But DOGE demanded access anyway. Which makes me wonder: Does DOGE want access to any org that gets federal funding?
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/03/2025
This was posted 6 hours ago. They're chanting, "do your job" www.tiktok.com/@couriernews...
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Americans are standing up.
TikTok video by COURIER
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/03/2025
🧔🏼‍♂️I can't believe Trump is going to revoke the legal status of people fleeing conflict in Ukraine! That's so evil! We should fight for refugees from Ukraine! 👩🏾Yes! And Haiti! 🧔🏼‍♂️Huh? 👩🏾And Haiti! They already did this to Haitian refugees! 🧔🏼‍♂️Uh sure! Whatever! I mean of course! Haiti too! But Ukraine!
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Trump administration throws out protections from deportation for roughly half a million Haitians
The Trump administration is throwing out protections for roughly half a million Haitians that had shielded them from deportation.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“De-documenting,” like “unpublishing,” is another term of the times.
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Ellis Simani @emsimani.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: This superintendent runs a small charter school network with less than 1,000 students. He's made up to $870,000 in recent years. Salvador Cavazos appears to be the highest-paid superintendent in Texas and among the among the top in the country. Taxpayers likely have no clue.
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
One of the many astonishing things I learned from Brian's (essential) upcoming book: Private equity snapped up extended-stay motels during the pandemic, meaning when people get evicted by their private-equity landlords, they often wind up in motels owned by the same set of firms.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 28/02/2025
Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Anger is useful, but it burns hot. Use it before it burns up.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/02/2025
this action has already murdered ~14,000 adults and ~1,500 children pepfar.impactcounter.com bsky.app/profile/bran...
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PEPFAR Impact Tracker
Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Does anyone have suggestions for a gentle de-radicalization along these lines? I wish I had more books, podcasts and YouTubers to send people drifting into the Rogan-verse
I can't even believe I'm asking this but since you read a lot....a question: Is there something you'd recommend to a lost disaffected (also unemployed, single, lonely) white male who is veering toward the stereotypical Joe Rogan manosphere "women libs and gays are the reason for my problems" mentality?
I need something gentle to send someone that is not a book or overly academic
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
“Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so."
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
	•	Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
	•	Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
	•	Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
	•	Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
	•	Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
	•	Average Federal Salary: $106,000
	•	Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
	•	A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
	•	Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
	•	Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
	•	Federal Employee Data: USAFacts
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Ariel Parrella @arielparrella.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
With no updates from police, Logan Square victims of sexual and physical attacks have banded together to speak out about their assaults, which date back to at least 2022 and remain unsolved. They're encouraging the community turn out for a CAPS meeting next week. blockclubchi.co/416NPG5
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Desperate For Answers, Logan Square Assault Survivors Urge Neighbors To Pack Upcoming Police Meeting
With no updates from police, several victims of sexual and physical attacks have banded together to speak out about their assaults, which date back to at least 2022 and remain unsolved.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/02/2025
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/02/2025
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 14/02/2025
Children are always the front lines for what abusive people test out for how they want to treat everyone they don’t see as fully equal to them
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
(me watching burglars break all the windows and climb into my house) “Just give it time. They might cut their hand on the glass.”
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Egla'el of Terra Originally D'Vid. @deeneely.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thanks. More info to add to my Technarchy map.
A mindmap of the various people involved in the Technarchy.
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