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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
That’s totally how science works
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: www.nokings.org
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The professionalism that our most senior military commanders exhibited with their silence today despite repeated attempts by Hegseth & Trump begging them to please clap was encouraging, & should be an example to all troops when they try to exploit them for partisan politics. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/09/2025
"When people fight back and they win, like Jimmy Kimmel did recently, I feel like it actually has a good effect." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social to @weissmann.substack.com
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Paul Rieckhoff: Why Hegseth Has to Go open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Paul Rieckhoff: Why Hegseth Has to Go
Pity the poor parodists.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/04/2025
Sen. Mark Kelly: "Donald Trump should fire [Pete Hegseth] at this point. If he doesn't get fired, he should resign...There is incredible chaos at the top of DOD, and because of that we are all less safe."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
American Oversight put together a timeline showing how participants in the Waltz/Hegseth Signal chat continued to make changes AFTER Judge Boasberg ordered them to preserve the chat. But that's ALSO after Wicker and Reed asked DOD IG to investigate. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 24: Excerpts of the Signal chat appear in The Atlantic.1
March 25: American Oversight files this action. On the same day, Defendant
Ratcliffe testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
regarding his use of Signal.2
March 26: American Oversight files a motion for temporary restraining order. ECF
No. 6. The same day, changes occur in the Signal chat “participants’
administrative settings . . . such as profile names and message settings.”
Suppl. Blankenship Decl. ¶ 4, ECF No. 15-3. Also on the same day, The
Atlantic publishes further excerpts from the Signal chat.3
March 27: This Court orders Defendants to “promptly make best efforts to
preserve all Signal communications from March 11–15, 2025.” Min.
Order, Mar. 27, 2025. The same day, the CIA’s Office of General
Counsel reportedly issued a litigation hold notice. Blankenship Decl.
¶ 4, ECF No. 10-3.
March 28: Changes occur again in the Signal chat participants’ profile names and
message settings. Suppl. Blankenship Decl. ¶ 4, ECF No. 15-3.
March 31: Defendant Ratcliffe’s Signal account is “reviewed” for the first time
and found to contain no substantive messages from the Signal chat.
Suppl. Blankenship Decl. ¶ 4, ECF No. 15-3.
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
So, the United States is paying El Salvador millions of dollars to hold these people, and yet the people are detained solely pursuant to the sovereign authority of El Salvador?
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/03/2025
The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Has a reporter directly asked Trump if he personally approved the strikes on the Houthis in Yemen?
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DB (he/him/they) @bardwell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Thank you Jeff. Yes. This.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Thanks, Hakeem! [Letter calling for Hegseth's immediate firing.]
No transcription but it's Jeffries on fancy letterhead saying Hegseth should be fired.
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Lucia F @luciafrenkel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#stockmarketcrash #StockMarket
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Jason Pohlman (an-tē-fä) @pohlman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'm pretty sure it takes a LOT for the WSJ to go against der Trumpfer, so this may be a big deal: archive.ph/nEHmG
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025
McGovern spitting 🔥 on the House floor
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ukraine resolution at the UN called Russia an aggressor and demands the full withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders. The United States, Israel, and Russia voted against it. Every free democratic country around the globe voted in favour. #EndImpunity
UN resolution on Ukraine
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Fucking shameful United States. Shameful. You too Israel. Shameful.👇
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Just a reminder that what he's talking about is the private information about every American and business, and there are laws against this access. "Transform the way the government works" by doing what? Targeting opponents? Microtargeting political ads so Republicans never lose?
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Lucia F @luciafrenkel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I pray that this mantra is still true: "As Maine goes, so goes the nation"
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Brandon Kenig @brandonkenig.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Mark Cuban: way to battle disinformation is to flood the zone/overwhelm the algorithms on the platforms. #PrinciplesFirst @principlesfirst.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/02/2025
It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"Democrats have one simple message to deliver: Republicans are responsible for everything that happens from now on. Republicans control Congress and the presidency. All the consequences, government shutdowns and failures will be Republican-owned." thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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Democrats need a new message: ‘Blame Republicans’
Democrats have one simple message to deliver: Republicans are responsible for everything that happens from now on. All the unintended consequences, government shutdowns and colossal failures are 10…
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States. If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does. Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/02/2025
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Per this @theguardian.com article, if Tesla stock drops, it affects 1/3 of Musk's wealth. 1/3 is in SpaceX, which is totally enmeshed in the federal government. We need to find ways to drag down SpaceX.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
So, they are - illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress - burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah - reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system - putting backdoors into Treasury This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
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Lucia F @luciafrenkel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We can’t do everything, but we can do something , and that something is never nothing.
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Angelo Carusone @goangelo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
2/ Second part... Don't feed into the impotency by shaking your fists outside locked building. Show up at the places where dots need to be connected. Show up. It's not complicated.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
That part 👇🏻
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
February 14, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 14, 2025
On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Weak sauce, @axios.com We’ll be calling it “Gulf of Mexico” even in the gulags, and we’d boycott White House pressers if we were up there to stand in solidarity with the AP — even if they won’t stand in solidarity as we’re banned from Speaker Sexton’s pressers here in Tennessee.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 12/02/2025
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️
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Lucia F @luciafrenkel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/02/2025
"There is something wrong with Gabbard. The pull of conspiracism—particularly anti-American conspiracism—seems to be her overriding mental frame." Say hello to your new director of national intelligence! www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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The America Firster Who Loves America’s Enemies
Tulsi Gabbard instinctively trusts the worst people on the planet and distrusts her own country.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/02/2025
So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten: - a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI - the release of a crime boss - Hegseth ceding Crimea to them - Trump offering a WH visit - The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
👇 In addition to never wanting to hear Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins being called "moderates" ever again, I never want to hear a single word about national security or foreign policy from Tom Cotton taken seriously by major media outlets or supposedly serious journalists ever again:
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
WEIMAR+STATEMENT

FRANCE, GERMANY, POLAND, ITALY, SPAIN, UNITED KINGDOM EU HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SECURITY POLICY

We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine.
We commit to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's war of aggression.
We share the goal to keep supporting Ukraine until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is reached.
A peace that guarantees the interest of Ukraine and our own.
We are looking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies.
Our shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations.
Ukraine should be provided with strong security guarantees.
A just and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong transatlantic security.
We recall that the security of the European continent is our common responsibility. We are therefore working together to strengthen our collective defense capabilities.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/02/2025
A reminder from the archives: Ukrainians are not asking to hide behind the shield of NATO; they are asking for recognition from the alliance whose peace they have bled and died to protect. NATO and Ukraine need each other. @garrykasparov.bsky.social explains why:
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Ukraine Needs NATO—and NATO Needs Ukraine, Too
Arguments against admitting Ukraine into the alliance aren’t convincing.
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Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...
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Tulsi Gabbard's intel chief nomination clears key Senate hurdle
Senators voted to limit debate on Gabbard's nomination, paving the way for a final vote later this week.
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Lucia F @luciafrenkel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
House Republicans are looking to cut close to $2.5T in reconciliation, which will likely mean Medicaid cuts. These cuts will hurt the poorest in our country.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”
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'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy
George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...
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