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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 19/05/2026
Today, Protect Democracy and co-counsel filed a motion for summary judgment on behalf of @commoncause.org in our suit against the DOJ's unlawful attempts to create a national voter surveillance tool and demands for states to revoke voters’ registrations. Learn more: protdem.org/4tP4hXP
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Voting rights group seeks ruling to prevent federal interference in elections before 2026 midterms
Today, Common Cause and four individual voters filed a motion for partial summary judgment in their lawsuit to stop the administration from attempting to compile voters’ personal data.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
STOP ATTACKING SCIENCE. Very thorough article. "Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Totally broken’: how Trump 2.0 has paralysed work at US science agencies
Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
18F. US Digital Service. The Office of Transformation at SSA. Across the government the technologists who combined real tech skills with knowledge of policy and a commitment to making things work are being pushed out, replaced by Musk acolytes with no real plan to make govt work.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Let it be noted that the Democratic politician with as much proven crossover appeal as any in the country has done it while making a point of not giving in to the resegregators and transphobes.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Building a better world depends on not accepting atrocities in places like Gaza, not tolerating abuse of immigrants, standing against minimizing of trans people, not looking the other way from white supremacy, expecting support for mothers and children and the poor, changing exploitative systems.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters *right now* that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
now would be a good time for liberals to make a massive investment in progressive media. decades of relying on the ny times/wapo/ap/cnn has been a failure and they're now more right-wing than ever. everything is turning into a miniature fox news and liberals dont want to put money into this.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Again, if you choose to believe this isn't just open, blatant corruption by traitors who are gutting the government for sport, it's the most consequential reorganization of the Federal bureaucracy since, what? The Great Society? The National Security Act of 1947? The end of the spoils system?
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
There's a new federal agency with explicit oversight authority over every other Federal department, led by a private citizen who is openly using his private enterprises to run it. And he has a level of granular, direct authority over powers of personnel and the purse that's completely unprecedented.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I admit, what I keep coming back to with DOGE is that *even if you take them entirely at their word and agree with their objectives*, it is fucking wild that the largest reorganization of the Federal government in decades is being done by a few Executive Orders with no legislative or public input.
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لمى @lulazen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I've been saying this is the goal with education for years.
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Has it occured to them that one reason voters aren’t biting on the idea that liberal democracy is facing an existential threat is that they find it inconceivable the opposition party would be nattering about fucking egg prices if they really believed that were true?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
For any Republicans out there-- don't you see what's happening? Your elected officials, drunk with power, are quietly and quickly getting filthy rich. And in exchange, they're cutting your Medicaid, cutting your education funding, cutting SNAP benefits, cutting medical research.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Gavin Kliger, a DOGE software engineer, arrived unannounced at IRS headquarters on Thursday and was named senior adviser to the acting commissioner. IRS officials were told to treat Kliger and other DOGE officials as contractors, two people familiar said.Gavin Kliger, a DOGE software engineer, arrived unannounced at IRS headquarters on Thursday and was named senior adviser to the acting commissioner. IRS officials were told to treat Kliger and other DOGE officials as contractors, two people familiar said.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Everyone should be pointing out what is happening at CFPB. There is zero argument to be made here that this is being done to provide taxpayer value. The agency's budget is minuscule, averaging like $600 million/year, yet it has obtained $20 billion in payments from corporations to Americans
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Exclusive | Russell Vought Taking Over as New Acting Head of CFPB
Trump fired the CFPB’s Biden-era leader earlier this week, putting in place Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who froze the agency’s work.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Journalists should be discussing these power grabs in clear terms: this is an administrative coup. Elon Musk is acting outside the law to gut agencies and usurp and centralize as much power as possible in order to concentrate as much wealth as possible. This is a smash-and-grab race to autocracy.
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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 01/02/2025
Sharing the alt text version for the biggest possible audience. And this is a personal addition: Find whatever fuels resistance in you — spite, stubbornness, plain old insubordination — and remember it. Let it renew your resilience.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Today, Trump has: -indicated he'll purge the FBI of everyone who isn't a fanatical loyalist -allowed his crony to seize all government funding in an effective coup -ripped the entire federal government off the internet Today, Democrats have: -done nothing -said nothing -tweeted about egg prices
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Zodi Addams 🍁☕️🎃 @zodi777.blacksky.app · 27/01/2025
Just FYI, you can sign up for WHO newsletters here to receive information directly from them: www.who.int/news-room/ne...
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Seeing a lot of this today
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“we’re nullifying the Voting Rights Act and fair housing and employment laws by non-enforcement” sounds a lot worse than “we’re ending DEI” but it’s the same thing
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.
New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/01/2025
*raises hand Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Victims of a genocide have to share the stage with their killers or else it’s not “fair”. Harvard University. Incomprehensible cruelty.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s a horror movie.
Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided

Harvard Medical School abruptly canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston. By Joey Huang

By Elyse C. Goncalves and Akshaya Ravi, Crimson Staff Writers

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Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would hear from Gazans impacted by the war and not also Israelis.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
1. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT "WOKE" Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors It has been in place for 60 years It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II And now it is gone
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Trump undercuts enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
For decades, the political right has purported to broadly support the goals of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 23/01/2025
I'm sitting here watching people argue that's we're here because we didn't abandon Palestinians enough, we didn't abandon trans people enough, we didn't abandon immigrants enough, we weren't anti-Black or ableist enough, and people, WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE ABANDONED PEOPLE AT ALL.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Shout out to the media who participated in the most obvious misdirection ever
USA Today fact check saying Project 2025 is from the Heritage Foundation, not Donald Trump
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024
i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Dozens of pundits have been openly cheering on what Amnesty calls a genocide in Gaza nonstop for 15 months, 20K+ children dead, 15K+ more maimed, 100,000s of lives shattered with almost uniform elite support, namely from The Atlantic. This preening Oh My, The State of Things bullshit is so unserious
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لمى @lulazen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free bit.ly/3lmGPEv
This war will destabilize the entire Mideast region and set off a global shockwave of Anti Americanism vs No It Won't
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