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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Tim Cook, of Apple, is at this dinner. The likes of Musk and Schwarzman—sure, that's who they are. But Cook has been groveling more than strictly necessary.

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Macon Phillips @macon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Time is a flat circle and Trump is coming around to the structural problems with America’s private insurance-based system. Trumpcare = Public Option?

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Cammie Croft @cammiecroft.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The revolving door between politics and profit has corroded trust in government, which is why people believe the system is rigged – because too often, it is. Here is my plan to tackle corruption and self-dealing in Washington D.C. —> cammieforcongress.com/article/camm... #NJ11 #NewJersey

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Lauren Miller @laurenmiller.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Other discharge petitions might be more salacious, but it is HUGE news tonight that two Republicans just got the Protect America’s Workforce Act discharge petition to 218 to restore federal workers’ union rights. Let’s get the job done. ✊

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14/11/2025

I've known Cammie for almost two decades now. She's running for Congress in #NJ11 to succeed Gov.-elect Sherrill. Hate congressional stock trading? She does, too.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

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Macon Phillips @macon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I had the privilege to work with @cammiecroft.bsky.social on Obama’s 2008 campaign & White House. She’s the real deal, with her heart in the right place and a track record of getting shit done. Check out her campaign and get involved!

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 12/11/2025

No, I will not be voting for a bill that significantly raises people's healthcare premiums.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Macon Phillips @macon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Excited Mamdani won! I'm less excited about how much the Democratic Party showed its ass waiting to support the guy over some terrible alternatives until the last minute. Pres Obama: Remember when Ted Kennedy endorsed you just before SUPER TUESDAY in 2008? Little more of that energy please.

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 30/10/2025

The lawyers and intelligence professionals didn't even show up to the House Armed Services Committee briefing today on the U.S strikes on Venezuela. I didn't hear anything to prove otherwise – these strikes are illegal. They are murder. And they should stop immediately.

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Cecilia Muñoz @ceciliamunoz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I usually feel a sense of hope and new beginnings this time of year, because school starts this week. But the national guard in DC is newly armed, and I mostly feel a sense of foreboding.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Being interviewed by Terry Gross ruined all other interviewers for me. "Well prepared" doesn't even begin to cover it, and she is just so generous in the conversation. It's like playing tennis with Serena Williams but she only wants to keep the volley going as long as possible.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Don’t think we need “describe” here. It just kind of…is Also, let’s remember how those quarters came to be vacant.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15/08/2025

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Democratic electeds distancing themselves from Zohran but totally fine with the current mayor bought & paid for by Turkey & the former governor who resigned in disgrace after sexually harassing women & killing seniors during COVID? OK. Sure. The young guy is the problem with the party. Come ON.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We are being lied to

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Rep. Troy Headrick @troyheadrick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The vote on Vermont’s biggest education bill was called before anyone could speak. The speed by which a voice vote was called caught many legislators off guard. No debate. No roll call. Here is my open letter to leadership explaining why that moment demands accountability.

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My Open Letter to the Speaker of the House Regarding the Vote Procedures on H. 454 – Troy Headrick

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John Walters @thevpo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Vermont House just opened its session one hour late. The morning session was very brief. H.454 (the education reform bill) won't be taken up until late afternoon. Which means they don't have the votes, at least not yet.

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 14/06/2025

The biggest winners of the Republican-backed spending bill are the wealthiest Americans, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget office shows, while the biggest losers are the poorest. coloradosun.com/2025/06/13/r...

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Watching all the anti-anti’s freak out about the tariffs is a little funny, considering Trump absolutely said he was going to do this. I mean, the economy and the post-WW2 order might collapse, but at least you guys are sticking it to trans people, amirite?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

NOTE: Tonight, John Mulaney has the chance to do something important. Neal Katyal is a partner at Milbank, which just capitulated to Trump. Someone who knows Mulaney, please tell him about this and ask him to talk with Neal about it. I have laid it out here: www.lawdork.com/p/law-firms-...

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Our freedoms are guaranteed to us by the Constitution and laws. The courts enforce those when lawyers hold the government accountable to those laws. Attacking lawyers like @marcelias.bsky.social and every other lawyer who does this is a threat to all of our freedoms. We must stand together.

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Mari @momdogz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Live: Vermont Director of Medicaid Policy is discussing the impacts of federal changes on Medicaid. Hundreds of millions of dollars likely to be removed from Vermont's Medicaid system. Brutal, and devastating. www.youtube.com/channel/UCHt...

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 04/03/2025

I will not be attending Trump's joint address to Congress tonight. I watched him take an oath to uphold and protect the constitution, and all he did was spew lies, stoke division and fear and make no effort to unify our country. I won't sit and watch him lie to the American people again.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/03/2025

Hi Senator. Thanks for joining Bluesky. Can you use this space to explain why you're pushing a bill to remove Section 230, which would make it close to impossible for Bluesky to exist? www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

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While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?

While an unelected tech billionaire is effectively orchestrating a coup of the US government, violating federal law with apparent impunity, and disclaiming all responsibility for the chaos he&#8217…

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 04/03/2025

Housing is the foundation to a decent life. It shouldn't be out of reach for so many in the richest country in the world. And now HUD is in the hands of a billionaire who sees every agency as a playground, rather than a lifesaving service. Protect HUD and HUD workers.

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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Biggest problem with Dem leadership and the consultant class and people with influence? They’re control freaks who insist on top down messaging that is optimized for safety.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How did our country (the U.S.) create and elevate such a group of cowardly, greedy, vain, arrogant, and profoundly insecure men to the highest rungs of power? They bring Zelensky to the Oval Office for what? To mock and denigrate a truly courageous leader & try to bring him down to their base level?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

THIS is why Democratic leaders must be replaced sooner rather than later. 9:42 AM: Amy Klobuchar posts a photo with Lindsey Graham bragging about her "bipartisan meeting" and how they "stand with Ukraine" 1:40 PM: Lindsey Graham is on Fox News "trashing Zelenskyy and praising Trump and Vance"

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

As a student of history, I'm not being hyperbolic. The federal government built the Black middle class in DC, and in many parts of the U.S., largely because it was one of the first organizations to hire Black professionals and prohibit discrimination. It is amongst the most diverse US workforce.

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A new, barebones White House webaited is up. Reminder to the public and press: a new admin doesn’t delete the old one or specific pages. The National Archives preserves that .gov & the presidential records that it constitutes, including this report: bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...

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National Resilience Strategy | The White House

To read the National Resilience Strategy, please click this link here: National Resilience Strategy ###

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Real masculine energy is Zuck stumbling so hard and needing women to do all the emotional labor to get him out of it

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"Biden should publish both volumes of Smith’s report before leaving office. Doing so would serve the public interest and—most importantly—would be legal. Because, as an official action of a sitting president, it falls under the Supreme Court’s blanket of immunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-has-...

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Biden Has Presidential Immunity. He Should Use It.

Merrick Garland still doesn't know what time it is.

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Scott Marks @bizarchive.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Show 426 #phish

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28/11/2024

Remember how Meta suspended the Threads account tracking Mark Zuckerberg's private jet? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

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Meta suspends accounts tracking Trump, Bezos jets, echoing Elon Musk’s X

Instagram and Threads blocked accounts sharing public data on Mark Zuckerberg’s and Donald Trump’s private planes. A similar move on X stirred up a free-speech firestorm.

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Macon Phillips @macon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Such an important point. We needed a new generation of leadership, just not the older one.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Fwiw she is pretty widely disliked even by her GOP colleagues. She’s all over the place. Messy. Fights with them too. This is the most attention she has gotten in ages despite her many attempts, hence the differences in tack some have taken in this whole brouhaha. She really craves it. It’s weird

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