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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
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Consolidated Oregon INDIVISIBLE Network @coin-indivisible.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
So we know it’s going to pass let’s bookmark this and remember in November
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Listen to @warren.senate.gov! If you want to keep your healthcare, #KillTheBill! 🚫
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Here's a very partial list of what Dems have succeeded in getting excluded from the Big Ugly via Byrd Rule challenges. It makes the bill less-shitty and may create a delay Dems can use to exacerbate the unpopularity of the bill. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/h...
Preserving CFPB and Public Company Oversight Board
Kept some Food Stamp funding and benefits
Limited a rule trying to prevent states from regulating AI
Eliminated an attack on the judiciary’s ability to enforce contempt
Prevented DOJ from punishing sanctuary cities
Thwarted Mike Lee’s bid to sell off public lands
Combatted several attacks on renewable energy and defeated an effort to exempt offshore oil drilling from the NEPA process
Preserved civil service protections for Federal employees
Defeated an effort to attack unions
Killed a plan to get rid of USPS’ elective vehicles
Protected some ObamaCare provisions
Exempted existing student loan borrowers from an effort to restrict access
Defeated a bunch of attacks on Medicaid
Protected Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care
Eliminated vouchers for religious schools
Killed a tax exemption written just for Hillsdale College
Defeated an effort to decriminalize gun silencers
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13/06/2025
The court has ruled. Donald Trump you must relinquish your authority of the National Guard back to me and back to California.
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*
map of the united states black with dots of protests in places both big and small
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser
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Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This 2021 Rebecca Traister piece on Cuomo's monstrous behavior needs to be revived. Written in the key of apoplectic. @rtraister.bsky.social (Sorry no free link) nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Cruelty and the Casualties
Inside Andrew Cuomo’s toxic workplace.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12/06/2025
Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/06/2025
"What would she think of Ted Cruz (a modern-day McCarthy figure if ever there were one), Mike Lee, Tommy Tuberville, and Lindsey Graham? Would she make another Declaration of Conscience to compare Trump and his sycophants to McCarthy?"
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Remembering an Act of Conscience and Courage
Seventy-five years later, Margaret Chase Smith’s example is more important than ever.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 31/05/2025
this post goes live on monday at 8:00 AM. i hope democrats on this platform will read it and digest its arguments, especially about growing the tent with economic populism www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-trump...
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Many Trump supporters did not “vote for this”
Trump’s policy agenda is very unpopular, especially on deporting non-criminal undocumented immigrants. Democrats need to welcome back regretful Trump voters.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
At the ABA Conference on Professional Responsibility tonight: ABA president Bill Bay says the judiciary remains under significant stress by the Trump admin's actions targeting law firms, courts. Bay says he personally feels pressure, too: police come by his house "twice a week" due to threats.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Best read as a reasoned call to action, not a question. And we will need vivid terms for where we are going — oligarchy and fascism — as well as what we are seeking — freedom and equality. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
And here we are. Thank you, Canada. For stepping up as our government fails.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Judge Hellerstein destroys EVERY PART of Trump's Alien Enemies Act case -Immigrants have NOT invaded the US -They MUST be given meaningful due process -The US ALREADY wrongfully deported migrants, so no more will be sent "where they would endure abuse and inhumane treatment with no recourse"
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
One of the very first discussions of my book "On Freedom," from Kyiv with Scott Simon. www.npr.org/2024/09/14/n...
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Timothy Snyder's 'On Freedom' explores how we misunderstand the concept
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Yale historian and best-selling author Timothy Snyder about his new book, "On Freedom," and how we misunderstand the concept.
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 06/05/2025
NEW: In a 68-page ruling, Judge Myers said the NC Board of Elections should certify results based on the tally of all eligible votes. Incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs would prevail in the race for the seat on the high court over Griffin. tinyurl.com/ysdu6fdu @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol
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Federal judge rules for Riggs in Supreme Court voter case • NC Newsline
A federal District judge says elections rules can't be changed after the fact, in a win for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs.
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2025
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
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Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
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April D Ryan @aprildryan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The number for the phone Hegseth used for those Signal chats is also found on his social media and a fantasy sports site. At this point his comms are presumed totally compromised: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
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Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities (Gift Article)
The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Help us reach 10K followers on Bluesky. We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully. www.zinnedproject.org
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Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s bes...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
RFK is a eugenicist. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/04/2025
Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions reut.rs/42Vhp3x
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US academic leaders unite against Trump's higher education policies
Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement on Tuesday opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions, coming together to speak out after Harvard University said the administration was threatening its independence.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/04/2025
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a conservative Reagan appointee, wrote a blistering opinion accusing the Trump administration of failing to give a man wrongly deported to El Salvador any semblance of due process.
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Who Is J. Harvie Wilkinson, the Judge Behind a Scathing Rebuke of Trump?
The judge, a conservative Reagan appointee, wrote a blistering opinion accusing the administration of failing to give a man wrongly deported to El Salvador any semblance of due process.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Princeton University Will Not Change Polices in Response to Trump Administration Pulling Federal Funding, Says School President www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...
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Princeton University Will Not Change Polices in Response to Trump Administration Pulling Federal Funding
“We believe it’s important to defend academic freedom, and that's not something that can be compromised,” the school’s president Christopher Eisgruber recently said.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 16/04/2025
The President’s wife is a European immigrant. Both parents of the Secretary of State are Caribbean immigrants. Both parents of the FBI Director and the richest person on the World are African immigrants. And 1/3 of the 320 American Nobel Prizes in science have gone to immigrants.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New— Trump's crusade against the American Bar Association continues, this time terminating all grants via DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women. This morning a webinar on trauma-informed representation was canceled moments before starting. ABA sent email attachment to participants (shared w/ me):
Re: Important Update Regarding Our OVW Grants
April 14, 2025
Dear Registrant,
We are writing to inform you that, effective immediately, all of our grants with the Office on Violence Against Women have been terminated. The Department of Justice has concluded that these grants "no longer effectuate the agency priorities."
As we consider our next steps, we must pause all work related to these grants.
Unfortunately, this means that we have to cancel our upcoming trainings.
We are incredibly grateful for your commitment to advancing safety, justice, and dignity for survivors and interest in further developing your skills in this field.
With deep appreciation and continued solidarity,
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W
The gates of Harvard University. The text reads: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Trump admin has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new EO on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
And just like that. Leverage. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...
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Hands Off National Day of Protest - Edmonds, WA
YouTube video by R
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This Is the top story on @motherjones.com, as it should be on every news site. Millions of people turned out to oppose Tump/Musk/facism yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—but what they fear he will do next.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/04/2025
A recently-fired DOJ pardon attorney is speaking out against the damage the Trump administration is doing: "I think the department is bullying people into either stepping back or acquiescing to political priorities. And it’s important, in my view, to stand up to a bully."
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Trump’s Damage to DOJ Will Be ‘Generational,’ Former Pardon Attorney Says
Read more here.
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