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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/09/2025
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Trump 2.0 is a disaster for workers
Don't be gaslit when he says "Happy Labor Day!"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
ICYMI — “LA wouldn’t be standing today” This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
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Chris Mirasola @chrismirasola.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Sure would be nice if federal judges coordinated when they release opinions with my kid’s doctors appointment schedule. But for now will just say that judge Breyer masterfully pieced together a factual record in what will some of the most consequential PCA litigation we’ve seen in decades.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/09/2025
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/09/2025
Donald Trump’s second term has largely been a “tale of ruthless domination,” @michaelscherer.bsky.social argues. Opposition has felt feeble—with one exception:
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The Anti-Trump Resistance That’s Actually Working
A flurry of lawsuits is challenging Trump in the court of law and the court of public opinion.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2025
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
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“Fire RFK Jr. now.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in a scathing editorial on Saturday calling for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to resign.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The most corrupt White House in 🇺🇸 history. Pay for play. Selling the country for parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"America we have a problem. The largest democracy in the world and yet a Texas governor would bend a knee to Donald Trump because he's afraid to lose an election fair and square."
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LIVE: Governor Pritzker issues ANNOUNCEMENT amid Texas walkout
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The situation at the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has gotten so bad that detainees have been on a hunger strike for over ten straight days.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/08/2025
Aid workers caring for the hungry in Gaza are themselves going without food. Claire Porter Robbins on a starvation crisis that has not spared the helpers:
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‘We’re Trying to Do the Best We Can Before We Die’
The people caring for others in Gaza are hungry too.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2025
I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 04/08/2025
I know we say “Everything is bigger in Texas,” but this is, in fact, bigger than Texas. This is nothing but a power grab, and it will ultimately impact all of us.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/08/2025
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
More of this, please.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2025
July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen. July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This level of barbarity is unconscionable. Nobody should be comfortable with children and families starving to death. It is morally indefensible to allow the manufactured and man-made starvation to continue. The United States must stop funding and enabling this genocide.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/07/2025
Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts. He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan. Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
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Ex-U.S. military translator from Afghanistan arrested by ICE in CT. Attorney calls it ‘nonsensical.’
The 35-year-old husband and father of five was taken into custody by ICE agents outside a routine green card appointment in East Hartford.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/07/2025
Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.
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No charges for Jacksonville officers who punched Black man during arrest
William Anthony McNeil Jr. questioned why he was pulled over and refused to get out of the car. An officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/07/2025
How MAHA poisons the food movement
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How MAHA poisons the food movement
RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just canceled votes for Thursday and is sending the House home early for summer recess in order to shut down Democratic efforts to demand more votes on releasing the Epstein files.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/07/2025
“I went into frontline medicine to help people, not to bankrupt them,” writes Sophia Spadafore. “When someone who does not have insurance comes into the ER, I am forced to discuss with the patient what necessary care they may have to delay or forgo”:
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How Medicaid Cuts Will Bleed Emergency Medicine
Many Americans get much of their health care from ERs. Defunding this service will be a financial and human disaster for everyone.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
When you’re definitely not guilty.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/07/2025
Boy, if only someone would have told Epstein everything was fake and a creation of Obama and the CIA and deep state, he wouldn’t have had to take his own life or have it taken by imaginary people
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Defend The Vote @wedefendthevote.org · 13/07/2025
The system is already rigged against working people. Now, Justice Thomas wants to destroy the Voting Rights Act - to take more power away from voters, giving special interests even more influence. www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/p...
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Anaylsis: Clarence Thomas has long tried to undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, he may finally have the numbers | CNN Politics
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other r...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We remember, Nancy.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Trump’s DOJ is actively dismantling voting rights. Our exclusive living timeline uncovers the overlooked decisions that didn’t make the headlines – but absolutely should have. If you care about democracy, this is a thread you can’t afford to ignore:
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Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long worked to protect voting rights. But since President Donald Trump returned to office, the DOJ’s voting section has done a dramatic 180. Today, rather than...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/07/2025
Kristi Noem must resign now.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/07/2025
Exclusive: Kerr County, where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing, had the technology to turn every cellphone in the area into a blaring alarm, but officials did not do so before or during the river level rising to record heights.
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Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods
Local officials used the system more than two days after the recorded height of the floods.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/07/2025
ICE's actions in Los Angeles are reckless and unconstitutional. The ACLU of Southern California took DHS to court.
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A New Lawsuit Shows Just How Un-American the ICE Raids in Los Angeles Really Are
Anonymous cops busting folks at random and hustling them off to hidden dungeons? The founders would be so proud.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/07/2025
Remember when the Trump admin tried to shut down the Social Security call line — falsely claiming 40% of callers were “fraudsters”? Now they’re scrambling to fix it, because millions of Americans rely on it. You can’t gut a vital agency and then pretend to care when it breaks.
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Social Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone line
The agency, which serves 73 million beneficiaries, has struggled to improve customer service amid cutbacks, long wait times and a crashing website.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/07/2025
In April, U.S.-made bombs destroyed a detention facility that held Ethiopian migrants in Yemen, crushing bodies and shredding limbs. Few answers have emerged, and the U.S. has not claimed responsibility. Amid official silence, the survivors are left wondering why.
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They Fled War in Ethiopia. Then American Bombs Found Them.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/07/2025
Allowing cops working with ICE to cover their faces isn’t good for public safety or officer safety. “That’s not helpful, it’s provocative,” says Brennan Center’s Mike German. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...
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Nassau County Will Let Officers Wear Masks When Working With ICE
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/07/2025
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/07/2025
Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard are turning America’s spy apparatus on its own employees, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.
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The Federal Bureau of Paranoia
America turns on its own spies and cops.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Innocent children drowned to death in the Texas Hill Country. The federal and state government failed them. What are Donald Trump, Governor Abbott and House Republicans doing about it? They are focused on gerrymandering the Texas congressional map and rigging the election.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2025
Moskowitz: "Kristi Noem doesn't know what she is doing. She has no idea what she is doing when it comes to FEMA ... what she did is she broke it, and she broke it on purpose so that when it fails this summer, she can say, 'Oh, see, we told you -- FEMA doesn't work.'"
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 11/07/2025
Cancer researchers, air traffic controllers, food safety inspectors and other experts are committed public servants who serve the people, not the president. Trump and DOGE sacked them by the thousands and now we're seeing the consequences.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
These people are out of control. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
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ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court
An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her. After she spent hours in custody, she denied that to NBC Diego on Wednesday.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
PENCE: “TARIFFS ARE A TAX… American importers, businesses and ultimately consumers end up paying all of that $300 BILLION. We're paying that.”
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
NEW: Newly released documents corroborate whistleblower's allegation that Emil Bove said DOJ might have to say “fuck you” to court orders enjoining the removal of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act The documents show the whistleblower alluding to the "fuck you" comment in texts w/ DOJ colleagues:
Reuveni: guess its find out time on the "fuck you"
Colleague: Yup. It was good working with you.
Reuveni: the first el sal flight lands in an hour
so says flightaware 
Colleague: Well maybe they land and drop off all the title
8 people.
Text: These messages occurred after a period of non-responsiveness from Mr. Reuveni's supervisors described in Mr. Reuveni's June 24, 2025 disclosure, beginning at the last paragraph of p. 10 through the end of the first paragraph on p. 12, and also after Mr. Reuveni reviewed public information that two flights had landed in Honduras by 8:10 pm. The messages corroborate the statement on p.7 of Mr. Reuveni's June 24, 2025 disclosure that, "Bove stated that DOJ would
need to consider telling the courts 'fuck you' and ignore any such court order."

Reuveni: Guess we are going to say fuck you to the court
 Super

Colleague: Well Pamela Jo Bondi is
Not you
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