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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/07/2025
OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “Already investors can see that the potential fiscal returns for exploiting human suffering are higher than they’ve been in over 150 years” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | How ICE’s massive cash infusion is poised to transform America
Republicans gave $45 billion to help ICE detain hundreds of thousands of immigrants — and another $100 billion to further supercharge Trump’s mass deportations.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this country—and their corporate masters—lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private: That Trump is stupid, and nuts.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
He’s been completely manipulated and played, and it’s starting to sink into his deeply damaged brain.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Possible bottom line: The MOP strikes were performative for Trump, and this “retaliation” is performative for Khamenei. Which may actually be the best result for the planet.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social
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markbartusch.bsky.social @markbartusch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
So I just finished, and truly enjoyed, Wolf Hall - seasons 1 and 2 - on PBS Passport. Highly recommend. Rylance is outstanding.
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Meidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 03/05/2025
Just to state the obvious: immigrants should be treated with dignity and respect – not thrown in jails (at times without any due process), where neglect, abuse, and deaths are rampant.
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Haitian woman dies in US immigration detention
At least six others have died in ICE custody in fiscal 2025, which began in October, ICE data shows.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My latest: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin share a driving dream: driving their countries and the world back to a previous era. And they love a military parade. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...
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The Daily Reid: Trump's Soviet-era dream...
Donald Trump envies dictators like the ones in North Korea, Russia and China, so he's going to cosplay as one on his birthday
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/05/2025
Billionaires like Trump and Musk don’t have a clue what it means for working families when it becomes too expensive to buy your kid a birthday present.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
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Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
There is a lot to parse through in Trump's budget request that just came out. But here are the highlights: - Total, a 10% overall cut - State Dept is getting hacked to bits. Mind-boggling. - HUD is nearly slashed in half. - Education Dept is still kickin in FY26 - HHS down by more than a quarter
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Marshall Plan: The United States helps its allies in their time of need. The Trump Plan: The United States shakes down an ally in its time of need. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...
nytimes.com
Ukraine and U.S. Sign Deal on Proceeds From Rare Earth Minerals
The agreement is intended to give the U.S. access to proceeds from Ukraine’s reserves of minerals and to help fund the rebuilding of Ukraine when the fighting stops.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/05/2025
Swalwell says the House Judiciary republicans just voted to allow Trump to deport US Citizens. From IG:
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markbartusch.bsky.social @markbartusch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I drive an 11 year old Outback. Wondering what folks are thinking about the 2026 version hitting the auto shows. From what I've seen, the long-roof, low-slung wagon we know and love seems to have been replaced by a boxy SUV - a stretch Forrester, perhaps?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/04/2025
Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
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The Last Hospitals in Gaza
In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
As Jesus taught, Francis lived humbly and with a preference for the poor. Rather than exercise power for power’s sake, he was a leader who focused on mercy, caring for the marginalized, and stewardship of God’s great creation in a world of abundance. May the “People’s Pope” rest in peace. (4/4)
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 20/04/2025
Pete Hegseth’s continuing contempt for our intelligence community and abdication of his duty to our armed forces and the American people are completely unacceptable – and dangerous. President Trump must remove him immediately.
nytimes.com
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/04/2025
Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers
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Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers
These are just the US executioners we know. But they are a chilling indication of the executioners we don’t know
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/04/2025
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
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Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/04/2025
BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
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No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
'I Just Got Back From Europe. They All Know That America's a Mess and That He's Nuts.' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-just-got...
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Axios @axios.com · 10/04/2025
Democrats are bashing Trump for sharing market advice with his Truth Social followers hours before announcing a 90-day pause on most of his sweeping tariffs, elevating calls for a ban on congressional stock trading. Rep. Mike Levin questioned on social media, "How is this not market manipulation?"
axios.com
"Market manipulation": Democrats scrutinize Trump's posts ahead of tariff pause
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) questioned in a video, "How is this not market manipulation?"
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 10/04/2025
MAGA’s proposed budget swings a wrecking ball at Medicaid and millions of Americans. I’m voting ‘hell no.’
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
do I have this right? Donald Trump is just going to crash the world economy every three months — and then pretend to save it, over and over, while his cronies rake in untold billions on his shameless market manipulation, is that it? fucking hell
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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Pure villainy. Time for us all to get our Navalny on
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MS NOW @ms.now · 08/04/2025
OPINION by sociologist Jessica Calarco: Jessica warns “those who are betting on Trump and his promise to bring back manufacturing risk putting us all in a more precarious position—pushing us back to Gilded Age levels of inequality…” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.
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markbartusch.bsky.social @markbartusch.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Why would anyone (still) trust Trump's business sense?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/04/2025
Billionaire fund manager Bill Ackman, who endorsed Donald Trump's run for President, said the US leader was losing the confidence of business leaders and should pause his trade war reut.rs/423xwfd
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Bill Ackman warns Trump is losing business leaders' confidence
Billionaire fund manager Bill Ackman, who endorsed Donald Trump's run for President, said the U.S. leader was losing the confidence of business leaders and should pause his trade war.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/04/2025
Goldman Sachs has raised the odds of a US recession to 45% from 35%, the second time it has increased its forecast in a week amid a growing chorus of such predictions by investment banks due to an escalating trade war reut.rs/4iYkGEL
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Goldman Sachs raises odds of US recession to 45%, second hike in a week
Goldman Sachs has raised the odds of a U.S. recession to 45% from 35%, the second time it has increased its forecast in a week amid a growing chorus of such predictions by investment banks due to an escalating trade war.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Japanese and Chinese markets are down 8% and 10% respectively. Black Friday in 1929 was -11%. Tomorrow could easily be the worst crash in American history. The worst thing? It’s 100% intentional.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 07/04/2025
OPINION by @levinsonjessica.bsky.social: Jessica notes, “you wouldn’t necessarily know it if you’ve been listening to the president, but the Constitution assigns the power to regulate foreign commerce and impose tariffs to Congress, not the White House.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | How Donald Trump got the power to impose tariffs on the world
You wouldn’t necessarily know it listening to the president, but the Constitution assigns the power to impose tariffs on Congress, not the White House.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trump is driving the world to a global depression -and destruction of all US influence - using powers delegated to him by Congress. Congress could recall those powers and save everyone from the disaster Trump is determined to inflict
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2025
Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2025
Breaking News: President Trump’s sweeping tariffs fueled the steepest stock market sell-off since 2020, with the S&P 500 plunging nearly 5%.
nytimes.com
Trump Tariffs Live Updates: Stocks Tumble to Worst Day Since Pandemic
The S&P 500 fell almost 5 percent on Thursday, its worst drop since June 2020, as allies and adversaries alike criticized President Trump’s action and weighed their responses.
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markbartusch.bsky.social @markbartusch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
what do you bet those million dollar checks in WI bounce...
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markbartusch.bsky.social @markbartusch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Voted in WI. Doing my part to save our public schools and democracy.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My Friday Substack: No law in Magamerica www.joyannreid.com/p/a-daily-re...
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A Daily Reid: no law in Magamerica
The one-eyed men running our government turn out to be a gang of screw-ups
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Best case scenario is that Hegseth was drunk. If not, he’s a fucking moron. Of course I’m open to both being true simultaneously
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Is anyone else getting weird texts from someone named Pete with a bunch of “nuclear codes”? Seems like a scam
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/03/2025
Three days ago Trump took away my non-existent security clearance…. At the same time his cabinet was texting top secret plans with a member of the media on board. Copy that
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2025
You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
theatlantic.com
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/03/2025
Bird flu has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and turn into a new pandemic reut.rs/4j02QAZ
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Bird flu spreads to mammals, fears of human transmission
Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human transmission and turn into a new pandemic.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/03/2025
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Axios @axios.com · 24/03/2025
Members of Congress exploded in anger after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he was inadvertently included in a Trump administration Signal chat on airstrikes in Yemen. "This is an outrageous national security breach and heads should roll."
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"Heads should roll": Congress erupts over Trump administration's Signal leak
"We can't chalk this up to a simple mistake – people should be fired for this," said one House Democrat.
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Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Some Dems already calling for probes into the Yemen signal chain incident. Deluzio: "Heads should roll. We need a full investigation and hearing ... ASAP." Jacobs: "We can't chalk this up to a simple mistake – people should be fired for this." @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/24/a...
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"Heads should roll": Congress erupts over Trump administration's Signal leak
"We can't chalk this up to a simple mistake – people should be fired for this," said one House Democrat.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/03/2025
Top intelligence committees need to begin an investigation into Pete Hegseth's epic Signal chat mishap. ASAP. There should be televised hearings so all Americans have transparency on how such an enormous breach of national security could take place in first place.
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