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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/05/2025
NEW: Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the prices in other wealthy nations. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
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Why Do Americans Pay More for Prescription Drugs?
Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the…
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Disability is not a moral failing. Everyone who lives long enough will become disabled eventually. You can’t “try harder” your way out of it. People can’t accept disability is a part of life, so they blame us for being sick as a way to convince themselves it’ll never happen to them. It will.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
They’ll do it in a few high profile cases to set examples. People will say, “No way this holds up in court.” Maybe. But we now know the plan: they’ll do it first, then dare the courts to stop them. And this too will be very difficult for courts to undo. This is end of democracy stuff.
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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/03/2025
Imagine if The Atlantic’s editor chose blackmail over journalistic integrity. There’s a lot of blackmail potential here. Isn’t that exactly why security clearances get denied?
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/03/2025
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said from the bench that she would issue a temporary restraining order blocking immigration authorities from detaining 21-year-old Columbia junior Yunseo Chung for protesting on campus, per NY Post
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Columbia student protester Yunseo Chung can’t be detained by feds, judge rules as Trump admin seeks to deport her
The Columbia University student facing deportation after she was arrested at an anti-Israel protest can’t be detained by the feds, a judge ruled Tuesday. Manhattan federal court Judge Nao…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
On Jan. 8, after they were finally granted the coveted refugee status, E.M., 29, and his girlfriend, Daniela Palma, 30, finally arrived in the United States, flying into Houston. Upon arrival, an immigration officer asked the young man the question that changed his life in moments. “Do you have any tattoos?” He had already been asked that by U.S. authorities in Colombia as part of an extensive background check, and he now gave the same answer
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Criminalizing a completely normal response to a miscarriage is scary as hell. It’s an attempt to normalize pregnancy surveillance. I don’t mean to be gross, but it’s important for context: early miscarriages look, basically, like a thick, bloody loogie. (Video from @jessicavalenti.bsky.social)
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Couldn't get the SAFE Act passed through congress to stop people from voting, so fuck it, just sign another executive order to attempt to suppress votes. Positive takeaway: This administration is still worried about elections...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Dem leaders: if you fight back, we will rally behind you. This isn't complicated. More of this please.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21/03/2025
"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This was always where it was going to go: when the President claims it can detain and remove anyone without judicial review or due process, they will try to deport and remove people without judicial review and due process. Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/03/2025
They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The expected standard of behavior Americans have for Democratic versus Republican politicians has always been clearly unfair, but the way Republicans swallow Trump's short-comings is kind of staggering.
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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This one’s for all the university admins complying in advance: there is another way.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A Defense of Al Green. "Am I alone in feeling it was good to see some fervent conviction and righteous indignation? Am I the only person who was happy to see, in a sea of Democrats waving little paddles with lame messages, someone literally standing up to Trump?" www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cabi...
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We Live in the Dumbest Times
Plus, a defense of Al Green.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 06/03/2025
"Listen this IS, in fact how it’s done."
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'Bravo': Legal experts laud Georgetown law dean's response to Trump official's threat
Georgetown Law School Dean William Treanor earned cheers Thursday from legal observers for his response to the acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, who attacked the school for having d...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This might sound like a dig or hyperbole. But not enough mention of this. It says quite explicitly in 2.11 Exec Order that end-state level after all cuts is permanent level of govt to equal what it is during a full government shut down. Seems like worth highlighting this?
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Free Shrug Fella @freeshrugfella.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My fellow citizens: don’t be the frog.
A frog sits in a pan of water
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This meme?
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It is a non-stop source of amazement how invisible misogyny remains to white men, who even now--after the highly respected Coast Guard Commandant was fired for being female & turfed out of her home with 3hrs notice--STILL write about MAGA & the purges of the federal gov as driven only by racism.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
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Attorney General Jennifer Davenport @newjerseyoag.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🚨 Thanks to our lawsuit, the world's richest man has been stopped from stealing your data. DOGE's unrestricted access to Treasury systems is incredibly dangerous, and this emergency order halting their access proves it. I'll never stop fighting to protect our residents.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Jimmy Carter leaves the Southern Baptist Convention in 2009: “Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the Word of God.” He continues to teach his regular Sunday School class in Plains, Ga.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/12/2024
One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. propub.li/3BQjJ1e
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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.
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Jonathan Lyons @heartwoodandsteel.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion
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