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Cynthia Tremblay

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NP 27 yrs .Travel addict . Democracy nerd

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Cynthia Tremblay @medicalprotestor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Trump Republicanism in action. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...
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Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"The report in question was neither peer-reviewed nor published in a medical journal..." www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
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How shoddy science is fueling a charge to restrict abortion pill access
The FDA has been tasked with re-evaluating the safety of mifepristone after a flawed report claimed it has a high rate of serious complications.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"'If they attempt to deport the Afghans, you’re going to see actual physical conflict between U.S. veterans and ICE,' he predicted..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection
The Trump administration claims conditions in Afghanistan have markedly improved under Taliban rule. Those who fought in the war say that’s ‘laughable.’
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
trump's department of homeland security has thus far arrested: a judge a democratic mayor a democratic congresswoman now handcuffing a democratic congressional staffer gothamist.com/news/homelan...
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Homeland Security cops handcuff one of Rep. Nadler's aides in chaotic day at NY fed building
Two dozen demonstrators were later arrested outside the building in Lower Manhattan.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"California Republican Reps. David Valadao and Young Kim's districts are among the highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the state. In an April 14 letter, both said they were against the bill if it included Medicaid cuts — but then they voted for the bill anyway..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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9 Calif. Republicans in hot seat after consequential health care vote
California's nine House Republicans voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes cuts to key programs such as Medicaid.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month… “By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Weakened courts, happy heirs, and work requirements. The House-passed version of Donald Trump's tax plan takes from poor, gives to rich.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"The underlying point isn’t to chastise the firms for making the wrong decision; it’s to remind those firms that it’s not too late to reverse course and join the ranks of the firms resisting Trump’s gambit..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Law firms that appeased Trump confront the consequences of their misjudgment
Law firms that gave into the White House’s demands thought they were making a wise business decision. They’re now learning otherwise.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"It's coming back to life. We're going to make it." George Foote, lawyer for the U.S. Institute of Peace sounds a hopeful note as he describes how the group is putting the pieces back together after DOGE illegally took over and decimated their organization.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Here’s the full website for Season 2 of “Ultra,” including transcripts, tons of supporting information, pictures, and a bonus episode. (You can listen for free right from this page, or from any podcast app): www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcast
Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... (link opens warren's very punchy short report in pdf format)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people
Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The President can call National Guard soldiers up for active duty but once they do that they CANNOT be used for domestic police functions. If the President seeks use the National Guard for police enforcement, the Governors have to agree to allow it and the guard must remain under their control
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The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check
Domestic deployment under Section 502(f) has its limits, and for good reason.
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Steve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Sadly, it's not a distraction. It was inevitable
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The Smokin Grasshopper 🦗🍃 @smokingrasshopper.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Anyone grabs my mask they will get tased in the neck and or balls and get throat punched a few times…😑 I will not go out alone. It’s not up to him what I wear if they can wear Nazi shit and masks while larping in temu fake armor shit I can protect my face 👿
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This is a dictatorial provocation: Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protesters in California, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.
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Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law
President Trump bypassed the authority of Gov. Gavin Newsom to call up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I was just a kid growing up in Cleveland when the National Guard attacked antiwar protesters at nearby Kent State in May of 1970. I was with my mom in the kitchen when the news came over the radio. Four years later, Nixon resigned in disgrace. One year after that, Saigon fell.
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Steve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What law?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Big Ugly: Stephen Miller Uses His War on Home Depot to Invade California www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/08/t...
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The Big Ugly: Stephen Miller Uses His War on Home Depot to Invade California - emptywheel
Stephen Miller is transparently using the chaos he created by his demand for impossible arrest numbers from ICE to, first, federalize response to mostly-peaceful protest and, in turn, use the chaos cr...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Note THUS FAR, LAT is covering this as a response to Trump's ICE escalation (other outlets are treating the protests as the spark).
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead. This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 14/04/2025
‘I realized, it might have to be me’: Lawyer resigns from firm over Trump deal, says ‘pay attention’ www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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‘I realized, it might have to be me’: Lawyer resigns from firm over Trump deal, says ‘pay attention’
“I was hoping to get people to pay attention to what was going on,” says Rachel Cohen, a now-former Associate at Skadden Arps, one of the handful of firms which recently made agreements with the Trump...
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 15/04/2025
The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on immigrants to leave the U.S. of their own volition, or “self deport,” as the number of people the government is deporting remains far below the vision for mass deportations promised www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Trump admin pushing immigrants to self-deport as its deportation numbers lag
Figures obtained by NBC News show deportations by ICE in March below where they were a year ago and far below what the administration wants.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 19/04/2025
Judge orders detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to be transferred back to Vermont www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Judge orders detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to be transferred back to Vermont
The student was grabbed off the street by immigration officials. The Trump administration is seeking to deport her after she co-wrote an essay about Israel and Gaza.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
TONIGHT: @garrykasparov.bsky.social talks to @velshi.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 20/04/2025
Trump’s tariff plan is ‘malpractice,’ says former FTC Chair Lina Khan www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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Trump’s tariff plan is ‘malpractice,’ says former FTC Chair Lina Khan
Trump’s sweeping tariffs are marked by “total incoherence” and “malpractice,” warns Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission. “Families and households are going to see inflated cost...
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 20/04/2025
‘Courage can be contagious, even if it’s in really small doses’: Universities begin to push back www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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‘Courage can be contagious, even if it’s in really small doses’: Universities begin to push back
This week, Harvard University refused to agree to the Trump administration’s demands, leading to a freeze in federal funding. “The overreach. Was much too far,” says Wesleyan University President Mich...
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 20/04/2025
A U.S. airstrike in Yemen killed over 70 people on Thursday as the Trump Administration ramps up airstrikes on Houthi rebels. Nicholas Kristof says the strikes will worsen Yemen’s humanitarian crisis. “We're inflicting enormous pain for no gain at enormous expense.” #Velshi
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‘Enormous pain for no gain’: Trump admin ramps up bombing of Yemen
Since mid-March, the U.S. has been ramping up bombings on Houthi rebels in Yemen. In all, nearly 200 people – many civilians – have been killed by U.S. strikes since March 15th. As the Trump Administration guts foreign aid, NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof, who’s been covering the conflict for years, says, “We can't afford 12 cents a day to keep those kids alive, yet we are spending millions of dollars killing civilians for no obvious purpose.”
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 20/04/2025
Surveillance tech is "being turned on its head" to help the Trump administration deport migrants, says The Atlantic’s @caitlindickerson.bsky.social Harvard's @petramolnar.com says the use of these tools are not just “questions of technology, but questions of power and who has it.” #Velshi
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For-Profit Immigration Surveillance Expands Under Trump
NYT reports that GEO Group’s surveillance tech is now helping the Trump Admin to deport immigrants through their tracking capabilities. The Atlantic’s Caitlin Dickerson says GEO is just “one of the many, many tools” the government is using to tackle immigration. Petra Molnar of Harvard’s Center for Internet & Society says the use of these tools are not just “questions of technology, but questions of power and who has it.”
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pete Hegseth shared attack plans in Signal chat including wife, brother, personal lawyer. Sounds like he was anxious to show off what a big shot he had become 🤔 thehill.com/policy/natio...
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Hegseth shared attack plans in Signal chat including wife, brother, personal lawyer: NYT
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly shared attack plans in a Signal chat including his wife, brother and personal lawyer, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing four people familiar with t…
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SoulshineDave 🇺🇦 @soulshinedave.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Golf of America 🤮
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Dingle Berry...✌️💙👍 I post shit you otherwise wouldn't. 😝☮️✌️ @opodo56.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Attention: Musk’s staffers are now seeking access to a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants. DOGE was never about saving the U.S. money—it’s about building a government-run machine to weaponize personal data.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Musk’s people are bypassing government systems entirely now — operating in the shadows, using his own infrastructure. This is not efficiency. This is a takeover.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Turns out, it was a Starlink transceiver — quietly connected to Musk’s private satellite network. The device and raised serious concerns. Why? Because this setup violates federal laws designed to protect public data.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
banned commercial fishing to protect endangered sea life like whales, dolphins, and sea turtles. Trump’s new directive reopens the sanctuary to commercial fishing within 50 to 200 nautical miles of its boundaries—putting some of the ocean’s most vulnerable ecosystems at risk.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Today was truly inspiring. Something happened that we’ve never seen before, you made noise in places that rarely see protests like this. Communities across traditionally conservative areas hosted historic turnouts.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19 Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one. #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 #NYC @polrev.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
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