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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/05/2026
Clyburn: "I think Justice Roberts is gonna take his place alongside some other justices, like Taney who gave us the Dred Scott decision"
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 28/11/2025
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, has embraced a city-owned startup designed to emulate Vienna’s social housing model, which involves a public developer building housing designed to be permanently affordable.
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Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
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Boboloca @boboloca.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not an overstatement at all
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Former commander in NYPD's 6th Precinct: "The federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by ICE agents and require them to properly identify themselves." (& thanks for mention) [Brandon del Pozo, The Atlantic]
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Take Off the Mask, ICE
The federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by ICE agents and require them to properly identify themselves.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
People are dying
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California. ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Because it cannot be squared.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 20/06/2025
this post reminded me, masked vigilantes were such a scourge that Congress made it a felony to "go in disguise upon the public highway" for the purpose of interfering with the free exercise of constitutional rights in the Enforcement Act of 1870
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if two or more persons shall band or conspire together, or go in disguise upon the public highway, or upon the premises of another, with intent to violate any provision of this act, or to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise and enjoyment of any right or privilege granted or secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United Sates, or because of his having exercised the same, such persons shall be held guilty of felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, . . .[and] shall. . . be thereafter ineligible to, and disabled from holding, any office or place of honor, profit, or trust crested by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/06/2025
Shameful. Unlawfully deployed troops detaining a veteran on his way to the VA.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/06/2025
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg GRANTS class certification for the people held at CECOT and gives the government ONE WEEK to explain how they're going to facilitate due process for EVERYONE sent there under the Alien Enemies Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Senate Republicans voted to kill an EPA rule limiting the seven most hazardous air pollutants emitted by chemical plants and other industrial facilities. Inhaling even small amounts of these pollutants can cause brain damage and cancer. How is this Making America Healthy Again?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is OBSCENE.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/04/2025
Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office. Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"Party of the working class."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Happy Friday everyone. Thanks for reading NPR.org this week. Wanted to take a second to also remind you: I interviewed whistleblower Dan Berulis to accompany my lengthy written story on NLRB. Hear from him in his own words: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5355...
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🔊 Listen Now: A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
All Things Considered on NPR One | 7:13
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Matt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025
The most daming claim in this statement IMO: Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created… Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds. Correct usernames and passwords. 2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
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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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Helen121 @helen121.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’. Applicants hailed from Johns Hopkins, NASA, Columbia, Yale & Stanford. Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging “with worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts". www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index is probably the best metric to understand if the U.S. is ‘bringing manufacturing back home.’ And it's absolutely cratering: -26.4, one of the lowest readings in memory.”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Judge Wilkinson's opinion for a 3-0 panel in the Abrego Garcia case is written for the parties, but also for the public & perhaps a nod at SCOTUS. I go through it in this piece, which I think provides a much-needed boost for all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-fourth-c...
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A Fourth Circuit Judge Warns Against Reducing The Rule Of Law To Lawlessness
Thursday afternoon, the Fourth Circuit issued a decision, its second, in the Abrego Garcia case.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump reportedly wants to eliminate funding for Head Start programs. These programs provide educational and nutritional support to our poorest children. Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for more tax cuts for the rich and a record breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget. Hello?
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J.D. Scholten @jdscholten.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Head start is an amazing program that benefits low income kids in development, throughout school, more likely to be healthy, more likely to improve their economic status and way more!!! Eliminating the program is WRONG!!!
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/04/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Heartbreaking injustice www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“Virtually every day now we see government lawyers, acting on Ms. Bondi’s behalf, gaslighting and stonewalling federal judges from coast to coast. … “Brad Bondi isn’t the right person to lead the DC Bar at this time. Not now. Not at this extroardinarily perilous moment for our legal system.”
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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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Rise Up for Justice @riseupforjustice.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“Thank you” Supreme Court for letting our government be bought by the wealthiest! From: Robert Reich
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2025
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I would like to point out that the executive branch claiming the power to mete out life/death sentences seems like a separation of powers issue as well
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
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