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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
If only we knew the person who was in charge of the country at the time who could have done it differently … www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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Trump on DOGE cuts: ‘I would have done it differently’
The president defended the massive government overhaul — but critiqued the approach.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Big blue states with big cities have been consistent “givers” to the US Treasury while Alabama is a longtime “taker” of funds, speaking of living off the American taxpayer. @sentuberville.bsky.social is the resource sucking ghoul, not big blue cities. You’re welcome, Tommy.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Steel yourself and then read. WaPo went to Khartoum to meet the moms who, thanks to Trump and Musk’s brutal actions, are now watching their little children starve to death or die of cholera
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Hell hath no fury like a chain saw wielding tech bro scorned
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Connected by trains, maybe?
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I can
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
um
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What’s a little poisoning as long as it helps the ultra rich?
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Like I said, previous Elon back down was only temporary, even when it came to his Epstein tweet that he took down. Like Trump, his basic nature is scorched earth. www.thedailybeast.com//elon-musk-d...
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Musk Demands Epstein Files Release While Mounting Last-Minute Attack on Trump’s Megabill
The billionaire previously alleged that Trump’s name appears in the files.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
And now he is boosting epic @aoc.bsky.social speech, even though she slags him.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I Love Fireworks
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Happy 4th to all with the hope that we form a more perfect union as we head into our 250th birthday.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
In just a few weeks we went from a non-nuclear Iran at the negotiating table to Iran outlawing cooperation with the IAEA. So much winning for Israel and the US.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I do sometimes think I should use the Substack app more. It can be confusing and non-user-friendly on occasion, but there is some good content there.
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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“If the committee turns science-based recommendations into wishy-washy talk-to-your-doctor suggestions or, worse, takes certain vaccines off the schedule, America risks unraveling the infrastructure that keeps children vaccinated..” And more than just measles will roar back with a vengeance
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
top line badness — this is reckless and harmful to our economy, health, and liberty
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We need defectors. And they're creating defectors.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
If there’s nothing to hide, why hide everything? Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“Under Patel and Bongino, subject matter expertise and operational competence are sacrificed for ideological purity and the ceaseless politicization of the workforce. “This makes us all less safe.” — Michael Feinberg, just forced out of the FBI www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
lawfaremedia.org
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI. 
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/07/2025
In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Mike Johnson is used to giving up on his personal preferences.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/07/2025
The official White House rapid response account is just blatant lying. No taxes on Social Security is not in the bill.
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Tom Sgouros @tsgouros.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Proud to have given anti-Tesla lectures in 2012, when I was a robotics researcher. Their use of the technology was utterly irresponsible then, and still is.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
DOGE is already killing Americans
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
For context the government of the United States is illegally sending 8 people to a place where they are likely to be tortured or killed on the 4th of July
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The afternoon* before, that is
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/w...
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In Texas Flooding, the Most Urgent Alerts Came in the Middle of the Night
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/07/2025
This is bullshit. Not only do ICE bounty hunters refuse to identify themselves, they won’t say where they’re taking the people they’re kidnapping. Deliberately shuffling detainees from facility to facility so families can’t find them & they miss their chance at legal counsel. (Anaheim, CA)
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Tim O’Shea @timposhea.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Gotta say, whenever there’s a @strictscrutiny.bsky.social episode with @profmmurray.bsky.social showing off her inner thespian it’s always a top 10. Can’t wait for the two books @amandalitman.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3E1N...
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The Supreme Court’s ‘Lawless’ Era
Strict Scrutiny · Episode
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Lynne Perednia @perednia.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
LAWLESS is an excellent resource for how the Supreme Court got this way.
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
ANNOUNCING … THE BAD DECISIONS TOUR! Presale starts WEDNESDAY (presale code in today’s episode)!
Announcing tour
Dc 5/31
NYC 6/12
Chicago 104
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
sfgate.com
ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities
Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.
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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 10/05/2025
No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice - something I’ve done twice this year without issue.
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NPR @npr.org · 11/05/2025
In 1978, Congress gave federal workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, finding it in the public interest. Now Trump wants to end those labor rights for most of the federal workforce.
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Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them
In 1978, Congress gave federal workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, finding it in the public interest. Now Trump wants to end those labor rights for most of the federal workforce.
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@MontanaResists❌👑 @nancyskartveit.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
YOUR MISSION👇👇👇👇💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙
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@MontanaResists❌👑 @nancyskartveit.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
TRUTH👇
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is some shit you hear right before a man with long white hair and an even longer sword starts slaughtering people
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Cities won't fund housing—but they *will* fund cops to arrest people for the crime of having nowhere to live.
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San Jose mayor wants new police unit to arrest homeless people - San José Spotlight
More details are emerging about San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's plan to arrest or hospitalize homeless people for refusing offers of shelter — and the city could create a police unit to do so.
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VIVA LA RESISTANCE @banks66.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ain’t this the truth. We went from gold standard to the Bowery Boys. A bunch of idiots!!!!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
In a record-breaking month, immigration judges fast-tracked asylum denials at a record pace, raising questions about due process, the politicization of the courts, and the future of the asylum system. (Via the indispensable @austinkocher.com) austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...
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Immigration Judges Closed and Denied More Asylum Cases in March Than Any Month on Record
In a record-breaking month, immigration judges fast-tracked asylum denials at a record pace, raising questions about due process, the politicization of the courts, and the future of the asylum system.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“the president toured a half-billion dollar luxury 747 owned by the Qatari government which it then gave to him as a ‘gift’ and then he used it to replace Air Force One with the plan of keeping it after leaving office” is the most insane corruption any president has ever done and should end Trump
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Last week: Trump Organization announces new $5.5 billion golf course in Qatar Today: Qatar ‘gifts’ Trump a luxury jet Surely just a coincidence.
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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Decency…
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