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Morgan Stephens

@morganstephens.bsky.social
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Reporter at KOB 4, poet TILT (2024), previously White House for Bloomberg & production for CNN, slowly lurching toward my first novel

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The COVID-19 History Project @thisdayincovid.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
On this day in COVID history, July 23, 2021: Opinion: Eight months of long Covid brought me to the brink | CNN Source: CNN www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/opinions/lon…
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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez @nmdoj.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez on SCOTUS ruling giving ICE green light to sweeps based on race, language. @morganstephens.bsky.social from KOB Learn more about what this means for New Mexicans and beyond: www.kob.com/politics-new...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It’s hard to believe this was four years ago. I am immensely grateful for the healing my body has done and surrender to the rest it has to go.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
My LATEST:
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Some personal news: I’m *so* excited to announce I’ve joined KOB 4 as a reporter covering New Mexico! Grateful for such a warm welcome from the team as well as the state of enchantment.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
NEWS: Attorneys General multi-state lawsuit to reinstate thousands of probationary workers fired by DOGE succeeds in court. The ruling ordered employees to be reinstated by March 17th, and alleged the White House violated federal law by illegally firing thousands of workers without advanced notice.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
POTUS continues "joking" about staying in office past 2028. The majority of Americans believe he'll attempt it. Meanwhile, MAGA is already splintering on the issue, with recent activist factions popping up at CPAC. Latest: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Trump 2028? Americans think he'll try it—and don't think he should
President Donald Trump keeps “joking” about running for a third term, and his allies are floating ways to make it happen—but Americans aren’t on board. New polling finds that not only do ...
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 02/03/2025
“Absolute admiration for President Zelenskyy. The guy has balls. He went into the Oval Office and stood up to Russia’s best negotiators,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell of California.
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Democrats rip 'un-American' Trump after Zelenskyy clusterf-ck
Democrats were left aghast at President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s disgraceful meltdown toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. In the meeting, Trump defended…
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
ICYMI: The DNC filed its first lawsuit on Friday against Trump in what calls a “blatant power grab by a corrupt Republican administration” over campaign finance law. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Here's why the Democratic Party just sued Trump
The Democratic Party is taking President Donald Trump to court , accusing him of overstepping his authority and illegally trying to tighten his grip on federal agencies—particularly those meant to ...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
NEW: After Trump and Vance threw Zelenskyy’s White House meeting off the rails, the public consensus among Democrats was swift and unified: “embarrassing,” “dangerous,” “un-American,” “an ambush.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Democrats rip 'un-American' Trump after Zelenskyy clusterf-ck
Democrats were left aghast at President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s disgraceful meltdown toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday. In the meeting, Trump defended Russi...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
JUST NOW: "You see the hatred he's got for Putin, it's really tough to make a deal with that kind of hatred," Trump said to Zelenskyy and reporters in Oval Office during devolving WH meeting.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 28/02/2025
Trump and Musk are right about one thing: All of this is a disaster—their disaster.
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Musk is now begging air traffic controllers to come back to work
Donald Trump gave his co-President Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency carte blanche to go on a federal employee firing spree—and now Musk is lamely begging for workers to come…
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MartiniDude @martinidude.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You nailed it, @morganstephens.bsky.social. She’s desperate to stay relevant and the maga broligarchs are her last refuge. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Megyn Kelly unleashes sexist attack against Musk's alleged baby mama
Former Fox News host-turned-podcaster Megyn Kelly went on a condescending, sexist tirade Wednesday, blasting conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair for announcing on X that her baby is the 13th ...
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Rep. Kevin Mullin @kevinmullin.house.gov · 26/02/2025
After 3 surgeries, a blood clot, infection & being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to DC & vote NO on Republicans’ disastrous budget plan. Rep. Pettersen traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. 🧵
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 26/02/2025
A federal judge just smacked down Trump’s reckless funding freeze, calling it “ill-conceived” and “unfathomable.” Turns out, trying to block trillions in federal aid practically overnight is completely unhinged.
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Another judge puts Trump's disastrous funding freeze on ice
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday on Donald Trump’s push for a federal funding freeze ,
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 25/02/2025
USDS staffers resign en masse in response to Musk’s latest antics.
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Team assigned to help DOGE gives middle finger instead
Nearly two dozen federal technology workers just walked out the door rather than bow to billionaire Elon Musk, who they say is set on running the government into the ground with chaos and cronyism.�
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 25/02/2025
Shocker.
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3 years after Ukraine invasion, Trump is still simping for Putin
When White House reporters asked President Donald Trump on Monday if Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “dictator,” the usually bombastic Trump was suddenly demure. “I don’t use those ...
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 24/02/2025
Spoiler: the FBI, Pentagon, and unions aren’t impressed.
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Musk faces major backlash after obnoxious productivity email
On Saturday, at the behest of unelected billionaire Elon Musk, the Office of Personnel Management emailed over 2 ...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
As if gutting the entire federal government wasn't enough, Trump and RFK Jr. are now abandoning 9/11 first responders.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 17/02/2025
No Kings on Presidents Day. The American people are fighting back against Trump and Musk.
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Protests ramp up across the country as rage builds against Trump and Musk
Protests are set to take place on Monday across the country to make it known that this President’s Day, Americans are pissed at President Donald Trump and unelected co-president Elon Musk’s ...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
New from me: Congressional Democrats of all factions are hinting at a government shutdown in one month as a bargaining chip to combat the Trump and Musk administration. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Democrats have a chance to stand up to Trump—if they don't blow it
Congress has one month to pass its spending bill or risk a government shutdown, and Democrats are hinting that they might take this opportunity to finally challenge President Donald Trump and ...
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 13/02/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene is out here silencing Democrats to protect Elon Musk’s fragile ego. Government efficiency, indeed. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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First congressional DOGE hearing is just as bonkers as you can imagine
Fireworks erupted Wednesday on Capitol Hill at the first Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee hearing when Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Jasmine Crockett of Texas each ....
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 13/02/2025
Trump is back on Putin’s leash.
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Trump gleefully announces he’s back to being Putin’s lapdog
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday on Truth Social that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since being sworn into office. During the 90-minute call and on ...
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 13/02/2025
Want Medicare for All? Climate action? Wealth tax? Then we need progressives winning these Senate races.
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Democrats get two Senate opportunities to freshen up the party
Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced on Thursday that she won’t seek reelection in 2026. “This decision is not political, it is entirely personal,” she said in a statement, citing that…
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NEW: 13 attorneys general file a lawsuit against DOGE, challenging Elon Musk's "exercise of executive power." 1/3 Filing here: www.mass.gov/doc/nm-v-mus...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What do they say about sunlight and disinfectant?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)
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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 11/02/2025
Sunlight will be the best disinfectant ☀️😎:
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Democrats launch whistleblower site in bid to stymie Trump and Musk
With watchdogs purged and the GOP obediently falling ...
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 11/02/2025
Trump’s FBI pick is accused of perjury. Republicans’ response? Full speed ahead 🚨
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Democrats make final attempt to halt Patel’s FBI confirmation
In a letter to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Senate Minority Whip and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, accuses FBI pick…
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
NEW from me: Democrats, young and old, get social media savvy in their direct-to-voters fight against Trump and Musk www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Democrats get savvy in their fight against Trump and Musk
On Friday, a group of House Democrats shared videos on Bluesky and X showing them being denied entry to the Department of Education in response to Elon Musk’s hostile ...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From the digital sphere to the steps of State Capitols. I wrote about the grassroots #50501movement that took hold this week on Bluesky in response to Trump's chaos.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
NEW from me: The massive labor union @aflcio.org trolls Elon Musk after rolling out the "Department of People Who Work for a Living," which aims to elbow its way into the conversation for working Americans. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Labor giant trolls Musk with excellent mockery of DOGE
Hell hath no fury like�the largest federation of unions in America scorned. In response to “ Nazi nepo baby ” Elon Musk, AFL-CIO launched a campaign on ...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Fantastic news. Bookshop over Amazon ANY day. www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan says that so many NH residents called her office over Trump and Musk that the Senate phone system is experiencing "technical issues from the increase in calls." She's now asking people to email her instead.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
NEW from me: The first days of @kenmartin.bsky.social steering the DNC show a man ready to set up a 'war room' to combat the GOP's misinformation machine in the digital age, rebuild the party for the working class and push back against Trump each step of the way. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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New DNC chair says party is ‘alive and kicking’—and ready to fight Trump
Newly elected Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday to discuss what Democrats can do, as Maddow put it, “to mitigate some of ...
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@warren.senate.gov speaks outside the Treasury: "A few months ago, Elon Musk spent $280 million to buy an election for Donald Trump. Now, Elon Musk is here to collect on his investment. He is here to seize power for himself. We are here to fight back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUIC...
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At Treasury Department, Warren Blasts Elon Musk’s Government Power Grab
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 04/02/2025
Elon Musk has got to go.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Going direct to voters via social. Smart.
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Maria Langholz @marialangholz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@pressley.house.gov calls Elon’s minions “billionaire boys with grubby little hands” 🤌🏼
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Happening NOW: Democratic lawmakers speak with protesters on Musk's access to financial data on Americans, chanting to "shut down the Senate" at a rally hosted by @moveon.org Civic Action, @indivisible.org, and @workingfamilies.org outside the Treasury Dept in Washington, D.C. Link below.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2025
Wyden: "Tell Elon Musk to take his hands off your money!"
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
In a DNC Chair acceptance speech, @kenmartin.bsky.social says Dems must do three things: 1. Unite & rebuild to win elections & improve working people's lives. 2. Go on offense. "Trump’s first week is what happens when amateur hour meets demolition derby." And 3. build new alliances. 1/2
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NEW: @kenmartin.bsky.social wins the election for Democratic National Committee chair. #DNCChair
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happening now: the DNC is holding its vote for their next chair.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Groyperfication
The Untold Story of Our Time
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Republicans are gonna start lying about the safety of mifepristone
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I am heartbroken to learn about the tragedy tonight at DCA. I’ve flown in and out of that airport so many times. Praying some souls are recovered.
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Can any legal scholars on here break down what the hell this means?
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Morgan Stephens @morganstephens.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NEW: Just over 24 hours after order was announced, the Trump administration's chaotic and illegal Federal funding freeze has been rescinded by the OMB. Reporting by @nbcnews.com
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