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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

1. NEW Trump has installed a DOGE operative as the new Chief Information Officer of the Social Security Administration in an apparent effort to evade a federal court order blocking DOGE affiliates from accessing databases containing the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans.

The Trump administration has installed a DOGE operative as the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Social Security Administration (SSA) in an apparent effort to evade a federal court order bloc...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/02/2025

Van Hollen: "European allies & others around the world who believe in freedom & democracy are wondering if this is just rhetoric or a real shift. My warning to them is I think this is reality. I think Trump is much closer ideologically to Putin & other autocrats than he is to democratic countries."

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What's "going to happen" for which military lawyers will be a "roadblock?"

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jadamrussell.bsky.social @jadamrussell.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

All Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, Warren, need do is what the GOP has done for decades: get on every airway, radio and television, and yell the theatre is on fire because finally, the theatre is on fire.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.* There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

JUST IN: Federal judge, Carl Nichols, GRANTS the plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) of the planned administrative leave for thousands of USAID employees.

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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is what I have to imagine is a relatively rare occurrence of Grassley receiving a letter from someone older than he is.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/02/2025

Donald Trump is trying to block trillions of dollars in federal funds to Meals on Wheels, Medicaid, and other critical programs that keep us safe and healthy. If allowed to go into effect, this would wreak havoc across the country. Tell Congress: Trump cannot be allowed to defund our communities.

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Tell Congress: Don't defund our communities

President Trump’s decision to block trillions in federal funding to critical services already approved by Congress is a reckless, cruel, unprecedented power grab that will impact every one of us.

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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

WATCH as Senator Hirono shows how gutting Medicaid is all part of Project 2025... Hands Off Our Medicaid

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Someone gonna get big mad at this

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/02/2025

Despite Elon Musk's tweets, he cannot unilaterally remove entire departments from the U.S. government that were established by legislation. This is brazenly illegal.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series

The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The new cover of TIME.

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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 07/02/2025

The richest man alive and his unvetted teenagers are lawlessly firing federal workers and canceling vital government funds. While the GOP cowers in fear and surrenders its authority, Democrats are introducing legislation, filing lawsuits and fighting this smash-and-grab looting.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

NEW: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, will block USAID from putting 2,200 employees on leave later tonight, saying the rush to force them out of service could cause legitimate harms. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/02/2025

Breaking News: A federal judge said he would freeze a Trump administration effort to put thousands of USAID workers on leave and withdraw employees abroad.

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Trump Defends Musk’s Cost Cutting and Says He Will Look at the Pentagon: Live Updates

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/02/2025

NEW: Trump tried to unlawfully fire Federal Election Committee chair and outspoken Trump critic, Ellen Weintraub (D), without cause. This move adds to growing concerns over the administration's disregard for the separation of powers.

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Federal Elections Commission Chair Says Trump Tried to Illegally Fire Her

Read more here.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This might give some pause to anyone who thinks of Musk’s DOGE as just a dispassionate accounting firm trying to make everything run more smoothly.

Screen shot of Elon Musk posting that USAID is a criminal organization and that it’s “time for it to die.”

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

USAID provides lifesaving humanitarian aid around the globe. Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization." And it looks like Musk will get his way. This is America.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 02/02/2025

John Voorhees and his deputy have been put on leave but they fought the good fight.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The unelected, not-Senate-confirmed, not-security-cleared, not even actually employed by the US government techbros of Musk's weird militia are conducting a coup one agency at a time.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The irony of people doing this fake virtue signaling (after an entire campaign rife with fainting spells over the cost of eggs), is that their political deity is famous for manufacturing his clothing outside the US and for failing to pay American contractors.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

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Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics

Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/02/2025

NEW: Federal workers are starting to receive a copy of the court's restraining order against the Trump administration barring the regime from freezing federal grants and financial assistance. Excellent work, and worth the read:

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

“Agency staff were also sent an email Friday directing them to contact scientific journals to pull back manuscripts that had been accepted, but not yet published, that did not comply with the executive order on gender ideology.”

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

“The material removed or edited includes extensive sets of data collected and used by researchers around the world…The data’s removal will have implications for researchers who have relied for decades on the comprehensive material collected by the vaunted public health agency.”

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed or edited references to transgender people, gender identity and equity from its website Friday.” (gift link here): wapo.st/42zF0ap

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CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material

Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Where are the American counterparts of these protesters?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

To be clear, I wrote the first version of Death of Expertise before Trump was even a candidate. We never thought of putting him on the cover because it's not about him - it's about all of us.

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Jeff Blattner @theblatt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025

Sean Duffy refuses to say under questioning from Jake Tapper that there's no evidence DEI had anything to do with the DCA disaster, even though he can't produce a shred of evidence to back up the notion it did

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

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