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Niles Gold @nilesgold.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social Do not cave and end the government shutdown without a rock solid deal on ACA funding!

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Niles Gold @nilesgold.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Whether centrist Dems lack true ideals or they’re afraid to stand behind them makes no difference. The end result is they come across as fake and weak and that matters to voters.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

You piece of shit! See? This is why I'll never let up! You'll never be able to have this narrative as truth as long as I'm around. Those terrorist attacked us because of you Donald.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/02/2025

The American Right is literally just banning words that they don't like and people are still pretending they are pro freedom of speech

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christopher, post-rock dog dad @hobbitnet.ch · 08/02/2025

it is singularly critical that all of this mess isn't pinned on trump or musk. this is the republican party. as they systemically destroy countless lives, the entire party must pay the political cost for there to be any chance of recovery. harder to build than to destroy. dems will need numbers.

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is the worst classification scandal in 20 years. According to someone who knows: Trump has done more for China in a couple of weeks than Xi could have dreamed.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And there it is: Russell Vought is confirmed. I wrote a long profile of him, his worldview, his political project: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right. He is at war with pluralistic democracy.

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Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right

Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Russell Vought as White House budget director, putting Project 2025 architect at helm of powerful office.

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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/02/2025

Musk and Trump are engaged in a vicious witch hunt against women and people of color in the military and civil service: the former Coast Guard chief was just evicted from her home with 3 hours notice. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice

Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

What he proposed was an illegal scheme of ethnic cleansing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2025

here's video of every single Republican on the Senate Finance Committee voting in favor of making RFK Jr the director of HHS

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This guy should have no role in running our government. We didn’t elect him. He’s not a gov’t employee who is accountable. He hasn’t taken an oath to uphold the constitution or work on behalf of the American people. He’s in it for himself not for us.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Department of Transportation has issued a memo ordering programs supported by the agency to prioritize funding projects for communities with “marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.” www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-me...

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A New Government Memo Feels Like It’s Straight Out Of 'The Handmaid’s Tale'

The memo also said recipients of federal transportation dollars must cooperate with immigration enforcement, a hit to so-called sanctuary cities.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Translation: We want to privatize everything.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Trump says he has the highest standards, after putting a MTV's Real World alumnus in charge of Transportation and a Fox & Friends host in control of the Pentagon, while his nominees to lead the FBI (internet troll), HHS (celebrity science crank) and DNI (Russian stooge) flail in live hearings.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 30/01/2025

what happened last night will have comparable examples across every area these people have authority to regulate. it’ll probably happen to another plane, too.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

He’s the president’s biggest donor, he gets a west wing office, he gets to oust the administrator of the federal aviation administration, he gets to send emails to the entire federal workforce trying to scam them out of their pensions, and he’s a nazi.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 29/01/2025

The first 10 days of Trump's administration have been marked by an unprecedented barrage of barbaric policy moves and casual executive depravity. In many cases, these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.

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Trump's First 10 Days Back in Power Were Uniquely Depraved. Don't Get Numb To It

Donald Trump’s first 10 days back in office were filled with a series of “shock and awe” executive orders intended to overwhelm the opposition.

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Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Pritzker: "They are either lying to us or they are critically incompetent. This is what happens when you staff the federal government full of project 2025 contributors that don't have any experience governing and don't think that the laws apply to them."

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Congresswoman Betty McCollum @mccollum.house.gov · 28/01/2025

President Trump told the American people that he wanted to be a dictator on day one. Now in office, he and his administration are making good on that promise with illegal and unconstitutional actions that directly threaten Americans’ economic, personal, and national security.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening? In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control. Call it what it is.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/01/2025

In a blatantly unconstitutional power grab, Trump is freezing funding for life-saving programs like Medicaid, food and housing assistance, childcare grants, and school meals — even though that funding was already approved by Congress.

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Trump Orders Freeze On All Federal Grants And Loans

Democrats warned that Trump’s latest order could harm programs used by millions of Americans, including early childhood programs, and food and rent assistance.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, said extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich is "the most important economic issue of the day." When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."

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VeritasKnight @veritasknight.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There is a belief that the Nazis were a monolith of anti-Semitic, war-happy clones of Hitler. In reality they were an alliance of groups of anti-Semites, racists, nationalists, militarists, corporatists, all of whom saw something in Hitler they could get behind. They were not all the same.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/01/2025

Five years after the party took a hard pro-police stance in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Vice President JD Vance believes it’s okay to support individuals who beat and kill cops, so long as they do so in support of Donald Trump. newrepublic.com/post/190724/jd-vanc……

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JD Vance Says It’s OK to Beat up Cops Sometimes, Actually

JD Vance has the worst defense yet of Donald Trump’s mass pardons for January 6 rioters.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

At least some of these firings appear to be flatly illegal, in direct violation of federal laws that protect non-political career staff. Just one week in, Trump is mounting a full-on assault against our civil service. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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Trump Administration Fires Prosecutors Who Aided Jack Smith Investigations: Live Updates

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Niles Gold @nilesgold.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Only 3 Republicans voted “no” on Pete Hegseth’s confirmation for Secretary of Defense. Yet another example of how utterly irresponsible and broken the Republican Party is.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

analysis by TIME found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued so far mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025 time.com/7209901/dona...

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Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025

A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“On Day 1, Trump Declares War on Migrants, Mexico, and the Constitution” Trump, writes Zeteo’s @premthakker.bsky.social, marked being ‘dictator-for-a-day’ flanked by four of the richest people on Earth – one of whom appeared to do a Nazi salute.

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On Day 1, Trump Declares War on Migrants, Mexico, and the Constitution

Trump marked being ‘dictator-for-a-day’ flanked by four of the richest people on Earth – one of whom appeared to do a Nazi salute.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

As Congress continues to debate the Laken Riley Act, which Senator Britt inaccurately says makes relatively modest changes to law, ICE itself is telling Congress that the bill would cost over $25 billion and would be "impossible to execute."

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/01/2025

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

1. Capital One cheated its own customers out of $2 billion, according to a new federal lawsuit by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Musk is pushing to shut down the CFPB, which would make it easier for banks to exploit the public

An explosive new lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleges that Capital One bank cheated its customers out of $2 billion.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/01/2025

There's little point in noting this since those who need to hear it have already willfully tuned it out, but the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago not because they were hostile to Trump but because Trump was hostile to federal authority! They gave him inordinate opportunities to hand the stuff over!

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

If GOP senators will "put someone this obviously, ludicrously unqualified in charge of the Pentagon with the U.S. Armed Forces and the security and safety of the nation on the line, there is no limit to how abject they will be in their pursuit of Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"He's unqualified and a rapist, but he's drunk on the job like everyone is" coming from the party that controls every branch of the federal government is pure uncut Fall-of-Rome stuff.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is Mullin spelling out the reason Hegseth, once chosen, must be granted his position (like Kavanaugh before him): conservative men must be allowed to behave irresponsibly, abusively, shamefully, without their right to hold power coming into question. Patriarchy before principles.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It is truly about who tells a better story — or really a story people want to hear and makes them see what they believe rather than believe what they see.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The autocrat's way: if the facts don't cooperate, make them fit no matter what

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