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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/08/2025
Once again Trump appears to have been played by Putin. No ceasefire. No imminent meeting between Putin and Zelensky. No near term prospect of Trump applying threatened sanctions. Putin got a meeting on U.S. soil, Trump got flattered by Putin. Advantage Putin. Shameful.
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Trump, Putin break off summit with no Ukraine deal as talks end early
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin took no questions after they broke off talks earlier than planned.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
2/ tariffs. Even for someone not quite as big an egomaniac as Trump that's going to affect you. This looks like Anthony from cornfield Twilight Zone episode started demanding someone be nice to him and that person just smacked him upside the head and gave him a bloody nose. Stops ya cold.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
We don't know what happened, if the summit went badly. But we know Trump thinks it went VERY badly. I think to make sense of the body language we have to remember that all year DC has been a universal fluff farm for Trump. Same w a lot of academia, business, foreign leaders wanting to deal with ...
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Just to clarify, that blie line running west to east from just above Vilne to just east of Sofiivka is the 1st Corps, AZOV smacking into the Russian line and cutting it from west to east. Now we have to wait ans see if they can roll up each end.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
But when Harris an avowed and well-known home cook bought a Le Creuset dish….
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The same Texas judge who tried to ban abortion pills thinks hotels that don't intervene when they see a woman with "sexually explicit clothing" and condoms in her room can be legally liable for sex trafficking reason.com/2025/08/11/h...
reason.com
Hotel sex trafficking suit can proceed, inviting hotels to profile and harass guests
Can a hotel be guilty of sex trafficking just because it didn't surveil its customers enough?
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left. AG Bondi this afternoon on right.
We turn next to the putative shutdown decision. The
plaintiffs point to no regulation, order, document, email, or
other statement, written or oral, purporting to shut down the
CFPB. Instead, they infer such an overarching decision from
various discrete “actions” taken by agency leadership to
downsize the Bureau, “including by issuing stop-work
instructions, cancelling contracts, declining and returning
funding, firing employees, and terminating the lease for its
headquarters.” J.A. 46–47. The district court found a “decision
to shut down the agency completely” and equated it to a
“wholesale cessation” of CFPB activities. NTEU, 774 F. Supp.
3d at 46.Tweet from AG Pam Bondi in which she says "Another victory for President Trump! In a 2-1 ruling, the DC Circuit sided with my @TheJusticeDepartment attorneys in our effort to dismantle the CFPB and rein in crippling Obama-era regulations."
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/08/2025
Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
❗️Journalists were expelled after they started asking Putin about shelling of peaceful cities and killings of civilians.
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Paul Alan Levy @paulalanlevy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Boom
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/08/2025
All of the optics from this Alaska meeting put Putin on — at least! — equal standing with the president of the United States. An incredible gift to him at no cost.
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Congressman Dwight Evans @repdwightevans.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Are you a business owner in #Philly? Are President Trump’s costly, unpredictable tariffs affecting you, your business, or your employees? If so, I want to hear from you! Share your story here:
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15/08/2025
Polluters fund and direct Republicans so completely that they’re outraged when they’re asked to clean up their own mess. Corruption.
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E&E News: Lawsuits over Louisiana’s decaying oil infrastructure split GOP
An alliance between Republican officials and trial lawyers faces its biggest test at the U.S. Supreme Court as criticism from the right increases.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Both @seamushughes.bsky.social and I had been thinking that SEC would dismiss the fraud case against Patrick Orlando, the guy who packaged up Truth Social as a SPAC. But SEC just filed an opposition to dismissing the case, w/500 page appendix documenting his alleged fraud.
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250815 Opposition Orlando
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I had missed this excellent discussion between @pkrugman.bsky.social & @adamposen.bsky.social, two of the very best on monetary and macroeconomic policy and bringing it to the public square. Very much worth your time.
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Talking With Adam Posen
A monetary policy maven about a Fed unde pressure
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
WATCH: Katherine Clark, a Democrat who is featured on AIPAC’s website, just called it a “Genocide” Full: zeteo.com/p/second-mos...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15/08/2025
Thanks for writing in, Katie. SmartBuy Illinois has allowed her and others to be able to afford owning a home here in our state, all while helping pay off their student loan debt. We're bridging the financial gap and lowering costs for thousands of families.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
DC Police Chief: "In my nearly three decades in law enforcement, I have never seen a single government action that would cause a greater threat to law and order than this dangerous directive." Smith says feds put the public and officers at grave risk www.courthousenews.com/dc-sues-trum...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Every accusation is a confession with them.
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MAGA Lawmaker Who Vowed To 'Protect' Kids From LGBTQ+ People Resigns After Arrest For Child Pornography
I'm sensing a pattern...
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 15/08/2025
Federal immigration officials intend to triple Colorado’s immigrant detention capacity by opening as many as three new facilities in the state in the coming months, according to recent planning documents obtained by the Washington Post.
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ICE plans to open as many as three new detention centers in rural Colorado, report says
Federal immigration officials intend to triple Colorado’s immigrant detention capacity by opening as many as three new facilities, according to planning documents obtained by the Washington P…
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is how everyone should treat this masked thugs!! ‘This is cowboy country and we don’t get down with that bullshit!…You got two options you can get the fuck off my property or we can get down.’ Bravo, sir‼️💥🔥💥
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Aren't we more or less at the one-year anniversary of many media reports about the imminent fall of the "strategic city of Pokrovsk"?
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15/08/2025
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/08/2025
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“He’s been here 25 years cutting the state’s grass, paying his taxes — never even had a ticket… we got a felon in the White House but these are the people they got in there. Without immigrants this country is gonna go down.” 🇺🇸
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Today and every day, we honor the Navajo Code Talkers, whose courage was instrumental in securing U.S. victories in WW I and WW II. Their service and sacrifice will never be forgotten.
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Hawk @mdg650hawk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It’s about race
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
media.tenor.com
a woman with glasses says just sayin ' while sitting on a couch
ALT: a woman with glasses says just sayin ' while sitting on a couch
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15/08/2025
DUIs. Attacking a prisoner. Battery on a law enforcement officer. Violating prison rules. Guards on Alabama's execution team have been accused of violence and misconduct but were allowed to carry out executions, our investigation last year found.
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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions
As the state keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15/08/2025
It's more than fitting to be hosting the Global Aerospace Summit here in Metro East. This has long been a central hub of the industry. And Illinois will continue to be a place where major innovation will be made possible and where the aerospace industry is on the rise.
Governor Pritzker speaks behind the podium at the Global Aerospace Summit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“Where do you land in this mayoral race, and in particular on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ?” @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social STILL won’t endorse Zohran — gives gutless, rambling answer instead. (Related: Per @trackaipac.bsky.social Jeffries has received nearly $2 Million from AIPAC)
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 15/08/2025
Secretary Hegseth is jeopardizing a process that helps our best military officers get promoted. I’m demanding answers. @SecDef has shown us time and time again he’s not qualified to lead. crow.house.gov/media/press-...
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Congressman Crow Calls on Secretary Hegseth to Uphold Merit-Based Evaluations
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), a former Army Ranger who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, led a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth urging him to explain why he’s con...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15/08/2025
The media seems obsessed with whitewashing authoritarianism. No, Vladimir Putin is not meeting with "the leader of the free world." He is meeting with his lapdog and wannabe American dictator Donald Trump.
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minime21.bsky.social @minime21.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-l.... Watch and learn …
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The Story of Fascism in Europe
In this one-hour special, Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe — taking millions of people with it. We'll trace fascism's history from its roots in the turbule...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15/08/2025
People on Twitter: Democrats suck for not endorsing Zohran *obama offers to help Zohran* People on Twitter: Democrats suck for trying to take advantage of Zohran
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
MEMPHIS VS. MUSK: “It didn’t smell like gas before Elon came… I literally can taste it…” TIME MAGAZINE covers xAI poisoning the community in Memphis, where like Nashville Elon & co. ignored local input and disregarded safety. From @justinjpearson.bsky.social : www.instagram.com/reel/DNYa5am...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
6/ If this meeting passes with no deal, no tough sanctions and no new major military support for Ukraine, then Trump has essentially made this his war. He has assured it will continue, and likely slowly but methodically go Putin's way. A huge moral and strategic loss for America.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Noem says she moved there because she was “horribly doxxed” by the Daily Mail in April. That was when they were reporting how she and Corey Lewandowski had slyly set up in posh apartments across the street from one another, to facilitate their liaisons. Actually kind of a legit story!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
What's especially amazing about Hagerty's attempt to say the quiet part out loud here is that it's brilliantly self-defeating: If the Constitution had to specify (in an odious way) how to count *even enslaved people* in the Census, that's only that much more evidence that *everybody* gets counted.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
❗️Ukraine right now
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/08/2025
We're in court today challenging a Texas law that requires all public K-12 schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Public school is for learning, not evangelizing.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15/08/2025
Plastic pollution is not something we should be defending. It’s an environmental and health menace, not something to protect. Shameful.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15/08/2025
Disgraceful that the government of the United States of America has taken the side of the polluters. Again.
bloomberg.com
Global Plastic Talks Fail as ‘Hardline Positions’ Block Deal
Attempts to reach a global accord on plastic pollution ended without consensus
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"Putin is in love with a legend. Historically speaking, this is very familiar: new regimes, such as Putin's, seek compensation in myths of ancient origin."
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