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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 12/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil hearing THREAD: Judge Furman opened the brief hearing by acknowledging "some heated opinions" on the case and reminded the courtroom to keep decorum. He then chided parties for filing their joint letter nearly two hours after the 5pm deadline yesterday (1/8)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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Kirstie Farrar @profkc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

God forbid we get ahead of this and prevent mass casualities....

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A federal judge in Washington said that the way the Trump administration set up and has been running Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency could violate the Constitution.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Musk has tweeted more than 220 times in last 24 hrs. That's not counting the replies.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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Kirstie Farrar @profkc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"Might" be ill-equipped? MIGHT BE?? Do better, NYT.

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Dr. Frances C. Basich @kaya2915.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#DespicableHE 🤬🤬🤬🤬#FOTUS #AmeriKKKa 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Kirstie Farrar @profkc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This 100% sounds like something that would be on The Simpsons. And, yet, fairly appealing!

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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Donald Trump is cutting funding for your kid's school lunch. For your local child care center. For veterans' health care. And for programs that support seniors' retirement. How does any of that make life easier or more affordable for Americans?

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Kirstie Farrar @profkc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Breaking: One nation's billion-dollar fever dream about to shock the world 💥 - The most audacious territorial acquisition plan you've never heard of... - Imagine buying a WHOLE state like it's a garage sale item. This is NOT a fake news." denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...

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Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?

Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Favorite sign so far

A hand-drawn old school doge meme, it's quite good

Text: fake agency, much illegal, very data breach, such treasury, unelected, very cool, wow

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025

Murphy: "The reality is this could get dystopian very quickly. If you were to start speaking ill of Elon Musk on social media, Musk might be able to stop or delay your tax refund, or your mom's Social Security benefit, in part because we have no window into what's happening at Treasury right now."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We really are though.

Photo of RFK, Jr. sitting in a car with the window rolled down. The quote says "Get in losers. We're getting polio."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

theyre learning a little bit

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Former CIA officer warns that Trump's talk about "taking over Gaza" is "triggering mechanisms for Islamic extremist groups." “This kind of language only is going to galvanize groups that want to kill Americans." www.huffpost.com/entry/marc-p...

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Ex-CIA Man Warns Of Quick And Scary Scenario For U.S. After Trump Gaza Proposal

The president's outrageous idea for Gaza set off a red alert for intel expert Marc Polymeropoulos on "Morning Joe."

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Apparently there’s a “kickoff” meeting between the DOGE people and Department of Labor management planned for tomorrow at 4pm ET. Unrelatedly, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Dept of Labor is located at 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Bodies are still being pulled from the Potomac. The President and extreme MAGA Republicans are blaming women and people of color for the deadly plane crash. At the same time, they are dismantling the Federal Aviation Administration as we know it. Disgusting.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New reporting: FAA staffing shortages at DCA. The controller involved was doing the job of two people. Not a new issue, but what how much worse will it get with a) Trump's hiring freeze, b) push for downsizing, and c) politicization of the agency? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

taffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times.

The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.

This increases the workload for the air traffic controller and can complicate the job. One reason is that the controllers can use different radio frequencies to communicate with pilots flying planes and pilots flying helicopters. While the controller is communicating with pilots of the helicopter and the jet, the two sets of pilots may not be able to hear each other.

Like most of the country’s air traffic control facilities, the tower at Reagan airport has been understaffed for years. The tower there was nearly a third below targeted staff levels, with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, according to the most recent Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, an annual report to Congress that contains target and actual staffing levels. The targets set by the F.A.A. and the controllers’ union call for 30.

The shortage — caused by years of employee turnover and tight budgets, among other factors — has forced many controllers to work up to six days a week and 10 hours a day.

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

To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.

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The Earl of Orkney 💙 @earloforkney.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

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Billionaires Stealing Our Country @supportsanity.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Since the USA has withdrawn from the World Health Organization: Access the world health organization (WHO) on your own: www.who.int Disease Outbreak News (WHO) www.who.int/emergencies/... News: USA has withdrawn from the World Health Organization www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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World Health Organization (WHO)

The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2025

🚨🚨🚨🚨HOMEWORK🚨🚨🚨🚨 I think the Jack Smith draft report is finished. Write to Merrick Garland and ask him to release the Jack Smith report. You can do it here. Select “Messages to the Attorney General” from the drop down menu www.justice.gov/doj/webform/...

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Your message to the Department of Justice

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The 20 realities of the American system (before Trump gets a second crack at wrecking it even more) bit.ly/3VWxPoE

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The 20 realities of the American system (before Trump gets a second crack at wrecking it even more)

Establishing a baseline.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

If this year taught us anything, it's that: 1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires. 2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers. 3) Poverty is a policy choice. 4) Health care is a human right. 5) Strikes work. I hope we act on these lessons in the new year.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Dems do need to get back into the persuasion business. But it’s a new business and a big one within the information economy. It’s not just a matter of being more empathic in personal settings, it’s passion, anger, humor, opportunism, and relentless agenda setting.

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Democrats Need To Understand That Persuasion Is A Business—A Big One

Plus 16 thoughts on what a broader conception of persuasion would look like.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A little louder for the folks in the back: The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches I'm stuck in the back of my cybertruck

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Elon Musk spent $250 million dollars so Donald Trump could put him in charge of cutting wasteful spending.

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