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pweufp.bsky.social @pweufp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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A Secret Service Agent Revealed What It's Like Working For Trump
[I am running a 50% discount on new paid subscriptions so if you enjoy my liberal comedy you can help support me in my endeavor to relentlessly mock Donald Trump and his fascist MAGA movement these ne...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/02/2025
“We cannot be made to be afraid of these f**king people. I know these people. They are cowards" - Tim Miller
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
1. UPDATE The NIH is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about DEI, according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence. The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.
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UPDATE: NIH reimposes "DEI" funding freeze despite court order
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI), according to NIH sources and internal NIH corresp...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Queen.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” W. E. B. Du Bois, born on this day in 1868
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Michael S @mikeswa58.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Kate Royce, who was fired then re-hired by the Trump administration, stuns @jonathancapehart.bsky.social: "I survived a global pandemic in two years at the toughest law school in the world with a brain tumor. It's gonna take a lot more than that to traumatize me." #saturdayshow
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#Emails2DOGE
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#Emails2DOGE
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#Emails2DOGE
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#Emails2DOGE
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#Emails2DOGE cc: HR@OPM.gov
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans"
The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, canceled a $275,000 contract for 9/11-related cancer research.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
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Neil Vigdor @gettingviggy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Several people have accused Mr. Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference chairman, of sexual assault. One of his previous accusers received a six-figure settlement. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
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New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct Swirls Around CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp
Several people have accused Mr. Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference chairman, of sexual assault. One of his previous accusers received a six-figure settlement.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/02/2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to reverse the firing of some employees who were involved in responding to the nation’s growing bird flu outbreak, officials said this week.
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Agriculture Department Moves to Rehire Some Bird Flu Response Workers
It’s the latest instance of the Trump administration having to reverse course after making sweeping cuts.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/02/2025
Friedrich Merz, the conservative former businessman favored to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections on Sunday, sees an "epochal rupture" with a U.S. that is more aligned with Russia.
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Next Likely Chancellor Promises a Tougher Germany
Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United States that is more aligned with Russia.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Can anyone find a copy of this wrap ad that the Post had no problem running last fall? Would love to see it. thehill.com/media/514849...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
… “only the President or the Attorney General can speak for the United States when stating an opinion as to what the law is.” That is a LIE.
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pweufp.bsky.social @pweufp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This sickens me.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/02/2025
News Analysis: Dazed by undisguised hostility from the Trump administration, Europe’s leaders are preparing for what is shaping up to be a go-it-alone era.
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Europe, Dazed by Trump, Confronts Hard Choices in Ukraine
Faced with undisguised hostility from the Trump administration, Europeans are preparing for what is shaping up to be a go-it-alone era.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Move fast and break things” may work for a tech startup, but it is no way to run our government. It will take decades for America to recover from this mindless mess.
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Trump administration fires thousands for ‘performance’ without evidence, in messy rush
Many probationary employees targeted in latest Trump cuts across agencies had excellent ratings; legal challenges are expected.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is how it starts.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 17/02/2025
CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
While working from home in 2020, civil rights groups sued the U.S. Post Office to get ballots delivered, sued 3 states to allow access to absentee voting, recruited over 40,000 new poll workers, ran an election protection system and still had time to sue Trump under the KKK Act after the election.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
There’s gonna be so many variations on this theme over the next three years and eleven months. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Oh, good grief. Do Republicans just stay up late at night dreaming these things up, instead of working for the American people?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We should have told them.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/02/2025
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Trump is stomping around the world like a stick-up thug. It’s a disgrace.
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Errol Louis @errollouis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“This firing occurred despite the fact that the Immigration Court currently has in the neighborhood of 3.5 MILLION pending cases and DOJ is asking Congress for more money to hire more people.”
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Justice Department fires multiple immigration judges amid case backlog — NBC News
A union representing the judges said it “makes no sense” to make cuts to immigration courts as Trump promises to carry out mass deportations, which must go through the courts.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
So on point.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
He who rambles on about Hannibal Lecter, Arnold Palmer’s dick size, windmill cancer, and turning Gaza into a real-estate play, and thinks he’s saving the county, should have his head examined.
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News Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
@CBSNews: Oprah Winfrey announced her new book club selection, "The Many Lives of Mama Love" by Lara Love Hardin, a memoir that dives deep into Hardin's tumultuous journey from a life marred by addiction and crime to one of profound change and empathy. t.co/QJJbCSEBUz
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025
NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Trump’s presidency is a stage 3 cancer on the U.S. and we are about to metastasize into stage 4. @gtconway.bsky.social 👇
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The ReidOut with Joy Reid @thereidout.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#ReidOutBlog: Justice Sotomayor says 'we will lose our democracy' without media literacy 🚨The Supreme Court justice said American democracy will fall unless people start to improve their ability to discern fact from fiction.
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Justice Sotomayor says 'we will lose our democracy' without media literacy
The Supreme Court justice said American democracy will fall unless people start to improve their ability to discern fact from fiction.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Gov. Hochul will have to remove the Mayor. This is unconscionable.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Little X also had a message for the president. In one video clip that’s gone viral, X Æ A-Xii appears to tell President Trump, “I want you to shush your mouth.” 2 From the mouths of babes, as prophesied, X spoke for all of us. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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An Iconic Oval Office Moment
Plus: The Trump DOJ's Thursday Night Massacre
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