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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others

And they knew perfectly well what they were doing

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is actually a really excellent argument.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Amen. 🇺🇸 They want you to believe this is radical. It isn’t.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Sanders: We are not a poor country! There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It is an attack on our humanity. Once you turn off empathy you can do anything. It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025

Whitehouse: "I see the VP and the president acting very directly as agents of Putin and Russia in these so-called negotiations. Imagine if FDR had told Winston Churchill, 'We're cutting off Lend-Lease, you have to negotiate with Hitler, and be prepared to give up some of your territory.'"

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/03/2025

Yep. Warned everyone. Privatization of everything is coming.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The @americanbar.org has released another statement calling out the Trump Administration’s attacks on the rule of law: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Call it by its name: Trumpcession.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Really dangerous narrative developing among Rs in Congress to the effect of even if Trump was a boor, peace is not possible with Zelensky as president. That is simply Trump reprisal agenda based on 2017 and later. Zelensky remains a figure of singular heroism & popularity and still the right leader.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Governor Walz has it right. I miss hearing his plain, common sense talk.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/03/2025

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion

The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines…

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We could have had Kamala!!! AGHHHHHH!!!!

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

WATCH: Hegseth accidentally admits they fired all the military attorneys so they won’t be “roadblocks to anything” — then tries to clean it up and quickly move on

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/02/2025

I remember that, yeah.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Never underestimate the vengeful nihilism at the heart of this movement. The glitter-eyed fanatics behind Project 2025 and other such programmes will smash whatever is most precious to you, partly at the behest of commercial interests – but also to enjoy watching the pain it inflicts. They will crush beauty, joy, community and hope precisely because other people value them.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 20/02/2025

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 20/02/2025

NIH layoffs. FAA layoffs. FDA layoffs. USAID dismantled. America isn’t just losing workers—it’s losing safety, science & stability. Jen Rubin argues the sooner Americans grasp the damage, the sooner Republicans feel the heat. Ignore it, and they’ll face a voter backlash.

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They Broke It. They Own It.

How to hold GOP accountable

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Jeffries: We’re dealing with a group of people where, for far too many of them, facts don’t matter. Hypocrisy is not a constraint on their behavior. And many of them have actually come to the conclusion that their shamelessness is a superpower. We have to hold them accountable…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

QUINNIPIAC POLL: -Trump’s Gaza takeover is wildly unpopular (22-62) -Trusting Putin even more unpopular (9-81) -A majority favor DEI policies (53-38 — good news for Johnny Garrett whose firm is “all in” on DEI) poll.qu.edu/images/polli...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/02/2025

fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/02/2025

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the entire free world.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Trump is now blaming Ukraine for being invaded by Russia. This is what you get when a rapist occupies the White House.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/02/2025

Zelenskyy: Trump is living in a “disinformation space”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I want every Democrat to sound like this. Meanwhile I'm listening to the sounds of (congressional) silence.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2025

This is a coup.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Oh yes. She was on it. Now, did the 800,000 Polish Americans in Pennsylvania that she referred to vote to protect the interest of the U.S. and Poland? Someone please go to a diner and ask ‘em.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Convicted felon, Donald Trump, says what?

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This guy is as dumb as a box of hammers

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

US Attorney Danielle Sassoon’s single voice of principled protest should become a chorus loud enough to drown out the weasel-like treachery of Emil Bove on behalf of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s co-presidency. Everyone needs to read her eloquent words: big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/02/2025

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/02/2025

President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/02/2025

aging well, sadly

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/02/2025

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

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