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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 6h
If you had any doubts that this entire administration is but one long assault on the rule of law, this article should convince you.
theguardian.com
Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Impeach this man.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is Megyn Kelly really a human being?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not an exaggeration. Why do you not highlight this stuff CONSTANTLY
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Our Oversight and Judiciary committees will ensure that ANYONE who has threatened our democracy is held accountable, and that work is happening now. Proud to partner with @raskin.house.gov on the work ahead.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
We remember Botham Jean. It’s been 6 years to this day when he was killed while sitting on his couch eating ice cream.
A picture of Botham Jean in a suit and tie
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Fortunately, the damage this project could do will be somewhat limited because Hegseth has set a deadline of just 120 days for these men to report back. Then again, if Gingrich, Luckey, and Musk can’t redefine the future of national defense in four months, who can?" 😂😩
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The evidence mounts that Trump picked Hegseth because he knew he was mentally disturbed enough to order American troops to fire on American citizens.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Actually, Secretary Hesgeth, YOU are the ideological clown.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Impeach this man.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Out of step with [the administration's] priorities." That's about as close as you can get to saying that its priorities are bribery, corruption and the use of foreign policy to generate income for administration officials.
theguardian.com
Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body
‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This means we need to add every conservative Supreme Court justice to the list of people who should be prosecuted for human rights crimes, right?
theguardian.com
Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – live
More than 25,000 people have been deported to 29 countries under ⁠the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You mean, Republicans are willing to do that. The rest of us are disgusted by them. Seeing Republicans continue to promote outrageous lies reminds me of a character's line in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed: "You are the sun and I am your worm!" That's what these GOP politicians are saying to Trump.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
aaayy shout out to all the climate organizers and legal groups like @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social, @courtacctability.bsky.social, and @peoplesparity.bsky.social that kept raising hell about Alito's glaring conflict of interest ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
ballsandstrikes.org
The Supreme Court’s Recusal Rules Are Worthless
Cases involving the oil and gas industry are great for Justice Samuel Alito, a noted investor in the oil and gas industry.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who else is way past impeachment and wants REAL accountability? 🙋‍♀️ I do. Who’s with me? #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Democratic Senators and Congresspeople -- especially those running in the midterms -- need to loudly protest the idea of invading Cuba every day until the election.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Best visual explainer of Trump II that I've seen yet!
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Democratic candidates need to cite this example every day until the mid-terms.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👏😂👇
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 19/09/2026
I hope that when I reach heaven, this is how I wake up...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fox News has lost 43% of its viewers since last year and it appears that every month viewership is continuing to drop. Things like this give me hope!
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
⚠️ The US almost went to war with China because of a false report generated with AI
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 18/09/2026
The agreement, obtained by the Mississippi Free Press through a public records request, allows Amazon's data center to withdraw as much as 3.67 million gallons a day from Ridgeland’s water system—enough to fill nearly 30 million standard water bottles. buff.ly/FrcbSMc
buff.ly
Inside the Private Deal Between Amazon and Ridgeland’s Water System
Amazon has promised Ridgeland, Mississippi, that its data center won’t strain local water supplies. Their agreement shows few guarantees.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excellent thread on the war crimes being committed by the U.S. in its boat strikes against "drug traffickers." Worth your time to read the entire thread.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is criminal that the U.S. is not actively engaged in developing climate change mitigation plans along the lines of those described in this article for every state and every major city. The impacts of climate change are not limited to the coasts alone, even during an El Niño year.
theguardian.com
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Love it 👇😂
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
. ⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 I’ve been posting this exact sentiment for months Alerting you all to the danger of repeating past behaviours The Dems will need to be Mamdanian in their actions Or, you might get President Eric (the dumbest one) Trump .
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Read the entire post, it's worth it.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨🚨
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not the point but with the loss of innovative liberal arts colleges like Hampshire College or New College in FL comes the loss of truly creative ways of thinking and professors who can see things no one else can yet imagine.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also in the news today: “Anthropic said it had disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists who used its leading artificial intelligence models to conduct research that could have helped develop biological weapons.”🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
nytimes.com
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine whether the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
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LadyBlue4evr💙Radical Liberal Scum @ladyblue4evr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well, there you have it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026
If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📌All the bigots asking why the mayor of New York City is presiding over the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, need to shut up and explain to us why they support the traitor who attacked us Jan. 6.
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