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Rekha

@rekha16.bsky.social
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Escaping X. Software engineer. Mom of 3 🌊. Unsolicited DMs = instant block 🚫MAGATs 🚫crypto 🚫bitcoin 🚫gofundme

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2025
NEW: Internal records show how Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt has worked to get Elon Musk access to state and local officials ahead of a formal bidding process for a Houston flood project. Both stand to benefit should Musk be selected. By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social‬ and @chengyilun.bsky.social‬
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A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding
For years, experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels to divert floodwaters and save lives and property. Now Elon Musk’s tunneling company wants a piece of the project.
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Teeshasmom @teeshasmom2.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
520FB 👣💙Vetted RESISTERS🦋🇺🇸 @hope4humanity.bsky.social @hopelesslyhuman.bsky.social @hpsc24.bsky.social ‪follow @huntyshadefish.bsky.social @iamleahanderson.bsky.social @iamboudicca.bsky.social @idahonana.bsky.social @idris8.bsky.social @interbeing.bsky.social @teeshasmom2.bsky.social 🔁
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Portland ICE goons violently slam a protester 🪧
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
He called his 17 year-old daughter “a piece of ass”, so, yes.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This Stephen Colbert monologue from Monday night, followed by a bit about the MAGA contingent calling for Trump to release the Epstein files, is the reason why Paramount fired Colbert and canceled his show. That, and the Midterm elections are coming up, and he would continue to go after Trump.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Insanity. Sheer insanity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
Sen. Jim Banks on the job held by a fired federal worker he mocked: "It was a woke job." Then in the next breath Banks admits he doesn't know what his job actually was.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
FACT: You don't destroy the CDC unless you want people to die in large numbers.
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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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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/03/2025
Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
ICE Barbie Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a Coast Guard pilot today.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/03/2025
This isn't going to stop. This country is a powder keg about to blow and this is just a sign of it. You cannot move this quickly to dismantle democracy and expect people not to react.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/03/2025
Illinois leads the nation in many areas, but none more so than being the number one producer of soybeans, horseradish, and pumpkins. Our ag traditions are passed down through generations — 96% of our farms are family-owned. Happy #NationalAgDay to them and all of our state!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Sometimes I wonder if people take me literally when I refer to Trump—the main subject of my professional research as a journalist and historian for ten years—as a lunatic. Please take me literally. This is an unwell man who—without $410+ million his dad gave him—would have ended up living in a box.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
He still hasn’t ended the war in 24 hours like he promised, but apparently he is setting up hockey games with the guy who is murdering civilians, torturing prisoners, and kidnapping children.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/03/2025
Friendly reminder that the monster criticized by Chief Justice Roberts was created by Chief Justice Roberts.
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🕊️ Audra 💙 @theaudra77.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sorry not sorry.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
From Scotland for ya Donnie
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
At least the memes from this era will be killer.
A tweet from John Cusack featuring an edited image of a red Tesla Cybertruck with a swastika on its side. The image includes bold white text reading "SWASTICAR" and a subheading in red stating "...THE FASCIST THING ON FOUR WHEELS."
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 07/03/2025
"There are so many stories we never could have told if not for the connections we made on Twitter. But that bird has flown the coop," Ashton Pittman writes. Here’s why the Mississippi Free Press will no longer post on X: www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...
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Editor’s Note | Why the Mississippi Free Press is Leaving X
Twitter’s time as a useful news-sharing tool has passed since it transformed into the toxic wasteland known as X.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In case you missed my latest: Vandal Strikes Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, Rebrands It “Fat Nixon”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A 2024 report found that the IRS netted savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns — a return that “would leave Wall Street hedge fund managers drooling,” per the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
oh so *now* the biden economy was "firing on all cylinders" huh? i kinda don't recall that being the tenor of economic news coverage before the election
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...
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Let’s Create “Town Hall Night in America”
It’s time for Democrats to institutionalize our oldest form of democracy
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NPR @npr.org · 07/03/2025
The kindergarten vaccination rate against the measles in Gaines County is 82%, far below the 95% needed to achieve herd immunity.
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How a measles outbreak overwhelmed a small West Texas town
The kindergarten vaccination rate against the measles in Gaines County is 82%, far below the 95% needed to achieve herd immunity.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thousands of protestors marching around the Wisconsin Capitol right now. My favorite sign so far: "no science, no cheese"
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
Corcos, a new member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team, reportedly showed up at the IRS demanding detailed info about American taxpayers to hunt for fraud.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
efficiency. www.kgw.com/article/news...
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80 fired probationary employees at Bonneville Power Administration asked to return, source says
Over 100 probationary employees were fired at the Bonneville Power Administration because of Trump's effort to shrink the size of the federal government.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A speaker at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington D.C. against NIH funding cuts: "These cuts are a means to steal from the health of Americans to provide tax breaks for the rich. We cannot accept this. We must stand together for the health of our nation." Spot on!!!!
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Canadian authorities display 835 kilograms of seized drugs smuggled across the US border into Canada...🇨🇦
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
When you put a FOX News talking head in charge of our country's Department of Defense, it is inevitable that he is going to be more worried about defending his reputation than our country. #AmericaLessSafe #HegsethUnqualified
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
AP: “Nearly 40% of the federal contracts Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.” apnews.com/article/doge...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
1. The benefit of Trump's "shock and awe" approach to governance is that there is so much going on that brazen corruption goes virtually unnoticed. Consider Coinbase. It was charged by the SEC in 2023 with violating numerous laws. Now the SEC is dropping the lawsuit. Why? FOLLOW THE MONEY
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How to buy your way out of a federal lawsuit
On June 6, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against Coinbase, a crypto trading platform, alleging that the company was operating as an unregistered securities broker.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It’s fascinating to watch Leon learn about the American government
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is fun
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This seems bad
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Maddow on the @msnbc cancellations ( @joyannreid.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social Wagner etc ): “A mistake. Indefensible. And I do not defend it.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Wild. Bond villain stuff. Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to describe this. The national security concerns here are off the charts. www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A listeria outbreak linked to frozen nutrition shakes has infected 38 people and killing 12 across 21 states. I'm sure the brain worms guy is on top of it. 🙄
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Jlou @wehearvoices.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hey @msnbc.com You could have at the very least, thrown a white guy in the group y’all fired! Need a splint for your bent knee? Trump dictates. MSNBC obeys! #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory
MSNBC fires 6 reporters of color.
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