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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This is what happens when you elect the rapist-felon and not the district attorney. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...

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We Could Have Had a President Right Now

America could really use a President right now.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

This is unconscionable @nytimes.com. An abdication of journalistic responsibility and judgment.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

which is true? who can say, we're just a news outlet

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We are very far over the cliff here folks

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Judge Hannah Dugan has spent much of her career working with legal aid organizations to support poor and marginalized people. She was just arrested by FBI agents for standing up to ICE agents. Fascism is here.

Kash Patel describing the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan.

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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I keep returning to, “what makes him flinch?” (I’m not sure I can say, but it’s not nothing) It’s not the usual things. It’s not SCOTUS. It’s not the markets - at least not in the usual way. So what’s the pattern in the flinches, if there is one? That’s what shows you the end game.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Nazi shit. This is literally Nazi shit.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is a now or never moment. The way we respond over the next few days, as individuals and institutions, is crucial. And currently we're missing the mark. If we don't act now we will lose everything.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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relizabeth4 @relizabeth4.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Every day of this administration is bad. But today marks a particularly dangerous turn. Let’s see if the two co-equal branches of our government will respond. If they do not or cannot, we are in full-blown authoritarian rule. Terrifying.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/04/2025

None of this damage by Trump or Musk would be possible without the full and unwavering support of the Republican Party. This is like pretending that the problem with the Civil War was that Jefferson Davis thought too much of himself.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Global population the year Musk was born: 3.759 Billion Global population today: 8.062 Billion When he says "civilization" he means white people.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A tiny, easy thing you can do: wherever you’re traveling, buy the local paper and boost the news of how fascism is trickling down and how everyday people are pushing back. From today’s Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, VT.

Headline: Hundreds turn out to protest planned closure of social security office

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

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Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle

Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/03/2025

"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."

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Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy

“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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relizabeth4 @relizabeth4.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Do not give up cloture, @democrats.senate.gov! Do not sign onto something you disagree with. Your voters do not want you to cede power. Stand your ground!

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Musk-Trump are illegally imprisoning Canadians – out of outright malice/sadism, yes – but also to use them as leverage against the Canadian government in the US-initiated Trade/Tariff war. Human beings are not pawns. Free Jasmine Mooney. Please amplify. vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...

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B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains

Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I appreciate the late discovery of a spine by @schumer.senate.gov Now be prepared to go even harder in the future - this is the first step, but there are a lot more to take

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

When Trump says "We're going to become so rich you're not going to know where to spend all that money" He's not talking to you. He's talking to himself and his fellow billionaires -- to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. THEY'RE going to get richer. With YOUR money.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...

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So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture

The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something terrifying

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Again, the head-down, quiet strategy is bound to fail. It always does. We know this in WI from the Scott Walker years. R1 presidents need to get over their collective action problems & get out, in DC, right now, & engage Congress & the public, before it's too late.

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Look we can have an America that works for everyone or we can let rich men buy the Presidency, systematically deregulate industries, and privatize access to education and water. That's it. There aren't other options.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hold press conferences with federal employees who have been fired speaking, go on national shows and give their time to federal employees who have been fired so they can speak, lead daily protests outside the White House and associated buildings, stop pretending you can collaborate with fascists

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Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"Trying to make yourself a smaller target doesn’t mean the people intent on destroying you are going to stop attacking... "the more prestigious institutions cowering in the face of the intimidation perhaps do not see their mission in terms of providing access to all." - @biblioracle.bsky.social

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Higher ed must resist authoritarian rule. It's the mission.

Trying to make your institution a smaller target isn’t going to work.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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relizabeth4 @relizabeth4.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

One of my family members (an elderly veteran) is about to lose his home, and without a functioning VA, he has no recourse or assistance. He voted for the current regime and does not connect the dots between his personal crisis and Musk’s “cost-cutting” measures. Sad in every possible way.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Trump & Musk have somehow managed to frame recent events as a binary: Either you want to burn it all down, or you support the status quo It’s a false choice, obviously. But Dems/Trump critics have done a poor job articulating that failure in logic and existence of option #3: actually fix things

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Opinion | The GOP has somehow backed Democrats into defending the status quo

It’s not enough to oppose Trump’s destruction. Americans want change.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Lord, give me the strength to not respond by kicking that nest of hornets, to know whence the pot needs stirring, and to understand the difference between. Amen. — The Academic’s Prayer

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 15/02/2025

The neolib obsession with avoiding fights to prepare for some future fight they will also avoid is exhausting.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 07/02/2025

“On Wednesday, Musk shared a faked video claiming USAID had sponsored celebrity visits to Ukraine. Darren Linvill of Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub told NBC News the video was manufactured Russian propaganda.” @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social on the origins of right’s USAID attacks

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How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid

Musk drove fringe viewpoints on USAID into the mainstream on X as the Trump administration halted the humanitarian relief agency’s work.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Advice for Democratic lawmakers: Don't ever again put out a press release stating that you're "meeting tomorrow" in response to a five-alarm fire. Cross that out. Write this: "We are urgently working to address this crisis." And then make that statement true with immediate action.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

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FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign

Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”

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relizabeth4 @relizabeth4.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Local politics are very important, even during a national crisis. We can loudly demand that our national leaders do something AND build/strengthen local networks. Resistance at all levels.

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Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

CITAP, in collaboration with Marie Heřmanová (@mariher.bsky.social) & Kristóf Szombati, presents a very timely and important reading list: "Authoritarian Politics: How to Understand It and How to Resist It." ...🧵 citap.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Y'all: This is devastating for universities. Imagine you have a colony of research animals and can't re-order the food. Or you are a grad student on grant funding who lives paycheck-to-paycheck (also know as a student on grant funding). wapo.st/4gfgcHQ

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Democrats in Congress: WHAT IS THE PLAN? Going on Sunday shows and spewing consultant speak isn't going to cut it. Twelve inspectors general fired and there's no sit-in? No filibuster? No direction to voters? And in fact, some of you are actually voting for Trump's agenda?

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Tangentially, his fascist gallop should be SO easy for all Dem electeds to call out, as compared to previous fascist creep. We are not frogs in a pot on a wood stove right now, we are frogs in a pot on an induction range set to PowerBoil

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