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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.
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Book Jawns @bookjawns.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
tRUMPSTEIN IS DESTROYING OUR CONSTITUTION!! 1st Amendment: GONE Right to Assemble Freedom of Religion Freedom of Speech Freedom of the Press Right to Petition 2nd Amendment: GONE Right to Keep & Bear Arms 4th Amendment: GONE Unreasonable Searches & Seizures
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We want to set the record so he is remembered for what he did. Alex put his body between a woman and imminent danger (murderous thugs(ICE)), and he lost his life.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/10/2025
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Racial profiling is all they’re doing
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 28/07/2025
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
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Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The Trump admin just exempted over 100 chemical plants, sterilizers & coal facilities from Clean Air Act rules, rolling back protections that would’ve cut cancer risk by up to 96% for nearby communities.
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Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. The United States relies on a strong chemical manufacturing sector to support
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/07/2025
~35M U.S. households are eligible for federal energy assistance Only ~6.8M actually got help to pay for their energy needs Now Congress may cut funding for that too—harming the most vulnerable. Help me send 200+ letters to Congress to protect this critical program. Takes 5 sec: bit.ly/3GxAWyT
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Urge Congress to protect LIHEAP and end energy poverty
LIHEAP is a critical, life-saving program that targets and serves the most vulnerable households to meet their home energy needs....
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy. How Musk and Trump killed USAID. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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The Death of US AID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This stuff is utterly unacceptable and I hope litigation is being planned. We won a lawsuit against the Tucson Sector Border Patrol for similar unconstitutional conditions of confinement.
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Wiesterbiest @roanypony.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Love it! Bought 3 books last week for the same or less than “the competition” with none of the guilt.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 08/07/2025
whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Those who get it will know I’ve been giggling at this all week
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A few weeks ago, an important — and largely private — chapter in my life ended; I’m incredibly thankful to @lawfaremedia.org for giving me a forum to write the next one.
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Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI. 
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Told ya. This is a Putin-Trump plan and Zelensky + Europe should be pissed off about it. Just as soon as USA halted air defense missiles which we don’t need at home), Russia launched the heaviest bombardment on Ukraine since the start of the war. This was planned.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 03/07/2025
“Banning books won’t preserve childhood innocence,” writes Ira Wells. It will, however, rob young people of enriching stories and teach others that censorship is the solution to ideas you find challenging or contrary to your personal values. thewalrus.ca/albertas-book-ba...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Mike Johnson is on Hannity right now saying his plan is to keep the vote open “for as long as it takes”
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
In case you missed it, we had two important stories come out Monday. EPA workers have joined NIH workers in rebellion against their leadership, releasing their own declaration similar to the original Bethesda Declaration. Also, the NIH fellows union endorsed the Bethesda Declaration.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Trump administration is now seeking to generate leverage against election officials by threatening them with criminal prosecution. We know where this ends.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
American media utterly failed yesterday in explaining the sheer illegality, unconstitutional and corrupt nature of Trump’s Qatar “Air Force One” deal. Oh, and then there’s the catastrophic security risk…. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...
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Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight
Of course a foreign government would love to give the US president a plane....
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RAin Nina Diercks @raindiercks.eurosky.social · 21/04/2025
Every citizen in the USA should be obliged to read or watch The Handmaid's Tale. Now. Oh. Damn it. It's already banned in parts of the USA. When a book becomes alive. Too quick. It seems it's already too late for a rising. But I do hope I am wrong. #TheHandMaidsTale #USA #Facism
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
BREAKING: Senator Van Hollen tells Dana Bash that Abrego Garcia told him that he was "sad and traumatized that he was being imprisoned because he has committed no crimes.” As all of you MAGA Christians celebrate Easter, at least think a little bit about this man and his family.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!
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Wiesterbiest @roanypony.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Friends, today a well-followed page on book of faces shared a meme that stated those who are not on the front lines protesting are “lazy” and should “shut the f@ck up.” Don’t do this. Don’t be that person. 1/
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I think this administration sees moves like this as a way to cut down on Social Security expenses, because many people who lose essential services like this will end up not living as long.
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Wiesterbiest @roanypony.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not me over here in my deep red state drinking Canadian coffee and enjoying eating a snowflake 🤪
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Wiesterbiest @roanypony.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
No shit, ya think?!?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Articles about Native Americans, who enroll in the military at much higher rates than other groups, have been removed. This includes Navajo Code Talkers, whose identity was central to their ability to play a crucial role in military intelligence, have disappeared. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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NPR @npr.org · 18/03/2025
The Trump administration is cracking down on colleges and universities whose behavior it finds objectionable. (via @wbur.org)
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Mount Holyoke College president: 'Colleges are not the enemy'
The Trump administration is cracking down on colleges and universities whose behavior it finds objectionable.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“A New York Times review of the flight data showed that none of the planes in question landed in El Salvador before the judge’s order and that one of them did not even leave American soil until after the judge’s written order was posted online.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order
A New York Times review of flight data showed that at the time of a federal judge’s order, two flights were in the air, and one had not yet taken off.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/03/2025
NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 28/02/2025
Musk and DOGE are putting people’s lives and safety at risk — where are the Republicans ready to stand up and protect your constituents?
@EthanClarkWX: NWS has fired meteorologists as a direct result of upper-level heads telling them to do so. Let me be clear, people will die because of this. Absolutely insane.. I have no words for it. I’ve spent all day I mean all day in meetings with both republicans and democrats fighting.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!
Post by Tammy Duckworth with the text: '@SecDef
 Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?' The post includes two screenshots from Fox News broadcasts, each showing a news anchor in a suit standing in front of a map of Ukraine, with headlines reading 'TRACKING RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE' and 'WAR ON UKRAINE.' Both screenshots are circled in red to highlight the content.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/02/2025
Understand what's happening. MAGAs are gutting: •Medicaid—which 60M Americans rely on to survive •SNAP—which 40M Americans rely on to eat •School Lunch—which 30M kids rely on daily •Housing Assistance—which 5 million families rely on to live ALL to cut $4.5T in taxes for 800 billionaires BARBARIC
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NPR @npr.org · 25/02/2025
The men told NPR they were kept in the dark about why they were in Guantánamo Bay, and were denied access to an attorney or a phone call with loved ones.
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Venezuelan men allege mistreatment while in detention in Guantánamo Bay
The men told NPR they were kept in the dark about why they were in Guantánamo Bay, and were denied access to an attorney or a phone call with loved ones.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/02/2025
“There is something profoundly wrong when we have a president moving us to an authoritarian type of society, capturing more power for himself, acting in an unconstitutional way virtually every day.” Exclusive interview ⤵️
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Bernie Sanders on Battling a Government 'Of, By, and For' the Billionaires
An exclusive interview with Bernie Sanders as he launched his ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour, countering billionaire power and Trump tax cuts in Omaha.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“Accidentally” — no - as with the nuclear safety people and everyone else they were deliberately fired with malice aforethought and the effort to control the gratuitous damage by trying to rehire them is a reminder that the ones who do need firing are the firers www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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Wiesterbiest @roanypony.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
At what point is LOCAL media going to wake up and report the impacts and implications of current events on their communities? Regurgitating “Today Tr*** said” or even worse, “Anal Husk and his team did XYZ” with ZERO context, background or ramifications attached is irresponsible and dangerous.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18/02/2025
“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
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FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety
Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.
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