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RobynJLeader

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Attorney, Political Junky, O’s fan ⚾️, Interned for U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Lover of the Arts, Channeling DA Jack McCoy Daily ⚖️

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Trump calls for reviewing childhood vaccine schedule RFK's handpicked CDC advisers roll back recommendation for newborns to get Hep B shots. One CDC adviser who dissented: “We will see hepatitis B infections come back." @lenasun.bsky.social @davidovalle.bsky.social on a dark day for public health
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Trump orders review of childhood vaccine schedule, calls U.S. an ‘outlier’
His announcement came hours after CDC advisers eliminated a long-standing recommendation for every newborn to receive a hepatitis B shot.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video. The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
One reason not to tell the press in advance about seeking an indictment from the Grand Jury is that a No Bill becomes immediate news when the press asks to see the indictment. Another reason is to comply with the Justice Manual (www.justice.gov/jm/jm-1-7000...)
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Grand Jury Said to Decline to Re-Indict Letitia James
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 05/12/2025
Last week, I spoke to SCOTUS scholar @leahlitman.bsky.social in an interview about how the Texas map case posed a test for the Roberts court. It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said. ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...
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Texas and Louisiana maps pose test for Roberts Court
SCOTUS scholar Leah Litman says it would show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void the Bayou State's.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The president wants to resume nuclear testing. This is a really bad idea - and he can't even get his facts right about why he wants to do it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons
The president says he wants to resume nuclear testing but doesn’t seem to know why.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/07/2025
A senior State Department official who was fired as a White House speechwriter during the first Trump administration for attending a gathering of white supremacists has been appointed acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to the State Department.
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Fired Speechwriter From First Trump Term Appointed to Lead the Institute of Peace
In 2018, the White House fired Darren Beattie for attending a gathering of white supremacists. Mr. Beattie will head the institute while keeping his senior State Department position.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
Update: Latest estimate confirms between Medicaid cuts and ACA rollback, total health care cuts in the Republican budget bill are now OVER $1 trillion.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 27/06/2025
Not that he had much respect for the supposedly co-equal branch of the Judiciary in the first place…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The provisions on student loans in Trump’s budget bill would dramatically limit access to student loans and loan forgiveness, resulting in the smaller and less accessible version of higher Ed that people like Chris Rufo have been calling for newrepublic.com/article/1970...
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The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 27/06/2025
Today's decision previews a dystopian reality where a lawless President can dispense with the Constitution to deprive American children of their rights. And whether these kids have the right to defend themselves now depends on the state in which they live. That is un-American and wrong.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 26/05/2025
The Fed and FTC-the latter being subject of Humphrey's Executor-were both established during Woodrow Wilson's presidency. Roberts' attempt to distinguish them is farcical, and is emblematic of the shameless overreaching of right wing Justices that has only accelerated since Bush v Gore.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/05/2025
RFK Jr is already walking back his claims about figuring out the cause of autism by September
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Buttigieg: I’m not even an elected official or running for anything— I’m here. I can’t help but notice a lot of people who are elected officials aren’t. There’s a reason for that. They don’t want to have to explain this stuff
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A tale of two movies: Similar deal structures. Similar budgets. One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend. The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second. And yet this is the coverage.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA! “Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him. Now, his visa is being revoked. Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...
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BYU grad student from Japan has visa revoked
Attorney for computer science Ph.D. candidate believes a fishing license incident from years ago may have triggered visa revocation.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/04/2025
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
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The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 17/04/2025
This is Goobs. He saw a tree crew working on his block and thinks he might have just found his dream job. 13/10
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/04/2025
Arizona dog found a missing 2-year-old on his nightly patrol that a local rescue team spent 16 hours searching for. 15/10
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The trauma this family has suffered at the hands of this administration is unconscionable www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
From an NBC News article by Nnamdi Egwuonwu about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s meeting with Senator Chris Van Hollen: “The vice president also denied a request from Van Hollen that day to facilitate a phone call between Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who says she has not spoken to him since he was transferred to the Central American facility.

Sura said Thursday night that Van Hollen's meeting gave her hope.

‘My children and my prayers have been answered. The efforts of my family and community in fighting for justice are being heard, because I now know that my husband is alive. God is listening, and the community is standing strong,’ she said in a statement.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2025
meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Stefanik: "There is so much opportunity for the next generation, whether it's in the workforce, whether it's community college ... Higher ed has fundamentally lost its way and it's increasingly out of touch and the tuition rates go higher and higher, so we need to defund across the board."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. So far, the administration is pretending to comply while re...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
When you’ve lost the DAILY MAIL
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Shaq can fuck all the way off and then fuck off some more
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Nine percent of American citizens, roughly 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents. Sixty percent of them voted in the 2020 election. Close to 4 million don’t have these documents at all because they were lost, destroyed, or stolen.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"NC lawmakers postpone vote to ban DEI in state government, as protesters pack state House..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTqa...
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NC lawmakers postpone vote to ban DEI in state government, as protesters pack state House
YouTube video by WXII 12 News
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The American Public Health Association has called for RFK Jr. to resign or be fired, citing his "complete disregard" for science.
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Public Health Org Calls for RFK Jr. to 'Resign or Be Fired'
Separately, nearly 2,000 NASEM members sent out an 'SOS' about the 'decimation' of science
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement
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Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name
It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/04/2025
Nobody was talking recession in January. Now: “Markets believe the biggest threat to the world economy is Mr. Trump’s tariffs.” — WSJ When Trump loses the Wall Street Journal…
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Rebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just one gigantic fuck-you-to-your-face con and we’re all the marks.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW: Sen Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) requests "an accounting of which White House or Trump administration officials were part of the deliberations on the change in policy or announcement, and whether those individuals made stock transactions or communicated with financial proxies ahead of the announcement"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me. FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.
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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW: Inside Trump’s sudden retreat on tariffs The White House claims this was the plan all along and there’s now more pressure on China But the bond market crash spooked the West Wing, recession talk grew and more in GOP voiced worry And Trump blinked www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Art of the Retreat
Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
UPDATE: The states in the probationary employees challenge are going to seek en banc review of the stay pending appeal ruling, meaning they are going to ask the full court to overrule the 2-1 panel decision earlier Wednesday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
STATE OF MARYLAND, et al., *
Plaintiffs-Appellees, *
v. *
Nos. 25-1248, 25-1338
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT *
OF AGRICULTURE, et al.,
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Defendants-Appellants.
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APPELLEES’ EMERGENCY MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE STAY
Appellees (“the States”) move for an emergency administrative stay of this
Court’s Order, Docket No. 42, dated today, April 9, 2025, pending resolution of the
States’ forthcoming petition for rehearing en banc, to be filed no later than 5 p.m.
Friday, April 11, 2025. Appellant Agencies oppose this motion
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
And just like that. Leverage. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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NPR @npr.org · 10/04/2025
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
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Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
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Rep. Steven Horsford @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I'm asking the questions we all want answers to. At 9:37 AM, Trump told his followers to buy stocks. The market was tanking. The Trade Rep was set to defend harmful tariffs.Mid-hearing—Trump flips. No warning. Not even to his top trade official. This isn’t leadership. It’s chaos.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
White House officials appear to be withholding pool reporters' dispatches when the reports include information -- eg that a Netanyahu press conference was canceled, or that AP was barred -- that they don't like. Another holy-shit scoop from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Pool Filter
Some White House pool reports are no longer making it to the official distribution list, Status has learned—an unsettling development in the Trump administration's escalating war on the press.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
Trump lies that Nancy Pelosi “admitted her guilty” for January 6
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
When you bow down to Trump, he will claim it shows that his conspiracy theories are correct, and only encourage his authoritarianism. Thank you, Big Law cowards.
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