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I am the best friend in the world! And a political junky! I love dogs🐶, coffee ☕️, cats 🐈,horses 🐎, cooking 🧑‍🍳, and crochet 🧶!

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rol1113.bsky.social @rol1113.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/04/2025
Students protested President Trump’s attacks on Harvard on Thursday, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House’s actions.
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Pride and Dread in Harvard Yard as Trump Wars With the University
Students on Thursday protested the president’s attacks on Harvard, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House’s actions.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/04/2025
Trump just posted this. Brace for one of the biggest stock market crashes in history, folks. America is in collapse.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Judge Declares Deportation of Abrego Garcia "Wholly Lawless": AG Bondi Punishes Her Own DOJ Lawyers! youtu.be/80UzAKNadow?...
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Judge Declares Deportation of Abrego Garcia "Wholly Lawless": AG Bondi Punishes Her Own DOJ Lawyers!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Buckle up for one of the nastiest Black Mondays in Wall Street history.
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Dylan Lion @lionshue.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Patty Drogue, left, is a former federal worker who worked with Head Start and is “heartsick” over cuts tk the early childhood education program for low-income families. Her friend Sue Fitzgerald, right, is worried about cuts to scientific & medical research.
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine We have the momentum
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Pete Rice @nightsky99.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
San Diego. This lady for the win.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Eisen: Donald Trump has removed my security clearance three times. I don't know if it is a mental capacity thing and he just forgets that he did it, or if he takes it away and then when he loses again, he says, turn it back on so I can feel better about all of the losing.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Jaguar Land Rover has just halted shipments to the United States due to Trump’s tariffs.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 02/04/2025
The tech billionaire tried to intervene in Wisconsin's state Supreme Court race. It didn't go so well.
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'Failed Spectacularly': Critics Troll Elon Musk After 'Humiliating' Loss In Wisconsin
The tech billionaire tried to intervene in Wisconsin's state Supreme Court race. It didn't go so well.
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 01/04/2025
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Ruh roh. 😂
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/03/2025
Working-class car buyers will be the hardest hit by a 25% tariff on imported vehicles as almost all low-cost new cars sold in the US are built elsewhere. Lower-income buyers will suffer another blow from expected hikes in used car prices as demand surges and supply shrinks reut.rs/3FOnzJJ
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NPR @npr.org · 30/03/2025
Local police leaders have feared the erosion of public trust as a result of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. Many officials say they're seeing signs that's happening.
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Police say ICE tactics are eroding public trust in local law enforcement
Local police leaders have feared the erosion of public trust as a result of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. Many officials say they're seeing signs that's happening.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2025
BREAM: What do you say to people who say we hired the president to make the economy better, but now he says there's going to be disruption in the short term because of these tariffs? NAVARRO: Trust in Trump
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Trump Resistance Movement @trm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Love this guy's sign at the Tesla Takedown event in Paramus NJ! Nailed it! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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NPR @npr.org · 22/03/2025
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
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Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort
The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“George Conway, a frequent Trump critic and a former partner at a major law firm, told NBC News that firms need to look beyond the bottom line: “‘They have a moral duty to defend the very system that has allowed them to make the kind of money that they make. … (1/2)
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Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands
President Donald Trump rescinded his executive order targeting Paul Weiss — after the law firm agreed to certain conditions.
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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 14/03/2025
House Republicans are breaking a sacred promise to our nation’s veterans: Their budget cuts $23 billion from care to veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances.
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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 18/03/2025
Corporate profits keep going up while working people are underpaid and overworked. Strong unions are how we create an economy built for our families, and I’m proud to cosponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 21/03/2025
The Trump Admin just lifted sanctions against a company at the heart of North Korea's ability to hack crypto funds to finance their nuclear weapons arsenal. Stop me if you've heard this before, but the Trump Administration is, once again, making life easier for dictators and foreign adversaries.
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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 21/03/2025
Earlier this week, I toured Cornell Forge Company in Bedford Park. We discussed the importance of the forging industry in the supply chain for different markets, including critical industries in defense and agriculture.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
So let’s be very clear about this - DOGE isn’t saving America money. It is now among the costliest domestic programs in our history; and certainly the most significant wealth destroying.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/03/2025
Supreme Court's John Roberts presided over the first of Donald Trump's two impeachment trials, and penned rulings that both boosted the president — including granting him broad immunity from criminal prosecution — but also constrained him at key moments reut.rs/4c8wX7j
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shannonlast.bsky.social @shannonlast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“Love JVL, but…it got dark” : The Shannon Last Story 😂😂😂😂😂
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 22/03/2025
This week, we got word that the Trump Administration might eliminate the CDC's Division of HIV Prevention. Ending our HIV prevention programming now will jeopardize everything we've worked for. Today, I joined 100 of my colleagues in opposing these cuts and the harm they would bring to Americans.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/03/2025
Fill out an immigration paper wrong? Handcuffs! Assault a cop and break into the Capitol on a mission to murder the vice president? Presidential pardon! Does "the law" still meaningfully exist?
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The Faces of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade
The government deported a 10-year-old American citizen with brain cancer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/03/2025
When FDA inspectors went to a Glenmark Pharmaceuticals plant last month — their first inspection in five years — they discovered problems with cleaning and testing that they said could affect medicines that were shipped to Americans. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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The FDA Finally Visited an Indian Drug Factory Linked to U.S. Deaths. It Found Problems.
The inspection comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that drugs made at the Glenmark Pharmaceuticals plant accounted for an outsized share of U.S. recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve…
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 19/03/2025
Robinson’s page was published in February 2021 as part of a series on the website titled “Sports Heroes Who Served.”
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Defense Department Removes And Swiftly Restores Web Page About Jackie Robinson
Robinson’s page was published in February 2021 as part of a series on the website titled “Sports Heroes Who Served.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/03/2025
"'I should not have overreacted,' Gallego added. 'I did try to rub it in—when [Lake] essentially said, ‘How could you live with yourself everyday?’ I’m like, ‘Easily: I won,’ and I walked away.'"
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Kari Lake Accosted Ruben Gallego at a Posh D.C. Club
The incident says a lot about politics and immigration. So, too, did a town hall that Gallego held with Sen. Mark Kelly over the weekend.
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 20/03/2025
Hair discrimination is racial discrimination. Period. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman's CROWN act would prohibit race-based hair discrimination in schools and in the workplace that especially affects Black Americans across the country.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Some Democratic member of Congress should propose a bill saying that a POTUS may golf at government expense no more than, say, once every 14 days, and must reimburse the Treasury for anything beyond that.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/03/2025
Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to attacks from the richest man in the world. Read an inside account of the explosive meeting where President Trump moved to rein in Elon Musk’s power.
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Rubio and Trump Officials Clash With Elon Musk in an Explosive Meeting
Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/03/2025
Poland said it may need an alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink to secure steady internet connectivity to the Ukrainian military as the US pressurizes the war-torn country to sign a minerals deal and end the conflict reut.rs/43wBcqD
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'Say thank you' Rubio tells Poland amid Ukraine Starlink spat
The U.S. secretary of state accused Poland's foreign minister of "making things up" and suggested he was ungrateful after saying Ukraine may need an alternative to Starlink.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 09/03/2025
Cabinet officials recently clashed with Musk over DOGE’s ordered layoffs, which have led to chaos in federal agencies.
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Republican Says Musk ‘Does Not Have The Power To Fire People,’ After Thousands Have Been Fired
Cabinet officials recently clashed with Musk over DOGE’s ordered layoffs, which have led to chaos in federal agencies.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/03/2025
Tired of winning?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
May I suggest that the Democratic Party look to Matt Drudge for messaging advice.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Canadian scientist here. The USA’s opioid death rate is double Canada’s. Sit down and shut the fuck up Hassett.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 09/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil was picked up by immigration officers who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke his green card, his attorney says
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DHS Detains Columbia Student Who Helped Lead Pro-Palestinian Protests
Mahmoud Khalil was picked up by immigration officers who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke his green card, his attorney says.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“When we fix our eyes on Selma, we are reminded that it is not the men in high places … who teach us how to love our country. It is ordinary people who risk it all to demand a place in this nation, those who refuse to bend or bow to men in high places who desecrate the promise of this country.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/03/2025
“The offer of early retirement and the dismissal of probationary employees are the two main ways the FAA is trimming its workforce. Both are blunt instruments that threaten to sacrifice key talent,” Isaac Stanley-Becker writes:
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The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know
The agency responsible for air safety is facing deep cuts and interference by Elon Musk.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/03/2025
Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired as Elon Musk’s government-cutting project targets the Veterans Affairs Department. “Lots of people don’t understand how important these roles are,” a hospital administrator said.
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Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“It’s a sad spectacle to see a law firm …rendering itself into an instrument for lawlessness. It’s also a cautionary example of how lawyers should not conduct themselves as the Trump regime proceeds with its effort to replace the nation’s justice system with one governed by cronyism and corruption.”
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts. And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think www.1011now.com/2025/03/05/t...
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Tariff trouble? Nebraska companies, farmers trapped in middle of brewing trade war
The recent Trump administration tariffs imposed on that country means that the animal feed company will now pay more for a feed additive for pigs and chickens, a product that can lead to healthier ani...
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