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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Are we great yet?

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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 12/05/2025

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Your School House Rock moment......

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/05/2025

I don’t even know that it serves anything or anyone to note that Stephen Miller is ranting about “unelected communist judges,” other than observing it’s another item on the 1933 list

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

First, never believe anything he says. Second, why is he giving his political rally speech to graduating seniors?

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Reuters: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL: WOULD CUT FUNDS FOR USAID, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, PRESCHOOL GRANTS, MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCY

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 01/05/2025

Under the current system, Americans are already spending $5 trillion a year on health care - read: $50 trillion over the next 10 years. So this is actually a bargain.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 30/04/2025

We can't rest until government is restored as an instrument for the people, not our homegrown theocrats, kleptocrats and oligarchs.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion. Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates. What’s “moderate” about that?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

nytimes.com

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs

An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/04/2025

JUST IN: The MeidasTouch Podcast Tops Charts for Third Straight Month with 107.3 Million Downloads—More Than Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro COMBINED, per Podscribe Data

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Informed politics @informedpolitics.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This isn’t just a humanitarian issue, it’s a setback for science too.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

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Patty Kennedy @pattykennedyart.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

AG Bondi is ignorant of our Constitution & wants to bar anyone who isn't Christian from our Government. Our Constitution clearly states, Article VI “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States". This is our AG for crying out loud!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/04/2025

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

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Helen121 @helen121.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’. Applicants hailed from Johns Hopkins, NASA, Columbia, Yale & Stanford. Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging “with worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts". www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"46% of Head Start funding goes to rural areas, often in places without any other child care option..." www.axios.com/2025/04/16/h...

axios.com

Advocates worry over possible cuts to Head Start

The decades-old federal program provides childcare, nutrition assistance and other services to the nation's poorest families.

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Scott Hebert @scottjhebert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"I wouldn't go walking the streets calling myself a CEO." - Toni Storm just legit dropped my jaw! Yup, best in the biz. #AEWCollision #AEW

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a woman applauds in front of a sign that says dynamite on it

ALT: a woman applauds in front of a sign that says dynamite on it

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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rowdy-mike.bsky.social @rowdy-mike.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Freaking goosebumps. Thanks for this.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Not the same indeed.

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Tokyo Sand @dhstokyo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

How bad are things in America? Davis Brooks—the conservative, former editor at the Wall Street Journal—is saying “it’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising.”

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Peru’s former President and First Lady have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for money laundering. The orange felon with 34 felony convictions committed sedition, insurrection, espionage, treason and fraud and instead of being sent to prison he was sent to the White House.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

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φαυʅ ∞ 🇺🇦 ∞ #𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙩 #𝙉𝘼𝙁𝙊 ₁₃₇ @dereume.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Good morning #BlueSky!💙😁 And now a message from China: #JDVance

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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Indivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Travel advice from the EU - get a burner phone?

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/04/2025

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We haven’t reached bottom yet. Because there is no bottom to his moral depravity.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

According to IRS estimates, the internal sabotage by DOGE has already cost the U.S. Treasury more than $500 billion in revenues that otherwise would have been raised by April 15th. But it doesn’t stop there. DOGE is also in the process of closing down the Tax Division at the Department of Justice.

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DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division

I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging... "An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

washingtonpost.com

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging

An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

NEW: The Venezuelan military says it has raised its alert level following the discovery of an alleged U.S. plot to fabricate an incident at an ExxonMobil offshore platform in the contested waters between Venezuela and Guyana to justify an armed conflict.

miamiherald.com

Venezuelan military on alert, says it fears U.S. will use tensions with Guyana to invade

Venezuelan military claims the US is getting ready to invade and increases its alert levels

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In most societies, the rich and powerful acceded to the rule of law solely because they realized that, as soon as ordinary people feel they’re getting screwed without any chance of peaceful redress, that’s when you get the pitchfork-wielding mobs.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

ah, yes, the ole “keep a habeas petition in your pocket just in case you get disappeared” theory of due process

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The dumbest people are destroying us. That makes it even more painful.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

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