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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
(Punchbowl) - Extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts would boost the national debt by almost 50% when measured as a percentage of GDP and increase the deficit by around $4 trillion, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social punchbowl.news/article/fina...
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CBO: Extending Trump tax cuts would boost deficit, debt
The analysis comes as Senate Republicans are set to huddle with the Senate parliamentarian’s office to get guidance on the “current policy baseline.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is abt latest turn in the U.S. African Development Fdn story where Trump's purported appointee showed up this afternoon w US marshals and forced his way in. Story below. I'm curious what people know about the authority under which the marshals were even there. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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Marshals Escort DOGE Team Into African Aid Agency
A day earlier, U.S. African Development Foundation workers had refused entry to Department of Government Efficiency workers and the State Department official in charge of foreign aid.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.
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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/03/2025
NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
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The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...
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Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
(last head of USAID's global health bureau)
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
So Musk is actively trying to kill our foreign service workers. All of our diplomats and staff in Juba, Sudan, live on a single compound. Today they woke up to find that all the vendors who provide them clean water, food, fuel, Internet, cell service, etc. ALL GOT TERMINATION LETTERS.
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David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW: DOGE quietly deletes the five largest spending cuts it had been celebrating last week. All of them contained errors that wildly over-inflated how much had been saved. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...
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Big Big Scandal Brewing at DC US Attys Office
There’s a big, big scandal brewing beneath the already big scandal of...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/02/2025
The Kinsey report in the big bad woke days of 1947 showed 37% of men had some sort of homosexual experience. It's not that we are more queer now, it's that it's more accepted to be open about it.
An excerpt from a text discussing findings from Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) by Alfred Kinsey. The text includes statistics on homosexual experiences and orientations among males and females. It mentions that 37% of males and 13% of females had some homosexual experience to orgasm, and 10% of males were more or less exclusively homosexual. Kinsey's classification scheme for sexual orientation, known as the Kinsey Scale, is also referenced. The highlighted portions emphasize specific statistics and findings.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This one’s for Martina Navratilova and all the “LGB” folks who thought throwing Trans people to the wolves would save themselves. Not just morally bankrupt but “never read a history book” stupid.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 18/02/2025
Right now our country is facing serious outbreaks of bird flu, tuberculosis, and measles, and a surge in flu cases—and how do Trump & Musk respond? By firing hundreds of CDC employees—the very people researching the spread of these diseases & how to keep people safe.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“The purchase of Cybertrucks, an atypical choice for government armored transport, is likely to raise conflict of interest issues, especially as Mr. Musk trumpets his own efforts to root out what he regards as unnecessary spending.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Quietly, Hegseth announces a major policy change, ruling out Ukraine joining NATO. This is a capitulation to Putin, justifying his wars of aggression starting with Georgia in 2008. This will embolden Putin & undermine the interests of peace in Ukraine & Europe. A major blow to US national security.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"It was an unusual scene in the Oval Office. Elon Musk stood and held forth for a half hour to the assembled press corps, while Donald Trump sat at his desk, occasionally chiming in, but mostly looking up at Elon with what seemed to me to be increasing irritation." www.thebulwark.com/p/when-presi...
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When President Musk Speaks, Donald Trump Listens
DOGE is in charge now.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
True.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is EXACTLY what happened in December in the standoff over the funding bill. It’s because Musk is far far vigorous and wily and potent than Trump is.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a teenage DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms and businesses. U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
5 alarm fire, folks.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Beattie, who has a PhD in political theory from Duke University, where he also taught, was fired in 2018 after attending a conference with white nationalists."
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MAGA intellectual Darren Beattie will fill key State Department role
A figure from the first Trump administration takes a role in Marco Rubio’s State Department.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Mitch McConnell: Tariffs "will drive the cost of everything up. In other words, it will be paid for by American consumers. I mean, why would you want to get in a fight with your allies over this?"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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wooglin1968.bsky.social @wooglin1968.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2025
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Needless to say, this article is just the tip of the iceberg for an incredible story. "The 370th is one of few African-American regiments that served in combat in World War I and notably was the only regiment commanded entirely by black officers."
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Martin O'Malley: "Our nation is in a moment of profound crisis...rule of law and the Constitution being kicked to the curb...and the person responsible for all of these offensive against the Republic, sits again in the White House and spits on patriot graves." BOOM! 🔥
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/02/2025
Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’
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Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’
President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say Donald Trump didn’t need to wait for the black box flight recorder. He knew what caused the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and army…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) page on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website has been removed.
HUD.gov resources page that shows VAWA as an optionwhen you click on the VAWA icon, you're taken to a page that cannot be found
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm not saying Trump is a foreign asset, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is: Who does it serve to have the US in a self-own tariff war with its closest allies and trade partners
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terrible towelie @terribletowelie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
a Peeping Don
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025
"Trump’s first actions included demolishing an air travel security group, forcing out the head of the FAA for corrupt reasons, implementing a hiring freeze for air traffic controllers, and sending blanket resignation offers to the remaining FAA employees. Then tragedy struck."
publicnotice.co
DCA crash puts Trump's appalling unfitness on full display
When crisis hits, he makes it worse.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...
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Civil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant killed in plane crash near DC airport
As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among t...
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse reads the law that allows Kash Patel to give permission to the committee to get a transcript of his grand jury testimony. Kash Patel goes in circles and refuses to give them permission. What is Kash hiding?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We’ve been on the phone with multiple agencies/orgs. They’ve been completely cut off from federal money. We’re talking housing, homeless services, public safety, etc. I’m calling a press conference today to explain how this could have drastic local impacts to our constituents.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I am completely unsurprised
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Trish Dukes @trishdukes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship
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Andersonville2 @andersonvilleej.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I’m proud to call the amazing cartoonist Ed Wexler a friend.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 28/01/2025
they’ve been out for 6 days they can’t help themselves
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