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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/06/2025
Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
We're in that strange parallel universe in which the Trump administration is discovering the value of the Trans Pacific Partnership (which a younger President Trump ripped up).
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Is beloved YouTube star Ms. Rachel spreading Hamas propaganda? Twitter user @StopAntisemitism1488 thinks so.
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Tomorrow might be the day this regime realizes the stove they are touching is hot
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
More winning incoming
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Onion has just been on another level theonion.com/parents-gent...
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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
HUNTSVILLE, AL—In an effort to comfort the child by telling her the funds had gone to a far better place, local parents Blake and Allison McKee gently explained to their daughter Friday that their mon...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Must read from @markhertling.bsky.social on our soldiers in Lithuania. www.thebulwark.com/p/when-ameri...
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When American Soldiers Were in Trouble, Our Allies Showed Up
Inside the allied effort to find four soldiers lost in a training exercise.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
They told me if I voted for Kamala the market would crash, and then we’d probably have a recession. They were right.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s as if he’s a Russian asset, trying to destroy America from within.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/03/2025
This means I now have negative 4 security clearances
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I feel better.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025
Circling back on this…
Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Respectfully @AGPamBondi, fuck off. This is America. We have free speech here. We are free to criticize @elonmusk. This is an utterly un-American thing for you to say. Just do your damn job. And re-read the First Amendment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“So many media interviews”? What media interviews? Fox and right-wing podcasters? The premise of this is that he is making himself available to media to answer real questions about the work of DOGE. That simply has never happened - not once. Absurd framing of where we are at.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 22/03/2025
If Keith Sonderling truly wanted to “ensure we preserve our country’s core values”, he would not be placing libraries “in lockstep with this Administration” and ordering them to “focus on patriotism” or “promote American exceptionalism”. Ministry of Truth shit.
March 20, 2025
WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling was sworn in as Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today, after being appointed to the role by President Donald J. Trump. IMLS, an independent government agency, is the primary source of federal support for the nation's museums and libraries.

“It is an honor to be appointed by President Trump to lead this important organization in its mission to advance, support, and empower America’s museums and libraries, which stand as cornerstones of learning and culture in our society. I am committed to steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration to enhance efficiency and foster innovation. We will revitalize IMLS and restore focus on patriotism, ensuring we preserve our country’s core values, promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country in future generations,” said Acting Director Sonderling.

Sonderling was recently confirmed as Deputy Secretary of t
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ceej @ceej.online · 21/03/2025
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The funny part of this is that Republicans in Congress have been pleading for someone in the WH to get Musk to stop talking about Social Security, then Nutlick steps up to make the best ad for Dems yet.
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
These are people who neither understand nor care how real people live and who give zero forks about winning future elections
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/03/2025
The Trump fever is breaking. Voters who once backed him are waking up to economic chaos, broken promises, and buyer’s remorse. Is this the beginning of the end? Read more adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Fever Is Breaking
Voter Remorse, Economic Chaos, and the Cracks in His Coalition
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Rob Cerulo @rjc1084.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why would anyone ever hire legal representation from a firm that caves so easily?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Sigh. This is the worst timeline.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional
notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity
groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not
continue to work here.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The year is 2026. You have been arrested and exiled to a Mr Beast Content Zone where the Geneva Conventions do not apply
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Sarahlarchmont @sarahlarchmont.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@therickwilson.bsky.social We are ALL Rick Wilson!! 🫶
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 20/03/2025
I'm trying to think of a coherent defense for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urging the public to buy a specific stock tied to the president's top campaign donor. Nothing is coming to mind. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Why is Trump’s Commerce secretary urging the public to buy Tesla stock?
Howard Lutnick told a national television audience to buy a specific stock tied to the sitting president’s top campaign donor.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/03/2025
Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?
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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Biggest win in Kursk. The myth about Russian red lines was shattered once and for all.
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 16/03/2025
“No worries, they’re not only stealing your data to feed their AI models, they’re also making you pay for it.” The tech industry keeps on giving.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Trump family is in talks to create a new cryptocurrency with a Chinese felon who was recently released from a halfway house. We would make this a front-page story with daily follow-ups, but none of the people involved are Democrats.
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Party of the working class right here
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mr. Vice President, I'm sure you don't mean to mislead anyone, but the hard data suggest that in fact you've inherited a stronger economy than any administration in your lifetime.
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is not a serious party talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/se...
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Schumer Will Lead Senate Democrats To Pass Poison-Pilled Republican CR
Senate Democrats gave up their sole point of leverage Thursday, as Senate...
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MS NOW @ms.now · 12/03/2025
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“.. In at least a dozen videos filmed in her OPM office, political appointee McLaurine Pinover modeled her outfit choices for the day, while directing followers from her Instagram account to a website that could earn her commissions on clothing sales.” @cnn.com #DOGE www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...
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Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office | CNN Politics
As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for ...
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Trans people have long warned that most of the victims of anti-trans laws and policies would be cis women and girls who don't have the "right look."
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I don't think this is the put-away shot he thinks it is.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2025
Trump touts job gains for "native-born Americans. For American people. People born in America."
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Everyone who believes in freedom needs to watch this speech of a French politician who has more stones than everyone in congress and the “White Flag” House combined laying out in stark terms the new realities of this moment.
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Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )
YouTube video by Alain Cazes
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is NOT what I had in mind when I voted for the man who pretended to work at McDonald's for a day and then drove around in a dump truck. I thought he would continue doing those things, thereby providing valuable services in my community
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Holy shit are we fucked, pack it in.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
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sackbut.bsky.social @sackbut.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Don’t worry folks Elon runs the government now and will get right on this www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/s...
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SpaceX debris grounds flights at South Florida airports
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued temporary flight restrictions for both airports after SpaceX confirmed that its Starship vehicle suffered a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."
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