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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

NEW: Two Nobel-winning economists at MIT (currently embroiled in a fight with the Trump administration) are decamping for the University of Zurich next academic year—a pretty clear illustration of brain drain. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-he-lyin...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Truly revolting stuff in this Laura Loomer deposition www.thebulwark.com/p/laura-loom...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

QUITE the lede from @citizencohn.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-ken...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Fun conversation in studio today. some newsy bits too. coming later today on bulwark takes

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

NEW: The law firms that capitulated to Trump are privately telling congressional Dems they're under no obligation to take on pro-bono clients the president demands, per letters we obtained. It's unclear if Trump reads the deal the same way. The WH didn't comment. www.thebulwark.com/p/brian-kemp...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The VA is trying to sniff out anti-Christian bias within the ranks, even setting up a hotline for employees to rat out colleagues: Anti-ChristianBiasReporting@va.gov www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-in-r...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW -- More than 2,000 fired probationary employees filed complaints to The Office of Special Counsel saying they were wrongly terminated by DOGE/Trump. Yesterday, the office rejected their claims. www.thebulwark.com/p/market-dis...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Anger inside the department of labor after Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer threw herself a birthday party amid all the DOGE cuts www.thebulwark.com/p/art-of-the...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

NEW: Six University in Georgia international grad students in the STEMs fields have had their visas revoked. The school, i'm told, is shocked and figuring out how to respond www.thebulwark.com/p/art-of-the...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out t.co/LeABrGqDei

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

NEW: Elon famously demanded 5 bullet point emails, saying it was management 101 and govt. officials could very well be dead. Four weeks later, the program is a bust. A number of officials are getting bounce backs cuz the inbox is full. Others have stopped sending entirely t.co/CUkrfogQeE

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We're approaching untenable territory here

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

NEW: Marco Rubio announced this morning that the review was done and that they'd be cutting 83% of USAID programs. it was news to state officials who were told LAST WEEK that they had until Wednesday to submit paperwork for the review process www.thebulwark.com/p/four-dimen...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

word's gone out that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is officially a DEI hire

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The HHS guidance to workers on how to respond to Elon's What Did You Do This Week email is something. t.co/k8GbdjMyEk

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For a good sense of how congressional Republicans are changing their tune on Elon. Check out the different Ted Budd constituent letters from early February (left) to this past week (right)

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Thom Tillis not feeling the DOGE, @cheetah.bsky.social reports www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Shot: We must stop the politicization of the Justice Department once and for all Chaser: "As President Trump's lawyers...."

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

NIH, by contrast, is encouraging folks to hold off on responding for now

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

RFK Jr. urging his staff to respond to Elon's email

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Me again. If you are among the thousands who have lost their job during the round of government layoffs, and if you're comfortable sharing your story, please send note to here tips.hushline.app/to/thebulwark or hit me up on signal (QR code here)

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

They're now cancelling key meetings at the NIH to give the green light for future cancer research

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hey Hey. We're trying to collect some insights into what's going on at NIH, CDC, and HHS now that RFK Jr. appears set to be confirmed. I'm here on Signal (QR code attached). Or you can use the Bulwark tip line. Primary docs preferable. IDs protected tips.hushline.app/to/thebulwark

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Finally. what we so desperately needed.

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

THIS is getting a LOT of attention among federal employees. Half a dozen or so sent it to me in real fear for their safety of their colleagues www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Rubio at a USAID operation on Colombia

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Sen. Marco Rubio, big USAID guy. Sec. of State Marco Rubio, not so much thebulwark.com/p/musks-usai...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

USAID's website has been taken offline it appears

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hey. Elon. I um have this other job for you to do. It's totally more important than DOGE. take your time working on it

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"Never forget" --> "can't we just move on?"

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We've abandoned Afghan refugees in desperate need. www.thebulwark.com/p/hang-the-j...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is definitely a first for me. A SENIOR official in the White House publicly declaring that the president's big announcement from the day prior is kind of a ruse

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I asked him last night about Trump's decision to pardon virtually everyone who participated in the riot. here is what he texted back. "betrayed yet again"