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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I assume it was the pending lawsuits and not a crisis of conscience that prompted the pivot.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Which is EXACTLY why Congress has exclusive constitutional authority to impose tariffs. But Trump wants to be an autocrat, and unilateral tariff authority forces CEOs to come to him begging, then he can extort what he wants from them personally. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/k...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/07/2025

Pay attention to their messaging. They’re going to steal the next election and say it’s because they got rid of “democrats.” Couple this with the fact they’re amassing a citizenship database, and prepping to charge state election officials with crimes.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Trump is urging SCOTUS to let him fire three Democrat-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC regulates safety of everyday consumer products. Guess who recently sued the agency and claimed that it's "unconstitutional"? Amazon. Connect the dots.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Circling back on this, Chris. Any updates?

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Just a heads up: if we are in fact at war, the authorities Trump has been using — many/most of which are delegated wartime authorities — will only expand and be given more deference by the courts. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Trump pardons this asshole who STOLE HIS EMPLOYEES’ SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS & STILL OWES SSA $4.4 MILLION because the guy’s mother gave Trump a million bucks. 4:1 return. Not bad. Corruption, anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

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sandypaws.bsky.social @sandypaws.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Who needs BILLIONS in tourism dollars anyway?!!!!! Photo courtesy of @nytimes.com

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"Waste" is when people get Medicaid. "Efficiency" is when you let 60,000 tons of food that's already been paid for rot instead of feeding someone with it.

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

•••••DOGE DENIED••••• DOGE tried to do its dirty work at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), but Musk’s team was quickly rebuffed. GAO leadership asserted their office is an independent legislative branch agency and “not subject to…

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I say all this to say, stop it. Biden was old, tired, not as sharp in language, recall or gait as two years before. But he was doing the job and doing it well. Sadly he was not able to effectively do the Comms part of the job which requires vigor & charisma. Now do a wellness check on Trump.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Every time a new scandal is reported from the Trump admin, which is every few hours, their first reaction is to call the story fake news, their second reaction is to vow to hunt down and jail the leakers, and their third reaction is to threaten the media company who published it.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, abuelas, and mother figures across Arizona who show up everyday. We can never thank you enough.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/23/2019 2:45:32 PM
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CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT
AMENDMENT ONE
THIS AMENDMENT ONE shall amend that certain Consulting Services Agreement dated June 28, 2018 by and between the Embassy of the State of Qatar (Embassy') and Ballard Partners ("Consultant").
In consideration of the mutual promises set forth herein, the Embassy and Consultant agree to amend the Consulting Services Agreement, as follows:
The Term of the Agreement shall commence on July 1. 2019 (the "Effective Date"), ar all expire on COB June 30, 2020, unless earlier terminated in accordance with t!
Agreement.
2. Appendix A is amended by adding the following:
"Additionally, the Consultant shall provide consulting and advocacy services regarding matters involving anti-human trafficking
The following Consultant personnel shall be designated "Key Personnel": Ms. Pam Bondi and Mr. James Rubin. Key Personnel shall be personally and substantially engaged in the delivery of the Services."
3. Appendix B is amended to modify the consulting fee to US $ 115.000 per month.
Except as expressly stated herein. nothing in this Amendment One shall alter or amend the terms of the Consulting Services Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Embassy and Consultant have executed this Agreement by their duly authorized representatives.
By Embassy
By:
BBI
Consultant
Date:
July 17, 2019
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Morbidly curious if Iran could come up with a gift to Trump big enough to get him to “it’s fine if they have nukes. Big deal.”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/05/2025

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

How many times does a *president* have to disregard SCOTUS, the Constitution & Federal Judges before the 25th Amendment can be invoked?

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

If you voted for Trump because you thought he would lower your grocery prices then you got bamboozled. He is using you to enrich himself & his billionaire oligarch buddies. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... #NoKings #Momsky

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sandypaws.bsky.social @sandypaws.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

They start early, blaming the “others” for their crimes.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Goodnight 🌙 Fuck any law firm that bent the knee.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Dear god let this man cook.

Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia

His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The "duvet cover" is a government program to test how docile the population is. They want to know how much Bullshit we'll put up with. They are laughing at us

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The MAGA crowd is now calling to ignore the conservative-majority Supreme Court — and arrest anyone who enforces its ruling. Really? This is what fascism looks like.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20/04/2025

If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Seriously.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. - Calvin Coolidge

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/04/2025

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests

In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

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sandypaws.bsky.social @sandypaws.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Exactly, Sen Van Hollen. It’s not about Abrego Garcia. It’s about DUE PROCESS. How does Newsom not get it?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025

i’m getting van hollen pilled

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sandypaws.bsky.social @sandypaws.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Spain’s El Pais correctly characterizing the Oval Office meeting with a headline that reads: The Mockery of Trump and Bukele. With a sub headline reading how they “celebrated with laughter the agreement to deport immigrants without due process.” Who are they mocking?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Got a new one today when the press secretary accused him of being a "human trafficker" just absolutely out of thin air!

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Do you want the USA to be an Authoritarian country? Did you vote to have your freedom and healthcare stripped from you? Pls let me know.

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