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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Before the ‘24 election, some people tried valiantly to lay out what would happen if, in fact, the “Administrative state” was torn down, by documenting what it actually did. The WashPost did a whole series on it. But it was too little, too late, and now we are going to find out. wapo.st/49kqJBk
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Opinion | Who is government?
Seven writers go in the search of the essential public servant, individuals who have put themselves forward to lead our government.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Dolly Parton currently sends a new book to 2.2 million children every month. The number has steadily increased for years. It's in honor of her parents, who were illiterate. She works with hospitals. Many people have told us they had no idea the books would come. They are addressed to the child.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
After a decade of desaturated emo murderers, Superman is an absolute delight. Very possibly the best Superman movie, and unambiguously the most shamelessly, joyously comic-booky live-action superhero film.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Sounds like Gabbard fired them for telling the truth. Not much “intelligence” going on here… www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Gabbard fires intel officials who oversaw memo contradicting White House claims on Venezuelan gang
Democratic lawmakers criticized the firings, suggesting they were punishment for providing information that didn’t support the administration’s agenda.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/05/2025
And there it is. The Republican plan to cut $700 billion from Medicaid and kick millions off their health insurance. If there's one thing I've learned during my time in Congress, it's that when you come for people's health care, you'll have hell to pay. This time will be no different.
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Fight over Medicaid cuts heats up as House Republicans release bill
The legislation includes work requirements, stricter eligibility checks, citizenship verification and new limits on federal funding for Medicaid to states. It met swift Democratic opposition.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Soon after firing the Librarian of Congress, Trump has fired the nation’s top copyright official as well. Rep. Joe Morelle says Trump acted after the copyright official “refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
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Trump fires top US copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Was playing with kids at a cookout. Wrote “power to the people” in sidewalk chalk. Tow headed white boy walks over, reads it silently, nods slowly. “If anybody erases this? I will write it back.” Okay little John Brown, I see you.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 01/05/2025
"Since being sworn in on April 8, Harmeet Dhillon, from her personal account, has tweeted 263 times, or 11.9 times a day, not counting things she’s retweeted," often in the middle of the workday—while running the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. www.thebulwark.com/p/twitter-ad...
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The Twitter Addict Running Our Govt’s Civil Rights Arm
Harmeet Dhillon is overseeing a division in shambles—and she’s tweeting through it.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/04/2025
Ummm. Will someone just say it? The emporer is naked AF Trump is PSYCHO
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If this wasn’t posted by @atrupar.com I would have thought it had to be a doctored screenshot. But…it’s not
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/04/2025
The CDC has eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries and the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions.
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We are selling the tech that allow Russian and North Korean missiles to hit Kyiv. But Trump won’t give or even sell Zelens’kyi the defensive tech needed to stop them.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego García’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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How the Trump Administration Flipped on Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Officials were developing a plan to get him back to the United States. Why did they stop?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Like clockwork, tariffs and broken supply chains will radicalize a new generation of free-traders — as they get bombarded by the phrase “out of stock.” @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @conorsen.bsky.social
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
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Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
There we go. Support this man.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/03/2025
Pete Hegseth brought his wife to his meetings with senators so it would be awk to ask him about his alleged sexual misconduct www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/03/2025
Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The only legitimate reason for not investigations because you don’t believe a crime was committed, not because “the mission was successful” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
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Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated
The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not that military information was shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
Ratcliffe rolls out the latest MAGA talking point -- it's actually Biden's fault that Trump administration officials were using Signal
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
Wyden: "I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
Warner: "Suddenly, & for no reason I can understand, the US is starting to act like our adversaries are our friends. Voting in the UN with Russia, Belarus, and North Korea - that's a rogues gallery if I've ever heard one. Treating our allies like adversaries. Threats to take over Greenland ... "
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Zero accountability and nobody is going to sack him. This is America now. Criminals, sex pests, drunks and clowns. That’s your government.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
When you've lost Brit Hume....
Brit Hume on Hegseth's denial: Oh for God's sake, the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios." www.axios.com/2025/03/24/s...
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Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say
Current and former employees, and advocates for retirees, have said the changes being made would strain an already struggling system.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Just saying: if Lloyd Austin had done this, every GOP lawmaker would call for his resignation by close-of-business the same day, and they'd probably have it.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I would like some assurance that the “VP” Hegseth is referring to is not Vladimir Putin.
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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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/03/2025
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security. It was … two days ago.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
When you make a Twitter troll Secretary of Defense.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/03/2025
the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs. I'm reproducing the text of the email here:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/03/2025
The secretary of transportation went on Fox & Friends this morning and trashed air travel, portraying the current air traffic control system as a disaster, and then claimed taking public transit is "dangerous." I miss the DEI days when it was safe to travel.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just a reminder that when the Trump people refer to "Marxism" they mean it the way jeering segregationists protesting the integration of schools meant it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
An OMB memo ordering a federal-funding freeze illustrates the ideological vision behind these decisions. The memo states that the administration seeks to prevent the use of “federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies,” Acting Director Matthew Vaeth wrote. Equal opportunity in employment is described here as “Marxist,” because it affirms what the desegregators see as an unnatural principle: that nonwhite people are equal to white people, that women are equal to men, and that LGBTQ people deserve the same rights as everyone else.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I was struck by how this statement keeps coming out back to the glorious economic future that is possible with a USA-Russia entente. Meanwhile Trump keeps talking abt Canada as some sad little pile of poop. In fact the Canadian economy is bigger than Russia's which drives home just how ...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?
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