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Hawks 101 @iahawks101.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What the F was that ad that was paid for by you and me? What is this country that I was born in?

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Steven D. Schroeder @schroederlaw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Protection racket would make sense if they were getting a piece of the action. But they aren’t even getting that!

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows:

"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is what the collapse of the rule of law looks like.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This kind of rhetoric is corroding our nation’s very soul. There are thorny questions of “just war” but this is clear: no follower of Jesus, indeed no one who believes in any kind of loving God or even simply in humanity can be a cheerleader for “death and destruction” of our fellow man.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Electing Trump the first time could have been seen as an aberration, a quirk of US politics that would not be repeated. But electing him a second time sent a clear signal to the rest of the world that it is imperative to reduce military and economic dependence on the US because it is unstable.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

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Steven D. Schroeder @schroederlaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Every day another impeachable offense is discovered.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In case anyone forgot, this administration had already prohibited public funding of mRNA vaccine research. Moderna was one of the single biggest private funders of mRNA vaccine research. This will set us back decades.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Jesus, legit insane

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.

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Steven D. Schroeder @schroederlaw.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law". Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution.

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The national security apparatus of the United States appears to be suffering an existential disaster, but the entire class of natsec oriented journalists and pundits who tanked Biden for a messy Afghanistan withdrawal are too scared to discuss the catastrophe or the cause

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Just a heist of public funds. Why should Trump own it if taxpayers spent $1B on the retrofit?

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

DEMOCRATS: Release the Epstein Files TRUMP: Instead, how about I convince Ghislaine Maxwell to make a statement saying I didn’t do anything wrong in exchange for a pardon DEMOCRATS: That’s not the same thing REPUBLICANS: Jesus, what more do you people want

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Steven D. Schroeder @schroederlaw.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This is brutal but so spot on: “To help the putchists regain power, America’s highest court pretended the Constitution said things it clearly doesn’t, not just once, but twice.”

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Even I — who spent the better part of two decades in the Bureau, and personally knows the guest — found this incredibly insightful.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 13/07/2025

I think about this constantly

Tweet from user Jason C:
“I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.”

Quote from user Max Dubler:

“That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties”

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

That sentence is so insane

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

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Steven D. Schroeder @schroederlaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There is no possible interpretation of the tax and spending clauses of the constitution where today's tax hikes are acceptable. Congress could not pass a law saying the President gets to raise income taxes whenever he wants to whatever he wants, and it didn't pass any such law regarding tariffs.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Senators coming for my job now.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

One of the most productive things that average people can do to improve our political situation is: talk to people on the other side. You can change them! Some ideas about how to do that: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/talking-ou...

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Talking Our Way Forward

How to have a conversation with a political enemy.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm. These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So dark. This will cripple US scientific research for years (forever?). Once you fall behind, it’s hard to catch back up 😳 www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’

After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

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Steven D. Schroeder @schroederlaw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

On the Tesla earnings call, Musk starts with crazy conspiracy theories and lies. $TSLA.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I know everyone has said this before, but still hard to get over it. Folks like me got into public-facing writing in part to stop people from saying "the president did it" all the time and here it's just totally the case that The President Did It. Nothing tricky or complicated about it.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There used to be a word for folks who would break the price mechanism and then appoint a committee to coordinate economic activity, instead.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

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