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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2025
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers.
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Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights
The president, who has targeted collective bargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on national security.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Donald Trump is the most ruthlessly antilabor president since before the Great Depression. If the labor movement does not fight harder than it has since he regained the presidency, its future will be dire, Erik Loomis writes.
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Opinion | It’s Labor Day. And Trump Is the Most Anti-Union President in Decades.
Why the labor movement needs to act like its future is under grave threat.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/08/2025
Patrick Braxton, a Black man, won the first mayoral election since the 1960s in Newbern, Alabama, five years after its leaders put up roadblocks to his assuming office. Newbern's mayors used to pick their successors, which led to a succession of white mayors in a majority-Black town.
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Alabama Man Once Barred From Office Is Elected Mayor
Patrick Braxton won the first mayoral election in a half century in the small town of Newbern, five years after its leaders put up roadblocks to his assuming office.
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A day after Judge Young found that student activists’ criticism of Israel is almost certainly protected speech, the head of the Bureau of Consular Affairs at State testified today that his office regularly considered that criticism antisemitic while deciding whether or not to revoke student visas.
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State Dept. Official Says Criticism of Israel Can Lead to Visa Revocations
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/06/2025
Breaking News: The Trump administration laid off more than 600 people at the federally funded news outlet Voice of America, reducing its staff to less than 200. The news organization provides independent reporting to countries with limited press freedom.
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Trump Administration: Latest News and Updates
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/06/2025
A jury on Wednesday awarded nearly $2.5 million to a Georgia couple whose baby was decapitated during childbirth, after they accused a doctor of posting a video from the infant’s autopsy on social media without their consent, according to a defense lawyer and court documents.
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A Doctor Posted Video of Their Decapitated Baby. They Were Awarded $2.5 Million.
A Georgia couple hired a pathologist to do an autopsy after their first child died during childbirth. They accused him of posting images of the baby on Instagram without their consent.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 21/06/2025
“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/06/2025
After more than three months in detention by the Trump administration, a judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil released on bail. He was met on Saturday at Newark airport by his wife, their son and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other supporters. nyti.ms/44sUa1y
Mahmoud Khalil, wearing a keffiyeh, pushing a stroller and walking between his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, their Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. His hand is raised in a fist and all three people are smiling. Photo by Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/06/2025
Breaking News: The Harvard researcher detained after failing to declare scientific samples to U.S. customs was freed from federal custody. She still faces criminal charges.
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Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, still faces criminal charges for failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying in her suitcase.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/05/2025
Breaking News: The Israeli military said it had begun to move farther into the Gaza Strip, in a scaled-up campaign likely to displace more civilians.
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Amid Cease-Fire Talks, Israel Says It Has Expanded Ground Operations in Gaza
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/04/2025
The Supreme Court will rule on whether parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from class on days when storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed. Listen to "The Daily."
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Children’s Books Go Before the Supreme Court
The justices will rule on whether parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from class on days when storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/04/2025
One day after the Trump administration sent layoff notices to the vast majority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s workers, a federal judge temporarily blocked the action and ordered a hearing to determine whether the attempted mass firing violated an injunction she imposed last month.
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Judge Temporarily Halts Mass Firings at Consumer Bureau
The court barred the Trump administration from laying off nearly 1,500 workers at the agency until at least April 28.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New: As the Trump admin ships people to El Salvador without due process, DOGE is readying the "Gold Card," a visa for anyone willing to pay $5 million. Among those working on the new visa is Marko Elez, an engineer who has called for immigration based on eugenics. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Building System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas
The project represents something of a shift in mission for Elon Musk’s initiative, from cutting government costs toward a new goal of generating revenue.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NEW: Ed Martin, the interim US attorney under fire for using his office to pursue Trump's enemies, has hired longtime Trump loyalist Michael Caputo. Caputo, who is known for his confrontational tactics, is expected to help Martin seek Senate confirmation & engage with the media & outside groups.
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Facing Confirmation Fight, Trump-Allied Prosecutor Hires ‘Smashmouth Politician’
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now. We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done. We will rally every corner of the U.S. We will not stop until they actually vote no.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
Breaking News: In an appearance with President Trump, El Salvador’s president said his country would not return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported.
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Live Updates: Trump Hosts El Salvador's President Amid Deportation Battle
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
President Trump’s extraordinary wall of tariffs on China could lead to a hazardous scenario for Europe: the dumping of artificially cheap products that would undermine local industries.
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Why Europe Fears a Flood of Cheap Goods From China
President Trump’s tariffs on China could lead to a hazardous scenario for European countries: the dumping of artificially cheap products that would undermine local industries.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It is becoming apparent to me that having a moron achieve my goal of wrecking US economy will have unwanted side effects for Russia too..
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
She’s not wrong. (Spoiler: they won’t) @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepTimBurchett @RepMarkGreen @AndyOgles @RepHarshbarger this is your crash too. #Trumpcession #TrumpCrash #OrangeMonday
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
what a visual
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
…died last Thursday in a Lubbock hospital. Daisy died suffering from measles pulmonary failure. (Notably, both Texas and federal health officials failed to report the death in their Friday measles updates.) Daisy was not vaccinated and had no reported underlying…
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
True story…👇
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A subtle manuever by the EU. Tapping senators on the shoulder and saying there’s a reward for opposing tariffs — like Rand Paul and McConnell did. 🥃 @financialtimes.com #Kentucky www.ft.com/content/1800...
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Mr. Burns (ruthless)
CNN headline: "Jamie Dimon on tariffs: 'Get over it'"smithers whispering in burns's earBurns shooing away smithersMr. Burns (chastened)
CNN headline: "Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm bell on tariffs"
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/04/2025
Wall Street bros will be making land acknowledgments and wearing their pronouns on their forehead by the time this is done.
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Carlos E. Gates @carlosegates.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our government has gone INSANE.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I wrote about Careless People, an infuriating yet very cathartic read that definitively answers the questions: Does Facebook know the damage it's causing? (yes) and Does it care? (no) www.404media.co/careless-peo...
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'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade
I've reported on Facebook for years and have always wondered: Does Facebook care what it is doing to society? Careless People makes clear it does not.
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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is now the worst three-day performance for the S&P 500 since October 1987.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You know the market situation is bad when Fox is covering it instead of a transgender monopoly player.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/04/2025
Concerning
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/04/2025
Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/04/2025
pretty crazy they straight up told the country that they would crash the economy and no one really brought it up or cared
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Was explaining to David (11) the tariff stuff and what a tariff is and he was like “you mean like what started the revolutionary war?” And I was like; yes exactly.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2025
Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old child.
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He Got Clemency From Trump. Now He’s Facing Charges of Injuring a Child.
Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/04/2025
Breaking News: Tesla’s sales dropped 13% in the first quarter, reflecting a backlash against Elon Musk even in EV-friendly countries.
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Tesla Sales Are Slumping, Even in the Most E.V.-Friendly Place
Elon Musk’s involvement in right-wing politics contributed to fewer deliveries in Norway the first quarter, though other factors also played a role.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I want what they have
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
1. The Social Security Administration and DOGE are GASLIGHTING AMERICANS. They are telling millions of beneficiaries that reports they were closing SSA field offices were fake news. Actually, these closures were PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED and LEASES WERE CANCELED. 🧵
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How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin. You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰 #VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍 This is super important.
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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is mortifying. It's the kind of calculation you would normally make about a dictatorship. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/03/2025
REPORTER: Was Rumeysa Ozturk detained just because she wrote an article expressing her views? TAMMY BRUCE: I will not speak about something that's in the courts ... DHS clearly felt she had committed crimes that required her detention
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It?” Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing. My latest for Zeteo, read/share/subscribe:
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Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It?
Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing.
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