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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/07/2025
Kennedy will “do everything possible to destroy the vaccine infrastructure.”
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The plot against vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2025
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Oh… So that guy from The Real World, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, rescheduled his wife’s flight out of Newark to LaGuardia? If this guy doesn’t have the confidence in the FAA or the airport that’s under his control, then he shouldn’t be employed anymore.
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@JonPark55 @jonpark55.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🛑 Pass it on.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2025
I wish we could have snap elections, and that our general elections were limited to 51 days.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Proposals for increased involuntary commitment share a common function: expanding the state’s power to surveil, detain & 'treat' marginalized people deemed disruptive or deviant. Most impacted would be disabled, unhoused, racialized & LGBTQIA+ people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The United States is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment | Jordyn Jensen
From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It's not discussed in all the stories. But a key feature of the revocation of student visas is that there's no notification. This has forced universities to do regular online reviews of current visas to see which have disappeared since the previous query. The lack of notification is by design.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
📚Thank you, @roncharles.bsky.social: "I know you may be feeling overwhelmed by the relentless attacks on our public institutions, but please don’t sit this one out. Libraries are not a partisan issue." s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
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Book Club: With NPR under threat, a colorful new history shows why it matters
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities. Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries #ForOurLibraries
Call Congress for our libraries. Show up for our libraries. American library association.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I find it outrageous as well.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 02/04/2025
Today, at the Justice Department's urging, a judge dismissed a serious corruption case against the Mayor of New York. Not because there was any lack of evidence. Not because of any misconduct by the prosecutors…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
At one of his frequent press conferences (because he loves being on TV), I'd love it if some reporter piped up with, "What do you say to people who call you a know-nothing narcissistic asshole, Mr. President?"
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2025
So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2025
It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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PAUL WOLSTENCROFT @paulwolstencroft.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I'm pretty sure, if we survive the next 4 years, & if Trump doesn't illegally fix, cheat or destroy the elections, that Republicans will never win elections again
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I have been hearing from people that they have been having issues accessing their Social Security accounts. INSTEAD of going to a branch which may be hundreds or 1Ks+ of miles away from you, call your members of Congress. They have constituent services that will help you regain access. Please share!
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 28/03/2025
Re:DOGE rebuilding our COBOL system, they seem to have no plan for what to do with the dozens of web based programs we use that interface with the COBOL based program that is our master record. All of this will be useless if they don’t also reprogram those to properly interface with the new system.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Oh man! "Maybe this is exactly what the end conclusion of dismantling education and American democracy is, because this is ridiculous." I love Rep. Melanie Stansbury. This is magnificent. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Obviously, Jeffrey Goldberg has the texts that Hegseth claims that he doesn’t have. The Senate or House Armed Services Chairs can easily and quickly verify who is lying about this. If Hegseth blatant lied about this on camera tonight, how in the world can he continue in this job?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#Resisters @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social @acpflueger.bsky.social @hempcafe.bsky.social @delmarcooper2.bsky.social @maryjanecameron32.bsky.social @idahoastro.bsky.social @darkhour1983.bsky.social @aprilblossom357.bsky.social @vernaallen.bsky.social @reeruns.bsky.social @auntieautumn.bsky.social
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This story is horrific and terrifying. Then, near the end, this: "The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO... "Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads... "The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts
Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly
The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Trump ended funding to Voice of America and Radio Liberty, forcing both to stop broadcasting to countries that restrict press freedom. VOA began operations in 1942; RL started in 1951. Why did Trump silence this voice against communism, fascism and oppression? Iran, Russia and China are thrilled.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
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Craig @charms4459.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Apprx 22 Millions ppl. get their only income from their Soc Sec.So , if Elon crashes SS then 22 million will be on the streets, have to sell homes at a loss, and just plain devastated!! Wont that crash the econ. too??? Est, are the rest of seniors will lose 1/3 if their $$!! IS HE A CRAZY MAN!!!???
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.” Oh. The. Irony.
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Marco Rubio’s Policies Might Shut the Door to People Like His Grandfather (Published 2016)
Under the stricter screening Senator Marco Rubio now supports, his grandfather would most likely have been deported, depriving him of knowing the man he has called his mentor and closest boyhood frien...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I miss him and his VP.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/03/2025
It all makes sense once you realize a recession is actually a good thing for the 1%.
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff could not complete a sobriety test after twice striking a black Chevy Suburban with his white Tesla sedan, according to an affidavit from the officer who arrested him for driving under the influence last week.
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🐶 @AL- I’m here! @phoenix-al.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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V.Edward Martin @indifferentnegro.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Democratic Lawmakers should be on EVERY News broadcast shouting about this! And yet...
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