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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’

The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

New, from me: Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...

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Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal

The demise of Humphrey's Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory

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Center for Western Priorities @westernpriorities.org · 22/05/2025

"It was unthinkable that we would talk about selling off public lands to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy... And now we're talking about it... So even when it's just rhetoric, it really matters... and it requires people to push back." — @wilderness.org President Tracy Stone-Manning on The Landscape

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Tracy Stone-Manning on the biggest threats to public lands right now - Center for Western Priorities

Kate and Aaron talk to Tracy Stone-Manning, former director of the Bureau of Land Management and current president of the Wilderness Society. Tracy tells us what it was like to inherit an agency that ...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

McGovern: We live in the richest country on Earth and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one and especially when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Noem would fail the citizenship test.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2025

my column/essay this week is on the administration's war on the future, what that means, and the obligation anti-trump americans have to articulate a robust vision of an egalitarian future in response. read/share/etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This story has a dozen or so nice anecdotes on why institutional competence matters and exactly what we've lost by this administration's hackneyed "reforms." wapo.st/43fc1aw

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Trump’s actions are pushing thousands of experts to flee government

The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Indeed. When's the last time Trump spoke about a complicated subject in a way that would get a passing grade in a college class? Heck, just this morning is this post, which presumably had the benefit of staff feedback and editing. This would get a "not fit for college" note to the dean.

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Big case today in the United States Supreme Court. Birthright Citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing at the “SUCKERS” that we are! The United States of America is the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knows — But the drug cartels love it! We are, for the sake of being politically correct, a STUPID Country but, in actuality, this is the exact opposite of being politically correct, and it is yet another point that leads to the dysfunction of America. Birthright Citizenship is about the babies of slaves. As conclusive proof, the Civil War ended in 1865, the Bill went to Congress less than a year later, in 1866, and was passed shortly after that. It had nothing to do with Illegal Immigration for people wanting to SCAM our Country, from all parts of the World, which they have done for many years. It had to do with Civil War results, and the babies of slaves who our politicians felt, correctly, needed protection. Please explain this to the Supreme Court of the United States. Again, remember, the Civil War ended in 1865, and the Bill goes to Congress in 1866 — We didn’t have people pouring into our Country from all over South America, and the rest of the World. It wasn’t even a subject. What we had were the BABIES OF SLAVES. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Good luck with this very important case. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.!

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

1/🧵 What if Democrats' best strategy to fight GOP corruption isn't matching Republican billionaire money but refusing it entirely? My empirical analysis shows why rejecting mega-donors and corporate PACs is both principled AND pragmatic. Let me explain…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Within a short period of time we have gotten to a political system where SCOTUS has given the President broad immunity, and Congress says clearly impeachable offenses are "not my lane."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We have got to stop comparing Trump's targeting of enemies and attacks on speech as "McCarthyism" when it is so far beyond what Joe McCarthy ever tried. Trumpism stands alone.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 15/05/2025

Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page

The problems with this prosecution are legion, but most immediately, the
government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts. Immunity is not a defense to the prosecution to be determined later by a jury or court; it is an absolute bar to the prosecution at the outset. See Trump v. United States,
603 U.S. 593, 630 (2024).

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/05/2025

BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

As a scholar of corruption, I made this point 6 months ago & given Trump administration’s action, it might be worthwhile to repost👇 IMHO pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward & OVERestimate voter punishment that corruption

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12/05/2025

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

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Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article)

When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The president imprisoned a student for calling what is happening in Gaza "Credible accusations [of a] a plausible genocide" www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

People really tried to argue, for years, that this is about economic anxiety and not white supremacy.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Crafty Dutch plan to lure Trump to The Hague

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This is most of what the Founders of America were opposed to, what they set up a new government to avoid

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

This expands a similar purge recently at the Naval Academy library, in Maryland. Last month, civilian Navy officials, following orders originating from Mr. Hegseth, pulled from shelves books including one that critiqued “The Bell Curve,” a 1994 text that argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people. But the academy kept “The Bell Curve” itself on its shelves.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

House GOP just unveiled $4 Trillion in tax cuts - overwhelmingly for the wealthy - in a country that already leads the developed world in inequality. Look at where the US stands right now: Top 1%: 20% of income CEO pay: 354x workers Child poverty: 21% And they want to make it worse. On purpose.🧵⬇️

A chart titled “American Exceptionalism: Cross-National Policy Comparison” compares the United States with other advanced democracies across eight key economic indicators. Each indicator is represented as a dot plot showing the distribution among peer countries, with the U.S. highlighted in red and labeled.
1. Top 1% Share of Income – The U.S. has the highest at 20.2%, far above the median of 9.1%.
2. CEO to Worker Pay Ratio – The U.S. is the outlier with a ratio of 354, compared to a median of 89.
3. Share of Low Paying Jobs – The U.S. stands at 24.5%, higher than the median of 16.0%.
4. Working Age Poverty Rate – The U.S. is again among the highest at 15.4%, compared to a median of 10.2%.
5. Child Poverty Rate – The U.S. shows 21.2%, one of the highest, while the median is 12.3%.
6. Intergenerational Economic Mobility – The U.S. scores lowest with 0.5 (higher values indicate more mobility), while the median is 0.3.
7. Annual Hours Worked per Worker – The U.S. is near the top at 1,786 hours, above the median of 1,635.
8. Collective Bargaining Coverage – The U.S. has the lowest at 12.0%, far below the median of 51.2%.

The chart visually emphasizes the U.S.’s position as an outlier in economic inequality, poverty, and labor protections among peer democracies.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Old person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003 We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again

The United States Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE; /ais/»®) is a federal law
enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security. Created by U.S. president George
W. Bush in 2003 following the September 11 attacks,
ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States
from cross-border crime and illegal immigration that
threaten national security and public safety.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

If you have to repeatedly break the law to arrest those you claim have broken the law, you’re not enforcing the law. ICE has morphed into a terrorizing Gestapo-like goon squad. They must be held accountable.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Here is the full article confirming everything the litigators in the D.V.D. case had argued. Trump was about to send a dozen men to a country they’d never been to, to a place where they might have been dead or enslaved within weeks. Only the courts stopped him. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Why Asian and Mexican immigrants, moments away from being deported to Libya, never left the U.S.

The immigrants were woken up at 2:30 a.m. and boarded on a bus to wait for hours outside a military plane in Texas. They were then sent back to solitary confinement.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

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GovExec @govexec.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Agencies across the federal government continue to downsize. See where the biggest cuts have happened so far, and stay updated with the full tracker here: buff.ly/Gi2eLZB

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

100%, one of the many reasons Democrats should never support anything Trump does, nor strive to appear "bipartisan." They don't get more votes from that, they just share the blame. Don't let anything be "the government's fault." It's Trump's fault. It's the GOP's fault. Blame, blame, blame.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

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Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services

Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

American conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/05/2025

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

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They don't need a warrant

A federal kidnapping in Worcester

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Important thread. I will note that the provision almost certainly will be determined by the Senate Parliamentarian to violate the Byrd Rule.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The logic of SCOTUS - that Trump must be allowed to inflict damage here, with no urgent reason to do so, before deciding on the legality of the case - is how they have treated the broader assault on the federal government

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I in @science.org: "Career officials in scientific agencies are unwilling hostages in Trump’s politicization of science, wondering if they will lose their jobs for trying to defend their congressionally mandated missions." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Institutionalizing politicized science

The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Gran...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

There are so many laws and rules regarding privacy protections for federal data (especially tax data), there is simply no way this is legal. The Trump Administration is engaging in blatantly illegal activities (again) and the only reporting on legality is that the Trump Admin says it's legal.

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

What's annoying is we had a LOT of energy right after Bush to put a lot of Bush officials in prison, Obama even alluded to it in the campaign, and then the moment the primary was near wrapped up it became "Listen, we must focus on the future not the past", because no one ever thinks those are linked

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

An attempt to cast consumers as feminized and hence contemptable …. not like those manly producers.

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'd just like to briefly and plainly walk through each lie Bhattacharya told in this interview. 1. "I arrived the day that the RIF [reduction in force] happened. … I had nothing to do with it" It is odd then that he told us it's exactly what he wanted to do, before he got the job.

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