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A lover of books, all things vintage and a fighter for democracy. 💙

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.
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🍀🩵Cindy💙🍀 @cindyandrewsmcgraw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Of course they have😒
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DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets
Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Trump 'desperate' to lift sanctions on Russia | Andrew Neil "For him it's all a property deal." #Felon is "desperate" to carve up Ukraine with Russia in some kind of property deal, says Times Radio's Andrew Neil Thread 3/3🧵
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A road map through Trump’s lawlessness, defiance of our judiciary; undermining 1st Amendment freedoms, targeting law firms, universities, the press and other parts of civil society; impounding federal funds authorized by Congress; eroding immigrant rights; and his drive to consolidate power.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Defending Jan. 6 Rioters, Investigating Democrats: How Ed Martin Is Weaponizing the DOJ for Trump www.propublica.org/article/who-...
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Defending Jan. 6 Rioters, Investigating Democrats: How Ed Martin Is Weaponizing the DOJ for Trump
As interim U.S. attorney in D.C., Martin has fired career prosecutors, dropped Capitol riot cases and launched sweeping probes into Trump’s political enemies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The White House shut down plans to return wrongfully deported Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. from an infamous El Salvador mega-prison. Federal attorneys “began discussing how to undo the mistake” and return Garcia almost immediately after his deportation, but Trump shut that down.
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White House Blocked Plan to Return Wrongfully Deported Dad
U.S. officials were quietly working to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home from El Salvador. Then the White House stepped in.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Government officials were quietly developing a plan to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia before Trump appointees muscled their way in and halted it, per the Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A lawsuit filed by Abrego Garcia’s family sparked urgent conversations among attorneys at the Departments of State, Justice, and Homeland Security who were involved in formulating the government’s response. Their discussion—which has not been previously reported—reflected serious concerns, at odds with the administration’s later statements, according to two people familiar with the conversations, as well as notes and memos I reviewed. Both people spoke with me on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter of ongoing litigation.

These conversations show that U.S. officials initially sought to resolve Abrego Garcia’s case quietly and ensure his safety through the conventional diplomatic channels they’ve used in other cases involving a mistaken deportation. This time, though, their efforts were abruptly halted.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
FUCK. THIS. All of this.
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The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New detail from our story tonight on how Hegseth last month asked for Elon Musk to be read in on more than two dozen special access programs related to China, prompting pushback from DoD ethics lawyers. www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/p...
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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Oh look! The party of forced births is planning to cancel research funding for studies pertaining to pesticide exposure among children in rural farm country. Happy Earth Day! 🌎
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Rampin’ Up, Baby! That Thiel Start Up Hunting the Motherlode Contract is Inside Treasury
One of the most important stories in some time came out two...
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If Trump fires Powell, he nukes the market. If he leaves him in office but scapegoats him, hard to see how that helps politically: how many American voters can even name the Fed chair? He can't shift blame for the coming downturn. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
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Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Blame Powell for Any Downturn
The central bank’s legitimacy is at risk as the president attacks the Fed for cutting rates before election but not now.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Hegsethgate is bad. But the administration-wide national security crisis spinning out of control around it is much much worse. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/hegseths-pen...
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Hegseth’s Pentagon Crisis Is So Much Worse Than You Think
The Secretary of Defense must be fired, but he’s not the only one.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"Officials say the unraveling of the defense secretary’s inner circle is cause for alarm, leaving some to wonder how the Pentagon would function in a national security crisis." In fact, that is the national security crisis.
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Pete Hegseth, isolated and defiant, has Trump’s backing for now
Officials say the unraveling of Hegseth’s inner circle is cause for alarm, leaving some to wonder how the Pentagon would function in a national security crisis.
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🎯Al Gore compares Trump admin to nazi🇩🇪: “the 1st step in that nation’s descent into hell was, & I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power’…‘attack(ing) the very❤️of the distinction between true & false’…to create their own preferred version of reality” flip.it/AhwtqC
It was [Jürgen] Habermas’ mentor , Theodore Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,”’ Gore said. “He described how the Nazis, and I quote again, ‘attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false.’ End quote. The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.”
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He’s misusing the word trial—which is ironic given that he had one just last year and was convicted of 34 felonies at the end of it. I warned folks that the first sign of the final constitutional crisis would be Trump elevating the words of one Justice as a prelude to using that Justice as license.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel used a government plane—paid for by YOU—to fly to Miami and party at a UFC event. This isn’t law enforcement. This is taxpayer-funded clout-chasing. Sounds like FRAUD, WASTE and ABUSE to me! www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In which @extremearturo.bsky.social connects the dots between the attack on Josh Shapiro, the FSU mass shooting, the wannabe right wing Trump assassin who killed his parents and a bunch of attacks that haven't made the news
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Violent Hate Crimes Spike Under Trump
The attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and a teen who killed his parents as part of a plot to start a race war is the tip of the iceberg
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 21/04/2025
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "Fire anyone leaking defense info—it’s a national security risk!" Pete Hegseth in 2025: Leaks classified strike plans to his wife, brother, and lawyer. The hypocrisy is staggering. Oops Pete: By your own standards, you should fire yourself. 🔥🪖
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days. Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents.’ #MomSky #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 22/04/2025
No one is safe
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I'll point out, however, that RFK's appointed leader on this project was fined for unscientific "experiments" on autistic children that were sadistic, and seemed to be about punishing them under the guise of a cure. www.salon.com/2025/04/14/r...
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RFK's phony study into autism isn't just an assault on science — it's a war on children's health
The head of this "research" is no doctor — and has a history of torturing kids with fake autism "cures"
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The United States is Kidnapping and Disappearing human beings: 1,957 people and rising rapidly. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/04/2025
NPR reports the State Department will no longer include criticisms of poor prison conditions & government corruption in its reports on international human rights.
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Rubio’s State Department Makes Awful Change to Human Rights Definition
Human rights reports under Marco Rubio’s State department are about to look a whole lot worse.
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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Trump invoking Schedule F to reclassify federal employees as at-will workers is a tactic taken directly from Project 2025. It would strip civil servants of protections, making them easier to fire.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Attention: Musk’s staffers are now seeking access to a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants. DOGE was never about saving the U.S. money—it’s about building a government-run machine to weaponize personal data.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A “March 21 memo signed by Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, requested an investigation into ‘recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information involving sensitive communications.'” www.alternet.org/hegseth-advi...
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'This is a big deal': Top Hegseth advisor 'escorted' out of Pentagon for alleged leaking
Editor's note: This headline has been updated.A top advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly was escorted out of the Pentagon after being identified in a leak investigation into an...
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Steve Joffe @stevejoffe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT. Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just so I am keeping everything straight…the government can’t tell you to wear a mask because FREEDOM!!!!, but it can decide you are a “terrorist” and send you to a foreign gulag without due process and throw away the key. That right?
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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
@sarahposner.bsky.social Thank you, so very much for the gift article:) Essential read. #F*ckMusk www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Inside DOGE’s push to defy a court order and access Social Security data
Musk’s cost-cutting team repeatedly sought to get around a judge’s order to gain access to private details about millions of beneficiaries.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“…members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access…” What kind of shady s**t is going on here?? www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The IRS says his cuts will lose the U.S. $500 billion in revenue. So Elon has ended up costing all of us hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Barry the pug @barrythepug.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“Sources told The Washington Post Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service officials predict a more than 10% decline in collection, translating to over $500 billion.” So we’re at least $440 billion in the red from DOGE cuts. fortune.com/2025/03/24/i...
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The IRS could collect $500 billion less in tax revenue, report says, and the US may run out of cash in a few months without a debt-ceiling hike
An expected 10% revenue decline is due to changes in taxpayer behavior and President Donald Trump's cuts to the IRS, according to The Washington Post.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
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Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We found the voter fraud!!!!!
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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 10/04/2025
9:30 pm PST. INSIDER TRADING. The S&P gained $4.7 trillion in less than an hour today. Some people got in on the action early. Let me show you what that looks like, minute by minute.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/04/2025
The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The American Public Health Association has called for the resignation of RFK Jr. They're right. His ignorant, destructive, anti-science policies will leave people dead. I support and thank the APHA for this leadership.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Not sure how these people sleep at night
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“you don’t know them”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/04/2025
We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/04/2025
Dear media, STOP CALLING THEM RECIPROCAL. THEY ARE UNILATERAL TAXES ON AMERICANS. ~ Everyone
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 09/04/2025
Trump is abusing his power to punish truth-tellers like Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor—issuing executive orders calling for DOJ investigations against them. This is authoritarian retribution, plain & simple. I warned this would happen & that he would falsely claim “treason.” This is deranged.
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