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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@davidfrum.bsky.social just listened to you on Freakanomics. Hope you were taken out of context since the altar’s repatriation isn’t complicated at all.You don’t return a Ptolemaic Egyptian artifact to Macedonia or Greece, you return it to Egypt, where it was stolen.You can’t be that dense, can you?
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
So Taiwan is basically toast. If I were a betting man, I’d wager that Xi Jinping will kidnap President Lai and take over Taiwan by the end of the year.
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@pelosi.house.gov @scottweiner.bsky.social @saikatforcongress.bsky.social How can one disagree with this position? Inquiring voter minds would like to know.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true. Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that. It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.
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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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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A permanent injunction for Wilmer, Cutler. The score is now: Law Firms That Didn’t Cave 3 Trump 0 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In what is shaping up to be a huge day for democracy in the lower federal courts, at least, Judge Chutkan rules that the case against DOGE can proceed.
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
@kevinroose.com what the hell man? Your blase attitude towards our national security interests during today’s podcast was… disturbing, to say the least.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 14/02/2025
Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out (Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
To emphasize the importance of preserving Medicaid, we request that people in high-priority districts call and write their members of Congress who are in areas that have high Medicaid usage and whose reps have competitive seats. A handy list is below; the Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
Screenshot of a list of elected reps in competitive districts and high Medicaid use. The list is: 
AZ-06: Juan Ciscomani
CA-03: Kevin Kiley
CA-22: David Valadao
CA-41: Ken Calvert
CO-08: Gabe Evans
FL-04: Aaron Bean
FL-15: Laurel Lee
FL-27: Maria Elvira Salazar
FL-28: Carlos A. Gimenez
IA-01: Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA-03: Ashley Hinson
IA-04: Zach Nunn
MI-04: Bill Huizenga
MI-07: Tom Barrett
MI-10: John James
NC-06: Addison McDowell
NC-09: Richard Hudson
NC-13: Brad KnottScreenshot of the Continuation of the list and some guidance as well. It reads: NJ-02: Jefferson Van Drew
NY-01: Nick LaLota
NY-02: Andrew Garbarino
NY-17: Michael Lawler
OH-10: Mike Turner
OH-15: Mike Carey
PA-01: Brian Fitzpatrick
PA-07: Ryan Mackenzie
PA-08: Robert Bresnahan
PA-10: Scott Perry
TX-15: Monica De La Cruz
VA -02: Jennifer Kiggans
WI-01: Bryan Steil
WI-03: Derrick Van Orden

You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with the appropriate member. We also encourage you to write to them. To be maximally effective, it is important that you contact YOUR member.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Bravo Governor Mills! Thank you for showing the other governors what courage and principle look like.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We are with you, Ukraine 🇺🇦
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Well that’s just idiotic. All AUSAs are incredibly well credentialed and can get a cushy law firm job any day of the week. To say “I took one for the team” is meaningless when the entire team knows they’ll land a 7-figure salary once they get fired.
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is FIRE. This cadre of AUSAs are definitely future Profiles in Courage. 🙏✊👏
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
BREAKING: NEW resignations over Trump's DOJ moving to drop the Eric Adams case. John Keller, acting head of the Public Integrity Section, refused to drop the case and resigned. Three others resigned. Kevin Driscoll, acting head of the Criminal Division, refused to drop the charges and resigned.
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So… considering the federal workforce has about a 4% turnover rate, we’re basically paying federal employees who would have resigned anyway and paying them to not work for 6 months. 🤷‍♂️
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I see a twelve-step program in Elon’s future… hopefully sooner rather than later.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 07/02/2025
The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine. youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
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Don Beyer Speaks About Trump's NSF Censorship on the House Floor
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trump just inadvertently admitted that Elon Musk is directing DOGE employees to access private US citizen data outside of government interests. In other words, Musk is abusing US governmental power to serve his own private needs. Brazen oligarch illegality & corruption at the heart of the US govt.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There’s your “tariff effect”. Highest 1-year inflation expectations since Nov 2023. #UMich @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the worst classification scandal in 20 years. According to someone who knows: Trump has done more for China in a couple of weeks than Xi could have dreamed.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
One of most important pieces I have written in a while: The Senate’s Dilemma: Kash Patel and the Purging of the FBI "Most significantly of all, in the questions for the record, Patel switched his line of answers away from the reassuring ones that he has 'no plans in going backwards' ..."
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The Senate's Dilemma: Kash Patel and the Purging of the FBI
On Kash Patel's nomination for FBI director in light of DOJ purge of FBI personnel and Patel's new answers to questions for record.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/02/2025
I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
senate.gov
U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
Floor Activity
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse accuses Kash Patel of lying to the Judiciary Committee ahead of his FBI director confirmation vote: "He wouldn't tell this committee what he said. He pretended there was a seal order. There is no record or any evidence of any seal order."
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
When I asked veteran strategist David Axelrod whether Democrats were “walking into a trap” on defending foreign aid, he literally finished my sentence.

“My heart is with the people out on the street outside USAID, but my head tells me: ‘Man, Trump will be well satisfied to have this fight,’” he said. “When you talk about cuts, the first thing people say is: Cut foreign aid.”

Rahm Emanuel — the former House leader, Chicago mayor and diplomat — told me much the same: “You don’t fight every fight. You don’t swing at every pitch. And my view is — while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador — that’s not the hill I’m going to die on,” he said.
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn
wapo.st
U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal
The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
the federal government is being disemboweled and you’d never know it.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
NEWS Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
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Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Block Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Oh you demand huge foreign spending in the United States?" says world leader who had previously agreed to buy a half-trillion dollars in weapons from the US while Biden was president. "Sure, our sovereign wealth fund promises to spend a half-trillion dollars on the US!"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Oh you want to send flights of deportees into our country?" says another Latin American world leader who has already been accepting commercial flights of deportees into his country for years. "Sure, you win, I prostrate myself before you: you may send us flights of deportees"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So, Mexico has agreed to do what it is already doing? www.reuters.com/article/worl...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
From the frigid temperatures of Missoula, Montana, to sunny West Palm Beach, Florida—people are starting to stand up to Trump’s inhumane deportations, and his cruel treatment of immigrants. This is just one of the ways folks are starting to fight back.
dworkinsubstack.com
Protests Against Trump Build Momentum
People are speaking out against his cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/02/2025
Let me get this straight: RFK Jr.’s idea of fixing his ethics issues is to hand his stake over to his son? The son who works at the same law firm that RFK Jr. made millions off of? RFK Jr.'s nomination should not move forward one inch until we get answers.
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Democratic senators say they have 'grave concerns' over RFK Jr.'s potential financial conflicts
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden called on the HHS nominee to vow to recuse himself from certain decisions and promise not to profit from health litigation after leaving the post.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/02/2025
Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Democrats, if you sit on your hands now, you’ll forever lose our trust (and votes)
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The only "criminal organization" is the one Elon Musk is part of. (cartoon from the archives)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Not a great sign when Wired says it won't name at least two fo the people Musk has installed to run the Office of Personnel Management because they may be minors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.com
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.com
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Sad to say, but the LA Times is dead.
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.
Tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the DC mid air collision by Thomas Schaller on X:

“An FAA employee I know confirms agency already lacks sufficient air traffic controllers. The so-called
"buyouts" and other attacks on federal employees won't help.
Remember that fact when the flight delays (crashes?) commence and Trumpers start falsely blaming DEl or
Biden.
08:06 • 1/29/25 • 1.4M Views”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Raskin: The chairman began by saying the point here is to restore the rule of law. Can you even pretend to do that if you support Trump who on day one pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists including hundreds of people who violently assaulted police officers…
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sleepyjl.bsky.social @sleepyjl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is both exactly what I expected and shaking me to the core. God help us all.
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