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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Jurors ruled that yes, Meta "eavesdropped and that yes, users could have reasonably expected that their sensitive menstrual information was not being shared. Finally, the jurors ruled that no, Meta did not have consent for its actions."
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
My FYP is video after video of pre-med students explaining how the big bill’s student loan cap will make it impossible for them to afford med school. Experts were already predicting a doctor shortage to the tune of 86k by 2036. This will make it exponentially worst. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hFxfBL/
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The government just ended my ability to even apply to medical school, it’s no longer an option because private student loans would lead to absolute financial ruin. All of my work for the past 5-8 year...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/07/2025
A few days ago, Kristi Noem was bragging about stealing money from FEMA to fund Alligator Alcatraz
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
As we kept warning, Republicans are willing to kill their own base to line up their pockets and please the billionaires. And, voila, the tragedy in Texas that sadly will become more common with natural disasters and defunded infrastructures and organizations designed to help people.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
May this Fourth of July remind us of where we came from, of what we’re fighting for, and of who we can be. Organize. Mobilize. Resist. Power to the people.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States. It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps. It’s fascism.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It's a fascist regime, folks. You have to start treating it like such. You need all hands on deck and a remarkable change in attitude, language and tactics to confront Trump and MAGA. The old guard ain't gonna cut it.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
17 million people’s health insurance is not waste. If you’re looking for frauds, look at all the Republicans who promised not to cut Medicaid but did it anyways.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
An obscene $170 billion is going towards the Trump regime’s deportation efforts in the “Big Beautiful Bill”, including $45 billion for detention centers and $27 billion for more ICE agents and operations. The ICE concentration camps alone will have more money than the entire federal prison system.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Not only does this bill strip healthcare from millions of people, steal our money for billionaires, and explode the deficit by trillions. It also gives $170 billion to the regime’s deportation efforts. More ICE. More kidnappings. More concentration camps. Their evil has no limits—this is fascism.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Well, seems like it's over. Trump will get his almost $200 billion more for immigration agents, weapons, surveillance tools, and huge detention expansion. This will entail at minimum another roughly 19,000 immigration agents across ICE and CBP, that will probably be shotgun-hired at lower standards
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The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention
The Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
All of what you've seen so far — the detention of activists, the masked agents in cars with no plates, the raids with in full combat gear, the detention camps — has been a prelude. We'll see it all kick into overdrive. There will be multiple more teams of masked, inexperienced agents in every city
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 03/07/2025
The GOP Budget Bill is a tragedy for the American people and a complete moral failure. Donald Trump and his MAGA enablers are ripping care from cancer patients, meals from children, and money from working families — just to give tax breaks to the ultra-rich.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2025
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/07/2025
Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated,
"Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn't leave." Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then
forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in
the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head
was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons
along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.
121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel
from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.
During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no
windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.
122. After approximately one week at CECOT, prison director Osiris Luna and other
officials separated the 21 Salvadorans who had arrived together. Twelve individuals with visible gang-related tattoos were moved to another cell, while Plaintiff Abrego Garcia remained with eight
others who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos.
123. As reflected by his segregation, the Salvadoran authorities recognized that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not affiliated with any gang and, at around this time, prison officials explicitly acknowledged that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, telling him "your
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Here’s Abrego Garcia’s amended complaint. It alleges that Abrego Garcia “was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture..” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Case 8:25-cv-00951-PX Document 211-3 Filed 07/02/25 Page 22 of 40
114. Inmates in CECOT are confined to their cells for 23.5 hours daily and cannot go
outdoors. They are denied access to reading materials, including even letters from friends or
family. Inmates are prohibited from receiving visits from family and friends. Meals are provided
through the bars, and the facility enforces strict regulations to maintain order. See Ex. H.
115. In May 2023, Cristosal, a leading human rights organization in El Salvador,
released a comprehensive report detailing severe human rights abuses within the country's prison
system, especially CECOT. See Ex. I. The investigation documented the deaths of 153 inmates
between March 27, 2022, and March 27, 2023, attributing many to torture, beatings, mechanical
asphyxiation (strangulation), and lack of medical attention. Id. Autopsies revealed common
patterns of lacerations, hematomas, sharp object wounds, and signs of choking or strangulation.
Id. Survivors reported being forced to pick food off the floor with their mouths, subjected to
electric shocks, and exposed to untreated skin fungus epidemics. Id. Cristosal's director has
emphasized that these systemic violations have become state policy. Id.
116. Plaintiff Abrego Garcia reports that he was subjected to severe mistreatment upon
arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation,
inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture
117. Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was the first name called to disembark the plane that
transported him to El Salvador on March 15, 2025. As he exited the aircraft, still in chains, two officials grabbed his arms and pushed him down the stairs, forcing his head down.
118. There were strong lights illuminating the area despite it being nighttime, and
cameras were filming the detainees' arrival.
119. Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was pushed toward a bus, forcibly seated, and fitted with a
second set of chains and handcuffs. He was repe…
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
Case 8:25-cv-00951-PX
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Filed 07/02/25 Page 2 of 5
3. The proposed Amended Complaint details the Government's defiance of court
orders after this Court granted preliminary injunctive relief. The Amended Complaint includes
allegations that the Government made decisions to defy judicial mandates. These allegations are
new to the Complaint, but have been cited in various filings in this Court as the case has developed.
They are directly relevant to Plaintiffs' constitutional claims and outstanding requests for
declaratory and prospective injunctive relief.
4. Plaintiffs also seek to incorporate evidence that emerged in a June 2025
whistleblower disclosure from former DOJ official Erez Reuveni, who was previously counsel for
the Government in this case. The new allegations include government officials internally
acknowledging that Abrego Garcia's removal was an "administrative error" while simultaneously
working to prevent his return and to make post-hoc justifications. These revelations provide
evidence of deliberate misconduct that was unavailable when the original Complaint was filed and
directly support Plaintiffs' claims.
5. The proposed Amended Complaint also Includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand
account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT, as well as developments regarding his return to the United States and the Government's stated plan to remove him again. These allegations identify
the severe harm actually suffered and the threat of repeated unlawful removal that supports
Plaintiffs' request for prospective injunctive relief. The inclusion of these facts, which could not
have been pleaded at the time of the original filing, is essential to present a complete picture of the
violations and ensure adequate relief.
6. Plaintiffs also propose to clarify that the relief sought includes restoring the status
quo ante, which requires (among other things) the Government to return Abrego Garcia to
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
One thing that's clear is that these kidnappings will continue so long as there's no organized resistance to them. That resistance could be nonviolent or armed, coordinated by state and local governments or by groups of residents. Bottom line is that someone has to get between immigrants and ICE.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/06/2025
I often wonder how many of these guys go to church on Sunday after spending the week terrorizing children
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Call your senators and your rep. This is insane.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025
for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.
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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Taking $ meant to help the population and using it for mass incarceration is kind of the essence of authoritarian priorities and goals.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 25/06/2025
Agree 100%. And it is not just the lying and efforts to evade judicial review. A first grader could tell you that the administration's rendition scheme flagrantly violated the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantee, regardless of what the courts said.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Yeah, that’s exactly what he wanted.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
As the author of a global history of concentration camps that came out in 2017, this sums up the last several years of my life.
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PoliticalOdor @politicalodor.substack.com · 24/06/2025
This is really short, so easy watch. I've mentioned how pumping up the infrastructure is what saved us all from the great depression. This is another facet of that. Lift people out of poverty, and you help the country! Tax breaks for rich do NOT benefit the people!!! youtube.com/shorts/IWs-z...
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Why don’t we see addressing poverty as investing in our future? Sociologist Matthew Desmond explains
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Veasey has RFK Jr dead to rights here, and they both know it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies? RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Reuveni notes that he repeatedly told DHS throughout the night of March 15 that they had to follow court orders. Even Drew Ensign agreed Judge Boasberg's order required them to turn the planes around. Emil Bove intervened and ordered DHS to ignore that interpretation.
At 10:13 p.m., after he and Mr. Flentje had exchanged numerous emails and he had no information about any DHS compliance, Mr. Reuveni again emailed DHS to ask about whether guidance had been disseminated with direction for DHS to turn any planes around ifnotyet landed or to not deplane the people on board if already landed. Shortly thereafter, DHS responded via email that they were holding issuance of guidance pending a decision from the Attorney General. 2. Emil Bove advised the Department of Homeland Security that it may take actions that violate the court's injunction because the injunction was not yet issued in writing For the next few hours on the night of March 15 , Mr. Reuveni exchanged emails with Flentje and engaged in multiple phone calls with Ensign. He was concerned about two things: 1) that deplaning any passengers would violate the court's orders, and 2) the need to notify the court of the government's compliance with those orders, or its interpretation of the orders. Sometime around midnight, Ensign informed Mr. Reuveni that DOJ would be filing a notice with the court, signed by Bove, explaining its interpretation ofthe court order, including that no violation ofthe court order had occurred because the two planes left U.S. airspace before the court's written minute order. Ensign directed Mr. Reuveni to prepare Bove's notice of appearance. While Mr. Reuveni disagreed with the interpretation that there was no violation of a court order, the fact that Bove, a senior DOJ official, was willing to enter an appearance in the case and make this representation to the courtsomewhat lessened his concerns because he believed he and his staffwould not be put in the untenable position ofdefending this argument.In an email from Acting Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Yaakov Roth to Ensign, Flentje, and Mr. Reuveni, Roth explained that Bove had advised DHS that under the court order it was permissible to deplane individuals on the flights that departed U.S. airspace before the minute order had issued on the docket. That afternoon, the Department ofJustice filed a Notice indicating that defendants "were promptly notified of the court's temporary restraining order issued in the morning and the 7:26 PM EDT minute order that temporarily enjoined any removals pursuant to the Presidential Proclamation. ” The Notice also asserted that “some gang members subject to removal under the Proclamation had already been removed from United States territory under the Proclamation before the issuance of this court's second [written] order. " ³4 By day's end, multiple media reports and postings from senior government officials in both the United States and El Salvador on social media confirmed that all individuals on two ofthe three planes that had taken offMarch 15 had been detained in the CECOT prison in El Salvador.35 The next hearing in the case occurred on Monday, March 17, 2025. At some point priorto the March 17 hearing, Ensign informed Mr. Reuveni that Ensign would not be handling the hearing given concerns that the court would likely interrogate Ensign concerning the March 15 events.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Reuveni accuses Drew Ensign, the DOJ lawyer appearing for the Trump admin in the CECOT cases and other immigration cases, of lying to Judge Boasberg on March 15 when he said he didn't know planes were taking off. He says Ensign was at a meeting the day before when the flight were planned!
At this hearing, Judge Boasberg said that “the plaintiffs ... expected planes to be departing within the last couple of hours,” and asked Ensign “if any ofthe named plaintiffs are, in fact, or any plane that has departed?" Ensign assured the court that none of the named plaintiffs would be removed during the pendency ofthe TRO. When Judge Boasberg asked if that meant the plaintiffs “are either not on the planes or that they will not be removed from the planes and will be brought back once the planes land in El Salvador, ” Ensign asserted, “I don't know the status ofthe planes. Ifthere are removal flights, the five would not be on them. ” When Judge Boasberg asked whether any deportations orremovals were imminent, as “in the next 24 or 48 hours,” Ensign answered, “I don't know the answer to that question. "26 Mr. Reuveni reasonably believes Ensign's statement to the court that he did not know whether AEA removals would take place “in the next 24 or 48 hours" was false. Ensign had been present in the previous day's meeting when Emil Bove stated clearly that one or more planes containing individuals subject to the AEA would be taking off over the weekend no matter what.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts "fuck you” and ignore any such court order. Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room. Mr. Reuveni and others were quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove's directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would tell DHS to follow all court orders.21 - Mr. Reuveni was stunned by Bove's statement because, to Mr. Reuveni's knowledge, no one in DOJ leadership - in any Administration – had ever suggested the Department ofJustice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with a "fuck you.” Mr. Reuveni was in disbelief, because, on the contrary, the Department of Justice consistently advises its clients of their obligation to follow court orders, not to ignore them. Mr. Reuveni knew that it was absurd and unlawful to do otherwise, a proposition that Mr. Reuveni felt even more certain of after a brief conversation with his supervisor, August Flentje, shortly after the meeting.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
RFK Jr. is killing Americans with his reckless health policies. We need to state that plainly because it's important and it's true.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This man has been nominated by Trump for a judicial appointment. Hearing on Weds "Senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill the president’s aggressive deportation campaign, according to a whistle-blower complaint."
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Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Provisions Subject to a 60-Vote Byrd Rule Point of Order

Energy and Natural Resources

NEPA compliance. These provisions deem offshore oil and gas projects as automatically compliant with the National Environmental Policy Act, nullifying these projects' environmental review processes. (Subsection

102(b)(4) and Subsection 102(b)(5))

Offshore oil and gas leasing. This subsection

requires leases to be issued to successful bidders within 90 days after the lease sale.

(Subsection 102(b)(6))

Ambler Road. This section requires the

Secretary of the Interior to permit construction of Ambler Road, a controversial mining road in Alaska. (Section 201)

Mandatory public land sales. This section mandates the unprecedented sale of millions of acres of public land, including from both Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands. (Section 301)Renewable energy fees. This subsection removes the Secretary of the Interior's discretion to reduce fees for solar and wind projects on Bureau of Land Management land. (Subsection 303(e))

Geothermal leasing and royalties. These sections require the Secretary of the Interior to hold yearly geothermal lease sales and purport to change how geothermal royalties are calculated. (Section 305 and Section 306)

Natural gas exports and imports. This section creates a pay-to-play regime for natural gas exports, allowing natural gas exporters to pay a fee to have their project be deemed "in the public interest," which is a requirement for approval. (Section 401)
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/06/2025
Our nation’s heroes put their lives on the line to protect our way of life – we owe them every bit of support we offer.
 Trump wants to deny veterans’ health care because of who they love or vote for.
 Illinois will protect the benefits they've earned.
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Gov. Pritzker Takes Action to Protect Veterans from Healthcare Discrimination
Governor directs state agencies to activate resources for veterans amid reports of Trump administration threatening veterans healthcare
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/06/2025
BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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In a Stunning Critique, Ketanji Brown Jackson Nails One of This Court’s Worst Traits
The court is contorting the law to favor big business while locking out the most vulnerable, the newest justice wrote.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?
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