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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Sheryl Crow says after she posted that video of getting rid of her Tesla an armed man got into her barn. But she says she would do it again anyway. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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Standingup @standingup.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Another great article (with gift link) on federal research funding which is at risk under Trump. Read and share so more understand how important this funding is for us.

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Standingup @standingup.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Please read & share (gift article). “If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research,” said Andrew Fieldhouse, a Texas A&M economist and an author of the Dallas Fed study."

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A very brief🧵: A recent NY Times article reports on a survey of 35 scholars (including me) asking about the worst excesses of the Trump administration thus far. I discuss the article in my latest column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social. Here's my column. 👇

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34 out of 35 Scholars Agree: Trump is a Lawless Authoritarian

Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf evaluates the constitutional and legal abuses committed by Donald Trump during his second term as president, based on a New York Times survey of 35 legal scholars...

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

President Trump 2.0 has openly committed more impeachable abuses of power than all prior presidents combined, including Trump 1.0. The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff says he ‘strongly’ agrees Trump needs to be impeached | CNN Politics

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told a voter in Georgia on Friday that he “strongly” agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached.

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

DOJ's Civil Rights Division has for nearly seven decades been at the forefront of some of the department’s most historically significant work. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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Trump DOJ Decimates The Civil Rights Division And All It Stood For

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Donald Trump has pushed us to a new low. He has accomplished that by enriching himself, whether by pardoning a felon who, together with his wife, donated $1.8 mm to the Trump campaign; promoting Teslas on the White House driveway; or holding a private dinner for purchasers of his cryptocurrency.

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Opinion | Donald Trump Is Selling the White House to the Highest Bidder

Donald Trump has set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior.

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Mabs A'Mabbin @mabsamabbin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

And again and again and again and again and again

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

PurplePalozza. This morning on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Did y'all know that before the crowbar was invented, crows just drank at home 🥴🥴🤣🤣 Happy Sunday y'all

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The world is on Zelensky’s side. Zelensky applauded by world leaders upon entering church.

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Cracking Otago day.

Sun rising behind Taiaroa at the top of the Otago Peninsula. Taken from a kayak, low on the water.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"Voters said he had “gone too far” on issue after issue — his tariffs, his immigration enforcement, his cuts to the federal work force." NEW polling shows the country is turning on Trump. It can't happen fast enough IMHO. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

The New York Times/Siena College Poll

April 21 to 24

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling …
His job as president
Net
approval
Approve
42%

Disapprove
54%
–12 pts.
Immigration
47

51
–4 pts.
Managing the federal government
44

52
–8 pts.
The economy
43

55
–12 pts.
Trade with other countries
42

53
–11 pts.
Foreign conflicts
40

54
–14 pts.
The war between Russia and Ukraine
35

56
–21 pts.
The case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia
31

52
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Standingup @standingup.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Very good thread on the child with cancer who ICE deported.

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A child who is a U.S. citizen, "suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s urgent medical needs" Reporting by @aclu.org

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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union

Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

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Joan ❌👑 @still4dems.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Trump will not collect data tracking mental health, drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, deportations, weather-related data, student achievement scores. Will we know what problems we have? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

China trolls the American idiots

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The WHI is ending and why you should be concerned and furious. Also, giving RFK Jr, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Dr. Marty Makary the keys to the proverbial castle is akin to putting three rabid raccoons into a Costco; eventually they’ll rip everything apart vajenda.substack.com/p/the-whi-is...

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The WHI is Ending–You Should Be Furious and Concerned

Ignorance is Strength: RFK Jr and Trump's Anti-Science Agenda

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🤦🏼 couldn’t make it up if we tried

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Instead of taking a "lessons learned" approach to the history of the Covid pandemic, Trump is falsifying and rewriting everything to magnify and glorify himself and to fuel his conspiracy theory of the month.

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Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19

THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: An emerging conventional wisdom is that universities should abandon federal dollars since it gives Trump a means to strong-arm them. But breaking the federal-university research partnership would have high societal costs. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

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Are universities too dependent on federal support?

Destroying a decades-long scientific partnership will hurt more than higher ed

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Trump aims to disembowel scientific research in the US. FT explores the how of his program, though the why remains a mystery. www.ft.com/content/67fd...

ft.com

The cost of Trump’s attack on American science

Sweeping funding cuts threaten to undermine the innovation that has been a central part of US economic strength for decades

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

To all those who say Trump has “single-handedly” wrecked the economy: He didn’t do it single-handedly. Congress could’ve stopped him anytime. The Republican-led Congress allowed him to wreck the economy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/04/2025

New in PN: RFK Jr. is wrong about autism "The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

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RFK Jr. is wrong about autism

His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.

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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This guy is hysterical!! You have to watch. 😂😂 my friend sent it to me like that. The vid starts immediately.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Is there a Signal chat I can join that will reveal the precise timing and the route of the bombshells that will be deployed to take out Pete Hegseth?

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

VOLUNTEERS REQUEST: Office is coming along well but it would go along well with some generous and skilled NYC area volunteers. Skills needed: "Prepping and painting walls, assembling furniture, using power drills; self-motivated with good judgement. Stage manager or office manager types"

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It is difficult for me to convey how profoundly unsurprised I was reading this article, which is about the world's richest and most famous entrepreneur threatening to deport his employees for pointing out a potentially fatal safety issue with his car company's brakes futurism.com/tesla-engine...

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"He's Pure Evil": Former Tesla Engineer Says Elon Musk Threatened to Deport Her Team for Pointing Out a Problem With the Brakes

A Tesla engineer has accused Tesla of threatening her team with deportation after bringing up a brake safety issue with CEO Elon Musk.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline:

High school graduates in prison

Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our current Medical Establishment can’t control a measles outbreak even with a near perfect vaccine. There are no signs of competence. And they expect us to believe they would have figured out COVID if they were in charge?

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

As some of you have seen, Paul Krugman has interviewed me again for his newsletter. This time about the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis. It is surreal to have done two of these in seven weeks, & it may yet become a regular thing. Thanks again @pkrugman.bsky.social! www.crisesnotes.com/liquidity-vo...

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Liquidity, Volatility and Market Craziness: Paul Krugman Interviews Nathan Tankus Again

SubscribeTip! Exactly seven weeks since the first interview Krugman did with me was published, I have another interview to bring readers. It's quite surreal to be something like a regular corresponde...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

“‘Pretty soon, within the next couple of weeks, everything regarding IT and cyber at the department will start to operationally reach a point of no return,’ one source, who was part of a team that managed these systems at HHS for a decade before being part of the RIF, alleges to WIRED.”

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Standingup @standingup.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The biggest source of waste, fraud and abuse of our federal government is Elon Musk.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/04/2025

Trump wants to control what’s taught in colleges—but the U.S. leads the world in top universities for a reason. Because we funded innovation & let them operate freely—they thrived. Now Trump wants to gut that. Reminder: Presidents can’t legally defund schools. This is authoritarian cosplay!

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eeny📙 @markprimmer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Also a Brit here, and yes, it is. I didn't have a clue about American politics before twunt announced he would run the first time, the last decade has been an education, and I follow you guys more than even our mess at home. Full support: We know the majority are decent and worthy; we are with you.

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Standingup @standingup.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

More of this and less how do we get the working class white guy who voted for Trump back.

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tales-typoz @tales-typoz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We are not invisible. This kind person from the UK sees us and is proud of us. You might need a tissue when you watch this 👇👇👇👇👇

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Marlena (#felon47 is NOT my President) ❌👑 @ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#ProudBlue This is Jenifer Lewis (jeniferLewisforreal) on Instagram 💙💙💙

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Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Eliminating Americorp, and getting rid of Head Start this week. Did any of us think we no longer need Meals on Wheels?

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Trans Woman Escapes America’s Hate and Finds Peace on the Ocean -- Shortly after President Trump’s reelection, @tanukiprincess.bsky.social fled Texas by boat and has been living on the Atlantic Ocean ever since. "“The middle of nowhere is a beautiful place.”

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Trans Woman Escapes America’s Hate and Finds Peace on the Ocean

Shortly after President Trump’s reelection, Kelsey Granger fled Texas by boat and has been living on the Atlantic Ocean ever since.

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