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NPR @npr.org · 17/11/2025
The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has left his post, marking another disruption in a year of staff and policy changes. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods in Texas. n.pr/4nZWjs0
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FEMA acting chief David Richardson departs after 6 months on the job, officials say
The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has left his post, marking another disruption in a year of staff and policy changes. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods in Texas.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The numbers tell the story.
A tweet from Paul (@SkylineReport) reads:
“ICE dragged the country through a full-blown panic just to spit out 16 cases. Sixteen. That’s a joke, a wet firecracker, an insult to everyone they terrorised.
Meanwhile Trump has shoved thousands of actual criminals back onto the streets with his clown-car pardons. Forget 16. His body count of offenders not behind bars anymore is in the thousands.”
He’s quote-tweeting CBS News (@CBSNews), which wrote:
“Only 16 of over 600 detained by ICE in Chicago area have criminal histories, records show.”
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NPR @npr.org · 18/11/2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $35.9 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
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CPB agrees to revive a $36 million deal with NPR killed after Trump's pressure
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $35.9 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/10/2025
Gen Z protesters — from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco — are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
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Why Gen Z protesters worldwide are flying an anime pirate flag
Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14/10/2025
Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/10/2025
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
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taucross069.bsky.social @taucross069.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Nonprofit Avivo building new indoor shelter of tiny homes in St. Cloud www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Nonprofit Avivo building new indoor shelter of tiny homes in St. Cloud
The indoor village will feature 48 private dwellings with common spaces for activities and wrap-around services, such as health care, mental health and recovery support.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🚨NEVER FORGET: RFK Jr. was NOT sworn in when he was "grilled" by GOP Senators. Senator Ron Wyden made a point and asked him to be SWORN in, but was IGNORED by the GOP, especially Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Senator Mike Crapo. Any "grilling" by the GOP was political theater. NO CONSEQUENCES!🚨
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Kangaroo Court AKA Supreme Court approves racial profiling for the Trump administration re: immigration in California. This is absolutely DISGUSTING. The Judicial Court is a disgrace. 🤬 apple.news/A6lbGAI3rSMS...
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Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration stops in Los Angeles — Los Angeles Times
The high court says agents may stop and question people they suspect are undocumented based on them working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.
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taucross069.bsky.social @taucross069.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Free house cleaning!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Think about the damage Musk, Rubio, Voight and Trump have done.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Good substack post here. The first comment below it gets the conclusion badly wrong. "since the labs that got a multi-year grant the previous year presumably won't be applying, it should be easier for labs that didn't get funding..." Scientists, comment? (That's not how science labs work.) 1/
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I get why this is disruptive for scientists this year. But next year, since the labs that got a multi-year grant the previous year presumably won't be applying, it should be easier for labs that didn't get funding that year to get funding since they won't have to compete with these labs. And so and son on for a couple more years. So while the change will cause some short term disruption, in time (unless the budget is cut), presumably just as many scientists get funded. Is that wrong? If so, what am I missing here?
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NPR @npr.org · 29/07/2025
The Trump administration has effectively eliminated two rules designed to promote cleaner cars. Now, as the EPA suggests not considering carbon dioxide to be pollution, the last is poised to fall.
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The EPA proposes gutting its greenhouse gas rules. Here's what it means for cars and pollution
The Trump administration has effectively eliminated two rules designed to promote cleaner cars. Now, as the EPA suggests not considering carbon dioxide to be pollution, the last is poised to fall.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Judge Boasberg expressed concerns about Trump violating court orders. MAGA world explodes. Justice Alito flies an insurrectionist flag and Justice Thomas accepts gifts from billionaires that have had interests before SCOTUS. Not a peep from MAGA. Do I have this right?
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NPR @npr.org · 29/07/2025
The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.
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Trump's EPA wants to eliminate regulation for greenhouse gases
The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/07/2025
Todd Blanche's personal involvement in the case of Jeffrey Epstein is fueling questions about proper procedures at the Justice Department.
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Todd Blanche's past hangs over him as top DOJ official on Epstein case
Todd Blanche's personal involvement in the case of Jeffrey Epstein is fueling questions about proper procedures at the Justice Department.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.
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EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates | US EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regu...
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Logical conclusion
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The Trump administration has taken its anti-diversity agenda to such extremes that it's killing good infrastructure projects - including roadway safety improvements that I worked on with congressional Republicans - just because they went to disadvantaged areas.
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Black Lives Matter, Release trump Epstein files NOW 💯 💙 🇦🇺🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jc1659.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
She said on the show that if the FBI did something when she came forward many young girls wouldn't have been abused if they arested him, some have committed suicide because of what happened to them,many were threatened with death, like the one who accused trump &Epstein of raping her when she was 13
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Maria Farmer is a strong inspiring survivor of Maxwell and Epstein’s abuses. She’s right when she says pedophilia is not a partisan issue but rather a societal problem. We need to give a voice to the victims who want to testify and trust them. We should not rely on an abuser to know what happened.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/07/2025
Reports of starvation in Gaza raise the questions: Why the hesitation in labeling it a famine? And who are the authorities with the power to make that call?
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What does it take for a famine to be declared in Gaza?
Reports of starvation in Gaza raise the questions: Why the hesitation in labeling it a famine? And who are the authorities with the power to make that call?
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NPR @npr.org · 17/07/2025
An experimental technique that patches defective DNA with donated genetic material helped families at risk of passing rare illnesses to their children.
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How a third parent's DNA can prevent an inherited disease
An experimental technique that patches defective DNA with donated genetic material helped families at risk of passing rare illnesses to their children.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The U.S. has collected over $80 billion in tariff revenue since Trump unilaterally slapped them on our biggest trading partners. That's an increase of 65% from the previous year. In other words, Americans paid $80 billion more for goods than they should have paid.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/07/2025
CDC staffers worry $140 million in grants could fail to reach state and local overdose programs. The White House officials say the dollars will arrive but won't say when.
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White House says U.S. fentanyl overdose programs will be funded 'in increments'
CDC staffers worry $140 million in grants could fail to reach state and local overdose programs. The White House officials say the dollars will arrive but won't say when.
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Hot Tea D. @1hottea.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Not one!!! 😡
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taucross069.bsky.social @taucross069.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
A pool party ‘by and for fat folks’ is making waves in the Twin Cities www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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A pool party ‘by and for fat folks’ is making waves in the Twin Cities
This is the fifth year Cake Plus-size Resale has hosted Fat Splash, which aims to reclaim the pool as a positive and affirming space.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/07/2025
The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.
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Migrants deported from U.S. to Salvadoran prison remain under U.S. control
The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
In a court filing today, the IRS upended a decades-old ban on churches endorsing political candidates. At the same time, it's a rule that the IRS has almost never enforced. In 2022, we spotlighted 20 churches who appeared to violate this rule for local, state and federal elections:
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These 20 Churches Supported Political Candidates. Experts Say They Violated Federal Law.
Churches aren’t supposed to endorse political candidates, according to IRS rules. Across the country, churches appear to be doing so anyway.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The price of tax cuts for the wealthy? Our lives. #Texas
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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🇺🇸Boston Brian🇺🇦 @bostonbrian.com · 07/07/2025
At this point, Pam Bondi must enjoy looking like an incompetent moron.. She placed the spotlight and ultimately the target, on her own back and Trump hung her out to dry.. Even MAGA smells the bullshit on this one.. Remember this ⬇️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Cindy Battles @cindybattles.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
While we're all glued to C-Span, I need Dems to be making sure any Democrat incumbent 65+ has a primary opponent. That's not ageism. That's having no faith in their willingness to step aside when they are sick or dying. Three Dem Reps died in office and now we're here.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
List of ALL 100 U.S. Senators DC Contact Information: Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124 Senator Katie Boyd Britt 202-224-5744 Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665 Senator Dan Sullivan 202-224-3004 Arizona Senator Mark Kelly 202-224-2235 Senator Ruben Gallego 202-224-4521 1/17
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
They didn’t make the tax cuts permanent when they passed them. They gave them an expiration date, which is here. Now they are living with the consequences of that decision/compromise. These are new tax cuts to replace the ones that are expiring, but they don’t want them to count.
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 15/06/2025
Senator Padilla gets it! The answers you get will depend on the questions you ask. #AlwaysReframe
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2025
BRENNAN: The public approval is so high of deportation PADILLA: It depends how you ask the question. If you ask the same people, 'Do you think we should maintain due process in the US?' the answer is overwhelmingly yes
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade
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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Just one year of a 2% tax on billionaires would cover ending homelessness and hunger, providing tuition-free public college, universal childcare, and replacing all of the lead pipes in the U.S. - and it wouldn't affect how billionaires live their lives at all.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every right-wing, white poor person believes they are one impediment away from being millionaires. Today, that impediment is refugees. Tomorrow, it'll be something else--anything else that somehow isn't the millionaire right-wingers cutting their jobs and rights. That's the essence of the grift.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/06/2025
A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is dictatorial stuff: the king-President seeks to mete out disaster money to his allies only. We are coming around to impeachment. It’s not just about killing cancer research. The only way to avoid the US as a full-on fascist dictatorship is to impeach and remove. Let’s keep the goal in mind.
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Attorney Ben Crump @attorneybencrump.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Law enforcement in L.A. used tear gas, flash grenades, and rubber bullets on protesters — one reporter was even hit live on air. These “less-lethal” weapons can blind, break bones, and even kill. They’re not crowd control — they’re tools of fear and intimidation.
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What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 11/06/2025
Arrest ICE. They aren’t going to stop attacking civilians until police stop them. Pick a side, blue. Enforce the law. You arrest them or we’ll arrest you.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/06/2025
Just in: David Hogg is leaving his position as DNC vice chair after the party voted to redo the role's election. This follows intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US. 🎧 Listen to the ep here.
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David Hogg’s fight for the future of the Democratic Party
The gun control activist and DNC vice chair is targeting “asleep at the wheel” incumbents. But could his primary strategy lead to his own ousting?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you want to know why Trump and Johnson didn’t do funding for the border and deportations as a standalone bill months ago like many Republicans wanted, this is why.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#ACIP members are normally selected through a transparent process: - public nomination - vetting conflict-of-interests - expert review - #HHS appointment Firing them all & installing 8 new members behind closed doors? This does not build #vaccine confidence and will likely do the opposite.
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