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The Policy Geek

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Democrats and sane people will have to rebuild when this is over. There's no way around it. Let's just see how much we can keep intact in the meantime. #resist

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
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11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays
A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Democrats, listen up. As we look toward the midterm elections, we need to define ourselves as the only party taking on corruption and show the American people that we'll fix a broken system that puts billionaires and corporations before them.
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Voters See Dems as More Corrupt Than Republicans Despite Trump's Grifting
Even in an era of Trump meme coins and library fund shakedowns, voters in key congressional districts see Dems as the corrupt ones, a new poll finds.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/08/2025
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
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He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 26/03/2025
Michael Duffey broke the law by holding up aid approved by Congress to Ukraine. Now, he’s up for a Pentagon job that decides where billions of dollars in government contracts go. We can’t trust him with our military budget.
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Trump’s nominee for Pentagon weapons buyer was a key figure in the president's first impeachment
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the military’s top weapons buyer was the official who directed the Pentagon to withhold aid from Ukraine in 2019.
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ReneePaints @painthike.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#socialsecurity
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This POTUS might be able to siphon away other people's money like a vacuum, but the buck definitely does not stop anywhere near him.
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Bad Policy
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Unacceptable policy. Un-American policy.
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Standard policy
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Great policy
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025
Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The acting head of the government’s human resources arm, Charles Ezell, is refusing to testify in tomorrow’s case that challenges the legality of the recent mass firings of federal workers. His absence raises serious questions—what is there to hide?
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
JUST IN: Heavily Mutated SARS-CoV-2 BA.3 Variant Detected in South Africa with 57 Spike Mutations.
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Privatizing is just a fancy word that means turning all our functioning departments, the envy of the world, into for profit companies run by ill equipped and unskilled oligarchs. Google Tammany Hall. Bad Policy
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Turning the White House into a used car lot is bad policy. 👎
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Lying and stupidity are bad policy.
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Bad Policy
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Bad policy Evil policy
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/03/2025
Thanks to President Trump’s and Elon's decision to put the CFPB on ice, $100 million meant to help scammed borrowers is now stuck in limbo. This is the opposite of lowering costs.
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Consumer watchdog payouts in limbo as agency defanged by Trump administration
The Trump administration's decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot of money intended for borrowers allegedly harmed by the student loan servicer Navient sitting in limbo, according to an advocacy organization.
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Bad Policy
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Lisa Lin Doh @lisalindo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The deal isn't even a deal. It's a promise to talk about a deal. 😅
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Take action
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Bad policy
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We can't just arrest liars. But wouldn't it be nice.
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The plot thickens. After it was first reported the State Dept. planned to award Tesla a $400M govt contrast to buy cybertrucks, it was then supposedly put on hold. But a new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400M Tesla deal. WATCH WHAT THEY DO! www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...
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A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal
The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Fuck you, John Roberts. Fuck you. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/p...
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Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight | CNN Politics
Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump administration to release $2 billion in frozen foreign aid, a goal that the governme...
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Eric @edpch38.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee meeting to select next year’s flu strain for no reason open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/... I just don't get it . It's like they want to hurt people
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FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee meeting to select next year’s flu strain for no reason
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee of the FDA was supposed to meet next month to choose what strains of flu would be included in next season’s flu vaccine but the meeting ...
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Ominous policy
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hmmm... Why is that necessary?
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Lisa Lin Doh @lisalindo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Feeling these words deeply tonight... When in the course of human events
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the declaration of independence was signed by 8 immigrants on a scroll
ALT: the declaration of independence was signed by 8 immigrants on a scroll
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Staying grounded…
Black background with text “DOGE is illegitimate. This is a coup. Our government is being demolished. Our military is being harmed. We are in danger. You are NOT insane. THIS is insane.”
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Good people feel it. They know we're not well because of this illness that has invaded. And it is the good people who need to be loud right now. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/defeating-...
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Defeating the Cancer of Trumpism
Some things live solely at the expense of others.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Trump Halts Enforcement of Anti-Bribery Law, Empowering Corporate Corruption Abroad In this video, we examine Trump’s Executive Order freezing anti-bribery law enforcement and how experts warn it could unleash rampant corporate corruption. youtube.com/shorts/OPzhq...
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Trump Halts Enforcement of Anti-Bribery Law, Empowering Corporate Corruption Abroad
YouTube video by The Intellectualist
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The person running the country just changed the name of his social media account.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/02/2025
Oh. Would be a shame if everyone shared this everywhere while trump and Eric Adams try to work out a deal.
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The Policy Geek @thepolicygeek.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Phony Stark...
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robert downey jr. is laughing in front of a statue of iron man
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Dear media, No, Trump isn’t “signaling” that he “might” ignore the courts. He. Is. Ignoring. The. Fucking. Courts. The end. Do your damn job.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
While Musk runs the country, Trump had a productive weekend naming himself Chair of the Kennedy Center, picking the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, canceling pennies, demanding Google Maps rename Gulf of Mexico, invited only White immigrants from Africa, and saved plastic straws.
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Lisa Lin Doh @lisalindo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
That makes sense. If schools are partially fed by federal funds, and we've lost those federal funds, property taxes will go up to compensate. Wonder how this will affect housing prices. And rental prices. Maybe it's time to alert your friends and neighbors.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
'The feel of a coup': Elon Musk said to be poised to 'defy' major judicial order: Elon Musk appears poised to defy a judicial order, according to observers. Musk, the richest man in the world and an appointee of Donald Trump, was dealt a blow over the weekend when a judge reportedly blocked…
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'The feel of a coup': Elon Musk said to be poised to 'defy' major judicial order
Elon Musk appears poised to defy a judicial order, according to observers. Musk, the richest man in the world and an appointee of Donald Trump, was dealt a blow over the weekend when a judge reportedly blocked Musk's Department of Government…
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Update: The new acting director of the CFPB -- Russ Vought, who was just confirmed as WH budget director -- emailed staff tonight to say they must continue to halt all work, plus "cease any pending investigations" and halt its supervisory activities of banks, too, per copy I obtained
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