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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.

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Meidas Clementine d'Oro Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ @clementinedoro.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/04/2025

"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 09/04/2025

Tomorrow he’ll do the exact opposite.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I know this is woke DEI, but could we have a national economic policy that's something other than the minute-by-minute whims of a deranged and malevolent old man?

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/04/2025

Many Donald Trump supporters “claimed that this was the plan all along, suggesting that dropping the tariffs against the rest of the world would only further isolate Beijing,” but Trump himself gave away the game, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social write:

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The Art of the Retreat

Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Firing a DOJ lawyer for admitting a government error when the lawyer’s duty to the court requires exactly that admission is about as wrong as anything can be. Only in the lawless, topsy-turvy world of Trump and Vance is such absurdity imaginable. Yet here we are! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

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Justice Department Lawyers Are Struggling to Defend Trump’s Policies in Court

Inside the department’s civil division, litigators are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses’ instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Every person working at UPenn just had their security clearance suspended, apparently. Mad king behavior.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Susman Godfrey, Chris Krebs, Miles Taylor, the president is openly targeting his political enemies with what his party once projected and called ‘lawfare’. It’s openly authoritarian. And we can’t say we weren’t warned. This is what fascism looks like.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

EOs targeting 2 former Trump officials aren’t getting enough attention. In invoking treason, Trump puts death penalty on table for Miles Taylor. In revoking security clearances for Penn because Taylor taught there, he gives Penn a choice: suffer or join the punishment by banning Taylor.

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Pinky @pinky1259.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

“Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man's point” ~ Miles Taylor

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I don’t even know what to say here. We’re talking about a generational posting crashout. Lmfao NOW you’re concerned about conflicts of interest.

“I just figured out why @howardlutnick is indifferent to the stock market and the economy crashing. He and Cantor are long bonds. He profits when our economy implodes.

It’s a bad idea to pick a Secretary of Commerce whose firm is levered long fixed income. It’s an irreconcilable conflict of interest.”

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S. This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff

The San Jose Mercury News and Arizona Daily Star cover protests prominently; the Boston Globe and Dallas Morning News do not.

The Philly Inquirer covers protests above the fold; the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Newsday and NY Daily News don’t have protests on the cover or have only a blurb

The Detroit Free Press and Minnesota Star Tribune cover protests front and center; the LA Times has a tiny mention in bottom right corner; the SF Chronicle doesn’t have it on cover

The NY Times has a picture of protests on lower left of front cover; The Washington post has a tiny picture in bottom strip

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.

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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

10 of the 11 worse crashes were associated with the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression. Stock markets have nowhere near bottomed out yet.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/04/2025

NEW: The Fourth Circuit UPHOLDS Judge Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US by midnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ORDER
Upon consideration of the submissions relative to Appellants' motion for stay
pending appeal and immediate administrative stay, the court denies the motion.
Entered at the direction of Judge Thacker with the concurrence of Judge Wilkinson
and Judge King.
For the Court
Is/ Nwamaka Anowi, Clerk

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Social Security website "has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages lasting anywhere from 20 minutes to almost a day...Even when the site is back online, many customers have not been able to sign in to their accounts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff

The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Ackman: It's not Trump's fault! It's his stupid advisors who were appointed by ...

Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
The formula used by the administration to calculate tariffs made other nations’ tariffs appear four times larger than they actually are.

President @realDonaldTrump
is not an economist and therefore relies on his advisors to do these calculations so he can determine policy.

The global economy is being taken down because of bad math.

This short piece by @AEI
explains it succinctly. A must read.

The President’s advisors need to acknowledge their error before April 9th and make a course correction before the President makes a big mistake based on bad math.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 07/04/2025

It really is no longer comprehensible within a reality-based framework.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, says the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a "path of perfect lawlessness." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 07/04/2025

while the markets anticipate (pray for) a pause, trump threatens 50% additional tariffs on china by tomorrow.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I think I have been on record in support of this suggestion for almost seven years.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“Stocks are crashing because investors are in a bad mood, and the reason they are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said.

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RFK Jr. Says Stock Market Crash Could be Reversed if Investors Drink Cod Liver Oil

"Investors are in a bad mood is because they are not getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids,” he said.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.

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

The Donald J. Trump Stock Market Crash™

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 03/04/2025

CNN: Stock market plummets MSNBC: Stock market craters Highlights for Children: Stock market down big FOX News:

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Diversity didn’t crash the stock market. Equity didn’t crash the stock market. Inclusion didn’t crash the stock market. Immigrants didn’t crash the stock market. Trans people didn’t crash the stock market.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Tomorrow’s stock market will reveal how expensive it is to own the libs.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/04/2025

Dear CDC friends. Today was the most foolish of April Fool's days. We have not just lost jobs. With entire teams and offices being cut, we have lost vast amounts of institutional knowledge. Take the time you need to grieve. Then join your fired colleagues in the fight. www.firedbutfighting.com

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Fired But Fighting

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 28/03/2025

We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/03/2025

IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:

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Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials

The defense secretary’s handling of sensitive information is under fire after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a widely used app.

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Pensacola Politics @changethesystem.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. That we will surrender, without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and that of our children.” ~ Alexei Navalny

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

@markjacob.bsky.social and I turned our Media Misses media criticism series into On-Target after the election to spotlight good journalism as the tyrannical Trump regime unfolds. Jeffrey Goldberg’s calm, precise depiction of the national security breach is the very definition of “on target.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Turning dehumanizing conditions and ritual humiliation into a US government propaganda video. This makes me ill

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Has a reporter directly asked Trump if he personally approved the strikes on the Houthis in Yemen?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Lots of other Americans are standing up against the assault on our freedom. Hopefully, you’re one of them. In my Stop the Presses newsletter this week, I suggest ways to get involved. A key one: Consider attending one of the April 5 “Hands Off!” protests in DC and other cities. See you there. 16/16

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How people power can beat MAGA money and meanness

Join a protest, support quality media, and back politicians who fight.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🧵 GET UP, STAND UP 🧵 As cowardly institutions submit to Trump’s bullying and blackmail, I decided to put together this thread highlighting people and groups standing up to him. Let’s celebrate them. If we stay strong, we can defeat the fascists. 1/16

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

No one should fool themselves into thinking Trump and Musk are "making government smaller." They're making government meaner, less useful and more dismissive of your rights. They're firing a lot of professionals, but will the payroll go down? You watch: They'll replace the pros with their cronies.

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