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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Disturbing headline! The unvetted, unpaid special government employee Elon Musk, who led DOGE, that’s been deep into America’s confidential information, could be offered political asylum by Russia? This is why you never allow security protocols to be subverted… www.newsweek.com/russia-offer...
newsweek.com
Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud
The relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has exploded in a series of fiery exchanges.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 20/05/2025
“Fighting for Russia without a single Russian among us” Moscow’s forced mobilization is wiping out indigenous men from colonized regions like the Yukaghirs, now with less than 2,000 left.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 21/05/2025
This could open the floodgates to invasive government investigations into your private medical records – making patients and doctors more vulnerable to political interference and retaliation. So we’re taking legal action to defend Americans’ right to health care privacy in Texas and beyond.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 21/05/2025
The State of Texas is attempting to block a regulation that supports reproductive health care privacy. TX Attorney General Ken Paxton is also challenging a 24-yr-old regulation that serves as the foundation for HIPAA nationwide.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
New in PN: DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of Rep. LaMonica McIver "Even Alina Habba's sworn declaration contains obvious false statements, clearly disproven by the bodycam footage ICE released to the media. And her online posturing appears to violate the DOJ's own rules."
publicnotice.co
DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of congresswoman
Alina Habba strikes again.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Breaking news everyone should know: the Republican budget bill includes the biggest Medicare cut in American history — in addition to the biggest Medicaid cut in history. We must hold House Republicans accountable to block this horrific proposal. youtu.be/La0Igx3B_sA
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Congressman Greg Casar: Republicans Pushing Biggest Medicare Cut in History
YouTube video by Congressman Greg Casar
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Queen’sT @queenst.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s all for show He’s still very active in the wrong things
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/05/2025
Trump's use of the Guantanamo Bay naval base to house migrants appears to cost $100,000 per day for each detainee, “prime example of wasteful government spending”, U.S. Senator Gary Peters said during a hearing on Tuesday.
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Neil-1936.bsky.social @neil-1936.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Is the elimination of the ACA in this upcoming Bill? If it is, and with millions losing Medicaid, if the Bill passes, there will be so many without healthcare that doctors and nurses will become unemployed, and even hospitals will be closing.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.
Last night N.M.’s attorneys were notified that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intended to remove him to South Sudan. See Exhibit 1, Declaration of Jacqueline Brown, Exhibit D (email to counsel); Exhibit E (notice provided to N.M.). N.M., a Burmese national with limited English proficiency, refused to sign the notice of removal to South Sudan which was provided to him only in English. Id. This morning, they learned from a detention officer via email that N.M. was removed this same morning to South Sudan. Exhibit F. As with the motion for temporary restraining order that Plaintiffs filed not even two weeks ago, on May 7th, Dkt. 89, and which this Court agreed ought to not be necessary, Dkt. 91 at 1, this motion should also not be required as it blatantly defies this Court’s PI to remove class members without a reasonable fear screening and a 15-day opportunity to submit a motion to reopen after any negative reasonable fear determination. Earlier this morning, class counsel received notification of a second class member, T.T.P., a national of Vietnam, who appears to have suffered the same fate as N.M., as well as information that there were likely at least 10 other class members on the plane to South Sudan. See Aldana Madrid Decl., Exhibit A.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Now is a great time to reach out to your member of Congress who promised not to cut Medicaid. Or to your conservative friends who don't think we should be exploding the debt. Because today, Donald Trump met with Republicans on Capitol Hill, trying to pass a bill that would do both.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Every Republican member of Congress should have to look into the eyes of people who count on Medicaid and explain why their health care is less important than tax cuts for billionaires.
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/05/2025
While Elon Musk’s DOGE is taking an axe to the federal workforce, the group itself is hiring. Seems fair, right? The US DOGE Service—formerly the US Digital Service (USDS)—has been interviewing candidates and offering salaries at the top of the government pay scale.
wired.com
What It’s Like to Interview for a Job at DOGE
WIRED spoke with someone who applied for a job at Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE and discussed the five-step hiring process.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history. That the Supreme Court authorized it in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking.” www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
reuters.com
US Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protection for Venezuelans
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump's administration on Monday to strip about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States of a temporary protected status given under his predecessor Joe Biden, as the Republican president moves to ramp up deportations as part of his hardline approach to immigration.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The GOP budget bill is 1,116 pages long and filled with devastating cuts to vital programs in exchange for tax cuts that will disproportionately help the rich. The plan is so unpopular that Republicans are taking another vote on it tomorrow at 1 AM.  They're trying to hide it.
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Dawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Netanyahu has been clear he is letting as little aid in to Gaza as possible. That is a breach of international law. The Foreign Secretary's statement and the suspension in trade negotiations with Israel are welcome, but it has taken far too long to get here. My question to the Foreign Secretary 👇🏾
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
👀 Good lord. Give yourself 3 mins to watch this. Elizabeth Warren breathes 🔥 leaving a Trump toadie - IRS commissioner nominee Billy Long - speechless.
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It wasn’t Qatar that initially offered the airplane. Trump’s people approached them first. It sounds very much like asking for a bribe. www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/p...
cnn.com
Trump administration first approached Qatar about acquiring jet to use as Air Force One, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told C...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
theguardian.com
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
You can read the whole thing here. In my wildest dreams, I would never have thought to accuse the Trump administration of planning something like this. This is clearly a crime, and DHS Sec. Noem and others should be impeached for it: www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...
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50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to US Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law
The US government not only denied these men due process; it has generally failed to provide their families, their attorneys, or the public any information about what it alleges these men did to deserv...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Willing to bet a very large amount that most of that 413% rise in “assaults” on ICE agents represent unarmed people attacking ICE fists with their faces and boots with their kidneys. Because these people are lying scum.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Late at night, House Republicans voted to cut Medicaid for millions. Their next vote is planned for 1AM on Wednesday. They’re gutting healthcare just to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. And they don’t want the American people to see when they’re doing it.
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s tax and immigration bill clears hurdle after late-night vote
House GOP leaders worked through the weekend to win over a quartet of fiscal conservatives who voted last week to block Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is a helluva investigation by @davidjbier.bsky.social ⤵️ Read every word of it. "In my wildest dreams, I would never have thought to accuse the Trump administration of planning something like this. This is clearly a crime, and DHS Sec. Noem and others should be impeached for it"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/05/2025
Think of this as 350,000 personal tragedies
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/05/2025
The point of Putin's negotiation: "stringing out Trump for as long as possible and agreeing to more phone calls and meetings in order to avoid new sanctions, distract attention from Russia’s ongoing war crimes, and make the U.S. appear weak"
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.
aljazeera.com
Israeli military begins ‘extensive’ ground operation as 135 killed in Gaza
Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Investigation is still underway, but it’s hard for me to miss the echo of the 1998 abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham by Eric Rudolph, a Christian nationalist. I was the prosecutor on call & responded to the scene. All bombings are acts of cowardice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
UN HUMANITARIAN AID CHIEF TO ISRAEL: “Enough. We demand rapid, safe, unopened aid delivery for civilians in need. Let us work.”
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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I wrote a book called It Was All A Lie that focused on the moral collapse of the Republican Party. That was in 2020, but I still find it shocking the willingness to degrade a personal sense of decency and honesty to match Trump’s level. - @stuartpstevens.bsky.social 8/
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The World’s Most Vacuous Body
By rejecting its vital oversight role, the U.S. Senate is abdicating its constitutional duty during the second Trump era.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Trump is cutting veteran health care and firing more veterans than any president in history — all in the name of "efficiency." But for his own birthday, he wants a $45 million taxpayer-funded parade.
washingtonpost.com
Price tag for Trump’s military festival could reach $45 million
Soldiers will be housed in U.S. Department of Agriculture and General Services Administration buildings for days, an Army spokesman said.
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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There will be a reckoning. As bad as this “f—ing nightmare” gets, it will awaken the sleeping giant of America to what has happened to this country, & what we must do to get it back on the track toward social justice, democracy & widespread prosperity ... We will prevail - @rbreich.bsky.social
rawstory.com
There will be a reckoning as the sleeping giant awakens from this nightmare
I wrote an earlier version of this piece shortly after the start of this horrific regime. The regime has become far more horrific since then — worse than I’d feared.I mentioned then that a woman I did...
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
While much of the rest of the world invested in rail, the U.S. invested in highways. The result? Unsustainable sprawl & extreme, costly, unhealthy car-dependence. The rest of the world still invests in transit, as the U.S. lets our transit atrophy. Let’s change that & invest big time in transit.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
If we were still a democracy the GOP would not be proceeding with a budget that will hurt virtually every American except a handful of the richest and most powerful. But they don’t work for the voters. They work for their donors.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In Georgia, women’s bodies are merely human incubators. Just ask Adriana Smith’s family. My latest piece on Substack katiephang.substack.com/p/just-a-ves...
katiephang.substack.com
Just a Vessel: Georgia Keeps Legally Dead Pregnant Woman on Life Support
Georgia's fetal heartbeat law proves the CONTROL and the CRUELTY have always been the point
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There’s a reason that the very day the GOP was introducing a bill that would *ban states from making laws related to AI* the AI execs themselves were in Saudi Arabia with Trump, minting billion dollar deals. AI has become an oligarchic project — and democracy an impediment.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Oh wow so after Pope Leo’s first mass he met privately with Zelenskyy, his wife and the entire Ukrainian delegation….hope JD Vance and Little Marco were told to kick rocks
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18/05/2025
In these difficult times building community, and support for each other, is extremely important. That’s why I’m holding community dances around Vermont. We just had a great event in Hardwick. People of all ages danced the night away.
Sen. Sanders speaking to a crowd at the Hardwick dance.Sen. Sanders dancing with Vermonters.Sen. Sanders twirling amongst the crowd at the Hardwick town dance.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/05/2025
“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In today’s “Wait A Damn Minute” we expose the misleading moments of Trump’s “MAGA Minute” in which Karoline Leavitt tries to convince Americans that Trump actually did something this week. Sure, Jan. I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts. @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social #WADM
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 16/05/2025
10 more Zmiy robotic platforms, funded by you, alongside Timothy Snyder and Mark Hamill, will be helping Ukrainian sappers. Thank you to everyone who joined the fundraiser! 💙💛
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"Waste" is when people get Medicaid. "Efficiency" is when you let 60,000 tons of food that's already been paid for rot instead of feeding someone with it.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The Israelis have killed at least 140 ppl in Gaza in 24h www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
theguardian.com
Israel accused of ethnic cleansing after more than 140 killed in Gaza in 24 hours
Israel says intensified bombings are part of campaign expansion to ‘achieve all of the war goals in Gaza’
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Nobody is questioning why the FBI director is being spotted at nightclubs more than his office. Like golf courses, these are prime locations for secret communications, deals and meetings especially with organized crime figures and foreign adversaries. What could Kash be up to?
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