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Louise

@weezerbackstg.bsky.social
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Retired Global Event Producer & Stage Mgr (aka road warrior). Lover of dogs, creativity & trying to save democracy & humanity.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Hey, remember all the talk about MAGA populism? It’s just the same GOP crap. Thanks a lot, Trump voters.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
For no particular reason, I thought I’d remind folks about the time Trump reposted a full-size, full-color image of a truck that was “decorated” with an unconscious Joe Biden, arms and legs bound as though he’d been kidnapped, during the campaign. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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We Need to Talk About This
Today’s widely discussed Trump post on Truth Social isn’t just another instance of bad behavior.
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Freddie_Rose🌹 🇨🇦 ⚕️ @freddierose.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
'Refugee groups have questioned why the white South Africans are being prioritized ahead of people from countries wracked by war and natural disasters. Vetting for refugee status in the US often takes years.'
theguardian.com
Trump administration offers refugee status to 49 white South Africans
Group, including families and small children, departed for US after Trump order created relocation program
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/05/2025
NEWS: U.S. and China agree to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to U.S. ports plummeted. Tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from 145% to 30%. Tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125% to 10%. If tariffs should result in massive job growth and make the U.S. rich, why lower them?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces
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NPR @npr.org · 12/05/2025
The remarks come just one day after calling for a ceasefire and access to humanitarian aid in Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine.
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Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace
The remarks come just one day after calling for a ceasefire and access to humanitarian aid in Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine.
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tales-typoz @tales-typoz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"The danger now is that compassion fatigue will leave the civilized world too depleted to push back if an eventual U.S.-brokered peace deal omits any mention of accountability for the Kremlin’s war criminals," Lee Hockstader writes. wapo.st/3RSP8EH
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Opinion | Amnesty for the Kremlin’s war criminals is a disgusting possibility
Mountains of evidence document Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The victims must be heard.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
(I’m on my fourth train of the day trying to get from DC to NYC … and we’re now stopped outside of Philly.)
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I thought everyone was kidding
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 08/05/2025
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Travel spending in the U.S. is in free fall
U.S. trade data show the biggest hit to American tourism outside of 9/11 and COVID-19
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 08/05/2025
That should alarm anyone who cares about government transparency. Taxpayers have a right to know how the government spends their money. Period.
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CREW sues Trump administration for hiding federal spending information from the public - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
OMB took offline information that shows how OMB directs agencies to spend taxpayer money—information that OMB is required by law to post.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 08/05/2025
NEW: We're suing to challenge the White House's illegal takedown of a gov't spending database. In a filing in the case, OMB argued that it's *unconstitutional* for Congress to require the executive branch to disclose how it's spending taxpayer funds. www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/u...
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 08/05/2025
If you hate Pope Leo XIV because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
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The Astute Galoot ™️ 🏴‍☠️ @theastutegaloot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
FEMA chief fired right before hurricane season 👍🏼 🌀 www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
politico.com
FEMA chief is fired
Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton told people he was terminated Thursday.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 08/05/2025
This is an absolutely rip-roaring opinion by three judges all originally appointed by GOP presidents (two Trump, one Reagan). Among other things, they find that GOP lawmakers *intentionally* discriminated against Black Alabamians when they passed a map that did *not* create a second Black district.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/05/2025
We need a live cam outside of Samuel and Martha Ann Alito’s household, especially the flag pole.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New from me: language in the House reconciliation process would gut courts' power to enforce contempt rulings. That's a threat to justice not only in the Trump disputes at hand, but also across the private economy and, crucially, in other areas where government has violated constitutional rights. /1
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Wild: House bill would strip courts of contempt enforcement power
In the ongoing public discussion about whether the courts will try to rein in the Trump administration’s lawlessness, or will prevail in a resulting showdown if they do, the story that follows has bee...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
You love to see it
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 08/05/2025
Today, Philly passed the POWER or Protect Our Workers Enforce Rights Act: the most significant legislation to offer sweeping protections for workers since Trump’s election.
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How Philadelphia is Fighting Back Against Donald Trump’s Anti-Worker Crusade.
The Protect Our Workers Enforce Rights Act can serve as a model for cities all across the country.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Hear that? It’s the sound of the hot take industrial complex churning out six dozen identical THE POPE IS TOO WOKE opeds
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/05/2025
Trump is now targeting the American movie industry? Using tariffs to force production back to the U.S. would be awkward as some foreign production by American studios *has* to occur overseas. That’s especially true of “action and adventure” films that command about 60% of market share these days.
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Movie Tariffs Won’t Save Hollywood
American movies are dying, but not in the way Trump imagines.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed a motion today and it could lead to a deposition in the White House. Read about it here and be up to date. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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A Subpoena for the White House?
On April 16, I wrote to you about a hearing in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, which is before U.S.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"Furthermore, I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation" Hitler, 1942 Doesn't sound much different, does it?
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Laura Packard @laurapackard.com · 25/04/2025
More from @americanprogress.bsky.social on how many lives will be lost.
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Congressional Republicans’ Proposals To Slash Medicaid Could Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives
Medicaid cuts would result in widespread coverage losses, which could lead to 15,400 deaths due to work reporting requirements or roughly 34,200 deaths from reduced federal funding each year.
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Voices of Health Care Action @voicesofhealthcare.org · 24/04/2025
Millions of women will lose access to contraception as a result of Trump's aid cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
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Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts
The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.
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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Surprise: Elon Musk’s friends have made a killing by selling access to stakes in his private companies.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
bye
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Former Rep. George Santos sentenced to more than 7 years in prison
Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence the former Republican congressman from New York to 87 months for what they called his "unparalleled crimes."
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Three sudden reversals of awful new policies in just the last day, the last few hours. Their combination of crazy and stupid and incompetent just gets more staggering.
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Heather Long @byheatherlong.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
44% of Americans now believe they will be WORSE OFF financially in a year (due mainly to Trump's tariffs) We've never seen anything like this before. Not even in the Great Recession or stagflation era (31% thought they would be worse off in 1 yr in early 1980) via Uof Michigan Survey of Consumers
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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Crazy way to negotiate and make a deal…lying about talking to your adversary.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“‘The endowment may be smaller four years from now than it is today, but Harvard will survive Trump,’ predicted Daniel Hemel, an NYU tax law professor. ‘If it could survive the Revolutionary War, it’s going to make it through Trump.’”
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Harvard is relying on its billionaire alums as it faces down the White House | CNN Politics
As Harvard squares up for a bruising legal fight with the White House over billions in frozen federal grants, the university’s future could depend on its Rolodex of ultra-wealthy alumni.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/04/2025
8️⃣ days until the nationwide mobilizations on May Day. While Trump and his billionaire profiteers try to create a race to the bottom on wages, benefits, and dignity itself, we are fighting back for a future that works for working families. Find a May Day event near you or start one. 👇
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National Day of Action
They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
No, you really don't "have to ask yourself" this. The right to criticize the government, even for *lawful* policies (let alone what Trump is trying to do), is not just central to the First Amendment's protection of free speech; it is one of the most critically important features of *any* democracy.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"The CEOs of three of the nation's biggest retailers — Walmart, Target and Home Depot — privately warned [Trump] that his tariff and trade policy could disrupt supply chains, raise prices and empty shelves" www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
axios.com
Trump deploys abrupt tone shift amid market slump
He's sensitive to the markets and the pleas of powerful corporate leaders and investors who fear the worst from his sweeping efforts.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The house revealed a budget plan that eliminates the Head Start program. There are currently almost 780,000 children enrolled in Head Start who will suffer the loss of this program. This shows republicans never cared about children but controlling women. #MomSky #Voices4Victory
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I don't think people in the US fully understand how much our government has made us broadly hated in other countries
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Nothing says “Golden Age” like kids dying of bad milk! — US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts - www.reuters.com/business/hea... Trending Content
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again"
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Indivisible Southern Delaware❌👑 @indivisiblesode.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Indivisible Southern Delaware❌👑 @indivisiblesode.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Join Us!!
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/04/2025
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump admin from deporting Venezuelans out of the Bluebonnet facility in TX — for now. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 has NO place in modern immigration policy. This pause is a win, but the fight is far from over. And yes — Thomas & Alito dissented. Of course they did.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I forgot how much I love this place.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Incompetence or a fabricated retreat? With this administration, both are entirely possible. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The lesson is: don't become an early adopter. Particularly when the tech involved is amongst the sketchiest ever conceived.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I’m sorry but if anyone believes they sent that letter to Harvard by mistake I have a bridge to sell you and what not. They sent it, hoped for complete capitulation, and when it didn’t work and they got a little egg on their face, the very trumpian internal blame game+public gaslight started
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