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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/08/2025
A special prosecutor? Not Senate confirmed? Like Jack Smith? Didn't Trump, Clarence Thomas, and Judge Aileen Cannon say that was unconstitutional?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
From Hopium: - New interview with @michaelsteele.bsky.social on the need for Dems to win in more red states and red places - Dems should be putting Trump's terrible tariffs at the center of our indictment of him and rancid regime More 👇 Happy Friday! www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-le...
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We Must Lean In Much Harder Against Trump's Terrible Tariffs, A New Lively Conversation With Michael Steele (Former RNC Chair, Current MSNBC Host)
These tariffs are modern day "taxation without representation" and we need to be saying so far more loudly
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/08/2025
Where I come from, we call this Medicare fraud. (Where I come from = public health sector health systems specialist - the job I had before Trump ousted me during his first term. Part of my job was to seek and destroy rich people that would overcharge the VA for medical devices.)
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
guys, I think he's gonna pour bleach into our drinking water
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
It’s my birthday today & I have everything I want already thanks to my service dog, Anjelika. My wish is to ensure that everyone has access to healthcare and I will keep fighting until that is the case. NEVER GIVE UP!🙏
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Here’s the gift link
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Some of the most pro-Trump coverage NYTimes has ever done. On Epstein, they chose to adopt Trump's transparently disingenuous framing, treating a "grand jury records" stalling tactic as openness—he's trying to hide the rest—and presenting an obvious lie of "prepared to defer to the courts" as real.
NYT headline 7/19/25: The Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records: What Comes Next? The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.NYT headline 7/19/25: "When It Comes to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump Says He Is Ready to Defer to the Courts. After months of pushing back against federal judges and the courts, the president has requested the release of Epstein-related grand jury testimony to be 'subject to Court approval.'"
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
My guest for Five Questions, Norm Ornstein, has some ideas about how to fix what’s wrong with the Court. And, what’s wrong with our country. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Five Questions with Norm Ornstein
You probably know Norm Ornstein from his appearances on Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word on MSNBC.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2025
NEW: if you need to stay informed but want to maintain your sanity, we’ve got you covered. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Strange Things Afoot (feat. John Fugelsang)
Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 07/18/2025 · 1h 4m
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 19/07/2025
EPSTEIN-Trump is playing games. He’s seeking disclosure of grand jury material but that requires court approval which the law is VERY hard to satisfy. But the government TODAY can disclose all the other investigative material on its own without court approval. Why isn’t it doing that?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2025
NEW: Trump has filed his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal… in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/t...
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Trump sues Murdoch, Dow Jones over WSJ story on Epstein birthday letter: court records
President Trump is under increasing pressure to have the Justice Department release files about the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
“Who made the decision to reassign hundreds of New York Field Office personnel to this March review of Epstein-related records?” Durbin asked in his letters. “Why were personnel told to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned?” he asked. “The FBI has no comment.”
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18/07/2025
📣 RHODE ISLAND: Preliminary avg. 2026 #ACA rate changes: +23.8%; 6.5 pts due specifically to IRA subsidy expiration: acasignups.net/rate_changes...
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2026 Rate Changes - Rhode Island: +23.8%; 6.5 pts due specifically to IRA subsidy expiration (prelim)
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (if IRA subsidies are extended): Weighted Average Rate Increase: This represents the average rate increase, including modifications to prior year benefits and ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2025
NEW: fake lawsuit? www.businessinsider.com/trump-murdoc...
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A court docket says Trump is suing Murdoch, but there's something weird
Donald Trump threatened to sue over a Wall Street Journal story that linked him to Jeffrey Epstein. A docket appears, but something's off.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
At this point, we’re just a joke. But it’s not a very funny one. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Last night I wrote about this possibility in my newsletter, Civil Discourse. Prosecutors frequently put on summary agent witnesses because hearsay is admissible before a grand jury. To get insight like this before events unfold, subscribe here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Following Orders
In the post-Watergate order, attorneys general take direction from the president, but only up to a certain point.
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Andrea 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪 🇸🇪🇺🇦 @wholeplateway.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If you have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, your premiums could increase by as much as 75%. Republicans will not extend the subsidies that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. There could be more consequences because of the ugly bill. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
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If you have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, your premiums could increase by as much as 75%. Republicans will not extend the subsidies that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. There could be more consequences because of the ugly bill. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
💯 From the perspective of a former prosecutive who worked on trafficking cases, the loss of this office can only be intended to make it easier for the traffickers. There is literally no rationale for doing this.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This country acts like it likes entrepreneurs and then pulls away the health insurance entrepreneurs need to be self-employed. They don’t want entrepreneurs. They want slave labor. Work for them or die. What a fucking joke.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This week's blog post: #camping #hiking #RPod #poodlepossee zwergpudelfrau.blogspot.com/2025/07/foot...
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Footsteps on the Trails
We came back from our camping trip to Cove Palisades State Park on Thursday, tired but somehow...rested. That's almost always the case with ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Trump’s senior adviser to the White House Faith Office is canceling demons coming for your finances.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2025
👀 National Security Counselors - on behalf of my podcast network - is seeking all Epstein grand jury material pursuant to Trump’s declaration on social media tonight.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not to pile-on in a crazy day, but Hegseth has reassigned Vice Admiral Yvette Davids, the first woman + Hispanic person to lead the U.S. Naval Academy. Superintendents typically serve at least three years. She's been there 18 months. Pretty intentional. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
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Naval Academy’s first female superintendent is reportedly being removed
USNI News is reporting that Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, who has served as Naval Academy superintendent since January 2024, is being reassigned. Davids is the first Latina and first woman to hold the post...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The mayor of the small town of Walsenburg, CO says they need the jobs from a potential ICE detention center. Dozens of residents told him it's not worth sacrificing their values. #copolitics
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
It’s Friday! I need coffee!
Beautiful vista of hills and water. And this: Every
Day is
once in a lifetime
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TwitterTakedown @twittertakedown.org · 03/07/2025
Elon is harming these non-profits, yet they link to X and not Bsky on their sites. A link to X is a free ad for Elon. We've already convinced 3, let's keep going until Bsky is everywhere! Add the 🦋! Takedown the X!-- @aclu.org, @acluofmichigan.bsky.social, @acluofwi.bsky.social, @splcenter.org
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Why are you putting ads on your website for Musk for free?
Don't Trust Musk? Takedown the X/Twitter links and Add a Bluesky Link
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The same people who told me 3 weeks ago that Epstein was a distraction to divert attention from something else are now telling me that Trump’s medical issues are a distraction to divert attention away from Epstein. Shockingly some people can focus on more than one thing at a time.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Republicans are helping their billionaire buddies. Not you.
At the bottom of the image is a photo of Speaker Mike Johnson surrounded by laughing republicans and the text: Republicans are putting your health at risk. The rest of the image has selected quotes from various media outlets:
'The most draconian cuts imaginable': Health care providers, advocates brace for Medicaid cuts
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Mental health programs could bear the brunt of $600M
federal cuts to Texas schools
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Texas floodwaters can increase health risks that could last for months: Experts
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Hospitals across nation brace for Medicaid cuts under 'big, beautiful' law
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In Rush To Satisfy
Trump, GOP
Delivers Blow to Health Industry
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Revived clinic brings hope to Sheridan, but Medicaid cuts threaten its tuture
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Senate GOP faces 'gut check time' on axing global
HIV program
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
One thing that will become increasingly clear as DHS starts spending the billions they got in the Big Ugly is that a lot of this will go to pay off favored contracts. @hunterw.bsky.social lays out how Florida did that here. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...
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Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A performative use of American troops in a colossal waste of money…
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Heads up, Kirksville! www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/stories/whit...
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White Nationalist organization to hold Missouri 'meet and greet' in Kirksville - Kirksville Daily Express
The Aryan Freedom Network (AFN), an organization that claims to be unapologetically “committed to the interests, ideas, security and cultural values of the White Race,” is holding a "meet and greet" i...
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
@booker.senate.gov and I just tried to force a vote to allow the prosecutor who blew the whistle on Emil Bove to appear before the Judiciary Committee. Republicans ignored the rules – and rammed Bove through. All that matters to them is power and appeasing their Dear Leader.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
They can be impeached. And, should Bove be confirmed — which he should not be — he should immediately be the subject of an impeachment inquiry should Dems retake Congress. He should not be a federal judge due to his actions at DOJ. That does not change if he is confirmed.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It's weird how people have to sign up to receive local emergency alerts, but the state can force every phone in Texas to buzz when a police officer is injured on the job.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is disgusting. Even in the era of no shame, it’s shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2025
lol what?
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 17/07/2025
OK, after thinking it over, since I'm already showing up there on other members accounts via interviews/etc, I've decided to go ahead and start cross-posting over at Substack. No charge to subscribe; this is just another outlet for my healthcare wonkery. substack.com/@charlesgaba
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Charles Gaba | Substack
Healthcare policy & data analysis, advocacy & snark at ACASignups.net.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“.. They are nurses, mechanics, sanitation workers and executives. .. They’ve opened restaurants .. paid taxes and contributed to Social Security, living and working legally in the United States since 1999.” They have 60 days to leave. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Pear 🍐 @purelypear.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
ICE agents told them Bhutan would accept them. As soon as they arrived, Bhutan authorities took his phone and personal documents. They put him in a hotel overnight, and ordered him to leave the country the next day. He is in hiding with no legal status, family or passport.
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A refugee deported to Bhutan by the U.S. finds himself stranded and stateless
Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, while others are homeless and stateless, according to immigration advocates.
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