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Yeah, imagine having a direct democracy.
April 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yeah, imagine having a direct democracy.
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
propub.li
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
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The SAVE Act is a basically unprecedented assault on the right to vote. Republicans are pushing it because they want to make Trump's conspiracy theories about "stolen" elections the law of the land and potentially disenfranchise millions in the process. Supporting it is utterly disqualifying.
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The SAVE Act is a basically unprecedented assault on the right to vote. Republicans are pushing it because they want to make Trump's conspiracy theories about "stolen" elections the law of the land and potentially disenfranchise millions in the process. Supporting it is utterly disqualifying.
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A science agency where researchers can't attend scientific meetings
Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT
Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.
reut.rs
April 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A science agency where researchers can't attend scientific meetings
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The agreement also includes a section titled “scope of work” that details how DOGE will operate with the DOL. Together, these aspects of the agreement give the clearest look yet at how DOGE's relationships with government agencies may be structured.
US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission
The unsigned agreement between the US DOGE Service and the Department of Labor provides significant insight into DOGE's work with federal agencies.
www.wired.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The agreement also includes a section titled “scope of work” that details how DOGE will operate with the DOL. Together, these aspects of the agreement give the clearest look yet at how DOGE's relationships with government agencies may be structured.
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🔥WATCH: “Stop acting like you don’t know what this is all about.”
Rep. Hakeem unleashes on @AronMaberry for 1 of 2 his anti-DEI bills (he claims are actually fighting discrimination🤔)
McKenzie, Glynn, @votegloriaj.bsky.social also made some Maberry juice.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIP_cUj...
Rep. Hakeem unleashes on @AronMaberry for 1 of 2 his anti-DEI bills (he claims are actually fighting discrimination🤔)
McKenzie, Glynn, @votegloriaj.bsky.social also made some Maberry juice.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIP_cUj...
April 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🔥WATCH: “Stop acting like you don’t know what this is all about.”
Rep. Hakeem unleashes on @AronMaberry for 1 of 2 his anti-DEI bills (he claims are actually fighting discrimination🤔)
McKenzie, Glynn, @votegloriaj.bsky.social also made some Maberry juice.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIP_cUj...
Rep. Hakeem unleashes on @AronMaberry for 1 of 2 his anti-DEI bills (he claims are actually fighting discrimination🤔)
McKenzie, Glynn, @votegloriaj.bsky.social also made some Maberry juice.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIP_cUj...
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Rep. Horford calls it “grifting at its finest… designed to make billionaires richer”
April 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Rep. Horford calls it “grifting at its finest… designed to make billionaires richer”
It's all a game to billionaires. They only play to win for themselves, not you. You are just a piece they move around the board to do so.
The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries
April 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...
The Corrupt Supreme Court Strikes Again
The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process.
www.muellershewrote.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...
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Big Law firms and partners have choices about whether to capitulate or to stand tall. History is watching.
April 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Big Law firms and partners have choices about whether to capitulate or to stand tall. History is watching.
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Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
April 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
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Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.”
This is how it’s done.
This is how it’s done.
March 31, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.”
This is how it’s done.
This is how it’s done.
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"Normally, we treat each bullet point as a separate story. But they are all connected. We are witnessing an extraordinarily broad chilling effect in American society."
Look at the length of these lists - this effort to intimidate and silence opposition is a key part of Trump II's authoritarianism.
Look at the length of these lists - this effort to intimidate and silence opposition is a key part of Trump II's authoritarianism.
March 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"Normally, we treat each bullet point as a separate story. But they are all connected. We are witnessing an extraordinarily broad chilling effect in American society."
Look at the length of these lists - this effort to intimidate and silence opposition is a key part of Trump II's authoritarianism.
Look at the length of these lists - this effort to intimidate and silence opposition is a key part of Trump II's authoritarianism.
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Tonight in her newsletter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting Maine Senator Angus King telling the Senate to wake up. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
February 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Tonight in her newsletter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting Maine Senator Angus King telling the Senate to wake up. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.
February 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.
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It’s notable that Trump cabinet secretaries and agency heads, for the most part, are acting more interested in preserving their own prerogatives against Musk’s illegal intrusions than Republican members of Congress are.
February 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s notable that Trump cabinet secretaries and agency heads, for the most part, are acting more interested in preserving their own prerogatives against Musk’s illegal intrusions than Republican members of Congress are.
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The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.
obviously theres zero point fact checking trump but it is darkly funny how german politics is like,, conceptually beyond him on even the most basic level
February 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.
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trump take egg bsky.app/profile/ryan...
February 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
trump take egg bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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Because those people were right all along.
It is getting really really really hard not to sound like a Resistance RUSSIAGATE person whenever you’re asked the question: does he act any differently than if he were using the U.S. government to do Putin big favors rn
Friedrich Merz did not even wait for the final results in Germany's election before delivering what could well be a defining verdict on US President Donald Trump, consigning Europe's 80-year alliance with the Americans to the past.
February 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Because those people were right all along.
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Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.
Asked what he recommends federal workers do, Gerry Connolly says: "I guess if you can, cover yourself and do the five things you did last week"
February 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.
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Thank you Commissioner Gomez.
Seeing reports that the FCC plans to take a vague and ineffective step on Section 230 to try to control speech online.
So, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on why this Administration's war against the First Amendment and Americans' free speech rights is going nowhere.
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So, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on why this Administration's war against the First Amendment and Americans' free speech rights is going nowhere.
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February 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Thank you Commissioner Gomez.
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“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.”
www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...
www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...
AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong
Other Democrats, from Schumer to Hochul, should follow her lead.
www.publicnotice.co
February 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.”
www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...
www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Witkoff: "The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn't need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians."
February 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."