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Mr. Quint
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Survivor, USS Indianapolis. You all know me, know how I earn a living.
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Meanwhile, in the district court in Rhode Island....

@altcdc.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info @firedbutfighting.bsky.social

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Response to Motion – #101 in State of New York v. Kennedy (D.R.I., 1:25-cv-00196) – CourtListener.com
Response to Motion
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November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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raskin.house.gov
Ghislaine Maxwell is an unrepentant child sex predator. So why would an American President even consider commuting her sentence? This would be a national disgrace.

@democrats-judiciary.house.gov want answers.
Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell plans to seek commutation from Trump, whistleblower says
The whistleblower came forward with the information to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Hey MAGA: why would Ghislane Maxwell be receiving “concierge style treatment?”

WHY?
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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carolwickconsults.bsky.social
Here is a great explanation of why Justice Jackson ruled this way. www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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altcdc.altgov.info
Do we still have a House of Reps? Asking for a country… 🫠

Must be nice getting a 6 week paid vacation while fed workers go without pay 💀

#CongressOnVacation #FedStrong #DoYourJob
House will be out of session next week
abcnews.go.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
mrquint.bsky.social
To this point, someone's gotta ask the Orange Fella how he managed to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas, but somehow can't get in a room with House and Senate leadership. I mean, he said he hated seeing starving in Gaza, but seems perfectly OK with it here. 🙄

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richlbi.bsky.social RichLBI @richlbi.bsky.social · 10d
As Jamie Raskin mentioned, Trump would negotiate with dictators all over the world, pal around with Putin, give $40 billion to a Argentinian dictator but refuses to negotiate with Americans to end the Trump shutdown and re-open our government.
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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altwasonps.bsky.social
Hey folks..

I'll keep this short and simple.

I want you to remember that the current president of the United States is doing the absolute bare minimum required by court order to ensure that American citizens are not suffering.

Remember that.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
mrquint.bsky.social
Q:"Mr. Speaker, your reaction to last night's election results?"

"Haven't seen it."
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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altcdc.altgov.info
Great/devastating interactive dashboard from our friends at @firedbutfighting.bsky.social!

CDCDataProject.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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ryanbeckwith.bsky.social
*The president is all powerful and can fire civil servants, impound spending, redirect money and deploy troops despite numerous constitutional and legal restrictions but he can't spend emergency money for food stamps set aside specifically for shutdowns* is all-time amazing messaging.
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
mrquint.bsky.social
@raskin.house.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov

There can be no agreement to end the shutdown without guaranteed adherence to the 2019 law that Trump signed.
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17d
BREAKING: Furloughed employees at CDC just received an email about the shutdown, but has REMOVED language about backpay that appeared in a similar email sent out a month ago. On the left is the Oct 1st email with the backpay language, on the right is the email they received today.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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👀

@altcdc.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info

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Stipulation of Dismissal – #00108359763 in State of New York v. Kennedy (1st Cir., 25-1780) – CourtListener.com
STIPULATED MOTION to dismiss case filed by Appellants Administration for Community Living, Administration for Families and Children, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FDA, Andrew Gradison, R...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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raskin.house.gov
We’re barreling towards the GOP’s full-blown national health care crisis. Democrats are reporting for work to stop the crisis and reopen the government. Why are Republicans on extended paid vacation?
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Moral of the story: If you don’t want Trump to send the military into the streets of your city, have a tech bro billionaire call him.
Post on Truth social from @RealDonaldTrump
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all.

The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.
October 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
Adding up firings, forced retirements, and resignations since January, CDC has lost 30% of its workforce

1 in 3 CDC staff are gone. We have never been less ready for a large-scale emergency response than we are now

CDC, our union is fighting these illegal firings. Join today www.afge2883ga.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
mrquint.bsky.social
I don't think this is the winning argument Sen. Thune thinks it is.
We already knew that (R)s didn't give a crap about Americans' health care costs---but thanks for clarifying it for us.

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October 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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It’s long past time for Speaker Johnson to do his job and swear in Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva. She won on September 23rd that’s 26 days ago.
October 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
mrquint.bsky.social
I look forward to these being crushed by a giant dwarf after the Whte House hires an incompetent designer who builds to the models' exact specifications.

#stonehenge
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 18
President Trump is seeking to build a triumphal arch on a Washington roundabout to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary next year. Trump showed models of the proposed arch at a fund-raising dinner on Wednesday for another of his pet projects, a White House ballroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Donald Trump, in a dark suit and red tie, holds up two small white models of a triumphal arch, looking down at the one in his right hand. A headline reads: "Trump Unveils Plans For Triumphal Arch In Washington." Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times.
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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quoproquid.bsky.social
general reminder that government shutdowns (and “essential government employees) were invented largely by accident by the carter administration’s benjamin civiletti and the entire foundational basis of it is just a DoJ legal opinion that could just be changed at any time
For nearly 200 years of the country’s history, this never happened. Everyone just assumed that if Congress didn’t get around to finishing appropriations bills, then agencies would just continue operating as normal until lawmakers got the job done. Then one day in 1980, a presumably well-meaning attorney general, Benjamin Civiletti, invented the government shutdown. He didn’t intend to. Civiletti was just providing legal advice to President Carter on what should happen in the event of a lapse in appropriations at an agency. “I couldn’t have ever imagined these shutdowns would last this long of a time and would be used as a political gambit,” Civiletti told the Washington Post in 2019. He said he was only offering “a purely direct opinion on a fairly narrow subject” that “has been used in ways that were not imagined at the time.” “Our country survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II, all without anyone ever once shutting down the government,” lawyer and former Agriculture Department official Kenneth Ackerman wrote in 2019. “And no, it’s not that we never had accounting snafus in Washington before 1980. But up until that year, no president or attorney general ever took the crazy position that a gap between agency appropriation bills—the expiring of one coming a few hours or days before enactment of the next—amounted to a doomsday machine for politicians to hurl about Capitol Hill, causing the government to lock its doors.” So how did Civiletti come to offer his opinion? The story starts in the 1970s, when funding lapses started to occur not just due to “accounting snafus,” but because appropriations measures became entangled with legislation on hot-button issues such as abortion and school integration. From fiscal 1977 to fiscal 1980, there were six gaps in federal funding, ranging from 8 to 17 days. Congress was making a practice of not finishing spending bills on time—a habit that would grow dramatically worse in the 21st century. One lawmaker, Rep. Gladys Noon Spellman, D-Md., became curious as to whether periodic lapses in funding ran afoul of an obscure 1884 law called the Antideficiency Act. Spellman asked then-Comptroller General Elmer Staats what he thought. In March 1980, Staats responded that while technically the law prevented agencies from spending money that hadn’t been appropriated by Congress, that didn’t mean lawmakers wanted operations to come to a screeching halt while funding decisions were being sorted out. "We do not believe that the Congress intends that federal agencies be closed during periods of expired appropriations," Staats wrote. Enter Civiletti. Six weeks after Staats’ letter, the attorney general weighed in. The comptroller general was wrong, Civiletti wrote in a letter to President Carter. “It is my opinion that, during periods of ‘lapsed appropriations,’ no funds may be expended except as necessary to bring about the orderly termination of an agency’s functions, and that the obligation or expenditure of funds for any purpose not otherwise authorized by law would be a violation of the Antideficiency Act.” Then Civiletti went further. The Justice Department, he said, intended to enforce the criminal provisions of the act against federal officials who continued running their agencies without funding. That meant fines of up to $5,000 and as much as two years in prison. It didn’t take long after Civiletti issued his opinion for the first shutdown to occur. It involved only the Federal Trade Commission, whose appropriations were allowed to lapse on May 1, 1980, while lawmakers wrangled over an authorization measure for the agency. The shutdown lasted only a day. It quickly became apparent, though, that the broader implications of the Civiletti opinion were rather dire. What if the FBI or the Secret Service ran out of money? Would federal law enforcement agents be required to walk off the job? So in 1981, Civiletti issued a second opinion: Even in the absence of appropriations, he wrote, some government functions could continue, as long as there was “some reasonable and articulable connection between the function to be performed and the safety of human life or the protection of property.” This would morph into the “essential vs. nonessential” employee mis-designation that now reappears every time a shutdown occurs.
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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raskin.house.gov
Please notify President Trump and Vice-President Vance immediately. Isn’t this a mandatory one-year jail sentence—or is this a kind of flag desecration they have no problem with?
Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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firedbutfighting.bsky.social
We held a press conference this morning.
“This round of firings, as with all the others experienced at CDC in the last 10 months, was an intentional attack on the American people and the public’s health.”
stated Abby Tighe with National Public Health Coalition.

Help us save public health.
October 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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firedbutfighting.bsky.social
Spreading the word. The CDC community will remember Officer Rose's sacrifice forever.
💚💚💚💚💚
October 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM