Niles Gold
@nilesgold.bsky.social
Formerly Never Stop Recruiting covering UMass Basketball on the other app. Government should exist to help everyone who lives within its confines, especially those less fortunate.
@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Do not cave and end the government shutdown without a rock solid deal on ACA funding!
Do not cave and end the government shutdown without a rock solid deal on ACA funding!
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
Do not cave and end the government shutdown without a rock solid deal on ACA funding!
Do not cave and end the government shutdown without a rock solid deal on ACA funding!
Whether centrist Dems lack true ideals or they’re afraid to stand behind them makes no difference. The end result is they come across as fake and weak and that matters to voters.
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.
Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.
But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.
See you soon, NYC.
But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.
See you soon, NYC.
July 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Whether centrist Dems lack true ideals or they’re afraid to stand behind them makes no difference. The end result is they come across as fake and weak and that matters to voters.
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You piece of shit! See? This is why I'll never let up! You'll never be able to have this narrative as truth as long as I'm around. Those terrorist attacked us because of you Donald.
Reporter: You are going to meet with first responders today, but you pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted first responders.
Trump: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves… by our government. What I did was a great thing for humanity.
Trump: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves… by our government. What I did was a great thing for humanity.
February 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You piece of shit! See? This is why I'll never let up! You'll never be able to have this narrative as truth as long as I'm around. Those terrorist attacked us because of you Donald.
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The American Right is literally just banning words that they don't like and people are still pretending they are pro freedom of speech
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The American Right is literally just banning words that they don't like and people are still pretending they are pro freedom of speech
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it is singularly critical that all of this mess isn't pinned on trump or musk.
this is the republican party.
as they systemically destroy countless lives, the entire party must pay the political cost for there to be any chance of recovery.
harder to build than to destroy. dems will need numbers.
this is the republican party.
as they systemically destroy countless lives, the entire party must pay the political cost for there to be any chance of recovery.
harder to build than to destroy. dems will need numbers.
February 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
it is singularly critical that all of this mess isn't pinned on trump or musk.
this is the republican party.
as they systemically destroy countless lives, the entire party must pay the political cost for there to be any chance of recovery.
harder to build than to destroy. dems will need numbers.
this is the republican party.
as they systemically destroy countless lives, the entire party must pay the political cost for there to be any chance of recovery.
harder to build than to destroy. dems will need numbers.
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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
wrd.cm
February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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This is the worst classification scandal in 20 years. According to someone who knows: Trump has done more for China in a couple of weeks than Xi could have dreamed.
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is the worst classification scandal in 20 years. According to someone who knows: Trump has done more for China in a couple of weeks than Xi could have dreamed.
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And there it is: Russell Vought is confirmed.
I wrote a long profile of him, his worldview, his political project: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right.
He is at war with pluralistic democracy.
I wrote a long profile of him, his worldview, his political project: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right.
He is at war with pluralistic democracy.
February 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
And there it is: Russell Vought is confirmed.
I wrote a long profile of him, his worldview, his political project: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right.
He is at war with pluralistic democracy.
I wrote a long profile of him, his worldview, his political project: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right.
He is at war with pluralistic democracy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Russell Vought as White House budget director, putting Project 2025 architect at helm of powerful office.
February 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Russell Vought as White House budget director, putting Project 2025 architect at helm of powerful office.
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This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.
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Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
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Musk and Trump are engaged in a vicious witch hunt against women and people of color in the military and civil service: the former Coast Guard chief was just evicted from her home with 3 hours notice.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Musk and Trump are engaged in a vicious witch hunt against women and people of color in the military and civil service: the former Coast Guard chief was just evicted from her home with 3 hours notice.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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What he proposed was an illegal scheme of ethnic cleansing.
February 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What he proposed was an illegal scheme of ethnic cleansing.
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here's video of every single Republican on the Senate Finance Committee voting in favor of making RFK Jr the director of HHS
February 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
here's video of every single Republican on the Senate Finance Committee voting in favor of making RFK Jr the director of HHS
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This guy should have no role in running our government. We didn’t elect him. He’s not a gov’t employee who is accountable. He hasn’t taken an oath to uphold the constitution or work on behalf of the American people. He’s in it for himself not for us.
February 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This guy should have no role in running our government. We didn’t elect him. He’s not a gov’t employee who is accountable. He hasn’t taken an oath to uphold the constitution or work on behalf of the American people. He’s in it for himself not for us.
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
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Department of Transportation has issued a memo ordering programs supported by the agency to prioritize funding projects for communities with “marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.” www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-me...
A New Government Memo Feels Like It’s Straight Out Of 'The Handmaid’s Tale'
The memo also said recipients of federal transportation dollars must cooperate with immigration enforcement, a hit to so-called sanctuary cities.
www.huffpost.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Department of Transportation has issued a memo ordering programs supported by the agency to prioritize funding projects for communities with “marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.” www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-me...
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This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
They posted an update confirming it was from Trump's order. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water
The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...
sjvwater.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
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Translation: We want to privatize everything.
REPORTER: With your efforts to reduce the federal workforce, are there any concerns about protecting the public?
TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.
TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.
February 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Translation: We want to privatize everything.
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"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
February 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
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Trump says he has the highest standards, after putting a MTV's Real World alumnus in charge of Transportation and a Fox & Friends host in control of the Pentagon, while his nominees to lead the FBI (internet troll), HHS (celebrity science crank) and DNI (Russian stooge) flail in live hearings.
January 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Trump says he has the highest standards, after putting a MTV's Real World alumnus in charge of Transportation and a Fox & Friends host in control of the Pentagon, while his nominees to lead the FBI (internet troll), HHS (celebrity science crank) and DNI (Russian stooge) flail in live hearings.
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what happened last night will have comparable examples across every area these people have authority to regulate. it’ll probably happen to another plane, too.
FDIC has yanked job offers to more than 200 new examiners, the front-line employees who closely monitor banks to ensure they operate safely and adhere to an extensive rule book.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Banking regulator rescinds more than 200 job offers for examiners it needs
A government-wide hiring freeze is adding to a staffing shortage at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., complicating the agency’s efforts to oversee thousands of banks across the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
what happened last night will have comparable examples across every area these people have authority to regulate. it’ll probably happen to another plane, too.
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He’s the president’s biggest donor, he gets a west wing office, he gets to oust the administrator of the federal aviation administration, he gets to send emails to the entire federal workforce trying to scam them out of their pensions, and he’s a nazi.
I missed this entirely:
The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.
Musk demanded he resign.
He did.
On January 20th.
www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.
Musk demanded he resign.
He did.
On January 20th.
www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”
www.thedailybeast.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
He’s the president’s biggest donor, he gets a west wing office, he gets to oust the administrator of the federal aviation administration, he gets to send emails to the entire federal workforce trying to scam them out of their pensions, and he’s a nazi.
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The first 10 days of Trump's administration have been marked by an unprecedented barrage of barbaric policy moves and casual executive depravity.
In many cases, these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.
In many cases, these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.
Trump's First 10 Days Back in Power Were Uniquely Depraved. Don't Get Numb To It
Donald Trump’s first 10 days back in office were filled with a series of “shock and awe” executive orders intended to overwhelm the opposition.
www.rollingstone.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The first 10 days of Trump's administration have been marked by an unprecedented barrage of barbaric policy moves and casual executive depravity.
In many cases, these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.
In many cases, these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.