@sphago.bsky.social
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Across the South — and especially in Florida, home to Moms for Liberty, Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Matt Gaetz — MAGA has spent the last 5 years attacking and demonizing librarians, teachers, LGBTQ people and other innocent parties for "sexualizing" and "grooming" children.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Across the South — and especially in Florida, home to Moms for Liberty, Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Matt Gaetz — MAGA has spent the last 5 years attacking and demonizing librarians, teachers, LGBTQ people and other innocent parties for "sexualizing" and "grooming" children.
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2 statewide races in GA, 3 PA state Supreme Court races, Virginia Governor, New Jersey Governor, California redistricting. Dems winning HUGE everywhere. The resistance is alive & well.
Tonight is a TOTAL repudiation of that cruel, corrupt, lawless madman in the White House & his cowardly enablers.
Tonight is a TOTAL repudiation of that cruel, corrupt, lawless madman in the White House & his cowardly enablers.
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
2 statewide races in GA, 3 PA state Supreme Court races, Virginia Governor, New Jersey Governor, California redistricting. Dems winning HUGE everywhere. The resistance is alive & well.
Tonight is a TOTAL repudiation of that cruel, corrupt, lawless madman in the White House & his cowardly enablers.
Tonight is a TOTAL repudiation of that cruel, corrupt, lawless madman in the White House & his cowardly enablers.
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The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
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WSJ: The Trump administration is canceling the annual survey that tracks how many Americans struggle with food insecurity, data usually collected each December by the USDA.
If you hide the numbers, the hunger disappears.
If you hide the numbers, the hunger disappears.
September 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
WSJ: The Trump administration is canceling the annual survey that tracks how many Americans struggle with food insecurity, data usually collected each December by the USDA.
If you hide the numbers, the hunger disappears.
If you hide the numbers, the hunger disappears.
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"I want you to follow your own word, Director Patel."
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) confronts FBI Director Kash Patel with his own past comments calling for the full release of the Epstein files before he was appointed to lead the FBI.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) confronts FBI Director Kash Patel with his own past comments calling for the full release of the Epstein files before he was appointed to lead the FBI.
September 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"I want you to follow your own word, Director Patel."
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) confronts FBI Director Kash Patel with his own past comments calling for the full release of the Epstein files before he was appointed to lead the FBI.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) confronts FBI Director Kash Patel with his own past comments calling for the full release of the Epstein files before he was appointed to lead the FBI.
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Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism.
Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism.
Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
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You don't pave over the Rose Garden, gild the Oval, or plan a $200M ballroom if you're planning on moving out anytime soon.
The Mad King is burrowed in like a tick on a hound and just getting fatter on our blood.
The Mad King is burrowed in like a tick on a hound and just getting fatter on our blood.
August 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
You don't pave over the Rose Garden, gild the Oval, or plan a $200M ballroom if you're planning on moving out anytime soon.
The Mad King is burrowed in like a tick on a hound and just getting fatter on our blood.
The Mad King is burrowed in like a tick on a hound and just getting fatter on our blood.
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“Whatever the rationale for the administration’s agenda, the consequences are clear. These cuts are jeopardizing progress in many fields, including the war on cancer—in which scientists have made some truly impressive gains, especially in the past ten years or so.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
No President Tried to Lose the War on Cancer … Until Trump
The story of a cancer patient, a researcher, and MAGA’s assault on science.
open.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Whatever the rationale for the administration’s agenda, the consequences are clear. These cuts are jeopardizing progress in many fields, including the war on cancer—in which scientists have made some truly impressive gains, especially in the past ten years or so.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
The fight against corruption has to be ceaseless.
Today in the Appropriations Committee, I will offer an amendment to prohibit the Qatari jet that was gifted to Trump (which is going to cost taxpayers $1 billion) from being transferred to him personally.
Stay tuned.
Today in the Appropriations Committee, I will offer an amendment to prohibit the Qatari jet that was gifted to Trump (which is going to cost taxpayers $1 billion) from being transferred to him personally.
Stay tuned.
July 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
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So just to be clear - the “protect the kids” party is now shutting the government down to protect sexual predators? Do we have this right?
July 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So just to be clear - the “protect the kids” party is now shutting the government down to protect sexual predators? Do we have this right?
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At the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research, more than a dozen veteran researchers told John Donvan and Caren Zucker the same thing about the U.S. health secretary's approach to autism science: What he's doing is not good.
RFK Jr.’s Autism Time Machine
The health secretary’s approach to the condition gives the impression that two decades of research simply never happened.
bit.ly
July 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
At the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research, more than a dozen veteran researchers told John Donvan and Caren Zucker the same thing about the U.S. health secretary's approach to autism science: What he's doing is not good.
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The Trump administration’s proposed budget seeks to shut down the laboratory atop a peak in Hawaii where scientists have gathered the most conclusive evidence of human-caused climate change since the 1950s.
Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory | CNN
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, superchargin...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Trump administration’s proposed budget seeks to shut down the laboratory atop a peak in Hawaii where scientists have gathered the most conclusive evidence of human-caused climate change since the 1950s.
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New in PN: The MAGA mind virus
"77 million Americans surrendered moments of shared humanity when they put Trump back in the White House. The tragedies that once united Americans now only further divide us. No one, including his supporters, should have expected anything else."
"77 million Americans surrendered moments of shared humanity when they put Trump back in the White House. The tragedies that once united Americans now only further divide us. No one, including his supporters, should have expected anything else."
The MAGA mind virus
Mike Lee has a really bad case, and it's spreading across the GOP.
www.publicnotice.co
June 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New in PN: The MAGA mind virus
"77 million Americans surrendered moments of shared humanity when they put Trump back in the White House. The tragedies that once united Americans now only further divide us. No one, including his supporters, should have expected anything else."
"77 million Americans surrendered moments of shared humanity when they put Trump back in the White House. The tragedies that once united Americans now only further divide us. No one, including his supporters, should have expected anything else."
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OPINION by @jarvisdeberry.bsky.social:
Jarvis highlights why ICE agents’ masks are especially disturbing.
“The basic principle is that the police are accountable to the public. And that requires, at a minimum, knowing who the police are.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Jarvis highlights why ICE agents’ masks are especially disturbing.
“The basic principle is that the police are accountable to the public. And that requires, at a minimum, knowing who the police are.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | From decrying ‘jack-booted government thugs’ to defending ICE agents wearing masks
A California bill that restricts local and state law enforcement officials from covering their faces is a necessary, if symbolic, rebuke of the encroaching police state.
www.msnbc.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
OPINION by @jarvisdeberry.bsky.social:
Jarvis highlights why ICE agents’ masks are especially disturbing.
“The basic principle is that the police are accountable to the public. And that requires, at a minimum, knowing who the police are.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Jarvis highlights why ICE agents’ masks are especially disturbing.
“The basic principle is that the police are accountable to the public. And that requires, at a minimum, knowing who the police are.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
June 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
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@citizencohn.bsky.social: "Joni Ernst’s cringey videos were wrong. They also reveal a lot about the GOP’s desperately dishonest sales job." www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-people...
Yes. People Will Die.
Joni Ernst’s cringey videos were wrong. They also reveal a lot about the GOP’s desperately dishonest sales job.
www.thebulwark.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@citizencohn.bsky.social: "Joni Ernst’s cringey videos were wrong. They also reveal a lot about the GOP’s desperately dishonest sales job." www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-people...
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Let’s break this down—because the gaslighting is wild:
📌Oct 2022 – Biden signs EO to cut drug prices
📌Jan 2025 – Trump takes office and kills Biden’s EO to cut drug prices
📌May 2025 – Trump signs his own EO to lower drug prices
Trump canceled Biden’s plan then brought it back w/his name on it.
📌Oct 2022 – Biden signs EO to cut drug prices
📌Jan 2025 – Trump takes office and kills Biden’s EO to cut drug prices
📌May 2025 – Trump signs his own EO to lower drug prices
Trump canceled Biden’s plan then brought it back w/his name on it.
May 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Let’s break this down—because the gaslighting is wild:
📌Oct 2022 – Biden signs EO to cut drug prices
📌Jan 2025 – Trump takes office and kills Biden’s EO to cut drug prices
📌May 2025 – Trump signs his own EO to lower drug prices
Trump canceled Biden’s plan then brought it back w/his name on it.
📌Oct 2022 – Biden signs EO to cut drug prices
📌Jan 2025 – Trump takes office and kills Biden’s EO to cut drug prices
📌May 2025 – Trump signs his own EO to lower drug prices
Trump canceled Biden’s plan then brought it back w/his name on it.
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- DOGE has redirected funds from key federal programs and agencies, including the Department of Labor and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to support its operations. These reallocations have come at a cost—resulting in deep staff reductions and budget cuts at the affected agencies.
April 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
- DOGE has redirected funds from key federal programs and agencies, including the Department of Labor and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to support its operations. These reallocations have come at a cost—resulting in deep staff reductions and budget cuts at the affected agencies.
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- Between January and February 2025, the Trump administration apportioned over $39 million to DOGE. However, the specific origins of these funds remain unclear, raising serious concerns about transparency and oversight.
April 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
- Between January and February 2025, the Trump administration apportioned over $39 million to DOGE. However, the specific origins of these funds remain unclear, raising serious concerns about transparency and oversight.
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Now let’s dig into the details:
- DOGE has received funds transferred from other federal agencies under the Economy Act, which permits such transfers for interagency support. This has allowed DOGE to operate as if it were a federal agency—despite lacking explicit congressional authorization.
- DOGE has received funds transferred from other federal agencies under the Economy Act, which permits such transfers for interagency support. This has allowed DOGE to operate as if it were a federal agency—despite lacking explicit congressional authorization.
April 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Now let’s dig into the details:
- DOGE has received funds transferred from other federal agencies under the Economy Act, which permits such transfers for interagency support. This has allowed DOGE to operate as if it were a federal agency—despite lacking explicit congressional authorization.
- DOGE has received funds transferred from other federal agencies under the Economy Act, which permits such transfers for interagency support. This has allowed DOGE to operate as if it were a federal agency—despite lacking explicit congressional authorization.
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Where is that money coming from? Simple: they’re billing other federal agencies for their so-called “services.” This kind of shadow invoicing needs serious oversight. Taxpayers deserve to know exactly where their money is going—and who’s profiting from it.
April 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Where is that money coming from? Simple: they’re billing other federal agencies for their so-called “services.” This kind of shadow invoicing needs serious oversight. Taxpayers deserve to know exactly where their money is going—and who’s profiting from it.