arbitrarilynamed.bsky.social
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We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Just keep doing the next good thing. That’s all that’s asked of us in this moment. That’s it.
July 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Yikes
June 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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It shouldn't take a lawyer to know that as President of the United States, you have to follow the United States Constitution.
May 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Prof McBride, USNA 1974, PhD Johns Hopkins, went on to say, “Your acquiescence was a repudiation of the Naval Academy’s historic mission. You may take some solace that the removal of these books was a lawful order. However, such an interpretation runs contrary to larger Constitutional issues ..
April 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.

The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
April 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.

We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
March 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Ruckus - (verb) - co-authoring an option editorial article in a school newspaper that is contrary to our foreign policy decisions.

(See also: free speech = shut up)
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape?

Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
March 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This is how law firms should do it.
Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
March 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.” 

It’s who our government is for.

Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
March 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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and here we are
March 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
inews.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA.

Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people.

This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become.
It's targeted harassment.
March 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Trump is using the White House to make a commercial for the richest man in the world while Americans’ 401ks are plummeting.
March 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Warning: Fascists believe a very wide array of First Amendment activity is “anti-American.” This will not stop here.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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He voted for anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. to be in charge of our nations health.
February 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?

But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?

Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
February 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM