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Michael Mason
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
If Congress follows Trump's directive to rename the Defense Department, it could cost taxpayers nearly $2B in new signage, letterheads, and digital code.

Imagine if we invested that money — and our bloated military budget as well — on the American people instead of the Pentagon.
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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khrisnin.bsky.social
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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barackobama.bsky.social
California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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lisaguerrero.bsky.social
Priorities.
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
The video 🇨🇦
October 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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augustjpollak.bsky.social
The ballroom is such an obvious winning political issue for Dems, it’s breathtaking how little they want to talk about it. It will be ugly, omnipresent, a literal metaphor for Trump‘s disinterest in doing anything that actually helps American voters. Run on it, you fucking morons.
mcbridetd.bsky.social Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Oct 24
Only 24% approve, and less than half of Republicans, of demolition at White House
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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contrariannews.org
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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lisaloe.bsky.social
Wow. Tell your farmer friends & family.👇🏽😡

Q: “What do you say to farmers who think the deal helps Argentina more than them?”

Trump: “Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady…
You understand what that means? They are dying...
l happen to like [their] President.”
youtu.be/hb1sscIbYg8?...
Trump says Argentina is 'dying' and 'fighting for its life' | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
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October 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Via @jvl.bsky.social "the answer isn’t to stamp out neurodivergence or “cure” people of being who they are.4 It’s to widen our arms and be more inclusive so that they can find their place in the world a little more easily.
www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...
Autism, MAHA, and the Face of God
One part junk science, two parts incompetent government, and with a dash of blasphemy, for seasoning.
www.thebulwark.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
August 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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thinkingautism.com
When school sucks for autistic and ADHD students, the emotional impact hits them twice as hard. Unsurprisingly, this can lead to increased anxiety and depression. New research backing up autistic common knowledge:

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD
Neurodivergent adolescents experience twice the emotional burden at school
Negative school experiences generate twice the emotional burden in autistic and ADHD adolescents compared to their neurotypical classmates, and this is significantly correlated with depression and anx...
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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profciara.bsky.social
I am not a technophobe but I am deeply concerned about the AI hallucination problem. Mostly I worry about it in my area which is law. But it is also a NIGHTMARE for medicine. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
July 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.
July 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
"The Constitution, of course, grants Congress no express power to strip people of their citizenship, whether, in the exercise of the implied power to regulate foreign affairs or in the exercise of any specifically granted power." - Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).
July 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
FEMA Ends Wasteful, Politicized Grant Program, Returning Agency to Core Mission of Helping Americans Recovering from Natural Disasters Release Date: April 4, 2025 Under Secretary Noem, DHS is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse WASHINGTON - FEMA is ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and canceling all BRIC applications from Fiscal Years 2020-2023. If grant funds have not been distributed to states, tribes, territories and local communities, funds will be immediately returned either to the Disaster Relief Fund or the U.S. Treasury. Statement Attributable to a FEMA Spokesperson: "The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters. Under Secretary Noem's leadership, we are committed to ensuring that Americans in crisis can get the help and resources they need." Approximately $882 million of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year. The 2021 law made $1 billion available for BRIC over five years, $133 million to date has been provided for about 450 applications. FEMA estimates more than $3.6 billion will remain in the Disaster Relief Fund to assist with disaster response and recovery for communities and survivors. Ending this program will help ensure that grant funding aligns with the President's Executive Orders and Secretary Noem's direction and best support states and local communities in disaster planning, response and recovery.
July 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Ever wonder where the tomato on your July4th burger comes from? These Central Valley tomato harvesters spend hours bent over under the sun harvesting. On an average they lift around 170 buckets a day. Each bucket weighs 25 Ibs. It's exhausting, physical labor. WeFeedYou
July 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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July 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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victinibcn.bsky.social
Heartbreaking testimony from a mom, Pam Berek, whose son, Carlson, lives with different medical conditions (cerebral palsy, catastrophic drug-resistant epilepsy and autism). He has several doctors, specialists and an electric wheelchair to give him mobility. Carlson needs care 24h/day..
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
June 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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jen229.bsky.social
#BlueZicos
#MusicChallenge
Saturday: Train
R.E.M., “Driver 8”

And the train conductor says
Take a break, Driver 8

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFI...
R.E.M. - Driver 8
YouTube video by REMVEVO
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June 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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cwebbonline.com
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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andrewqmr.bsky.social
ICE is detaining people in torturous conditions in a two-story office building in #Burlington, Mass.

The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once.

#Massachusetts #mapoli

www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
Peredo Carroll said her client spent a couple days in a small holding cell by herself — an 8-foot-by-10-foot space with nothing but a toilet. Eventually, two other women were moved into the room. The space was so small that all three of them couldn't lie down at the same time, Peredo Carroll said. "So two of them could lie down while one was leaning up against the toilet," she said. Eventually, all three women were moved to a larger holding cell with about a dozen other women. Once again, there were no beds, or a sink with soap for handwashing, and the women slept on the floor. There was one toilet in the center of the room and "the women used the aluminum blanket to cover each other as they used the toilet so they could have a little bit of privacy," Peredo Carroll wrote in her affidavit. Throughout her stay in Burlington, Peredo Carroll said her client received three small meals per day: a small cup of oatmeal in the morning, a couple spoonfuls of pasta for lunch and some sort of rice dish for dinner that she likened to "dog food." A small bottle of water came with each meal. Sherman-Stokes also said her client in the Burlington facility was "not being fed appropriately." After 18 hours in ICE custody, she’d had a small cup of oatmeal and an apple, she said.
June 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM