@barneyandbenny.bsky.social
Devastating loss
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Streicker is the latest in an unusual flurry of departures — including five section chiefs — who have either left the U.S. attorney’s office this year, or plan to by the end of next month.
'Superstar' prosecutor who helped bring down Madigan, Burke parting ways with U.S. attorney's office
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Devastating loss
This is a tragedy
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers
White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.
reut.rs
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is a tragedy
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me, every day now: 😵💫
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
me, every day now: 😵💫
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
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Only in America would anyone turn child massacres into an industry--rather than banning weapons that are used to in mass murder.
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Only in America would anyone turn child massacres into an industry--rather than banning weapons that are used to in mass murder.
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Sorry for the tears this morning, just crying about <gestures broadly at everything in America>
September 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Sorry for the tears this morning, just crying about <gestures broadly at everything in America>
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Schools
Theaters
Concerts
Malls
Churches
Synagogues
Mosques
Parks
Nightclubs
Offices
Festivals
Stores
Military Bases
Bars
Post Offices
Yoga Studios
Super Bowl parades
Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
Theaters
Concerts
Malls
Churches
Synagogues
Mosques
Parks
Nightclubs
Offices
Festivals
Stores
Military Bases
Bars
Post Offices
Yoga Studios
Super Bowl parades
Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
August 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Schools
Theaters
Concerts
Malls
Churches
Synagogues
Mosques
Parks
Nightclubs
Offices
Festivals
Stores
Military Bases
Bars
Post Offices
Yoga Studios
Super Bowl parades
Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
Theaters
Concerts
Malls
Churches
Synagogues
Mosques
Parks
Nightclubs
Offices
Festivals
Stores
Military Bases
Bars
Post Offices
Yoga Studios
Super Bowl parades
Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
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rfkjr: we just want people to be able to make choices about their own health
america: cool can we choose to take the covid booster
rfkjr: lol no
america: cool can we choose to take the covid booster
rfkjr: lol no
August 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
rfkjr: we just want people to be able to make choices about their own health
america: cool can we choose to take the covid booster
rfkjr: lol no
america: cool can we choose to take the covid booster
rfkjr: lol no
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You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality
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Oh good, at least someone isn’t ignoring that this happened — as the Sunday shows and press corps say nothing.
Felt like we were losing our minds.
Felt like we were losing our minds.
August 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Oh good, at least someone isn’t ignoring that this happened — as the Sunday shows and press corps say nothing.
Felt like we were losing our minds.
Felt like we were losing our minds.
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The historical cognate for what is happening in the United States right now is the period known as the Redemption. And the restoration of Confederate iconography, just like when they were originally installed, is to signal to the nation the return of white power.
The Trump administration is on a pro-Confederacy roll, with two monuments brought back in 24 hours. The "Confederate Memorial," its name since its construction in 1914, will be reinstalled in Arlington Cemetery.
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trib.al/b1L3866
August 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The historical cognate for what is happening in the United States right now is the period known as the Redemption. And the restoration of Confederate iconography, just like when they were originally installed, is to signal to the nation the return of white power.
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Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful
July 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful
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So basically nonprofits battling Trump 2.0 are facing a more conservative federal judiciary and fewer pro bono resources than existed during Trump 1.0, but aside from that things are going good. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Trump’s war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ’pro bono’ work for underdogs
Major law firms are scaling back the free work they do for advocacy groups fighting the government in the wake of Donald Trump’s attacks on the profession. Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable.
www.reuters.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
So basically nonprofits battling Trump 2.0 are facing a more conservative federal judiciary and fewer pro bono resources than existed during Trump 1.0, but aside from that things are going good. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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👇👇👇
Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
👇👇👇
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Federal workers SAVE the government money, that’s why firing them is COSTING the government money. This isn’t difficult.
April 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Federal workers SAVE the government money, that’s why firing them is COSTING the government money. This isn’t difficult.
😔
The Chicago staffers of the U.S. Department of Labor’s federal contractor oversight agency were put on paid administrative leave this week, along with workers in most other regions of the country.
Chicago employees of federal contractor oversight agency put on paid leave: ‘It’s open season out there for all these contractors’
The staffers put on paid leave are employees of the agency’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which investigates federal contractors to ensure they comply with nondiscrimination laws…
www.chicagotribune.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
😔
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*checks watch ten days later*
If the government’s position is that being trafficked to El Salvador by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller amounts to a final and irreversible deprivation of all rights, then it seems to me every federal court has a duty to permanently enjoin the practice as soon as it possibly can.
April 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
*checks watch ten days later*
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The moment Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond's speaking record:
"I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
"I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The moment Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond's speaking record:
"I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
"I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
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again, it's worse than just recession
They've eviscerated all public safety standards, consumer protection, labor protection, corporate oversight, and the social safety net
going to be a parade of concussive failures to systems Americans took for granted ON TOP of unnecessary economic hardship
They've eviscerated all public safety standards, consumer protection, labor protection, corporate oversight, and the social safety net
going to be a parade of concussive failures to systems Americans took for granted ON TOP of unnecessary economic hardship
I don’t think Americans who voted for this administration are in any way prepared for the way its decisions could reverberate through the economy and lead to lost wages, mass layoffs, spiraling consumer debt, foreclosure, another lost generation of young people.
Recessions are no joke.
Recessions are no joke.
March 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
again, it's worse than just recession
They've eviscerated all public safety standards, consumer protection, labor protection, corporate oversight, and the social safety net
going to be a parade of concussive failures to systems Americans took for granted ON TOP of unnecessary economic hardship
They've eviscerated all public safety standards, consumer protection, labor protection, corporate oversight, and the social safety net
going to be a parade of concussive failures to systems Americans took for granted ON TOP of unnecessary economic hardship
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Today, 1 in 3 women live in states with abortion bans.
The fight for reproductive rights is as urgent as ever.
That's what I'm thinking about this International Women's Day.
The fight for reproductive rights is as urgent as ever.
That's what I'm thinking about this International Women's Day.
March 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Today, 1 in 3 women live in states with abortion bans.
The fight for reproductive rights is as urgent as ever.
That's what I'm thinking about this International Women's Day.
The fight for reproductive rights is as urgent as ever.
That's what I'm thinking about this International Women's Day.
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The Trump admin quietly shuttered a CDC program used to collect data on maternal & infant health since 1988. This will severely curb the gov't's ability to monitor & address the worsening maternal health crisis since Roe fell.
From @kylietcheung: www.jezebel.com/as-abortion-...
From @kylietcheung: www.jezebel.com/as-abortion-...
As Abortion Bans Drive Up Maternal, Infant Mortality, Trump Admin. Shutters Key CDC Program
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), which has worked to identify groups of pregnant people and infants at higher risk of health complications since 1988, was quietly shut down fol...
www.jezebel.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Trump admin quietly shuttered a CDC program used to collect data on maternal & infant health since 1988. This will severely curb the gov't's ability to monitor & address the worsening maternal health crisis since Roe fell.
From @kylietcheung: www.jezebel.com/as-abortion-...
From @kylietcheung: www.jezebel.com/as-abortion-...
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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year.
New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, one memo obtained by @propublica.org says.
Read the latest from @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, one memo obtained by @propublica.org says.
Read the latest from @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...
www.propublica.org
March 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year.
New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, one memo obtained by @propublica.org says.
Read the latest from @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, one memo obtained by @propublica.org says.
Read the latest from @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy
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I fear some of you are still not quite understanding that the purpose of DOGE is not actually to make the federal government more efficient, it's to privatize what they can make money off of and then dismantle the rest.
March 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I fear some of you are still not quite understanding that the purpose of DOGE is not actually to make the federal government more efficient, it's to privatize what they can make money off of and then dismantle the rest.