@ds1976.bsky.social
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Rep. Jacobs: "Trump's personally profiting from a deal with a foreign government while selling weapons to that same government...You don't think this is a conflict of interest?"
Rubio: "POTUS's family owns a business & they can conduct business anywhere in the world they want."
Rubio: "POTUS's family owns a business & they can conduct business anywhere in the world they want."
May 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Rep. Jacobs: "Trump's personally profiting from a deal with a foreign government while selling weapons to that same government...You don't think this is a conflict of interest?"
Rubio: "POTUS's family owns a business & they can conduct business anywhere in the world they want."
Rubio: "POTUS's family owns a business & they can conduct business anywhere in the world they want."
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Opinion from Tara Wallace: Bullying and gaslighting from D.C. set Kansans back on their heels. Time for accountability. #ksleg
Bullying and gaslighting from D.C. set Kansans back on their heels. Time for accountability. • Kansas Reflector
I hoped that someone with the power granted to them by their elected office would set into motion a process to reverse the damage.
kansasreflector.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Opinion from Tara Wallace: Bullying and gaslighting from D.C. set Kansans back on their heels. Time for accountability. #ksleg
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My #SistersInLaw Barb McQuade’s book ATTACK FROM WITHIN: HOW DISINFORMATION IS SABOTAGING AMERICA, is coming out in paperback. Please join her and former AG Loretta Lynch in conversation at @NYU June 3 at 7 PM. Thanks to our host, @RGoodlaw. Details available here.
May 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
My #SistersInLaw Barb McQuade’s book ATTACK FROM WITHIN: HOW DISINFORMATION IS SABOTAGING AMERICA, is coming out in paperback. Please join her and former AG Loretta Lynch in conversation at @NYU June 3 at 7 PM. Thanks to our host, @RGoodlaw. Details available here.
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."
May 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."
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We blame Joe Biden because he was the last link in the chain and because it’s safer than coming to terms with the reality.
And because Biden is fading while the reality endures. It’s safer to lay the blame at his feet.
And because Biden is fading while the reality endures. It’s safer to lay the blame at his feet.
Joe Biden Isn’t Your Scapegoat
Biden failed. So did the rest of us.
www.thebulwark.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We blame Joe Biden because he was the last link in the chain and because it’s safer than coming to terms with the reality.
And because Biden is fading while the reality endures. It’s safer to lay the blame at his feet.
And because Biden is fading while the reality endures. It’s safer to lay the blame at his feet.
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
May 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."
Neil Young
Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19
4 May 1970
Kansas public administration professor calls for action in wake of eroding democratic norms | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas public administration professor calls for action in wake of eroding democratic norms • Kansas Reflector
A University of Kansas professor is concerned public administration academic standards don't forcefully answer growing threats to core democratic ideals.
kansasreflector.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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As European leaders rallied behind Zelensky in London, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the administration’s new approach could herald a new thaw between Washington and Moscow.
Read more here:
Read more here:
Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”
wapo.st
March 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
As European leaders rallied behind Zelensky in London, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the administration’s new approach could herald a new thaw between Washington and Moscow.
Read more here:
Read more here:
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18F, a team in the General Services Administration, was tailor-made for government efficiency and technology, writes @matteowong.bsky.social. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wiped it out.
DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team
“It’s chaotic, and it feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.”
www.theatlantic.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
18F, a team in the General Services Administration, was tailor-made for government efficiency and technology, writes @matteowong.bsky.social. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wiped it out.
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Russia and China, have ramped up recruitment efforts targeting US federal employees—particularly those recently fired or at risk of termination. These efforts are unfolding aggressively on LinkedIn, where adversaries are reaching out under the guise of job opportunities, networking, and consulting.
March 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Russia and China, have ramped up recruitment efforts targeting US federal employees—particularly those recently fired or at risk of termination. These efforts are unfolding aggressively on LinkedIn, where adversaries are reaching out under the guise of job opportunities, networking, and consulting.
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"One could say, with plenty of justification, that the statistics on U.S. military assistance illustrate the inadequacy of the Biden administration’s approach." It would be nice if that were the primary Republican argument.
Betrayal and Hope in Ukraine
Russia is not nearly as strong as Trump would have you believe—and Ukraine is not nearly as defeated.
www.thebulwark.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"One could say, with plenty of justification, that the statistics on U.S. military assistance illustrate the inadequacy of the Biden administration’s approach." It would be nice if that were the primary Republican argument.
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This is bad.
It takes 6mo to make the vax, so this needs to be done now to get to us in the fall.
It takes 6mo to make the vax, so this needs to be done now to get to us in the fall.
Well shit: March meeting of advisers to the US FDA to discuss the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled
Maybe we won’t have #fluvaccines for the 2025-6 flu season 😬
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
Maybe we won’t have #fluvaccines for the 2025-6 flu season 😬
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation | CNN
A March meeting of outside advisers to the United States Food and Drug Administration to discuss the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled, a member of the advisory ...
amp.cnn.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is bad.
It takes 6mo to make the vax, so this needs to be done now to get to us in the fall.
It takes 6mo to make the vax, so this needs to be done now to get to us in the fall.
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Trump’s new acting CFPB director in charge of reigning in predatory financial institutions is literally promoting a predatory payday lender.
Because something something working class champions.
Because something something working class champions.
February 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trump’s new acting CFPB director in charge of reigning in predatory financial institutions is literally promoting a predatory payday lender.
Because something something working class champions.
Because something something working class champions.
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I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.
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Anyone in Alabama State Gov or with a large employer in the state ?
You are getting RIPPED off by PBMs.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gregre...
You are getting RIPPED off by PBMs.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gregre...
Greg Reybold on LinkedIn: Dont know how Alabama employers can keep carrying the water of Big PBMs…
Dont know how Alabama employers can keep carrying the water of Big PBMs and Insurers after this.
Big employers in Alabama are spending more than anyone on…
www.linkedin.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Anyone in Alabama State Gov or with a large employer in the state ?
You are getting RIPPED off by PBMs.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gregre...
You are getting RIPPED off by PBMs.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gregre...
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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
February 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
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UPDATE: CLEARED by MPD and USSS according to a source familiar. No bombs found.
BREAKING: A MAGA bomb threat issued at the Principles First Summit in DC. I apologize for the language in it.
February 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
UPDATE: CLEARED by MPD and USSS according to a source familiar. No bombs found.
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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”
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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
February 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
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Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
February 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
Raskin: "The wrecking ball of rightwing authoritarianism is swinging right through Congress and coming directly at the freedoms of the press and the people. The self-appointed CEO of this operation is the unelected bureaucrat and aspiring techno-dictator, Elon Musk ... "
February 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM