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@stephruhle.bsky.social Mr Bianco and Mr Geffert…are so inspiring
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
@stephruhle.bsky.social Ms Ruhle like so many times your program builds democracy by sharing ideas from your guests…they too, need to be heard.👍
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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"Jeffries concluded, 'Pulte knows what he is doing is lawless... Accountability is coming. The statute of limitations is five years. Every single corrupt sycophant, including Bill Pulte, who continues to disgrace the law will have to answer for their actions'...”

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Hakeem Jeffries sends a provocative shot across FHFA chief Bill Pulte’s bow
The House Democratic leader referred to Pulte as “a malignant hack” and a “corrupt sycophant” who might be held criminally liable for his recent actions.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I’m an expat in CH and honestly am disgusted with the Swiss government for having bent the knee to the thug. As a direct democracy one can only hope a referendum committee is formed to let the people vote and soundly reject this extortionate abomination
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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beersandbeans on Instagram: "🚨 We NEED your help to get word out! >> Months before devastating floods tore through Western Alaska on Sunday (10/12), Trump’s EP…"
🚨 We NEED your help to get word out! >> Months before devastating floods tore through Western Alaska on Sunday (10/12), Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M grant meant to protect one of the Indigenous villages hit hardest.👉 Please SHARE to amplify what’s happening—together, we can turn awareness into Action, Aid & Relief.💙 And if you can, donate to the Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund—aligned with the Alaska Federation of Natives and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, along with other local partners helping families recover. (Link in bio.)🌊 Remnants of Typhoon Halong slammed into Western Alaska, leaving behind heartbreaking devastation. One person is dead, two are missing, and hundreds displaced as powerful winds and floods ripped through Indigenous villages like Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, destroying or damaging dozens of homes.⚠️ The $20M grant was meant to stabilize Kipnuk’s riverbank, shielding the village from flooding and erosion. But EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin—formerly of AFPI (think: backup Project 2025)—revoked the funding, calling it “no longer consistent” with the agency’s priorities, according to The New York Times.📊 What happened:
📌 $20M EPA grant issued at the end of the Biden administration to protect Kipnuk revoked in May
📌 EPA administrator bragged about canceling “wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice funding” in February
📌 As of Oct. 14: 1 dead, 2 missing in Kwigillingok, and over 1,000 displaced across the region, including Kipnuk📢 Actions You Can Take:
👉 FOLLOW @beersandbeans as we connect the dots on how political decisions put our communities at risk
👉 GET LOUD: Tag your reps + demand funding and climate protections for Indigenous communities
👉 SHARE: Let’s HELP these Indigenous Communities get relief. Share, repost, and make noise. And don’t be afraid to let Zeldin know what you think! 🎥 @tundra_walker - Kipnuk, AK (Oct. 14, 2025)Sources: Link in Bio
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October 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Trump losing in court over extreme, 'illegal' ICE tactics

@arimelber.bsky.social reports on President Trump's legal setbacks and is joined by New York Times Magazine legal writer Emily Bazelon.
Thin ICE? Trump losing in court over extreme, 'illegal' ICE tactics 
YouTube video by MSNBC
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November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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“Lots of people will actually die,” @zekeemanuel.bsky.social warns now that Obamacare subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year. “Republicans have had 15 years since the passage of the [ACA] and haven’t come up with a replacement.” #Velshi
‘Lots of people will actually die’: Health expert outlines consequences of letting ACA subsidies expire
The government reopened this week without a deal to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, which has alarmed health care experts across the nation. “Lots of people will actually die because we don’t have universal coverage,” said University of Pennsylvania professor and former White House Health Policy Adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. “Republicans have had 15 years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act and haven’t come up with a replacement…As president Trump famously says, he has concepts of ideas, concepts of a plan, that’s not a plan.”
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November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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“I could no longer bear to be silent,” says retired federal judge Mark Wolf, who quit his lifetime seat to warn about Trump’s threat to democracy. It’s part of a broader movement which Wolf hopes will “create this tidal wave that will be sufficient to sustain our democracy.” #Velshi
The judge who quit to save democracy and ‘send a ripple of hope’
Former federal judge Mark Wolf resigned his lifetime seat to warn that Donald Trump threatens American democracy. His departure is part of a wider pattern inside government, with DOJ attorneys leaving in record numbers and some National Guard soldiers refusing what they say are unlawful orders. These acts point to a systemic crisis of faith and to a growing movement of judges, civil servants, and citizens determined to defend the American experiment as it nears its 250th year. “I hope I'm sending out a ripple of hope, and it will merge with these other ripples,” Wolf says. “And together create this tidal wave that will be sufficient to sustain our democracy.”
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November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@velshi.com a great show today about
Cut-throat-capitalism’ capitalism actually using insider rules and regulations to close out Americans opportunity for fair housing prices…keep up the investigatory work it’s invaluable.
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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My city now forced to cancel park programming on a summer Saturday because of “unannounced federal enforcement activity”
June 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Without making any endorsements, it does seem like in a city of 8.5 million residents, it’s not too much to ask for the mayor to actually live in New York City.
June 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
And the deaths that followed…😱
Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
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June 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My first Bluesky note.
January 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”

—Elie Wiesel
January 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM