Amanda
@nomoredramama.bsky.social
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Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.
DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Trump’s decision “will open up vast swaths of largely untouched land to logging and roadbuilding, including about 30% of the land in the National Forest System — encompassing 92% of Tongass, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world…”
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests
The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Trump’s decision “will open up vast swaths of largely untouched land to logging and roadbuilding, including about 30% of the land in the National Forest System — encompassing 92% of Tongass, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world…”
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...
Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...
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“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
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Trump Republicanism cashiers the nation’s public health system in exchange for… what, exactly?
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
‘I’m Not Quite Sure How to Respond to This Presentation’
The discomfiting spectacle of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine-advisory committee
www.theatlantic.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Trump Republicanism cashiers the nation’s public health system in exchange for… what, exactly?
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
June 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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Today, a chamber that once filled me with wonderment made me feel disgust.
June 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Today, a chamber that once filled me with wonderment made me feel disgust.
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BREAKING: Trump admin is releasing three-time felon Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes and sparing him from deportation in exchange for "testifying" against Kilmar Abrego García. 🤔 Trump is trying to keep this plan quiet. You know what to do.
June 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
BREAKING: Trump admin is releasing three-time felon Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes and sparing him from deportation in exchange for "testifying" against Kilmar Abrego García. 🤔 Trump is trying to keep this plan quiet. You know what to do.
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Remember this?
June 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Remember this?
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The Supreme Court has turned itself into a one-branch dictatorship. They seized the wheel, slammed the brakes, and walked the fuck away. Thousands of lives in chaos, and they won’t be back till October. We’re living under judicial terrorism.
June 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The Supreme Court has turned itself into a one-branch dictatorship. They seized the wheel, slammed the brakes, and walked the fuck away. Thousands of lives in chaos, and they won’t be back till October. We’re living under judicial terrorism.
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Feels weird to barge in with good news, but The Onion is hiring two more fellows:
Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Here's a link to our Video Fellowship:
jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.
Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Here's a link to our Video Fellowship:
jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.
Video Fellowship, Summer 2025 at The Onion
jobs.gusto.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Feels weird to barge in with good news, but The Onion is hiring two more fellows:
Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Here's a link to our Video Fellowship:
jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.
Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Here's a link to our Video Fellowship:
jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.
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Top Lawyers, Jan. 6 Prosecutors Urge DC Court to Investigate Trump Appointee for ‘Violations of His Oath of Office’ in Scathing Letter https://twp.ai/4imdQh
www.mediaite.com
Top Lawyers, Jan. 6 Prosecutors Urge DC Court to Investigate Trump Appointee for ‘Violations of His Oath of Office’ in Scathing Letter
twp.ai
April 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Top Lawyers, Jan. 6 Prosecutors Urge DC Court to Investigate Trump Appointee for ‘Violations of His Oath of Office’ in Scathing Letter https://twp.ai/4imdQh
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The DEI purge at the Pentagon is White Supremacy.
The dismantling of the Dept of Education is Christian Nationalism.
The rampage by the kids in DOGE is just petty dumbfuckery.
The dismantling of the Dept of Education is Christian Nationalism.
The rampage by the kids in DOGE is just petty dumbfuckery.
March 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The DEI purge at the Pentagon is White Supremacy.
The dismantling of the Dept of Education is Christian Nationalism.
The rampage by the kids in DOGE is just petty dumbfuckery.
The dismantling of the Dept of Education is Christian Nationalism.
The rampage by the kids in DOGE is just petty dumbfuckery.
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I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
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“This is bullsh*t. This is not a real strategy. The reason why you do this is because you think your constituents are too dumb to understand how congressional procedure works.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
March 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“This is bullsh*t. This is not a real strategy. The reason why you do this is because you think your constituents are too dumb to understand how congressional procedure works.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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It has been a day; maybe you’d also like to listen to Vance being booed at the Kennedy Center?
JD Vance booed at Kennedy Center
Vice President JD Vance was booed while attending a National Symphony Orchestra concert at The Kennedy Center on March 13.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It has been a day; maybe you’d also like to listen to Vance being booed at the Kennedy Center?
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March 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I founded Democracy Docket five years ago to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy. Its work is more important than ever and so is your support.
Consider becoming a premium member for $10mo/$120yr.
www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Consider becoming a premium member for $10mo/$120yr.
www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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NOTABLE: Trump-appointed judge rejects Justice Department effort to expand Trump Jan. 6 pardon to cover gun crime unrelated to #CapitolRiot. w/@kyledcheney
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Judge rejects DOJ's effort to expand reach of Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, called the Justice Department's position irrational.
www.politico.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
NOTABLE: Trump-appointed judge rejects Justice Department effort to expand Trump Jan. 6 pardon to cover gun crime unrelated to #CapitolRiot. w/@kyledcheney
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...