Paula Edens
@pedens.bsky.social
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Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
July 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
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no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine
Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.
Infrastructure for a police state.
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
www.npr.org
June 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine
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Goldman on Trump's "Gestapo-like tactics" -- "We don't live in an authoritarian country where we have secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people. That's the stuff of authoritarian states. That's not how the US operates. And that's really where this is breaking down."
June 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Goldman on Trump's "Gestapo-like tactics" -- "We don't live in an authoritarian country where we have secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people. That's the stuff of authoritarian states. That's not how the US operates. And that's really where this is breaking down."
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🇺🇸📡👀 Musk's Starlink poses a threat to national security, White House officials say.
❗️The White House's Starlink satellite communications system bypassed controls designed to prevent information leaks and hacking attacks, - The Washington Post.
❗️The White House's Starlink satellite communications system bypassed controls designed to prevent information leaks and hacking attacks, - The Washington Post.
June 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🇺🇸📡👀 Musk's Starlink poses a threat to national security, White House officials say.
❗️The White House's Starlink satellite communications system bypassed controls designed to prevent information leaks and hacking attacks, - The Washington Post.
❗️The White House's Starlink satellite communications system bypassed controls designed to prevent information leaks and hacking attacks, - The Washington Post.
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Videos from Elizabeth Warren about 4 disastrous bombs in the big beautiful bill (links below) in comments…
June 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Videos from Elizabeth Warren about 4 disastrous bombs in the big beautiful bill (links below) in comments…
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EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
June 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
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Phang: There’s a Texas Tribune article that reveals that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants sent to CECOT in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.—even though the administration wanted to label them as terrorists before deporting them.
June 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Phang: There’s a Texas Tribune article that reveals that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants sent to CECOT in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.—even though the administration wanted to label them as terrorists before deporting them.
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America destroys itself. Details at 11.
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
June 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
America destroys itself. Details at 11.
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What if putting the stupidest people in charge was a mistake?
We're at the "we cannot build bananas in America" stage of our societal collapse. God help us.
June 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What if putting the stupidest people in charge was a mistake?
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Bureaucratic politics explanation for ICE arrests: 1) they arrest people for whom they have data, i.e. those who comply with requests for info from the govt; 2) they go for easy arrests (people who won't fight back). So, expect more law-biding, non-threatening people to be arrested. 1/2
They are not picking up dangerous criminals, but the immigrants who were actually complying with the conditions of their presence in the US. And now, other immigrants have less and less reason to do so.
"At about 15 minutes past the hour every hour all afternoon, teams of agents, many of them masked, left the building escorting four people, each in handcuffs, into parked SUVs that then quickly zipped across the street to the garage of 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE has its local field office."
June 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bureaucratic politics explanation for ICE arrests: 1) they arrest people for whom they have data, i.e. those who comply with requests for info from the govt; 2) they go for easy arrests (people who won't fight back). So, expect more law-biding, non-threatening people to be arrested. 1/2
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📌U.S. intelligence vetted by among others, MARCO RUBIO, laid out that Putin helped put Trump in office. That it is regularly ignored by our press in the context of NATO and the War in Ukraine is shoddy, and ISN'T journalism.
It is essential background, and informs Trump's dealings in the region.
It is essential background, and informs Trump's dealings in the region.
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
📌U.S. intelligence vetted by among others, MARCO RUBIO, laid out that Putin helped put Trump in office. That it is regularly ignored by our press in the context of NATO and the War in Ukraine is shoddy, and ISN'T journalism.
It is essential background, and informs Trump's dealings in the region.
It is essential background, and informs Trump's dealings in the region.
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Moskowitz: "Nothing has been made more efficient. Here are the wins for congressional Rs. You ready? They're gonna do a $9b recession bill. They're gonna get rid of Elmo, which the American people were clamoring for, but they're gonna add $2.4t for the debt. And then they want us to cheer for them."
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Moskowitz: "Nothing has been made more efficient. Here are the wins for congressional Rs. You ready? They're gonna do a $9b recession bill. They're gonna get rid of Elmo, which the American people were clamoring for, but they're gonna add $2.4t for the debt. And then they want us to cheer for them."
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This is the king making legislation everyone said they wouldn't tolerate. What are you waiting for?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
June 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is the king making legislation everyone said they wouldn't tolerate. What are you waiting for?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
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What exactly does he call those years he was a heroin addict ?????
"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
RFK Jr. is wrong about autism
His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.
www.publicnotice.co
April 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What exactly does he call those years he was a heroin addict ?????
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Your reminder that Trump has 5 kids with 3 women he cheated on & Pete Hegseth has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on & Elon Musk has 13 kids with 4 women he cheated on & Matt Gaetz paid underage girls for sex. Family values my ass.
April 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Your reminder that Trump has 5 kids with 3 women he cheated on & Pete Hegseth has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on & Elon Musk has 13 kids with 4 women he cheated on & Matt Gaetz paid underage girls for sex. Family values my ass.
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The first thing they make you do before going into a classified meeting is to remove your phone. Why? Because phones can be hacked. (Eg look up Pegasus spyware).
Hegseth using his personal phone multiple times to reveal combat operations is a dereliction of duty. He must resign.
Hegseth using his personal phone multiple times to reveal combat operations is a dereliction of duty. He must resign.
This just gets worse. Hegseth needs to go now. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat (Gift Article)
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The first thing they make you do before going into a classified meeting is to remove your phone. Why? Because phones can be hacked. (Eg look up Pegasus spyware).
Hegseth using his personal phone multiple times to reveal combat operations is a dereliction of duty. He must resign.
Hegseth using his personal phone multiple times to reveal combat operations is a dereliction of duty. He must resign.
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In addition to today’s case, these are the two other upcoming cases that I highlighted on Sunday at Law Dork — www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-con... — so I definitely urge you to check this out from @mjsdc.bsky.social and @leahlitman.bsky.social —>
Spoke with @leahlitman.bsky.social about two huge religion cases at the Supreme Court that have flown under the radar.
The conservative majority looks poised to compel state funding of Catholic schools AND give religious parents a right to veto curricula at public schools. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The conservative majority looks poised to compel state funding of Catholic schools AND give religious parents a right to veto curricula at public schools. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In addition to today’s case, these are the two other upcoming cases that I highlighted on Sunday at Law Dork — www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-con... — so I definitely urge you to check this out from @mjsdc.bsky.social and @leahlitman.bsky.social —>
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Counterterrorism Czar: Opposing Trump’s policies is aiding and abetting terrorists — a felony.
Your reminder that Hitler’s first concentration camp, Dachau, was built to imprison leaders of political, social, and cultural movements who opposed the Nazis.
Your reminder that Hitler’s first concentration camp, Dachau, was built to imprison leaders of political, social, and cultural movements who opposed the Nazis.
Trump's Counterterror Czar Proposes Terror Charges for Political Opponents
Either you love America or you don’t, he says
www.kenklippenstein.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Counterterrorism Czar: Opposing Trump’s policies is aiding and abetting terrorists — a felony.
Your reminder that Hitler’s first concentration camp, Dachau, was built to imprison leaders of political, social, and cultural movements who opposed the Nazis.
Your reminder that Hitler’s first concentration camp, Dachau, was built to imprison leaders of political, social, and cultural movements who opposed the Nazis.
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Even doge admits Elon musk is cutting cancer research
April 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Even doge admits Elon musk is cutting cancer research
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FIVE. MORE. LAW. FIRMS. CAVE. AND. CUT. DEALS. WITH. TRUMP.
"$600 Million Dollars in pro bono services."
Of all the people you'd think would have the resources to fight back and say "F*CK NO!" and handle the consequences...you'd think it would be those at the high-power law firms.
"$600 Million Dollars in pro bono services."
Of all the people you'd think would have the resources to fight back and say "F*CK NO!" and handle the consequences...you'd think it would be those at the high-power law firms.
🚨 NEW: Five more law firms cut deals with Trump. $600 mil in pro bono services.
Four of the five firms were facing EEOC investigations of their DEI programs. Those probes are now dropped.
See what’s shaking on Shakedown Street
news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
Four of the five firms were facing EEOC investigations of their DEI programs. Those probes are now dropped.
See what’s shaking on Shakedown Street
news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
Five Major Law Firms Cut $600 Million Deals With Trump (2)
Five of the world’s largest law firms reached deals with President Donald Trump to avoid punitive executive orders and resolve federal discrimination probes against four of them.
news.bloomberglaw.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
FIVE. MORE. LAW. FIRMS. CAVE. AND. CUT. DEALS. WITH. TRUMP.
"$600 Million Dollars in pro bono services."
Of all the people you'd think would have the resources to fight back and say "F*CK NO!" and handle the consequences...you'd think it would be those at the high-power law firms.
"$600 Million Dollars in pro bono services."
Of all the people you'd think would have the resources to fight back and say "F*CK NO!" and handle the consequences...you'd think it would be those at the high-power law firms.
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This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
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This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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That last paragraph goes hard
April 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
That last paragraph goes hard