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Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
August 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🚨WATCH: “THIS PROJECT & AIRPORT ARE IN MY DISTRICT.”

Lee has Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social BLOCKED from entering an event announcing a state-sanctioned private Tesla Tunnel from Nashville airport - Elon Musk will control. (Republicans were allowed in)

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DMsqzpJ...
July 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.”

via @msnbc.com

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July 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent.

"We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire."
The Voyager Declaration Dear Interim Administrator Duffy, In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission. We, the signatories of this letter, dissent from these policies, and raise these concerns because we believe strongly in the importance of NASA's mission, which we are dedicated to uphold. Major programmatic shifts at NASA must be implemented strategically so that risks are managed carefully. Instead, the last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce. We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts are arbitrary and have been enacted in defiance of congressional appropriations law The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire. Our Shared Commitment to Dissentin� Opinions We share a commitment to dissenting views in accordance with NASA Policy Directive 1000.0C, NASA supports full and open discussion of issues of any nature (e.g., programmatic, institutional), including alternative and divergent views. Diverse views are to be fostered and respected in an environment of integrity and trust with no suppression or retribution. (NPD 1000.0C, Section 3.5.5) Employees across the agency have raised concerns about recent actions to NASA leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures. We choose to write to you directly because: (I) as Interim Administrator, you are the final step in the chain of Technical Authority, and (2) the issues we raise are agency-wide, rather than project-specific. As defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120 5F, Formal Dissent is "a substantive disagreement with a decision or action that an indiv… • We dissent to changes to NASA's Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous tum away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of Technical Authority, as suggested would be made in the June 25th NASA Town Hall, should be made only in the interests of improving safety, not in anticipation of future budget cuts. • We dissent to the closing out of missions for which Congress has appropriated funding because it represents a permanent loss of capability to the United States both in space and on Eatlh. Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial observations. • We dissent to implementing indiscriminate cuts to NASA science and aeronautics research because this will leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides. Basic research in space science, aeronautics, and the stewardship of the Earth are inherently governmental functions that cannot and will not be taken up by the private sector. Furthermore, NASA has a nearly threefold return on investment in economic activity, and supports national security by ensuring the United States maintains its lead in science and technology. • We dissent to NASA's non-strategic staffing reductions because they will jeopardize NASA's core mission. Thousands of NASA civil servant employees have already been terminated, resigned or retired early, taking with them highly specialized, irreplaceable knowledge crucial to carrying out NASA's mission. • We dissent to canceling NASA participation in international missions because in doing so, NASA is abandoning America's allies. To date, 55 nations have signed on to the Artemis Accords, and withdrawing support from missions with our long-s… We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and EPA who have released similar statements concerning the administration's actions at their respective agencies. We dedicate this letter to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. Their legacies underpin every conversation about our shared commitment to safety and dissenting opinions at NASA.
July 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Who else thinks we should ban members of Congress from trading stocks?
July 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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meidastouch.com
Meiselas: We are now learning that the FBI was ordered to flag every time Donald Trump's name was mentioned as part of the Epstein files, per Sen. Durbin...And then Donald Trump said it was all a hoax
July 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
The Supreme Court's emergency docket decision to allow Trump to gut the Department of Education is maybe the most pro-Trump, pro-Authoritarian ruling the Court has made in service of Trump thus far, and I've read them all.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Supreme Court Just Crowned Trump King—Again
In ruling the president can decimate the Department of Education, the court took a key congressional power—and gave it to Trump.
www.thenation.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
Trump/Trumpism, in a nutshell.👇
July 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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atrupar.com
REPORTER: Did the attorney general tell you that your name appeared in the Epstein files?

TRUMP: No no. She's given us just a very quick briefing. These files were made up by Comey, Obama, they were made up by the Biden-- we went through years of that with the Russia Russia Russia hoax

July 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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momazonrises.bsky.social
#ProudBlue

BOOM! 💥

Dean Withers nails it!

I don’t believe MAGA either. I truly hope they wake up now, but am extremely disappointed they dismissed all of the other horrible things Yam Tits & his regime have done.
July 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
July 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
More than 880,000 workers will get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases.

Anyone upset about this should consider the following:

If the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.
July 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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July 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
July 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
When you have an entire political movement like MAGA who has sneering contempt for experts who have spent decades in a profession - like weather forecasters - and the need for govt to use those experts to save lives, the results of that too often are that many people die.
July 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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katiephang.bsky.social
CALL CALL CALL YOUR REPS!

THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE

here's the number: (202) 224-3121
katiephang.bsky.social Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Jul 3
If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social keeps going to 1:23 pm ET, he will have set a new record.

In 2021, Kevin McCarthy logged a 8-1/2 hour speech to delay the Build Back Better vote.
July 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨
July 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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July 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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atrupar.com
Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"
July 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
You heard Patty. For the sake of women's health and so much more, kill this bill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Sen. Patty Murray: The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM