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soundcheckdancer.bsky.social
Is he firing missiles at California because he can’t get troops sent there?
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Oct 16
LA Times now confirming our earlier reporting: www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
This dude is going to run the economy into the ground then blame Jerome Powell.
July 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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michelemanziano.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
If Dems and their backers are not right now cutting ads featuring Tillis to be played in Maine, Alaska, Missouri, Louisiana, and elsewhere, it’s political malpractice.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Jun 30
Sen. Tillis: "Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betraying a promise. It is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J Trump made."
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Jun 30
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on the Senate floor on the budget bill:

"What do I tell 663,000 people [in North Carolina] in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding is not there anymore, guys?"
June 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
soundcheckdancer.bsky.social
And THAT is why (every)one should refuse the camera at TSA check points. The LESS the government knows about (every)one, the better.
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Jun 26
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
soundcheckdancer.bsky.social
I stand for American values, a constitutional democracy where power belongs to the people. I believe in the rule of law that applies equally to everyone, including elected officials. I uphold the Constitution as the foundation of American freedom, not an obstacle to be bypassed when inconvenient.
June 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.

And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.

This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Jun 7
Trump called Musk "a big-time drug addict" in a phone call shortly after their public feud. (WaPo)
June 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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reptedlieu.bsky.social
Today, Secretary Rubio told the Foreign Affairs Committee that they’re negotiating with Putin to save lives. But, right before his conversation with Trump, Putin launched a bunch of missiles, killing a bunch of civilians.

Clearly, Putin is giving the middle finger to President Trump.
May 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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wordswithsteph.bsky.social
The misdemeanor trespassing charge absurdly leveled against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has officially been dismissed.

Federal magistrate judge Andre Espinosa scolded federal prosecutors for more than five minutes, calling the entire situation “embarrassing.”

The politically motivated,…
May 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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michelemanziano.bsky.social
True
May 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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alexkirshner.com
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Like Pritzker's approach to this more and more!
May 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.
gxldsociety.bsky.social Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · May 13
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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tristansnell.bsky.social
The Republicans tax bill is here.

It does NOT ban taxing tips.
It does NOT ban taxing overtime.
It does NOT ban taxing Social Security.

Trump LIED to you — y’all got PLAYED.
May 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
This was the point in the @propublica.org story on pricey cancer drug Revlimid where i got angry.

The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006.

Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make.
www.propublica.org/article/revl...
Chart titled "The Price of Revlimid Has Increased 26 Times Since FDA Approval" It shows each price increase for the drug since 2006, when it sold for $280/pill, to its most recent price increase to $892/pill. Below the chart is text from the story that reads: "The cost to manufacture each Revlimid pill, meanwhile, was 25 cents. I found a deposition marked 'highly confidential' in which a top Celgene executive testified that the cost started at a quarter and never changed."
May 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
soundcheckdancer.bsky.social
Our brother was struck and killed by an e-bike commuter on a shared public trail. He was hit and left unconscious. He never regained consciousness and died. E-bikes should not share the same paths with pedestrians. See: “Sausalito electric powered bicycle pedestrian collision fatality.”
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · May 8
There really is an issue with *enforcing existing traffic rules* on all cyclists - e-bike and regular bike. Absolutely. But this has nothing to do with that. And to the extent there's an issue here it's speed not technology or method.
May 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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msreadsalot.bsky.social
My friend’s daughter lost her job. She’s been a park ranger for 20+ years and is devoted to the forests she protects. When she lost her job she also lost her home - she didn’t get the little cabin in the forest free, she paid rent. So, jobless, homeless, now living with her parents - she’s 45.
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · May 5
They don't want us to have nice things. That's it.
May 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
If the courts cannot pretty rapidly step in and stop this obvious abuse of public funds to settle political scores, they won’t do a whole lot else to hold against an authoritarian state
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo.

Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
May 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
More firings at the National Cancer Institute, including the Cancer Information Service, “which provides answers to doctors and patients about cancer, and updates to databases summarizing cancer information for healthcare providers”.

I mean who needs it, right?

www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...
National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute
The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.
www.cbsnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
May 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them.

DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it.

Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them.

Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
April 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM