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Writing, Editing. Not a bot. Registered to vote in Florida.
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Nancy Levine Stearns
about 7 hours ago
NYT: For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump Freedom 250, Trump's hijack of America's birthday, is presenting the UFC fight event on the White House lawn. Freedom 250 also presented white Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 rally.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/u...
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For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/freedom-250-trump-donors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iVA.ifFX.qkvjBExp96jv&smid=url-share
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David Simon
about 7 hours ago
A clean, cogent argument can be made that while there are a great many accomplices involved, three men are predominantly responsible for the end of the American Century and the collapse of our republic: Newt Gingrich, Rubert Murdoch and Mark Burnett. I'm not here to argue, only to mourn.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈
about 22 hours ago
I think we can all agree Big Tobacco is a paragon of greedy, deceptive, illegal conspiracist, and murderous set of entities and people. Big Tobacco should *never* win. Donald Trump has bypassed procedure & law to help get more kids addicted to & ultimately harmed/killed by tobacco products.
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Big Tobacco comes out on top after US FDA shake-up
The U.S. FDA's new, looser regulation of new vapes and nicotine pouches will potentially unleash hundreds more such products on the market in the coming weeks and months, according to three current a...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/big-tobacco-comes-out-top-after-us-fda-shake-up-2026-05-26/
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Nancy Levine Stearns
1 day ago
UFC event on the WH lawn presented by Trump's Freedom 250 hijack of America's birthday. 11 US senators launched an investigation into Freedom 250, demanding answers about allocation of $100 million in taxpayer dollars and an alleged pay-to-play scheme. Sponsors include Mastercard and United Airlines
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trend...
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Inside Project Panama: 2 million books scanned and destroyed by Anthropic AI to train machines | - The Times of India
Trending News: Information follows a simple rule: The more it is consumed, the more it is reshaped and shared. Human intelligence grows by absorbing knowledge, combi.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/inside-project-panama-2-million-books-scanned-and-destroyed-by-anthropic-ai-to-train-machines/articleshow/127870832.cms
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and THESE cynical assholes, who know trump is destroying the USA and don't care because they're profiting from it
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ProPublica
2 days ago
The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1779757204&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF
2 days ago
Our government telling an adversary to disregard the President's social media posts because they're not real and are intended for promotional purposes and US media consumption, says it all. Holy fuck.
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Don Moynihan
3 days ago
Revealing the corruption among Trump administration regulators matters precisely because these companies gain users by emphasizing that they are regulated by the federal government. Via
@splawinski.bsky.social
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-polyma...
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The (Poly)Market Nobody Knows How to Govern
Prediction markets or gambling websites? Inside the regulatory wild west
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-polymarket-nobody-knows-how-to?utm_source=publication-search
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Faine Greenwood
5 days ago
I deeply fear for elderly people (and young people!) in disaster areas nowadays who 100% do not have X/Twitter accounts and likely have no idea that that’s where official disaster updates are being posted.
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
5 days ago
Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 22% compared to this time last year!
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FactPost
5 days ago
The Trump administration has opened up land bordering Denali National Park for oil and gas drilling.
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Jessica Tarlov
6 days ago
That’s the hypocrisy people are angry about. Republicans want to talk tough on fraud while protecting the biggest fraudsters when they’re politically connected. If fraud is wrong, then it should be wrong for everyone.
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FactPost
6 days ago
Trump's HHS is now using AI to cut funding for supposed fraud. The agency has accidentally cut legitimate programs under Trump, including 9/11-related cancer research.
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Mark Copelovitch
6 days ago
It's not stupid. It's the most blatantly illegal & unconstitutional thing you could imagine. You're a goddamn United States Senator. Do the job you swore an oath to do. Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here. These are <entirely> the people responsible:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Bobby Kogan
7 days ago
This is so illegal lol 🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Nancy Levine Stearns
7 days ago
Christian nationalism is very dangerous. "Christian Nationalism’s singular goal is to combine religious and political power, which scholars agree likely results in 'religiously motivated genocide.'" "Theology of Control: Christian Nationalist Violence and Hostility"
www.hsaj.org/articles/22898
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Theology of Control: Christian Nationalist Violence and Hostility - Homeland Security Affairs
By John B. White – Executive Summary – The Christian Nationalist movement strives to establish a “Christian Democracy” that intentionally seeks to limit the power of democracy and the Constitution wit...
https://www.hsaj.org/articles/22898
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Nancy Levine Stearns
7 days ago
🧵 Only 17% of US adults say the federal government should declare Christianity the nation’s official religion. Doing so is unconstitutional. Christian nationalists are propagating a debunked narrative about our country's founding. Mastercard and United Airlines among sponsors of 'Rededicate 250.'
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
9 days ago
The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing
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Eli Valley
9 days ago
Murdoch's pet antisemites are working with fascists to compile and distribute lists of Jews tonight:
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹
9 days ago
"Donald Trump and the Republican Party are stealing two billion dollars of your money to give it to their corrupt criminal friends" should be in every single Democratic ad the rest of the year.
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Carl Quintanilla
9 days ago
“.. government watchdogs immediately pledged to fight what they called a ‘corrupt’ and unprecedented resolution, warning that the arrangement would unjustly enrich people close to the president with taxpayer dollars.”
@apnews.com
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CK DexterHaven
12 days ago
Yeah, I’m done. Expand the court and add age/term limits.
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Alan Elrod
12 days ago
This is outrageous. It’s just pure largesse for the president’s family, cronies, and street thugs. The corruption is mind-blowing.
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David Ho
14 days ago
The rampant and open corruption and grift are breathtaking.
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Secretary of Defense Rock
15 days ago
The Tsar and boyars pillaging the treasury as much as they can before the revolution
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Carl Quintanilla
16 days ago
Cutting beef tariffs. Suspending federal gasoline taxes. These are some of the “pre-midterm adjustments” moves many policy desks have been predicting.
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Don Moynihan
17 days ago
The Reflecting Pool is the Trump admin in microcosm: *The pool has real problems, like leaky pipes, that are not being fixed *Superficial paint job that will actually make it look worse *No bid contract! No oversight!
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...
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The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Blue
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-contract.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hVA.BcpL.bjEFr7uuhIZ-&smid=url-share
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ProPublica
18 days ago
When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:
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Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1778374805&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Linda Holmes
18 days ago
To be honest, I think even without bringing religion into it, you can question the idea of building a gold statue of someone. I greatly admire many, many people; I cannot think of one I think it would be un-weird to honor with a gold statue.
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jamelle
18 days ago
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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Aaron Sojourner
20 days ago
Corrupt AF Fossil fuel company owners see that they can't compete with clean energy. They gave POTUS $1B to protect their profits. He's doing it, abusing public power to drive their competition out of business & force Americans to choke down their high prices & pollution.
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Bill Kristol
20 days ago
"We can fight to stop the ballroom. If this means leaving the area as a destruction site for the rest of Trump’s presidency, so be it. Let its ugliness exemplify the ugliness of the Trump era. Let its rubble symbolize what he's tried to do to the American republic."
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Whose House? Trump’s House.
A home renovation project only an aspiring emperor would love.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/whose-house-trumps-house-ballroom-republicans-no-kings?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Bill Kristol
20 days ago
"33% of Republicans said they thought they could take Trump in a fight. 39% said Trump would beat them! So some large percentage of Republican voters either: See the poll question as a loyalty test; or Think that Trump actually looks like his memes in real life."
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Platner 2028?
Call me crazy, but Graham Platner has a chance to be the Democratic nominee.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/platner-2028?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Just Security
20 days ago
The CTA was designed to give law enforcement a tool to track drug cartels, kleptocrats, and sanctioned actors hiding behind anonymous U.S. shell companies. Now Congress is threatening to repeal it. What's at stake — from
@dschulkin.bsky.social
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Will Congress Throw Out a Tool to Fight Money Laundering?
A vote to repeal the CTA would discard, at great cost to U.S. law enforcement and national security, a tool before it has been put to use.
https://www.justsecurity.org/138082/congress-tool-money-laundering-corruption/
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Thomas Edwards
21 days ago
www.cruiselawnews.com/2025/04/arti...
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Centers for Disease Control Stops Inspecting Cruise Ships for Cleanliness
Due to cuts by the Trump Administration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now lacking the staff and resources to continue
https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2025/04/articles/disease-outbreaks/centers-for-disease-control-stops-inspecting-cruise-ships-for-cleanliness/
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Democrats
20 days ago
Trump fired every full-time health official responsible for investigating outbreaks on cruise ships.
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Matthew Gertz
20 days ago
It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
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Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies
Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trumps-abrupt-u-turn-plan-re-open-strait-hormuz-came-backlash-allies-rcna343845
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Nick Brumfield
21 days ago
So uh, precisely the types of people the US economy is going to most need in the next 20 years as the crisis of aging Boomers overwhelming our care systems reaches its fevered peak
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
21 days ago
and I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I'll proudly stand up h/t
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Nancy Levine Stearns
21 days ago
“While congress appropriated $150m to the Department of the Interior last summer for the anniversary, it is now believed that most of that funding will be redirected to Freedom 250… for projects aligned with the president’s views and interests.”
www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/06/t...
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Two truths? US 250th anniversary programmes take differing approaches
America250 was established by congress and files regular reports while Freedom 250 is planning a mixed martial arts fight at the White House on Trump’s 80th birthday
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/06/two-truths-us-250th-anniversary-programmes-take-differing-approaches
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Carl Quintanilla
21 days ago
We haven’t even begun to understand the Pandora’s Box that this war has opened.
@cfr.org
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The Tennessee Holler
21 days ago
WATCH—
@warnock.senate.gov
: “The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians.”
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Adam Serwer
21 days ago
Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products
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The Haunted Bookshop
22 days ago
No matter who you are. No matter what your politics are. You need to oppose House bill HR 7661. Don't let the federal government decide what books you can access and which ones are "right" for your community, friends, family. There hasn't been a bill this bad for
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ProPublica
22 days ago
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1778026320&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Don Moynihan
22 days ago
Very much looks like the Trump administration put a more systematic federal effort to investigate Alex Pretti's government co-workers who attended a vigil after he was killed, rather than investigate the government officials who killed him.
www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
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Months after the ICE shootings in Minnesota, a federal probe remains elusive
Officials in Minnesota have sued the Trump administration, saying federal officials are withholding evidence in the killings of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good by immigration agents i...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5775847/alex-pretti-renee-good-ice-shootings-federal-investigations
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Kevin M. Kruse
22 days ago
If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:
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To hell with trump, hegseth, johnson, and the rest of the weirdo christian nationalists. Not going to dedicate anything to something that excludes LOTS of Americans
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