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Mistress of Public Policy I am renowned for my rational exuberance.
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JarekFA
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Some old guy, driving on the wrong side of the road, hits a person on bike and keeps going and the NYPD won’t even take a police report!
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 1 hour ago
It appears ICE is emptying out detention centers ahead of possible inspections.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸
about 2 hours ago
damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman
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Mueller, She Wrote
30 minutes ago
If you're in Ohio, or know people there, today is the deadline to register to vote. Please CHECK to make sure you're still registered and weren't purged from the rolls.
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Henry
about 9 hours ago
It's funny because Graham Platner is the only one in the race to endorse, unambiguously, actual war crimes under his own name in print. but the "anti-war" left decided war crimes in Iraq don't count any more
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Somebody said it out loud. Now we need more
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Andrea Joy Campbell
about 1 month ago
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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Marisa Kabas
about 4 hours ago
anyone attending the white house correspondents dinner is a fucking traitor
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Timothy Burke
about 4 hours ago
I will personally be taking account of every journalist who attends the WHCA dinner and spend the rest of my life making sure everybody knows that they did
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Jill Lawrence
about 2 hours ago
As I asked here, "Can you imagine if all presidents used the federal budget as a gigantic slush fund to spend at will?"
historykeepshappening.substack.com/p/trump-keep...
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Henry
1 day ago
what all Democrats everywhere have to look forward to if we fuck it up and nominate Graham Platner
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Henry
about 8 hours ago
you got to understand, Maine is maybe the least on-line state in America, which weirdly works super well for very on-line candidate, people can't recognize the kind of very on-line guy Platner is. The mainstream media is utterly unwilling to say its a Nazi Tattoo "resembles" is what they say
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Henry
about 8 hours ago
yep, but not only them, I mean even DNC chair Ken Martin failed to draw a red line, and indeed where are any outside forces saying "no this is not okay"? Mills is on her own against a well put together campaign of DC consultants with big name out of state endorsers
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Faine Greenwood
1 day ago
Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
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Jodi Jacobson
about 2 hours ago
This is just long term stupid.
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Matthew Blanchette
about 3 hours ago
*"Blue Danube" starts playing*
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 4 hours ago
It was vital that the media report on the fact that Joe Biden was tested for Parkinson's disease. Here's why the media is right to ignore the fact that a clearly incapacitated Donald Trump disappears for four days each month only to reappear with severe bruising on his hand.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
about 3 hours ago
we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!
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Jon Cooper
about 3 hours ago
Republican Congressman Caught Asking Another Staffer for Nudes Representative Tony Gonzales was already facing a scandal after he had an affair with a staff member who later committed suicide.
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Republican Congressman Caught Asking Another Staffer for Nudes
Representative Tony Gonzales was already facing a scandal after he had an affair with a staff member who later committed suicide.
https://newrepublic.com/post/208656/republican-congressman-gonzales-another-staffer-nudes?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
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Gabe Ortíz
about 8 hours ago
“Families have reported children in mental distress: a two-year-old who hit himself, potty-trained children who began wetting themselves, and a 13-year-old who was put into isolation after attempting suicide.”
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Marc Elias
about 19 hours ago
I will never dine with Donald Trump. You will never see me attend a fancy event with him sitting on the dais. I choose instead to fight him in court. In 2020, I started Democracy Docket to be a media outlet that shares my values. If you agree, subscribe now:
bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Eric Blair
about 6 hours ago
This is not business as usual. Every American should be doing what they can to get Trump out of office. That means no WHCD, but media oppositon to Trump. It means no Congressional work periods but Dems in Congress in constant session in DC opposing Trump.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
about 6 hours ago
OPINION: "More than two dozen sites continue to be used for public parking in Center City, one of Philadelphia’s most desirable residential areas. Those lots are a valuable, untapped resource." — Architecture critic Inga Saffron
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Philadelphia needs more housing. So why does Center City still have so many parking lots?
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/center-city-surface-parking-lots-housing-transit-oriented-development-mayor-parker-affordable-20260406.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1775479746
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Will Bunch
about 6 hours ago
1. I know the idea of "norms" went out with Cheers and technically there's no law about presidential medical disclosures, but the White House and its doctors covering up the president's true medical condition ought to be a Watergate-level scandal
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Prisonculture
about 6 hours ago
Unfortunately this is the norm for children and youth who are incarcerated anywhere.
abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
- people accept it as part of incarceration.
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Child immigrant suffered alleged sexual abuse in federal custody, family says
An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/3-year-immigrant-suffered-alleged-sexual-abuse-months-131738741
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General Boles
about 6 hours ago
Stephen Miller has apprehended a child at the White House Easter Egg Roll and will be turning him over to ICE at the earliest opportunity
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Will Stancil
about 17 hours ago
Cannot put into words how much I want this monstrous administration to LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS ALONE
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Laura Jedeed
about 8 hours ago
Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"? They were lying
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
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The WEBBIX
about 10 hours ago
There’s no way to rule out any action from Trump or his maladjusted appointees. But how absurdly ironic to use nuclear weapons against a country they are purportedly trying to deny nuclear capability. And an incentive for all nations to develop their own nuclear weapons. It’s all insanity.
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Meredith Shiner
about 8 hours ago
a cursed cursed dinner. also an extremely visible high-profile tv anchor slid into my twitter DMs when I was still on twitter to tell me how great this essay was and it took everything in my power to not be like "dude it is also about you."
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Mueller, She Wrote
1 day ago
The only thing I don't understand here is that Hegseth DID have a confirmation hearing. Unless
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
is being facetious. In which case: hahahaha
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The Rude Pundit
about 10 hours ago
“Given a choice between compassion and destruction, I choose destruction” is really what Easter is all about.
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Democrats Organizing For America
about 9 hours ago
Trump's idiot sons want to get rich off the war Dad started by selling drone interceptors to nations being attacked by Iranian drones, because their dad started a war. Doesn't get more profiteering than that!
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Firm backed by Trump sons tries to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran
Drone-maker backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr tries to win contracts with Gulf countries protected by US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/eric-trump-drones-gulf-states-iran?CMP=share_btn_url&fbclid=IwY2xjawQ9NoJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe8J-5AjXhdeC30ClVzJubJ-8SQuGvN-Z9ReHmwzT-ZfHx71427PjpX_7tyeg_aem_GU3GdpG_j1AjplAzfcJHaA
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ProPublica
about 8 hours ago
DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing. (Published Feb.)
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1775480423&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Ric - the POTUS is a pedophile
1 day ago
Okay, again... this is how TF you write a GD'ed headline!!!
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Stephen Wild
about 10 hours ago
Time for this again
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Scott Dworkin
about 8 hours ago
ICYMI
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The Resistance Is Dismantling Trump’s $1 Billion ICE Prison Machine
Here’s how
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resistance-is-dismantling-trumps
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Oly Backstrom
1 day ago
Sometimes you have to hear it plainly, and
@sbg1.bsky.social
stated it plainly in
@newyorker.com
’s The Political Scene podcast: “Donald Trump is a rogue president, and he has now made the United States of America a rogue superpower.” (Apr 3 episode, a good listen
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Clara Jeffery
about 18 hours ago
Really not sure why anyone is going to this. Honestly no longer understand what the WHCA is even about/good for anymore? Also this:
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about 20 hours ago
A very important detail is that it was CID who called ICE. Noteworthy.
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Katie Phang
about 23 hours ago
My latest piece on Substack about the 25th Amendment. Isn't it time?
substack.com/@katiephang/...
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The Temptations of the 25th Amendment
Convicted Felon Donald Trump is unfit, unkempt, and unfortunately the President
https://substack.com/@katiephang/note/p-193285719?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=cznf9
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Aaron Huertas
about 24 hours ago
Now we’re cooking
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Aaron Huertas
1 day ago
Periodic reminder that Markey has a bill to take away nuclear first strike powers from the president. Possibly the single most important piece of legislation a Dem majority could pass. No one should be trusted with such power.
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ReadJack🇺🇸
about 24 hours ago
I missed this in February — this is what Chicago organizers worked for from 2010 to 2018: closing Chicago’s trauma desert. People say “game-changer” but this is a LIFE-changer. One of the great Chicago community stories ever.
blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/a...
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After UChicago Trauma Center Reopened, Nearby Shooting Deaths Fell Nearly 4 Percent: Study
Shooting victims arrived for treatment about 10 minutes sooner and traveled about 3 miles fewer to receive care after the center's 2018 relaunch, according to a study published this week in the journa...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/after-uchicago-trauma-center-reopened-nearby-shooting-deaths-fell-nearly-4-percent-study/
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
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Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story
"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-jacob-interview-trump-coverage
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David Simon
1 day ago
25th Amendment. Articles of Impeachment. Now. What the hell else do you gutless, partisan fools need to see happen? What elze does he need to say? What else?
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Kim Kelly
3 days ago
Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”
www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263?utm_source=Sidney+Hillman+Foundation&utm_campaign=e77cdc573d-SP_2025_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-73a8db7644-197674633
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy.
1 day ago
Have you been purged from the voter rolls in LA? Better find out today! Only have a few days left to correct your status...April 15 deadline!
#yourVoiceYourVote
#UsDemocracy
#demvoice1
#voices4victory
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Andrew Weinstein
1 day ago
We’re living through a defining moment in our nation’s history, and the mainstream media is nowhere close to rising to it.
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we are listening to the big dig podcast
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