Leslie Ann Epperson
@wesee.bsky.social
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Artist, doc filmmaker, admire all creatures. Plants too. And rocks. Rivers, big on rivers.
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MeidasTouch
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BREAKING: U.S. job growth for February revised sharply lower — from -92,000 to -133,000 jobs, marking the largest monthly job loss since December 2020.
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If I read “ here’s the kicker “ or here’s what is interesting” or any of the obviously AI LLM generated slip, I stop reading. Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s latest included here’s the kicker. Not reading anymore. Yay to Scott MacFarlane who writes like he speaks. robot writing sounds idiotic. Don’t do it.
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Christopher Webb
about 15 hours ago
Going LIVE tonight 10 ET / 7 PT War tensions rising. Voting rights under attack. MAGA cracking. The economy feeling it. We’re breaking it all down, plus what they’re hoping you miss. Jump in the comments and join the chat. See you soon.
www.youtube.com/live/ROlaufQ...
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Reformers Live: Hot topics, real talk, no filter. Jump in the comments and join the chat.
YouTube video by Christopher Webb
https://www.youtube.com/live/ROlaufQ77Nk?si=2RGWjXAskJWttZY2
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The Weeknight on MS NOW
about 15 hours ago
“The most corrupt AG in history”:
@robertgarcia.house.gov
responds to Trump’s firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Daniel Gilmore
about 14 hours ago
Pete Hegseth is a white supremacist who is trying to re-segregate the military
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Anton Gerashchenko
2 days ago
PM of Armenia Pashinyan told Putin that his country has elections and no restrictions on Internet. Putin looked grim, scratched his head and clasped his hands. Russia is now at a stage when Armenia mocks it.
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Mike Hixenbaugh
about 15 hours ago
It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host
@mychal3ts.bsky.social
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jamelle
about 15 hours ago
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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Timothy Snyder
2 days ago
The whole Iran war is looking more and more like a gimmick to drop energy sanctions on Russia and pressure Europeans to do the same. A war to make Russia’s much larger war easier and possible to sustain.
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Timothy Snyder
2 days ago
If we don't discuss the history of the Holocaust, or if we treat it as an event outside of history, then it can be vacuously dismissed, as the judge does here. I try to explain the usefulness of seeing historical patterns in "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning."
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Tom Nichols
about 14 hours ago
Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Hegseth’s War on America’s Military
Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/hegseths-war-on-americas-military/686676/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweOjqTICKuzNh9QyRxzLxl1I&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Everyday I want this Pete the Cheat gone. So badly
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
about 16 hours ago
this is a brilliant idea honestly
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D Lavoie
about 16 hours ago
Wait, Hegseth fired the ARMY CHAPLAIN too? That's a career-defining scandal for any cabinet secretary in any other era.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
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MS NOW
about 16 hours ago
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Army’s top officer in the latest shake-up of military leadership amid the war in Iran
www.ms.now/news/hegseth...
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Hegseth fires Army’s top general
Army Chief of Staff Randy George is the latest of more than a dozen senior military leaders fired by the Defense secretary.
https://www.ms.now/news/hegseth-fires-armys-top-general
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 16 hours ago
According to the Times:
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Brad Lander
about 16 hours ago
Trump said the quiet part out loud: His presidency is more about bombing other nation’s kids than taking care of our own. Hey Congress: End this illegal war and use those billions for universal childcare.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 16 hours ago
The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.
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Jon Cooper
about 19 hours ago
Bill Browder: Putin is losing 1,000 to 1,500 men a day in Ukraine. The Ukrainians have really figured it out — they now have a drone wall. Anyone who tries to penetrate it dies. Simple as that. Russians are making zero progress. In fact, in some parts of the front line, Ukraine is pushing them back.
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Michael McFaul
about 19 hours ago
We can't pay for daycare because we are fighting too many wars. Not sure that's a great framing for the president.
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Robert Reich
9 days ago
According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?
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Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams
An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in
https://www.commondreams.org/news/immigration-fee-fraud-state-dept
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊
1 day ago
Not a drag queen Robert Morris, the well-connected megachurch pastor and former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, was released from prison in Oklahoma on Tuesday after serving a six-month stint for child sexual abuse charges.
www.ms.now/news/former-...
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Former Trump pastor freed from prison after serving 6 months for child sexual abuse
Robert Morris got a shortened sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.
https://www.ms.now/news/former-trump-pastor-freed-from-prison-after-serving-6-months-for-child-sexual-abuse
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George Pearkes
1 day ago
Semafor reporting Bondi about to be fired
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Garrett M. Graff
1 day ago
I didn’t begin this week thinking I would be writing about the Iran War, Chuck Norris, and Kid Rock, but one of the “joys” of living through the Trump era is that every week seems like the worst game of Mad Libs you’ve ever played:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...
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The Mythology of Pete Hegseth
The Iran War cheerleader-in-chief embraces a dangerous alternate history of the 21st Century
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythology-of-pete-hegseth?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-mythology-of-pete-hegseth
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Zelenskyy: "We have confirmation from my intelligence that Russia shared and shares intelligence ... Russia helps Iran"
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emptywheel
1 day ago
Wired credits this earlier unmasking from
@unraveledpress.com
. Putting together IDs of goons involved in MN in January--the aftermath of Good's killing through withdrawal--is the sweet spot of accountability IMO bc DOJ is still prosecuting ~15 of those people.
unraveledpress.com/identified-t...
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Senator Ruben Gallego
1 day ago
Rural and tribal communities are leading on water management but asked to do more with less for too long. Thank you Chairwoman Flores and the Town of Parker for showing me around. I'll keep fighting to get these communities the resources they deserve.
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Kyle Clark
1 day ago
NEW: Colorado Court of Appeals upholds Tina Peters’ conviction while ordering that she be resentenced by the same judge, with the Court of Appeals finding that her nine year sentence was “at least partially based on Peters’s protected speech”
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Kyle Clark
1 day ago
The Court of Appeals rejected Peters’ arguments that President Trump’s so-called pardon on state charges has any power and that she was immune from state prosecution “for actions taken in service of the federal government.“
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Christopher Webb
1 day ago
Oil prices soared and stock futures fell sharply during Trump’s Iran war speech last night. Investors aren’t buying what he’s selling anymore than we are.
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Good. Israel is murdering Palestinians as quickly as possible and doing the same to the people of Lebanon. Netanyahu and his cronies are bloodthirsty killers. While Republicans seem bent on killing everyone else.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
1 day ago
Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women.
@aclu.org
’s Cecellia Wang &
@legaldefensefund.bsky.social
’s
@janainelson.bsky.social
. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.
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Aaron Parnas
1 day ago
Major update: White House concerned as Trump’s address ridiculed and falls flat. Trump moves close to firing Pam Bondi and Tulsi Gabbard. Trump says he cannot focus on Medicare or Medicaid because of the war. And he compares himself to Jesus. Subscribe to support my work:
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Major Update: White House Concerned as Trump's Address to Nation Falls Flat, Trump Considers Firing Bondi and Gabbard, and More
Good morning everyone.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronparnas/p/major-update-white-house-concerned?r=mwv7z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Rep. Jason Crow
1 day ago
The President isn’t acting in the best interests of the American people. Instead, he’s focused on what’s best for his own wealth & power.
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Human Rights Watch
1 day ago
Learn more and watch the full video here:
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The Unknown War: Ethnic cleansing in Burkina Faso
YouTube video by Human Rights Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHlPqDVulnI
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Jay Kuo
1 day ago
Exactly. Link:
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Austin Kocher, PhD
1 day ago
A CNN review found that of ~72,000 people who self-deported through Project Homecoming, more than half were in ICE detention when they signed up. Suffering inside facilities functions as coercion, pressure to leave rather than fight.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/u...
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ProPublica
1 day ago
Chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching. Pressurized pure oxygen. Raw camel milk. Under RFK Jr., the FDA took down a webpage warning about these and other dangerous remedies claiming to treat autism.
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1775136721&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Alt National Park Service
1 day ago
The House took no action this morning on the Senate-passed DHS funding bill during a brief pro forma session, then adjourned until Monday, when another pro forma session is scheduled.
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Noah Shachtman
1 day ago
"One agent is married to a TV news anchor who reports on the Border Patrol. Another, who also engaged in a gun battle with a school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, has posted in an online gun forum with thread titles like 'Whipping Haitians.'" amazing work by
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The Tennessee Holler
1 day ago
PIERS: “Israel has gone way too far in Gaza. The initial defense I made of 🇮🇱’s right to defend itself has been desecrated. They won’t even let journalists in.” Also: “How can Trump claim they’ve stopped 🇮🇷 from developing nukes when those tools remain exactly where they were?”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Joanne Freeman
3 days ago
A list of Jews. No problem at all. For crying out fucking loud.
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Bolts
2 days ago
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed several bills aimed at protecting immigrants last week. The reforms ban local partnerships with ICE and require federal agents to show their faces and provide ID before making an arrest.
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New Jersey Becomes the 10th State with a Law Barring Local ICE Contracts
An attorney general had already imposed restrictions on how sheriffs and police can assist ICE, but advocates wanted those codified into law. Mikie Sherrill signed the bill this week.
https://boltsmag.org/new-jersey-immigrant-protections-codified-into-law/
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The Tennessee Holler
1 day ago
😕
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The Tennessee Holler
1 day ago
LUNATIC LINDSEY: “He’s gonna blow up everything they got. I’m very happy tonight.” The only ones winning here are the warmongers and bomb makers
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