Maggie Chouinard
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Project On Government Oversight
about 2 months ago
Right now, Congress has an unprecedented opportunity to pass a ban on Congressional stock trading. To help make this happen, we need you to raise your voice. Tell YOUR reps to
#StopTheTrades
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Tell Congress: Pass the Bipartisan Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading
The bipartisan Restore Trustin Congress Act is a historic opportunity to pass a ban on congressional stock trading. Now is the time to make some noise about it.
https://act.pogo.org/a/tell-congress-pass-bipartisan-bill-ban-congressional-stock-trading?utm_source=pogobsky&utm_medium=social
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NRDC
about 2 months ago
Scientists are pushing back on the Trump administrationās latest climate report, calling it misleading and full of errors. The administration wants to use the report to justify rolling back limits on climate pollution and reversing decades of progress.
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Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5521384/energy-report-scientists-climate-change
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Senator Bernie Sanders
about 2 months ago
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.Ā But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.
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Mueller, She Wrote
4 months ago
Weāve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably wonāt share intel with us. Because people couldnāt vote for a woman.
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The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones
Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/iraq-afghanistan-libya-warmongers-always-wrong-iran-attacks-nothing-change-minds?utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=ig_gu&fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLBMu9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABpxU6_E26ZZIfzymidrap5e5BEd35e3c1rZoAKJaNMpGIXebMYmiiRTzKE1tw_aem_W739c0lNyN8frblxzPywSQ
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
The Watergate break-in (which happened 53 years ago this week) began the modern era of āwhatever-it-takes-to-winā politics ā blatant disregard of any and all norms and laws that interfered with gaining or keeping power. Trump is the logical and inevitable consequence.
https://bit.ly/3QV2m4s
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NowThis Impact
4 months ago
Businesses are stepping up to protect their employees against ICE raids. Over 100 workplaces have pledged to become 4th Amendment Workplaces and have trained their staff on what to do if ICE shows up. Learn more:
4thworkplace.org
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Stand Up for Science!
4 months ago
BREAKING: The RFK-fired ACIP (CDC virus advisory board) stand up and start leading the fight back with this open letter dropped last nite via #JAMA. Join us in joining them in fighting back here
zurl.co/7d75d
zurl.co/xItah
#JAMA
#StandUpForScience
#SaveCDC
#RestoreACIP
#StopRFK
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Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads
In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the
https://zurl.co/xItah
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
One of Trump's first actions was to pardon Jan 6 insurrections. He offered a āget out of jail freeā card to people who committed violence on his behalf.Ā Ā And he continues to spew hateful rhetoric towards his political opponents. This will only fuel more violence.
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces. We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses. Hello?
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Senator Bernie Sanders
4 months ago
I asked Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to justify cutting Medicaid by $700 billion dollars just to give the very richest people in this country a $235 billion tax break. You won't be surprised to learn: he didn't have an answer.
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This is my cat. His full government name is āFive Dollar Billā but we call him āBillā for short. There can only be one big beautiful Bill.
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Alt National Park Service
6 months ago
See you all out there today! Letās make some good trouble. ā
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Robert Reich
6 months ago
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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End Citizens United
6 months ago
Here's an Earth Day reminder that Big Oil and Gas spent $96 million to help reelect Donald Trump. Now he's getting rid of environmental protections to appease his donors. If we want to live on a healthy planet, we need to End Citizens United and get Big Money out of our politics
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Alt National Park Service
6 months ago
We apologize for the length of this post, but we felt it was important to share the full details with you.
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Hank Green
6 months ago
It's really hard to make videos about all of the cool science coming out all of the time. I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.
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Corey Atad
6 months ago
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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End Citizens United
7 months ago
Itās time to ban congressional stock trading. Repost if you agree.
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Robert Reich
7 months ago
This is the budget resolution that Republicans have voted for. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
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Definitely worth a read
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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trumpās actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 months ago
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Dr. Lucky Tran
7 months ago
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Laura Bassett
7 months ago
What was dumber: including a journalist on a signal chat about your bomb plans or then calling that journalist ābottom scumā while he still had the screenshots available to publish as your colleagues were already committing perjury
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The Onion
7 months ago
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesnāt Know
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The Onion
7 months ago
āI Messed Up At Work Again,ā Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Nightmare blunt rotation
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White House security leak: whoās who in the Signal group chat
Defence secretary, US vice-president and senior Trump advisers wrote openly about the strikes on Yemen
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/white-house-security-leak-who-signal-group-chat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Senator Bernie Sanders
7 months ago
The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two menānot in uniformāpush their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
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Alt CDC (they/them)
8 months ago
š¢ Return to Work Update On March 17, all employees outside of a bargaining unit but within 50 miles of an HHS facility will return to office It's going to to be a shitshow. At CDC, employees have been told to go to other campuses if there's no parking. Even if their labs are location-specific...
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End Citizens United
8 months ago
15 years ago, Citizens United ushered in a new Gilded Age. Now, billionaire donors are pulling the strings, and itās Americaās working families whoāll have to pay the cost.
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The Road from āCitizens Unitedā to Trump, Musk, and Corruption
A ānaĆÆveā Supreme Court delivered lawless greed and cruelty. Weāll have to save ourselves, if we can.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court
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Chris Geidner
8 months ago
This is the most unhinged government email I have seen since January 20 ā and, likely, ever (and I reviewed all of the Clinton White House's DOMA records).
add a skeleton here at some point
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An interesting read (though I might remain a pessimist š )
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The left needs to abandon its miserable, irrational pessimism | Aaron Bastani
A hundred years ago the average person, in one of the the worldās wealthiest societies, could expect to live until 40. Now global life expectacy is 73
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/mar/10/the-left-needs-to-abandon-its-miserable-irrational-pessimism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
8 months ago
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Ron Filipkowski
8 months ago
The man who issues threats daily and then immediately backs down from them has done it again. You better watch it, because next time he might really mean it.
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.
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Sharpie fumes have gone to my head but pretty proud of my poster for
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8 months ago
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ProPublica
8 months ago
NEW: The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. āIf youāre interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would you cut back on the revenue side?ā one expert asks. By
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How DOGEās Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. āIf youāre interested in the deficit and curbing it, why wouldā¦
https://propub.li/3QRgLgx
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Stand Up for Science!
8 months ago
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone
#standupforscience2025
on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall
#sciencenotsilence
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
#EconomicBlackout
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
Thought we were attempting to reduce the federal deficit? Instead, Trumpās proposed budget plan is projected to significantly increase it.
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George Takei
8 months ago
This is the way.
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
Keep this in mind as House Republicans vote for a budget framework that would gut Medicaid (relied on by 72 million) and food stamp programs (relied on by 42 million people).
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emily šŖ©š
8 months ago
I think Iām obsessed with this actually????
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Why does carrying a lunchbox as an adult feel so embarrassing?
8 months ago
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Guardian US
8 months ago
Elon Muskās cost-cutting bonanza appears to be having less impact than he's claiming, with a review finding that almost 40% of the federal contracts scrapped so far will save the American taxpayer not a penny.
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Impact of Musk project on cost-cutting is much less than he claims ā report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/doge-cost-cutting-musk?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1740495234-1
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Alt CDC (they/them)
8 months ago
Good morning. The dance, whatever that means to you, is worth fighting for. āDuring the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
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The Guardian
8 months ago
Itās time for Americans to withhold their taxes | Judith Levine
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Itās time for Americans to withhold their taxes | Judith Levine
The point is not to deprive the government of funds. Itās to expose the regimeās criminality
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Project On Government Oversight
8 months ago
POGO's Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette: "If the administration were serious about wanting to root out waste, fraud and abuse, they would support and resource whistleblowers and inspectors general. They would not demonize them and they would certainly not fire them en masse in an unlawful midnight purge"
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