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Gwen Veltema Klemm she/her 🐸✌️❤️🤍💙 @veltklemmema.bsky.social · 4h

Every dem Senator every night should do this on rotation until republicans give

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 30m

And $28.7 billion on ICE this year alone.

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 44m

Hey Democratic leadership. Here is the message, and it's the ONLY message. Full stop.

Are you telling me we can spend
$40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump's Qatar jet, $250M on Trump's ballroom, $150M on
Trump's golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem's jets - but we can't spend a penny on lowering our healthcare premiums. Oh, hell no.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 36m

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h

I always knew that some portion of Americans were soulless fuckers. But I never could’ve imagined that a major American political party — the party of Lincoln — would be made up entirely of soulless fuckers.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 23h

If you forget about the poop for a moment, that video was an attempt to normalize the President orchestrating airstrikes on Americans who are protesting against him

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4h

The West Wing is now just the Wing.

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Steven Angermann @sdamackay.bsky.social · 10h

I agree with this. Fuck the rules. We have a White House making poop 💩 videos and retorting “your mom” answers to reporters. There is a clear lack of adulting in Washington.

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Elizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 12h

This is what I said. No one is following any rules. Get another ranking House member to swear her in and move on. Dare Johnson to do something about it because then he’d have to explain why he hasn’t sworn her in

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 12h

They should just swear her in on behalf of the Speaker since he is apparently incapable of doing the job. Not like rules matter anyways.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6h

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“This is entirely cronyism,” said biochemist Jeremy Berg, former director of the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and previous editor-in-chief of Science magazine.

Woychik had just been reappointed to another five-year term, Berg said, so Walsh’s hire didn’t have anything to do with the sitting director’s performance. “The fact that he was appointed without any sort of search is worrisome,” he said, adding that “his main credentials seem to be his connections with JD Vance.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6h

New story about the NIEHS Director appointment from Inside Climate News

insideclimatenews.org/news/2110202...

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Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute - Inside Climate News

Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm.

insideclimatenews.org

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 8h

This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This case is about whether someone duly elected to the House – who indisputably
meets the constitutional qualifications of the office – may be denied her rightful office simply
because the Speaker has decided to keep the House out of “regular session.”
2. If the Speaker were granted that authority, he could thwart the peoples’ choice of
who should represent them in Congress by denying them representation for a significant portion
of the two-year term provided by the Constitution.
3. Fortunately, the Constitution does not give that authority to the Speaker—or anyone
else

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

You guys I’m really sorry but I am never going to forgive him for ripping a side off the White House and I am never going to forgive all the people who could have stopped him but just kept going along to get along.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Markwayne like a kid with a new bicycle on Christmas with his 4 signed Trump hats in hand anxiously waiting for his Trump Coins.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3h

My friend @merkley.senate.gov is holding the Senate floor all night to sound the alarm on Trump’s lawless regime.

Proud to stand with him in this fight and in the U.S. Senate. There can be no business as usual.

Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 4h

This is really what it comes down to.

I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government.

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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David W. @tatersquid.bsky.social · 5h

Arrest the contractor for not having a building permit. You have connections to the Democratic party. Contact Jamie Raskin & have legal action taken against the contractor. Everything about this is illegal. No building permit. No plans. No congressional approval. Have a legal team shut this down.

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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 5h

We can blame him for everything, just remember that he is nothing without his enablers. Republicans are sitting back letting this happen.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

christ almighty what is this guy doing

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2h

By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.

www.wired.com/story/new-re...

New Report Finds Efforts to Slow Climate Change Are Working—Just Not Fast Enough

By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.

www.wired.com

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 9h

If law enforcement don’t want the media present while they commit operations, that should tell you exactly why media should be present

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 6h

Nothing captures the current state of U.S. democracy as accurately as this (real) picture of the White House.

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 3h

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 9h

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🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫ @czeckmate2024.bsky.social · 4h

No one would respond to any warnings I gave until the photos came out.

Still: get a godamned fckng injunction.
Make him go thru protocol. If he cannot get approved, sue him for restitution.

STOP taking all this shit lying down

JFC

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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