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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 14m

“For me, protest is about love of country.” Timothy Snyder

The #LoveOfCountry theme must go viral. #NoKings protests aren’t just about this moment, when the #Trump administration mass-fires feds and holds back funding illegally, but about the future generations whose fates are at stake.

A yard sign with an image of the American flag and the following words: No one day dictatorship in America.

Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 22h

Every #Republican lawmaker on every Sunday talk show needs to be asked why they would ensure a future of suffering for their own constituents.

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Matt @mrxrules.bsky.social · 22h

GOP Congress could stop this destruction of US capability anytime it wanted.

If only they wanted to.

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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 22h

God knows what we will learn about #Trump, #Vance, #Vought, #RFKJr, and others in years to come, but it is clear that #Republicans' current talking point about #NoKings is yet another confession of their own motivation.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 22h

Russell Vought is a vandal of U.S. government capacity. It's like we elected the Taliban and they are destroying the foundations of government the way the Taliban dynamited the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 1d

In light of the lies Republicans are pushing about #NoKings demonstrations, I'm posting images from YEARS of peaceful protests. Peaceful protests are not only as American as apple pie but a constant means of calling out #DonaldTrump, who's often used violent speech and threats in his remarks.

A female protester displays a sign with David Bowie's lyric "We can be heroes just for one day" at the January 2017 Women's March.

Female protesters join hands at the January 2017 Women's March.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump said he was going to release his healthcare plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in “two weeks,” 159 weeks ago.

Republicans’ only plan for your healthcare is to cut it.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has as high a body count as just about anyone in the world thanks to USAid alone. Let alone all the more intense violence.

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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 2d

Trump pardoned the people who tortured and beat cops in his illegal attempt to seize the power the voters had just denied him, and The Washington Post just ran a damn op-ed piece on how he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 2d

Not that Cillizza deserves a response, but—in the sense that hes deeply representative of the intellectual & moral rot at the heart of political news media—its v indicative of their mentality that he doesnt consider murdering ppl in the Caribbean or disappearing ppl domestically an affront to peace

Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 2d

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 2d

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

DOJ prosecutors in Virginia under Erik Seibert didn't believe they gathered enough evidence to charge Letitia James.

So Trump pressured Seibert to resign and replaced him with a loyalist (and former personal attorney) who would.

Even Nixon made efforts to hide his corruption.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Letitia James held Trump accountable & now he’s hijacking the DOJ to indict her in retaliation

This isn’t justice, it’s abuse of power

We will be amending our existing ethics complaint against Halligan & pursuing other legal measures

www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/10.09.25...

Press Release | Democracy Defenders Fund

www.democracydefendersfund.org

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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 4d

And with every post, I'm mindful of how many of us wouldn't be here to comment if our families hadn't arrived before there were quotas.

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Ken - Loves rescue dogs, baseball & progressive values @kenkiyama.bsky.social · 4d

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 4d

This is the way

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 6d

#ChoralShowcase is back again this evening on WETA Classical. Bill Bukowski's special focus is the conductor Matthew Best, who founded the Corydon Singers. Hear their recordings of works by Brahms, Britten:, Bruckner, Howells, and Mendelssohn at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

Matthew Best, Conductor

Remembering Matthew Best, leader of the Corydon Singers, from their many recordings together.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

And while these messages are blatant violations of the Hatch Act, the administration sent out a Hatch Act policy to all federal employees this week to remind them that THEY must follow Hatch Act on Social media. END/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

The shutdown is not the fault of democrats. Republicans can vote to fund the government without a single democrat by changing the rules to lower the 60 vote threshold like they did two weeks ago to push through 48 trump appointees at once. 10/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

And here’s an email that went out to all Veterans - not just employees of the VA - that came into my inbox. 9/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

Here’s one for the Department of Commerce. 8/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

And the Social Security Administration. 7/

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