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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Jun 19

“House Judiciary Committee estimates that Trump’s pardons have cost the American public over BILLION in fines and restitution… Major figures include $184 million in forfeiture from Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace convicted of drug trafficking.”

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 3h

You know about NYC mayor and CA Prop 50 and the VA/NJ governor races, but do check out the @boltsmag.org guide to the other 200 or so things to watch for tomorrow night: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 1h

These people have no idea what the law is or how to follow it

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The WH did not disclose several donors to the ballroom who have business before Trump:
▶️Jeff Yass, investor in TikTok parent company: $2.5m+ to ballroom
▶️BlackRock, trying to buy Panama Canal ports: $2.5m+
▶️Extremity Care, Medicare reimbursement issues: $2.5m
▶️Vantive, Medicare reimbursement

Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 9h

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 2h

Kavanaugh stop. It has to be his legacy.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

This is the one where DHS claim she rammed them, but they rammed her.

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3h

JUST IN: Feds explain how CBP vehicle involved in collision that led to woman being shot & criminally charged was moved from Chicago to Maine and then partially repaired while it was evidence in a criminal case. Doc www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 2h

"Ex-Heritage officials began coming out of the woodwork to level criticisms…Another told The Bulwark they didn’t think Roberts would 'last much longer.'"

@willsommer.bsky.social's latest @thebulwark.com on the Heritage Foundation fallout ([email protected]): www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-wa...

Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank

Plus: Another round of nutty Trump pardons?

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 2h

It took nine months, but the changing of the guards is now complete:

"Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t disagree that Ben Shapiro is trying to kick Carlson out. But I still think the analogy here is fights between White Citizen’s Councils and the Klan. On most points, these folks agree. But the establishment prefers their bigotry thinly veiled and this is harder to maintain in the Trump era.

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 12h

Ben Shapiro is outright trying to kick Tucker Carlson out of the conservative movement in this video. The right's civil war is truly here www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRJ...

Tucker Carlson Sabotages America

YouTube video by Ben Shapiro

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Indivisible NOVA West @indivisnovawest.bsky.social · 5h

FAIRFAX COUNTY!!! Precincts are in need of poll greeters to hand out ballots. If you have even a couple hours tomorrow, please consider volunteering at your local polling place!! Ballot information is critical. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social

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Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social · 8h

Of course this will get approximately zero media attention without Trump complaining about it, and CBS will get zero consequences

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 8h

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 4h

Iowa has the worst-in-the-nation fertilizer contamination of drinking water, the fastest rising rates of new cancers, and a bunch of science showing these trends are likely linked.

Here’s an on-point thread re: the latest news on all that from a leading ag scholar at U of Iowa (and go follow her):

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13h

Iowa Public Radio doing some cropaganda about fall fertilizer application in the form of a big ag dude saying it’s OK if the soil is warm enough and absolutely no critical rejoinder was not something I wanted to hear this morning.

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 4h

Because they could be drafted.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.

They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“Across the country, these tools are enabling and amplifying racial profiling by embedding longstanding policing biases into surveillance technologies.”

License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People

More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license pl...

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 5h

So sorry. You did great work.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 6h

An excellent breakdown of the new "study" linking vaccines to autism @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

"We manually reviewed every single one of the 308 references...the list is essentially a sea of red flags." theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/anti-vacci...

Anti-Vaccine Mad Libs: The McCullough Foundation’s “Landmark” Report

Same recycled claims, shiny new packaging

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 5h

An inside look at Consumer Reports’s cybersecurity and privacy testing lab, where its experts work to keep consumers safe from digital harms. Read more here: innovation.consumerreports.org/how-crs-test...

How CR’s Testing Team is Boosting Security—One Smart Product at a Time - Innovation at Consumer Reports

Take a look inside CR’s testing lab, where our engineers are strengthening the security of connected devices and boosting consumer trust

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 6h

Or that the island may not even want statehood

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6h

Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow.

—control of state supreme court
—lower state court races
—Philly DA: Krasner's reelect
—important, heated school boards
—partisan battles for county execs in swing counties
—Bucks County at a crossroads

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Ah, a thing I missed: It appears 3 other clergy have joined Rev. David Black as plaintiffs in this case: a Catholic priest, a UU minister and a UMC minister.

And these filings bring the number of clergy who claim to have been and/or have been *filmed* being hit with projectiles shot by ICE/DHS to 6

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Huh.

*Real* curious what's in the redacted section of this filing by plaintiffs in the journalist, activist, and clergy-led lawsuit against DHS' treatment of all three groups at the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility. (Plaintiffs have asked it to be un-redacted.) www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

A series of black bars indicating a redacted section of text, followed by this text: "However, video evidence shows that federal officers on the rooftop fired pepper balls directly at Reverend David Black after he held up in arms in prayer toward them. Dkt. 22-1 15 (link to video). Either the use of force reports are false, reports ordered to be produced have not been, or Defendants are deliberately omitting unlawful uses of force from their reports."

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has retroactively appointed former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan as a "special attorney" for DOJ and has "ratified" all of her actions to date, including her presentations to the grand juries that indicted Trump's foes.

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Deb @deblavoy.bsky.social · 6h

What’s happened? They were really excellent

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Newsom: They did not expect California. They did not expect all of you. They thought we were going to write an op-ed, have a candlelight vigil, maybe do a rally. They poked the bear and the bear is poking back

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