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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 19h

Trump loses in court again "federal appeals court said Saturday that it will not allow...Trump to deploy the National Guard in Illinois" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Appeals court bars Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois

The appeals court weighed in after a federal judge, concluding that it was “likely to lead to civil unrest,” barred the president from deploying troops in and around Chicago.

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 19h

Through public statements, orders...little-noticed policy directive...Trump...eager to use the might of the American military and...federal government to crack down on what he sees as domestic threats" incited insurrection, now declares war on us to maintain it www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump deploys tactics and language of war against perceived domestic threats

It represents a dramatic shift in the use of the military, which has been focused for most of American history on threats from abroad.

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 19h

How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos- created fear and inflamed tensions www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 19h

"When Trump is on offense, he’s...a president like no other" When he has to answer for his actions in court he must "be treated as a president like any other" His lawyers defend "wild claims with careful arguments...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 19h

Is he demented, or just knows gullibility of his fans? Trump claimed "in all-caps that 'the Biden FBI' supposedly 'placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6'" Trump was president on that day and "'Biden FBI” did not exist" then or before the insurrection www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump appears to forget that Jan 6 happened on his watch as he blames Biden

Trump becomes latest Republican to blame Biden for events that took place while he was president

www.independent.co.uk

Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 20h

"powerful liberal institutions...are captive to outdated etiquette...prize agreeability as an end...disruption is discouraged, compromise exalted, restraint worn...honor[able]....attachment to niceties dulls urgency and narrows...space for bold...leadership" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Democrats are captive to outdated etiquette. It’s endangering democracy | Ryan W Powers

The establishment left’s attachment to rigid rules leaves the party out of touch and failing to meet the moment

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 20h

Historical note: 1972 Powell memo urged corporate execs to make media more corporate friendly. Chamber of Commerce created a taskforce pushing corporations to spend "on politics, advertising and thinktanks" building conservative movement, then today's far-right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermin...

www.theguardian.com

Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 20h

Robby Starbuck "appointed by Meta...as an adviser on AI bias....baselessly claimed that individual shooters in the US were motivated by leftist ideology, described faith-based protest groups as communists, and without evidence tied Democratic lawmakers to murders" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 20h

Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says- Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities [Reminder: Colorado judge found Trump incited insurrection on Jan 6, 2020. In some ways, his insurrection is still on] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forces

www.theguardian.com

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 21h

[The new global fascist axis] UK Think Tank Says Leaked Documents Show Russia Is Helping China Prepare To Seize Taiwan [No wonder Trump tried to shut Radio Free Europe] www.rferl.org/a/china-russ...

UK Think Tank Says Leaked Documents Show Russia Is Helping China Prepare To Seize Taiwan

A recently released 800-page cache of contracts and correspondence shows that Russia is helping China prepare its military for a potential invasion of Taiwan, according to an independent think tank that received the files and had them independently verified.

www.rferl.org

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 21h

Aren't Representatives supposed to listen to people they represent? "Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks old Johnson County Republicans...that she’ll hold town hall meetings 'when hell freezes over'" Says "I don’t have to hold a town hall so you can come and yell at me" www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

A swing-district Iowa Republican says she’ll hold town halls ‘when hell freezes over’ | CNN Politics

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”

www.cnn.com

Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 21h

Reminder re Trump threatening to use Insurrection Act "Colorado judge on Friday found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol" www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1...

A Colorado judge finds Trump 'engaged in insurrection,' but keeps him on the ballot

In her decision, Judge Sarah B. Wallace said she found that Trump did in fact "engage in insurrection" on Jan. 6 and rejected his attorneys' arguments that he was simply engaging in free speech.

www.npr.org

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 21h

Trump "would consider invoking the Insurrection Act 'if it was necessary,' particularly if the courts or state and local officials delay his plans to deploy the National Guard" But Trump himself incited insurrection on Jan 6, 2020, which effectively never ended www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump floats invoking the Insurrection Act

The 1807 law, which allows the military to conduct civilian law enforcement activities under certain circumstances, hasn’t been used since the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

www.nbcnews.com

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 21h

Bill Pulte, director of the FHFA "Trump appointee accusing...[his] political foes of mortgage fraud skipped over his agency’s IG when making criminal referrals...bypassing rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power for partisan purposes" www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Exclusive: Trump official bypassed ethics rules in criminal referrals of Fed governor and other foes, sources say

The Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal referrals, sources say, bypassing rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power for partisan purposes.

www.reuters.com

Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 21h

"authoritarians and far-right leaders were...trained journalists and media operatives earlier in their career [eg]...‘media creatures'... journalists:..Mussolini, Mobutu Sese Seko, Boris Johnson, Pete Hegseth...media creatures Javiar Milei...Trump...Berlusconi" www.bettedangerous.com/p/media-crea...

Media Creatures and the Theater of Nihilism

Many of the most democratically destructive politicians worked as journalists and ‘media creatures’ and are using their training to make nihilistic theater

www.bettedangerous.com

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is the country's first pro-disease president ever. As it he says, "no one thought it was possible."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

god. I love Portland. Such an awesome American city. Iused to visit regularly but now I miss it, that amazing vibe.

we love dogs - noem go home. on a sign above a woman walking her dog at night.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 1d

Did you see what your State troopers are doing? bsky.app/profile/will...

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Not enough news outlets are making it absolutely clear that last night’s RIFs are unlawful

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

Estonia has urgently closed part of its border with Russia following the appearance of armed "little green men," ERR reports‼️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Re-upping this piece on news that Vought is firing federal employees:
*Vought lying that shutdowns compel layoffs, never have before.
*Layoffs are a choice, the shutdown is an excuse.
*Comes on top of existing RIFs, will make restoring govt services harder post-shutdown.
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Shutdown hostage taking

Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment

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Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 1d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov did you hear about this?

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 1d

The SS United States, built in 1951, set the average speed record in 1952 - which remains unbeaten today.
She was retired in 1969 due to advances in air travel.
She is due to be sunk off the coast of Florida to create an artifical reef in 2026.
Metaphors abound. 🇺🇲

A photo of the aging luxury liner, SS United States

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