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Monique Morrissey
@moniquemorrissey.bsky.social
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Labor economist at pro-worker Economic Policy Institute. Low tolerance for infighting. Otherwise happy to hear from you on this new-to-me site, especially if you make me laugh. Views my own. Daughter of a French-Canadian immigrant. No random DMs. (she/her)
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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · Feb 6
ICYMI, @epi.org has two new resources for researchers and anyone tracking Trump actions:
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Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shuts down USAID and State Dept. seeks to absorb parts of the agency and eliminate the rest
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk and a team of his followers, entered the offices of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), shuttering much ...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20h
I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h
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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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d
WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
This is like disbanding your military during World War Two.

The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown
CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.
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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 23h
It figures that the “crime” Letitia James is being charged with is kindness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Jeffries: "Donald Trump's strategy during this government shutdown that he has created has been to play golf and issue deep fake videos. Mike Johnson's strategy is to keep House Republicans on vacation."
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the latest black hole ICE is reporting to with no due process or national connection www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d
We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms
The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d
This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d
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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 3d
To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d
Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d
Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d
Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 3d
Please update us when you can, Mark.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4d
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Eric Trump: "Why did Jack Smith plant classified manilla folders and take photoshoots on the floor of my father's office? Why?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 4d
Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4d
The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad
theoatmeal.com A little guy with a speech bubble saying: "I'm the Chief Brand Officer of User Engagement at DataRectal, but what I really am is a storyteller." LMAO. Virginia Woolf was a storyteller. Shel Silverstein was a storyteller. You work in tech, shitbird.
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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 4d
I miss Zabar’s so much, especially imported stinky cheese and kitchenware. I developed what are now (without easy access to Zabar’s) expensive tastes for Stilton and Le Creuset (I still occasionally buy Stilton, but Le Creuset has become ridiculously overpriced). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d
Happening right now. To us. In America.
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