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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

Your periodic reminder that Jonathan Turley is Mike Lindell with tenure.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13h

After gleefully and illegally plowing over every statute and regulation they don't like—such as by destroying USAID, refusing to enforce CFPB regs, and withholding SNAP funding—the Trump admin has decided 88 FR 8255 is ironclad law that must be ruthlessly enforced to ensure more people go hungry.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 22h

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 16h

Healthcare but only for my friends

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The Nerdy Lawyer @nerdylawyer.bsky.social · 13h

The usual difficulties canning someone with tenure, I assume.

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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 3d

saw this @skepchick.org video and it's stunning how effective snap is, 0.004% of tax to feed 40 million people and the return on investment is 14:1
youtu.be/l8-oYPtfsRo?...

Food Stamps are Good, Actually (Here's the Science)

YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22h

This makes me absolutely incandescent

Now more of those details are coming into the light. An upcoming book by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis confirms some of the worst suspicions: the DOJ didn’t convene a grand jury until January 2022, and it took another ten weeks before the FBI would formally begin its investigation into Trump himself. Garland also apparently put the investigations on an unnecessary hiatus before the 2022 midterms:

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.

He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians reut.rs/4qBrVXy

Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 1d

I received more death threats (thousands) WHEN I WAS STILL ON THE RIGHT from fellow RIGHT-WINGERS than I ever got from the left (maybe a half-dozen?)...

Trump ally told us 'look at the data' on left-wing violence — we did and it doesn't add up

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Trump ally told us 'look at the data' on left-wing violence — we did and it doesn't add up

Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s appearance before a Senate hearing on political violence this week resurfaced inconvenient remarks for a witness called by Republicans intent on p...

www.rawstory.com

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The Nerdy Lawyer @nerdylawyer.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but Trump didn't actually bring down prices at all, so it doesn't count.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

On Fox News — when Zohran promises to bring down prices he’s a socialist, but when Trump did it he was a hero

(As Trump does the actual big government socialism with tariffs and taking control of companies, etc)

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 1d

It is of course 100% legal to be 100% anti-Trump.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump sets his sights on Seth Meyers.

“NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!”

Trump: Seth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to "perform" live in the history of television. In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise. I watched his show the other night for the first time in years. In it he talked endlessly about electric catapults on aircraft carriers which I complain about as not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults. On and on he went, a truly deranged lunatic. Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? - NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!
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The Nerdy Lawyer @nerdylawyer.bsky.social · 1d

About two thirds of the way through "Whispers" I was convinced these guys were back. They work well for any paranoia-themed plot.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

"But Her Emails" he cried softly

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Apr 2

What the actual f*ck?!!!

“Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say

Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 2d

Me: You should take extra humanities classes.

Student: Why? I'm going to be an engineer.

Me: ...can you handle honesty?

Him: ...sure?

Me: How many major engineering feats can you name that were solo?

Him: None?

Me: Exactly. You're not very good at communication. You need to be for your goals.

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The Nerdy Lawyer @nerdylawyer.bsky.social · 1d

TBF, "authentic" is not the same as "enjoyable."

A combat game where you're downed the moment you get shot, lose the game, and cannot reset and try again is certainly authentic, but no one would want to play it.

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starmanjr.bsky.social @starmanjr.bsky.social · 2d

Omg 😭

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Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social · 2d

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

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The Nerdy Lawyer @nerdylawyer.bsky.social · 2d

Thread.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Know your values. Frame the debate.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

I think one problem both UK Labour and US center left wonks have is they have a tendency to do what Stephen talks about here, which is to focus on a popular policy by itself without a proper cohesive mission behind each part

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 2d

It’s a sad day when a judge has to order the President of the United States to feed vulnerable families and hungry children with funds already designated for that very purpose.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 18d

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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graymom30.bsky.social @graymom30.bsky.social · 2d

Really. Read the whole thing. This is from the end.

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The Nerdy Lawyer @nerdylawyer.bsky.social · 2d

No "true" American citizens. The fake (brown) ones are another matter.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

Kristi Noem has claimed that "no American citizens have been arrested or detained" by immigration agents, despite copious evidence to the contrary.

Immigration policy expert @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social says the Homeland Security chief "is either ignorant of the facts or not telling the truth."

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

“But what if someone who doesn’t need food gets food”

I’m from California where every child in school receives a free hot lunch every day.

Who gives a shit and why do you care? Why are you complaining when your tiny red state check taxes pays for NONE OF THIS.

I’m glad my taxes pay it. I love it.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 2d

Thread. 😢

Wei Wen @wwenneuro.bsky.social · 3d

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

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