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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h

Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act

The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.

www.nbcnews.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 4h

Democrats should really learn the concept of "realized preference." There's a difference between what people say and what actually moves them. The latter tends to be more emotional.

Part of it is people don't know what they want. Part of it is they want the pollster to see them as "rational."

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 4h

What's important here is that it's the ICE raids that are capturing their attention.

This is why the reliance on focus groups and polls and the inevitable claim that voters only care about "kitchen table" issues misses the mark.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

Why Trump Lost the Podcast Bros

It's cool to support the Rebellion. It's not cool to support the Empire.

paulwaldman.substack.com

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 3h

Who amongst us has not occasionally forgotten the rough dates in which we led the most powerful nation on the planet?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

Donald Trump was president on January 6

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 22h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 13h

The question I really have now is what does she actually consider to be discrimination?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 1d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 15h

Oh Lord has really grown on me though. “And God knows I’ve had some rough fuckin’ years” that shit is just awesomely cathartic.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 17h

“…whose names I can’t recall now, because they were trashy libs, but-“

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

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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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 22h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

“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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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 18h

Once again, what is the point of making a deal if he just will move the money around.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 20h

This is the big fight other than health care. Will Congress acquiesce to Trump seizing the power to de-purse?

Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 20h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.