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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share the launch of my new center at UCSD focused on trust and transparency in U.S. elections. We will be supporting research on election administration and voter confidence through research-practice partnerships. More to come! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

UC San Diego Launches Nonpartisan Center to Build Trust in US Elections

The Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections, with the support of a $2.5 million grant from the Election Trust Initiative, will test new ways to strengthen public confidence in U.S. elections acro...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 5d

This is a must-read

Even if you think restoration is possible, it’s a bad idea. The Constitution has failed. Or, more accurately, the Constitutional order built out of the New Deal, the Second Reconstruction, and the repudiation of the Nixon presidency has failed. This is not a prediction. It’s not a “if we continue on our current course.” The Constitution as designed by the founders, was supposed to prevent the current regime. Its original guardrails did not work. The ones added after the Civil War did not work. The de facto amendments created by the accretion of judicial decisions did not work. The post-Watergate reforms did not work.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d

To explain:

At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?”

Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Case 1:25-cv-10685-WGY Document 261
Filed 09/30/25
Page 1 of 161
Post card dated June 19, 2025
(On file in Chambers)
1 9/S UNE 2025
TRUMP HAS PARDONS
AND TANKS..
WHAT DO
You
HAVE?
Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States -- you and me --have our magnificent Constitution.
Here's how that works out in a
specific case --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS -- HARVARD FACULTY CHAPTER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AT NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY, RUTGERS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS-AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, and
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION,
Plaintiffs,
)
CIVIL ACTION NO.
25-10685-WGY
v.
MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, KRISTI NOEM, in her official
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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 17d

He just gets it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 19d

Reminder that it started small and somewhat ridiculous with Gulf of America and escalated from there. Apply that lesson with everything this administration does.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19d

3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean.

As with the others:
-in area US military operates freely
-where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value
-no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one
-blatant violation of international law
-no evidence US knew who they hit

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 20d

A lot of respect for Kristof for not letting this go. It will be easy to forget the USAID cuts in the years to come. It's good to have people around making us remember.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20d

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

www.nytimes.com

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 24d

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court.

So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

www.latimes.com

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 26d

Nobody:

Me: I wonder how different peace/conflict and democracy researchers will encode an election conducted over discord in their various datasets…

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 28d

Good job alert: job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/81...

Survey Analyst, Public Opinion Research

New York, New York, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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Finnan Haddie @finnanhaddie.bsky.social · Sep 10

Because there’s no screening test for ovarian cancer, it’s often discovered so late that it’s hard to cure. Awareness of early symptoms is key:
–bloating
–pelvic or abdominal pain
–feeling full quickly
–peeing more often
If these last for 2+ weeks, call your doctor! For more info, visit ovarian.org

National Ovarian Cancer Coalition

NOCC leads the fight against ovarian cancer in the US. We support survivors and caregivers, raise awareness and fund research to find a cure.

ovarian.org

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · Sep 8

I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · Sep 6

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either.

This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem

This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now
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Missouri House Democrats plan to continue sit-in over weekend

Missouri Democrats have surpassed 24 hours of their sit-in on the House floor protesting a special session.

www.kfvs12.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Aug 29

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims

New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

www.science.org

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · Aug 27

A Salvadoran restaurant around the corner from my house is closing down because of the occupation by federal forces.

My local city council member is urging people not to order delivery because so many drivers are being seized.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Aug 27

NEW: Trump claims his takeover of Washington, D.C. has been great for the city's restaurants. Nope. They're suffering.

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-s...

Trump Is Strangling the Life Out of D.C.’s Restaurants

“We’re back to a very pandemic-feeling city.”

www.thebulwark.com

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Comptroller @comptroller.bsky.social · Aug 27

I know this isn’t the point but high vis over full camo is so fucking funny

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 26

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you read/listen to NPR's coverage, this is how the story goes:

"The first strike took place around 10 a.m. when Hussam al-Masri, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, was operating a live feed with a bird's-eye view of nearby Israeli military positions."

It was a direct hit on a journalist.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 26

BREAKING: The Israeli military says its strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was aimed at what it believed was a Hamas camera.

Israeli military says strike on Gaza hospital was targeting a Hamas camera

The Israeli military says its strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was aimed at what military officials believed was a Hamas surveillance camera, as well as people they identified as militants.

bit.ly

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 25

No one wanted to hear this years ago when @tompepinsky.com said it. Maybe now.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · Aug 25

This really hit home

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.

Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · Sep 4

The food security report is out, and it's bad news: 13.5% of households were food insecure in 2023, up from 12.8% in 2022. This is what happens when you abruptly end "pandemic" supports that should have been there all along.
www.ers.usda.gov/publications...

Household Food Security in the United States in 2023

An estimated 13.5 percent of households (18.0 million) were food insecure in 2023, meaning they had difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members because of a lac...

www.ers.usda.gov

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Last night's Encinitas city council meeting was something else. Not sure the rest of the country understands how scalding white hot having ICE show up at our schools is, but every demographic you can imagine in our little super wealthy suburb showed up and was fucking pissed.
youtu.be/1sTbOgtJDyI

City of Encinitas Regular City Council Meeting Live Stream 8/20/25

YouTube video by City of Encinitas

youtu.be

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · Aug 20

This was in my feed next to the news of DHS planning to purchase its own air fleet for deportations.

We're going to euthanize a robotic probe that's working fine, sending us both data and beauty, to we can buy prison planes.

Dr Robin George Andrews @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social · Aug 20

NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear.

Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.

Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Say Goodbye to Juno, NASA’s Groundbreaking Mission to Jupiter

The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight

www.scientificamerican.com

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Aug 20

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · Aug 20

Appreciate them doing this in the most evil lighting possible

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 20

Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."

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