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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 8h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 8h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 10h

Okay, I understand that my monthly ANTIFA donation is no longer a tax write-off, but I can keep the tote bag, right?

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 11h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 15h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 18h

Comments are overwhelmingly a cut and paste from America First Legal...

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 19h

The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote?

Regulations.gov

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22d

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 19h

Private equity guy is desperate for access to university endowments.

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 19h

The @nytimes.com out here shilling for the Trump takeover of higher ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 19h

A law professor who wants to be a federal court judge.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 23h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 19h

Fun fact: areas with Italians also used to get red lined.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Ciattarelli: "We've got a severe overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities because of the Democrats' idea of social engineering."

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 19h

[rfk jr morlock voice] autism is caused by a lack of ethics in video games journalism

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

They won on that one already.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Jade Helm is so on.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Presidents and governors shouldn't be able to deploy National Guard troops from one state to another if that state's governor objects.

That is common sense, and yet Republicans just blocked my amendment to stop this blatant abuse of power. Another shameful abdication of duty.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s tough to find grievances when you control presidency, congress and supreme court. You got bad bunny and lower court judges.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow! I have this as an example to talk about softening the ground and look who it is!

Federalist Society
Was Incorporating the Bill of Rights a Mistake
At Boston U Student Chapter
Ilan Wurman

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a feud with Trump.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..."

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Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Someone's about to go MAGA.