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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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I Should’ve Been a Cowgirl @seizeday.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! Marcie @mlipsitt.bsky.social raises our collective voice in wishing kids worldwide a better future.Even as USAID funds are withheld and it is
children who are the ones paying the price,we must keep raising our voices and making phone calls and protesting. #stayloud
#childrenfirst

Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 1d

My dream every day is for Every Child to have the “Best Day Ever”! For me, when Children & Broadway collide, I smile! Every Child deserves a Globally-enviable Public Education to reach This Child’s Potential! Vote for Children! Vote for Civil Rights! youtu.be/0dtbQBJdoWk?... go.bsky.app/7wd9Yyhe

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

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

me: the democrats would be much better communicators if they took some notes from professional wrestling

jb pritzker: does the thing

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 1d

My statement after Senate Republicans blocked my legislation with @schiff.senate.gov to stop the continued use of U.S. Armed Forces in the southern Caribbean Sea without specific authorization by Congress:

Blue background with the following text: "Americans want fewer wars—not more—and our Constitution clearly grants Congress alone the power to declare one. Yet President Trump has repeatedly launched illegal military strikes in the Caribbean, and has refused to provide Congress with basic information about who was killed, why the strikes were necessary, and why a standard interdiction operation wasn’t conducted. Should this lawless Administration drag our servicemembers into an escalating conflict without a specific authorization by Congress, every American will be able to tell from today’s vote if their senators tried to stop it, or rolled over."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Peet @peetb.bsky.social · 1d

This makes me HELLA MAD
WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS!!

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 2d

Release the Epstein Files.

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Old Hippie @oldhippie1952.bsky.social · 10d

Listened to the "press conference" today and I have one observation, does anyone else notice 🍊 mf is in serious cognitive decline?

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

DEVELOPING: Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster calls for the imprisonment of Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’ governor because they will not help him turn their home into a war zone.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

This is not going well for Pam Bondi

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