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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 58m

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 3h

Some personal news: I just convinced my wife that a parenting thing that instagram told her we need to care about (W sitting) is actually not a thing we need to care about!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

We won’t LECTURE you with ideology but also you better be patriotic lol like for real haha we’re all having fun here but capitalism should not be questioned but hey let’s all be pals as we all agree that Jeff Bezos is actually not bald but simply had very short hair in a fashionable way

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

I can never see mention of carbon offsets without thinking of when the VP of Facilities at Georgetown described them as "buying indulgences" at a Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting.

She wasn't wrong...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

let a thousand labelers bloom etc

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

Ah shit I searched my workstation and Amelia Earhart was in my file cabinet top drawer! I can’t believe we missed her all these years

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h

Shot a priest in the head with a pepper ball, just for fun.
There was absolutely no threat here.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

“Separating them by race”

We’ve all heard of Kavanaugh stops by now, is this a Kavanaugh raid? Attack?

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
Donate

"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

Definitely midterms but lots of ratfucking

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

You make think the phones are bad, but I present a counterpoint

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 18h

John's Hopkin's University

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 19h

The fundamental defect of our constitution is that it has no mechanism at all for dealing with partisanship but every single one of its mechanisms for checking authoritarianism must be enforced on a partisan basis.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 19h

i dont think we need to be body shaming them to be honest

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 19h

How is this holding up @washingtonpost.com

Attorney General
Pam Bondi
Florida’s former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Should've used this photo

Guy in a frog costume facing ICE/police in Portland with the caption "analysis: what is the insurrection act"

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

NPR could easily fill a desperately needed public service for trustworthy legacy media, and likely easily meet its own small dollar fundraising goals after having its federal funding pulled, by simply describing things as they are. But instead they choose to do whatever this is.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.