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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · Jul 3

*gulp*

Keilar: You’re taking issue with the CBO estimate?

Burchett: The office is very partisan…

Keilar: So in January 2024, there was a Republican who trusted the CBO so much that they reintroduced a resolution to require the house clerk to read the CBO estimate of any bill. I believe that was you, sir.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jun 30

Mr. Isidro Perez was a 75-year-old Cuban man taken into ICE custody on 6/5/25 after being in the U.S. for 60 years. He had two drug possession convictions in the 80’s.

Mr. Perez was hospitalized from 6/17-6/25 and released. He died in ICE custody on June 26th.

Completely senseless.

Cuban national dies in ICE custody

ICE remains committed to ensuring that all those in its custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments. Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughou...

www.ice.gov

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · Jun 29

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · Jun 29

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jun 30

Oh no not moved a piece of campus furniture and then put it back…I wonder what other men in leadership were doing back in college???

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Jun 30

decided to turn cable news on to see if it’s true and it is: tv anchors really are just interrupting conversations with dems about this bill to ask about zohran mamdani

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 30

Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."

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Amanda Kreider @amandakreider.bsky.social · Jun 30

Personal stories hit different - if you'd be affected by Medicaid cuts, please call and tell your Senators!

Amanda Kreider @amandakreider.bsky.social · Jun 29

It's URGENT that we hit the phone lines this weekend re: the "Big, Beautiful" Senate bill, especially if you're a constituent of Sen. Paul (KY), Tillis (NC), Johnson (WI), Collins (ME), or Hawley (MO).

If you aren't sure what to say, I've drafted a script.

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

This is a picture of a phone script for calling a Senator's office. It says:

"Hi, I'm [NAME], a constituent from [PLACE].

[If you're leaving a voicemail, be sure to leave your city, state, and zip code!! They simply won't care about your opinion as much if they can't confirm you're a constituent.]

I'm calling to urge Senator [NAME] to vote NO on the "Big Beautiful Bill" currently up for consideration in the Senate (, and to please also urge [HIS/HER] colleague Senator [NAME] to do the same.)

I have serious concerns about this legislation. The bill cuts Medicaid and SNAP to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. These cuts will hurt our rural hospitals, and research shows Medicaid work requirements strip coverage from vulnerable people without increasing employment. In fact, CBO just estimated that the bill would cause nearly 12 million Americans to lose their health insurance while adding over $3 trillion to the debt.

The bill also shifts Medicaid costs to [YOUR STATE NAME], which could force cuts to services for older adults and people with disabilities.

Please urge Senator [NAME] to vote NO.

Can you share my concerns with [HIM/HER] and let me know [HIS/HER] position?

Thank you."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jun 29

Opinion | The progressive left means well, but they come across as painfully out of touch with reality. Here are some prescriptions for them that I jotted down in the charter gondola on the way to the Bezos wedding.

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Amanda Kreider @amandakreider.bsky.social · Jun 29

It's URGENT that we hit the phone lines this weekend re: the "Big, Beautiful" Senate bill, especially if you're a constituent of Sen. Paul (KY), Tillis (NC), Johnson (WI), Collins (ME), or Hawley (MO).

If you aren't sure what to say, I've drafted a script.

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · Jun 13

Instead of piling on and sharing that op-ed that, for some reason, tries to put a silver lining on Trump's slashing of NIH funding, I'm sharing this @propublica.org piece that more accurately demonstrates the vastness of the damage being done to health research.

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

projects.propublica.org

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · Jun 12

“We can’t do anything,” Caroline Dias Goncalves' relative said. “We’re scared. We’re not in jail with her, but we feel like it.”

Her mom hasn’t stopped crying since she learned her daughter was being held and her dad is pacing constantly.

University of Utah student is being held at Colorado immigration detention center

A 19-year-old University of Utah was detained by immigration agents last week in Colorado and is now being held at an immigration center there. “We’re not in jail with her, but we feel like it," said the brother of Caroline Dias Goncalves.

www.sltrib.com

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Jun 10

Just gonna leave this here.

www.wweek.com/news/courts/...

The worker sued privately. There were protests at the local Marriott. There were no consequences.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · Jun 6

If Gen Z really wants to dunk on millennials, they should learn about Foursquare and go around saying stuff like, "I hear you're the mayor of this Panera Bread."

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Jun 6

BREAKING: Trump just waived dozens of our nation's most important enviro laws to wall off the stunning San Rafael Valley, all while border crossings are at their lowest point in decades.

This is a death sentence for jaguars, ocelots & other wildlife.

I shot this footage out there last month:

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · Jun 5

Area Yes Men Stunned As Masterful Gambit Fails To Materialize

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jun 5

"Few of Musk’s associates expected this to last forever, but they are sad that it had come to this."

New York Times: Elon Musk’s friends and associates on Thursday are in a state of disbelief. Several said they, like the rest of Washington, are glued to their computers as they watched their friend joust with President Trump, unsure what exactly his plan is.

Few of Musk’s associates expected this to last forever, but they are sad that it had come to this.

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Micah @rincewind.run · Mar 25

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Mar 25

Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · Jun 5

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · Jun 5

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jun 5

Elon may have killed 320,000 people and counting, but he’s also into austerity, so kind of balances out

Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · Jun 5

This thread, man. Yikes!

In a country with legal accountability for rich scofflaws.... therevolvingdoorproject.org/elon-musk-ig...

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · Jun 5

Every 7.5 minutes, an American man thinks about the Roman Empire. Albeit now with an increasingly dreadful sense of recognition.

When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig

The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.

www.truthdig.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Jun 4

He and his husband were terrorized by homophobes who murdered him, in case you didn't know, which you very understandably might not given the headlines.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Jun 4

The exonerative voice was initially reserved for cops, but now it's applied to the IDF and even random hate criminals

CNN: Jonathan Joss, 'King of the Hill' and 'Parks and Recreation' actor, has died at 59

text: Jonathan Joss, an actor who voiced the character of John Redcorn on “King of the Hill” and appeared as Ken Hotate on “Parks and Recreation,” has died following a shooting incident, according to police in San Antonio, Texas. https://cnn.it/3FCI1gT

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · Jun 4

new SINNERS theory dropped

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Jun 4

Me, reading about how ICE, under most circumstances, cannot legally enter your home without your consent:

"Ah, so like vampires."

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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · Jun 4

Musk isn't a visionary. He's a dipshit with a lousy sense of risk. Yes, the Sun will steadily brighten and in a billion years or so make it too hot for us to live here, but we're already making it too hot for us to live here right now. And Musk is siding with the people bent on making that worse.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 3

It's so incredible to still see the left accused of moral relativism when every conservative column is just 'yes all of our leaders are bad but the people calling them bad sometimes exaggerate.'

For better or worse, Elon Musk is a visionary. I have no doubt that he’s volatile and reckless, but those who dismiss him as a fraud or an idiot have not been paying close attention. Yes, his time meddling with the federal government has come to an end. And yes, perhaps his foray into politics was, in part, a disappointment to him. But Mr. Musk’s vision goes well beyond Washington. He has always been clear on this point and continues to tell anyone who will listen: “Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun,” he told Fox News last month. “The sun is gradually expanding, and so we do at some point need to be a multi-planet civilization, because Earth will be incinerated.”

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NBER @nber.org · Jun 4

Using court documents to study whether sharing the same leaders make firms more likely to collude finds that collusion increases by a factor of 10 after the arrival of a common board member or executive, from Herrera-Caicedo, Jeffers, and Prager https://www.nber.org/papers/w33866

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jun 4

Didn't get the firefighter job simply because I told them I'm pro-fire. These purity tests are divisive and will get us nowhere

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Amanda Kreider @amandakreider.bsky.social · Jun 4

If we want to prevent the worst possible outcomes of these tools, we need regulatory guardrails yesterday. But with capitalism and global competition for AI dominance, we have a perverse incentives problem. So we’re getting the opposite.

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