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Debonair founder always trying to repay the universe for what I was given.
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rickylongthread.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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brennancenter.org
BREAKING: Eight former New York judges, including the former Chief Judge and Chief Administrative Judge, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in United States v. New York. Allowing ICE to make warrantless civil arrests at courthouses undermines the proper functioning of state courts.
United States v. State of New York
The Brennan Center, along with co-counsel Levine Lee, filed an amicus brief on behalf of former New York judges and justices in defense of New York’s Protect Our Courts Act. The brief argues that allo...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@nytimes.com Dear Laura,
(The one on the editorial board). Today, watching Trump made me cringe in a way I never thought possible, even after EVERYTHING we’ve all gone through. I keep asking this question to myself, why doesn’t America see this dictator wanna be for who he is and what he is doing?
August 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Have not posted in a while, but this deserves a flame post. To all who do not remember, this is the main storyline in the book by Tom Clancy and the adapted movie “Clear and Present Danger” with Harrison Ford. This man REALLY thinks reality is a freaking MOVIE. WTH! Honestly! WTH? @maddow.msnbc.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wow, watching Trump's first cabinet meeting is like watching pigeons sitting next to the feet of an old bumbling man at the park who drops seeds for them as his hands shake.
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February 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
@lastword.msnbc.com

After the last 72 hours, Lawrence, as a former Senate aide, I have to ask what the Dems should / are doing to slow the madness down. I feel like Trump and the MAGA enablers are taking absolute power without the Dems even standing up.
February 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Elon Musk's DOGE Wants Access to the Treasury's Payment Systems: Report - Rolling Stone

@maddow.msnbc.com, can you look into this, please? Very disturbing.
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January 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
This press conference on the DC crash is an embarrassment. Just a lot of rambling.
January 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am aghast that Trump is using a tragic moment for so many families he is using to talk about nonsense. No doubt that he is a sociopath. What the goddamn hell! A-Hole!
January 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Peter Alexander did a great job pushing the White House Press Sec to clarify the federal assistance pause. At least he still has some character as a journalist. Thanks, Peter! 💯💯❤️
January 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen. The worst of American Society.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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rieckhoff.bsky.social
🚨Trump’s hiring freeze is hitting the Dept of Veterans Affairs now. 

My sources are sharing memos that have gone out. Job offers to new employees that have a start date after Feb 8 are now being rescinded.
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
As an educated American who has worked both blue-collar and white-collar jobs, all I hear from Trump is, “Aww, people never liked me; now I am the big man. Love me, please, but I am a whiny baby who never got the love he needed to form an identity.”
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#flyovercountry
January 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW: The US Office of Personnel Management has issued a memo to all federal agencies to terminate remote work and submit a plan by *tomorrow* for full compliance.

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MEMORANDUM TO: Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies FROM: Charles Ezell, Acting Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management DATE: January 22, 2025 RE: Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following guidance to agencies regarding President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum (PM), Return to In-Person Work. I. Authority OPM is issuing this guidance under the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, which requires agencies to consult with OPM in developing telework policies1 and tasks OPM with providing policy and policy guidance,2 as well assisting agencies with establishing teleworking goals.3 This guidance also implements OPM Director’s statutory duties to “secur[e] accuracy, uniformity, and justice in the functions of the Office” and “execut[e], administer[], and enforc[e] . . .the civil service rules and regulations of the President and the Office and the laws governing the civil service.”4 II. Background President Trump was elected with the mandate to increase the efficiency and accountability of the federal workforce. A glaring roadblock is that most federal offices presently are virtually abandoned. The vast majority of federal office workers have not returned to in-person work, even though the COVID-19 pandemic ended years ago.5 Many federal office workers never show up to the federal worksite at all.6 Federal office buildings sit mostly empty, particularly Washington, D.C.-area agency headquarters offices, devastating the local economy and serving as a national embarrassment.7 Virtually unrestricted telework has led to poorer government services and made it more difficult to supervise and train government workers.8 Fairness requires that federal office employees show up to the worksite each day like most other American workers. In addition, during the Biden Administration, federal unions attempted to abuse the collective-bargaining process to guarantee full-time telework into the indefinite future and forestall any requirement to return to the office.9 The President’s PM directs agency heads to “take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis” “as soon as practicable.” It allows agency heads to “make exemptions they deem necessary” and directs that the directive “be implemented consistent with applicable law.” The PM reflects a simple reality. The only way to get employees back to the office is to adopt a centralized policy requiring return-to-work for all agencies across the federal government.10 Seeking to cajole individual agencies to try to get employees to return to the worksite has not succeeded.11 III. Steps for Agencies to Return to Workers to the Office In light of the PM, agencies should take the following steps to return workers to the office. No later than 5:00 pm EST on Friday, January 24, 2025: 1. The agency head or acting agency head should revise their agency’s telework policy issued under 5 U.S.C. § 6502(a)(1)(A) to state that eligible employees must work full time at their respective duty stations unless excused due to a disability, qualifying medical condition, or other compelling reason certified by the agency head and the employee’s supervisor. 2. The agency head or acting agency head should email all employees notifying them of President Trump’s PM Return to In-Person Work, attach a copy of the PM, and notify employees of the agency’s intention to fully comply with the PM. (A copy of the PM is attached as Appendix 1). 3. The agency should notify OPM of the agency’s Telework Managing Officer, and assign that individual responsibility for complying with the guidance herein. Agencies should advise OPM of the date that the agency will be in full compliance with the new telework policy. If an employee’s official duty station is more than 50 miles from any existing agency office, the agency should take steps to move the employee’s duty station to the most appropriate agency office based on the employee’s duties and job function. OPM recommends that agencies set a target date of approximately 30 days for full compliance with the PM, subject to any exclusions granted by the agency and any collective bargaining obligations. Please send all reports requested by this document to tracking@opm.gov. Do not hesitate to contact OPM if you have any questions regarding these matters by email to tracking@opm.gov. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, and Human Resources Directors Appendix 1: President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work. Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary. This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.
January 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@whartonschool.bsky.social Seriously, please, UPENN, i am asking you. Take away Trump's degree! Do you hear him speak at WEF?? Do not devalue your reputation any more than you already have.
January 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social
Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com told me to join Bluesky last night and it only took me 24 hours to figure it out.
January 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com Alright!!! Finally
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
@washingtonpost.com I am so disappointed in Bezos and the CEO of Wapo. You have lost a subscriber and loyal reader because of your lack of a spine to journalistic integrity. Shame on you Jeff Bezos.
October 26, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this is exactly the performance he gave in june and against a competent opponent he looks as insane as he is
September 11, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Wow, after seeing Trump and his incoherent definition of tariffs and the economy. Sorry #upenn #wharton, I would never send my child to your business school. Talk about a degree losing value. Sheesh you #Wharton grads I would sue for the devaluation in your degree because of Trump.
September 11, 2024 at 1:17 AM
@cnn.com So this what the SPR actually is. Not that @jaketapper.bsky.social will actually report real facts.
August 8, 2024 at 7:02 PM
What the freaking hell Supreme Court!!! Seriously, you people want to live in Oompaloompa land aka “trump land” go F yourselves!!! Ugh Disgusted!!!!
July 1, 2024 at 3:10 PM
@jaketapper.bsky.social Tapper you have tapped out. @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social should be ashamed to call you an alumni. You above all people have a responsibility to truth and honesty. Straight up fail.
June 28, 2024 at 2:28 AM
@jaketapper.bsky.social Really jake? you were ok being subject to allowing a lair like trump to continue to fool good americans huh? Man do not call yourself a journalist ever again man. Sold your soul
June 28, 2024 at 1:33 AM