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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17m

This is important.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2h

Donald Trump has cut heath and human services in the US to give this lunatic, Argentine President Javier Milei $20 billion dollars while he pretends to he a rock star.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

🚨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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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2h

They are calling it "ICE Fishing" and it's hilarious.

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General Bloop @wendypants11.bsky.social · 10h

I'm reposting this again because this one shows the artist; I'm pretty sure I've reposted just the artwork but I consider it important that artists get recognized for the work they do.
Especially when it's artwork like this.

Maura-resister @maurar.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Saul Cruz.

Powerful piece.

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Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 2h

ICE is pepper balling a frog! This is ridiculous!

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 2h

Senator Ruben Gallego calls Speaker Mike Johnson a "Pedo Protector" to his face

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

Greg Abbott is a lackey of Donald Trump.

He’s going against exactly what he said he would do last year.

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Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 2h

Stop giving Mike Johnson one opportunity after another to lie!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session

MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now

TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3h

@warnock.senate.gov: "You know that it's a critical moment any time Raphael Warnock and Marjorie Taylor Greene are essentially saying the same thing. That doesn't happen often... She saw that the premiums of her own adult children will go up so much in 2026 that their healthcare is unaffordable."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h

Out of control.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5h

California is the first state to define ultra-processed foods and phase them out of school meals.

DC politicians can talk all day about "Making America Healthy Again," but we've been walking the walk on boosting nutrition and removing toxic additives and dyes for decades.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 2h

WATCH: "People at a deep level understand that what they are seeing in Chicago is wrong. They know that they are free citizens of a free country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the backlash to Trump's takeover in Chicago.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4h

Christian minister attacked by ICE agents. Waiting for the outrage from MAGA. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats

David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop ‘pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents

www.independent.co.uk

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

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Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 3h

While it isn't true that illegals get healthcare, the GOP solution is , "Americans can't have healthcare because of "illegals." This is the best the GOP can do? Why do people vote for them?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

It's a rambling mess of bullshit, capped off by "we'd like to make Obamacare better" from the same asshole who repeatedly tried to kill it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "Democrats want to approve healthcare for illegals coming into our country, many of them coming from prisons and mental institutions and drug dealers. We don't want that for our people because that's gonna destroy the healthcare that we already have. We'd like to make Obamacare better."

Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 3h

The press are American citizens - taxpayers. They get called "garbage" at a Trump press conference. All of them at the WH are disrespectful, lawless thugs.

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Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 3h

I'm certainly.not going to believe the garbage coming out of the Trump administration.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”

The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13h

At a time when we should be guaranteeing health care to all Americans as a human right, President Trump and his Republican colleagues are threatening to make our broken system even worse by doubling premiums for more than 20 million Americans.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 7h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 12h

Guys pls! Duffy has only 29Reposts! He will be killed and this amazing and very scared pup will die! He is so happy Dolly Parton is going 2b fine- loves JB Pritzker bit feeling a blacksky day bc you all don’t like him! He needs a human 2save him! [email protected] pls repost him! #fucktrump

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