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Will Ragland

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · Apr 9

🚨 How are DOGE cuts impacting your community? Under Musk's leadership, DOGE has implemented sweeping reductions in grants, contracts, and leases. Here’s a new tool I built that identifies grant and lease terminations by congressional district.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · 5d

Tell 'em cuz.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d

Soybean farmer: What we need more than anything is access to markets on a level playing field. With the trade war and the tariffs, we're at about a 20% price disadvantage when it comes to what the Chinese have to pay for our soybeans versus the Brazilian soybeans.

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · 5d

Chart courtesy of Resonate who does a great job of tracking the day to day up and down trends of what the right and left are discussing in terms of politics and culture.

whatsresonating.substack.com

What's Resonating | Substack

What’s Resonating is a daily newsletter from the Resonate team that delivers a data-driven snapshot of the stories, trends, and messages shaping online culture and politics. Click to read What's Reson...

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · 5d

Left-leaning pages appear to have handily won the online "shutdown" battle yesterday.

They outpaced right-leaning pages on posts mentioning the "shutdown" and "health care." Their totals on those issues also both surpassed the right's mentions of "immigration."

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 8d

Trump's deployment of masked federal agents into LA, DC, and Chicago is straight from the authoritarian playbook—just ask the people of Hong Kong and Venezuela.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9d

Pope releases World Communications Day theme: “Preserving Human Voices & Faces” writing: “Humanity today has possibilities that were unimaginable a few years ago…while these tools offer efficiency & reach, they cannot replace the uniquely human capacities for empathy, ethics & moral responsibility.”

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

It’s as clear as day why a shutdown may be happening this week. Here’s Russ Vought, architect of Trump’s 2025 project and the shutdown strategy, arguing that a shutdown government is a good way to pass the bills they want to pass. bsky.app/profile/citi...
#ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · 8d

"I don't think anyone should be afraid of a government shutdown... It's actually what's necessary to pass these bills individually."

-Russ Vought September 22, 2023

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · 8d

"I don't think anyone should be afraid of a government shutdown... It's actually what's necessary to pass these bills individually."

-Russ Vought September 22, 2023

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17d

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 21d

Delighted that USA Today published my opinion piece today on @americanprogress.bsky.social's plan to undo Citizens United through state corporation laws.

Americans want dark money out of politics. We don't have to wait for Supreme Court. | Opinion

Corporations are not born; they are built. And the Supreme Court has always held that the power to build them belongs to states alone.

www.usatoday.com

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Corey Husak @chusak.bsky.social · 28d

Policy changes enacted since the start of the year (One Big Bill and tariffs) will hurt Americans' 2027 incomes on average at every income level by about -$1,500

Except the top 1%. They can expect a +$5,000 income bump

CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 28d

Donald Trump doesn't care about the working class—he is laser-focused on making the 1% richer at our expense.

A graphic with a dark background. The title at the top says, "Only the top 1% of families will see an increase in income under Trump's policies." A bar chart titled "INCOME CHANGE AS A RESULT OF NEW TRUMP POLICIES (2027)" shows the percentage change in income for different quintiles and the top 1%. Red bars show negative income changes for the Bottom 20% (-3.5%), Second 20% (-1.6%), Middle 20% (-1.1%), Fourth 20% (-1.2%), 80%-90% (-0.7%), and 90%-99% (-0.2%). A small yellow bar shows a positive income change for the "Top 1%" (+0.5%), with an annotation above it of "+$5,000." A photo of Donald Trump is in the bottom right corner with the text, "He broke his promise to you so he could give more money to millionaires." Source information is included at the bottom left.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 28d

26% Kit Kat price increase ahead of Halloween?? Lord have mercy

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 29d

ABBY PHILLIPS: "The deputy attorney general met with Ghislaine and she shortly there after moved to a mininum security prison, why?

PRO TRUMP ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTED MAXWELL:

stumbles uhh... "there's always a quid pro quo."

ht: @citizenwillis.bsky.social

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Kennedy Andara @kennedyandara.bsky.social · Sep 5

New data from @nzmurphy.bsky.social and me: the number of Americans who will lose health coverage under the Republicans' historic cuts to health care, by state and Congressional district.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Increase the Number of Americans Without Health Coverage in Every State and Congressional District

Explore how the law’s historic cuts will affect uninsurance where you live.

www.americanprogress.org

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · Sep 5

This chart tells the story.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Sep 5

BLS now says June job change was negative after revisions.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

RFK JR: It's going to have a it's going to it's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.

SANDERS: You know why? Because you're cutting $150 billion for rural hospitals. You're putting $50 billion back. That's not an infusion.

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.

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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · Sep 3

From PA's letter to Chair Thompson: USDA has gone dark on states about SNAP changes. Cancelling standing technical assistance calls ... still no guidance ... appalling stuff.

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great look at an under the radar rural impact of OBBBA.

While it stopped short of including Sen. Lee's proposal to sell off public lands, it axed funding rural communities have relied on since 1908 fueling more public land sell offs.

www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...

Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · Aug 20

"God damn well I declare.."

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 20

Stephen Miller was born in Santa Monica and in 2014, when he was 28, bought a $973,000 condo (with help from his parents) in one of downtown Washington's poshest towers www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliabl...

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National Priorities Project @nationalpriorities.bsky.social · Aug 18

The MAGA regime is escalating attacks on families at home and abroad, from D.C. to Gaza.

Deploying troops in D.C. is yet another attempt to scapegoat & target struggling people to advance their draconian agenda in service of billionaires, war profiteers, and white supremacy.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Restaurant reservations in DC plunged after Trump announced his takeover. It’s no surprise that rolling out troops into the streets dampens consumer appetite.

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