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@griffostrophe.bsky.social
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I have opinions tho I'm not sure this matters. I read a lot, watch a lot, and am a bit addicted to following politics. Dignity, benevolence, truth: balance those, and things will usually be better than otherwise.
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griffostrophe.bsky.social
On the plus side, if I have to delete my account, it will be very good for my health
April 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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benwikler.bsky.social
Senator Tammy Baldwin's @baldwin.senate.gov statement on the arrest of Judge Dugan (posted elsewhere):
April 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
So its an open admission the goal is fascist terrorism against the judiciary by the white house and DOJ.

Folks this is the whole ballgame and end of the republic if we do not act territory.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you." LIVE FOX NEWS channel BREAKING NEWS • PAM BONDI I U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL SECOND JUDGE ARRESTED ON CHARGES RELATED TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT The Funcral of POPE FRANCIS HOSTED BY MARTHA MACCALLUM TOMORROW 3AM ET April 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
April 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump.

This is a REAL section of the transcript.

It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We're now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There's zero deals so far. Why is that? No, there's many deals. When are they going to be announced? You have to understand, I'm dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We're meeting with China. We're doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, l've made all the deals. Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them? I've made 200 deals. You've made 200 deals? 100%. Can you share with whom? Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it ditterently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries. Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries-some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else. I'm just curious, why don't you announce these deals that you've solidified? I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we're finished, by the way. You're finished? We'll be finished. Oh, you will be finished in three to four weeks. I'll be finished. Now, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I'll consider that, but l'll basically be, with great knowledge, setting-ready? We're a department store, a giant department store, the biggest department store in history. Everybody wants to come in and take from us. They're going to come in and they're going to pay a price for taking our treasure, for taking our jobs, for doing all of these things. But what I'm doing with the tariffs is people are coming in, and they're building at levels you've never seen before. We have $7 trillion of new plants, factories and other things, investment coming into the United States. And if you look back at past presidents, nobody was anywhere near that. And this is in three months. Will you call President Xi if he doesn't call you? No. You won't? Nope. Has he called you yet? Yep. When did he call you? He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf. But you would think it's a sign of weakness if you called him? I don't-I just look- Well, what did he say? If people want to-well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.
April 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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xkcd.com
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
April 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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tracydeepbluesea44.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Note that all these issues turning independents against Trump involve questions of fundamental fairness, due process, and the rule of law. The imagery of rampant lawlessness tends to be the sort of thing that alienates those voters.

newrepublic.com/article/1944...
April 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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pingree.house.gov
Sending the FBI to arrest a sitting judge is an alarming and deeply disturbing escalation in the Administration’s ongoing attack on our judicial system.

Shortly after today’s news broke, AG Bondi went on Fox News and said, “We are sending a very strong message today… we will come after you.” (1/2)
Wisconsin judge arrested by FBI, charged with obstructing immigrant arrest
Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is the first known instance of the Trump administration charging a local official with interfering with immigration enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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politicsinthewild.bsky.social
Effective Corporate Tax Rates

1950: 50%
2025: 13%

Top Marginal Tax Rates

1950: 91%
2025: 37%

If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.
April 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
After Abrego Garcia was deported, the administration initially scrambled to try to figure out how to bring him home, admitting that his alleged gang ties were tenuous, at best.

Then the negative coverage started and they decided the fight would be a political win.

Disgusting.
April 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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normeisen.bsky.social
URGENT: This is not a crime

A judge has the authority in her courthouse to excuse a defendant for God's sake

Trump tried this in 1st term & he was thrown out of court 👉 www.courtlistener.com/docket/14997...

PS the violation here was Patel's tweet & that's why he deleted. I'll be filing complaint
April 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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innovationohio.bsky.social
#Ohio State student: School 'failed me' in legal fight with #Trump over revoked visa: www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
Ohio State student: School 'failed me' in legal fight with Trump over revoked visa
An Ohio State international student spoke out April 24 saying that he has lost faith in the university to help him as he fights for his legal status.
www.dispatch.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ohiocapitaljournal.com
Medicaid in Ohio covers 2 in 5 children, 1 in 5 working-age adults, and 1 in 10 adults aged 65 and older, so budget cuts at the federal and state level have the potential to put health coverage in jeopardy for a large part of the state. buff.ly/DIrzM2N
Medicaid cuts would impact more than a quarter of Ohioans, children and the elderly most of all • Ohio Capital Journal
Budget cuts at the federal and state level have the potential to raise the uninsured rate in Ohio and put health coverage in jeopardy for a large part of the state.
buff.ly
April 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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drewharwell.com
New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin -

At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner."

Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done"

wapo.st/4iAatO1
How Trump team turned a dinner invite into a crypto boon worth millions
iNearly two dozen crypto wallets acquired more than 100,000 $TRUMP meme coins, worth roughly $100 million, after the team said top buyers could join the president for dinner.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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tommasinaresist.bsky.social
Wendy Brito, New Orleans mother, taken by ICE.

Wife,volunteer,legal resident.No charges or criminal record.No explanation.
Routine ICE checkin last month. She never came home.

No reason given. No answers.
Now she has a bond hearing April 29. GoFundMe link in comments
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Westbank mother doesn’t return home after routine ICE check-in
Kremly Marrero says that she’s detained over 100 miles away
www.wwltv.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES KNOCKING
1) REMEMBER YOU HAVE RIGHTS
2) ICE CAN AND WILL LIE TO YOU
3) THEY CANNOT ENTER WITHOUT A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE
4) THEY WILL USUALLY NOT HAVE A WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE AND WILL OFTEN LIE AND SAY THEY HAVE ONE. ASK TO SEE IT BEFORE THEY ENTER
March 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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thisiscolossal.com
We're absolutely stunned by Ralph Ziman's new project, which covers a MiG-21 fighter jet in tens of millions of glass beads. Five years in the making, this collaborative work is the final piece in the artist's 'Weapons of Mass Production' series.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/ralp...
an overview of one wing and side of a fighter jet coated in colorful beaded patterns, sitting inside a hangar or warehouse a detail of a fighter jet that has been coated entirely in small glass beads, focused on a decal of Aftica in black, red, and green an elaborately beaded cockpit of a MiG-21 cockpit
April 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
GET SPIELBERG ON LINE ONE
My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, "Oh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, she'll be fine." Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph. No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.
April 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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macfarlanenews.bsky.social
A somewhat disorienting announcement just now from US Attorney for D.C.

Trump-ally Ed Martin announces Tesla vandalism case (a priority of Pres. Trump)

He uses phrase "domestic terror" .... but also acknowledges it is a "misdemeanor" and that defendant is released
April 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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crockett.house.gov
Trump’s organization is out here selling Trump 2028 hats like the Constitution is just a suggestion.

Reminder: The 22nd Amendment exists. You can’t run for a third term.
April 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Tell me again why Recall is a good idea.
An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online
The leak highlights how digital workplace surveillance exposes employee's to new risks.
gizmodo.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
People trying to obey the law abducted by masked men in unmarked van.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM