@jenallenbutler.bsky.social
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Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere
June 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere
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NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
www.wired.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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WHY DOES SHE HAVE THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF ALL-TIME & I ONLY GET KID ROCK??? WAAAAAHHH!!!!! 😩
May 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
WHY DOES SHE HAVE THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF ALL-TIME & I ONLY GET KID ROCK??? WAAAAAHHH!!!!! 😩
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The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
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Beneath contempt.
May 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Beneath contempt.
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do any of these people actually know what medicaid is?
Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Medicaid: "The person we're taking it away from is the able-bodied adult with no children who refuses to work."
May 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
do any of these people actually know what medicaid is?
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There's always a tweet.
May 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
There's always a tweet.
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I just finished watching @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
who was a guest speaker at a brilliant town hall meeting in Iowa. He is clearly one of the smartest people on the political landscape today.
It’s on YouTube and worth your time.
www.youtube.com/live/qldYe1m...

who was a guest speaker at a brilliant town hall meeting in Iowa. He is clearly one of the smartest people on the political landscape today.
It’s on YouTube and worth your time.
www.youtube.com/live/qldYe1m...

May 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I just finished watching @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
who was a guest speaker at a brilliant town hall meeting in Iowa. He is clearly one of the smartest people on the political landscape today.
It’s on YouTube and worth your time.
www.youtube.com/live/qldYe1m...

who was a guest speaker at a brilliant town hall meeting in Iowa. He is clearly one of the smartest people on the political landscape today.
It’s on YouTube and worth your time.
www.youtube.com/live/qldYe1m...

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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
May 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
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Representative Bresnahan, Protect SNAP for the Future of Our Community | SNAP is a lifeline for 40 million Americans. Cutting it as part of the GOP budget would devastate families in our communities.
Representative Bresnahan, Protect SNAP for the Future of Our Community - Bucks County Beacon
SNAP is a lifeline for 40 million Americans. Cutting it as part of the GOP budget would devastate families in our communities.
buckscountybeacon.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Representative Bresnahan, Protect SNAP for the Future of Our Community | SNAP is a lifeline for 40 million Americans. Cutting it as part of the GOP budget would devastate families in our communities.
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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AOC: It’s bone-chilling. Every day, there’s something new. And today, we saw Trump express openness to sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons without due process. It’s anti-American.
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
AOC: It’s bone-chilling. Every day, there’s something new. And today, we saw Trump express openness to sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons without due process. It’s anti-American.
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My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.
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Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful:
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful:
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
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46 Democrats voted WITH Republicans for the Laken Riley Act which allows the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants simply charged with non violent offenses.
Where is the Democratic Party with their outrage over the kidnapping of innocent men sent to die in an El Salvador prison?
Where is the Democratic Party with their outrage over the kidnapping of innocent men sent to die in an El Salvador prison?
April 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
46 Democrats voted WITH Republicans for the Laken Riley Act which allows the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants simply charged with non violent offenses.
Where is the Democratic Party with their outrage over the kidnapping of innocent men sent to die in an El Salvador prison?
Where is the Democratic Party with their outrage over the kidnapping of innocent men sent to die in an El Salvador prison?
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OMFG. Read this and weep for our country and the man whose life is ruined. The Trump administration did this and now claims it can't be fixed. That's not good enough. All Americans should be losing their minds over this, even those who don't usually pay attention. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
OMFG. Read this and weep for our country and the man whose life is ruined. The Trump administration did this and now claims it can't be fixed. That's not good enough. All Americans should be losing their minds over this, even those who don't usually pay attention. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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So the top vaccine official at FDA was pushed out, and the CDC buried an assessment that emphasized the need for vaccines to stop measles.
Here's what I said on the Senate floor just ahead of RFK Jr.'s confirmation vote. No Senator should pretend they didn't see this coming.
Here's what I said on the Senate floor just ahead of RFK Jr.'s confirmation vote. No Senator should pretend they didn't see this coming.
April 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
So the top vaccine official at FDA was pushed out, and the CDC buried an assessment that emphasized the need for vaccines to stop measles.
Here's what I said on the Senate floor just ahead of RFK Jr.'s confirmation vote. No Senator should pretend they didn't see this coming.
Here's what I said on the Senate floor just ahead of RFK Jr.'s confirmation vote. No Senator should pretend they didn't see this coming.
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You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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I just sent Cory Booker money. I will send money to anyone who fights, and I will not send money to anyone who cowers in fear. That has to be the situation, for all of us.
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I just sent Cory Booker money. I will send money to anyone who fights, and I will not send money to anyone who cowers in fear. That has to be the situation, for all of us.
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The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
March 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
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So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?
International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy.
Sorry, *was.
Sorry, *was.
March 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?
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Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
SCiMaP
scienceimpacts.org
March 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !