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@raskin.house.gov: "President Trump directed CBS to edit his own interview after suing the network for editing his opponent’s interview, and CBS complied with his requests and omitted its anchor’s questions about President Trump’s pardons." @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/top-...
Top Democrat files complaint over '60 Minutes' interview with President Trump
Jamie Raskin wrote to CBS's ombudsman, a role created in an agreement with FCC during Paramount merger to address 'media bias'.
mailchi.mp
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@raskin.house.gov: "President Trump directed CBS to edit his own interview after suing the network for editing his opponent’s interview, and CBS complied with his requests and omitted its anchor’s questions about President Trump’s pardons." @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/top-...
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FLAG: The Trump admin has told states to "immediately undo" any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families for the month of November — threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.
SNAP helps roughly one in eight Americans buy groceries.
SNAP helps roughly one in eight Americans buy groceries.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
FLAG: The Trump admin has told states to "immediately undo" any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families for the month of November — threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.
SNAP helps roughly one in eight Americans buy groceries.
SNAP helps roughly one in eight Americans buy groceries.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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"More and more of the president’s backers realize that his impossible promises were never meant to be kept," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes:
Trump’s Inevitable Betrayal of His Supporters
Trump never meant to keep his promises. His voters are starting to notice.
bit.ly
May 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"More and more of the president’s backers realize that his impossible promises were never meant to be kept," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes:
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As an American living in the UK, I wonder if most Americans realize just how much Trump has irrevocably torched opinions of the US. People are afraid to visit, see the country increasingly as an adversary, and that’s *before* the tariffs. This is doing long term damage—and that’s in our closest ally
April 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
As an American living in the UK, I wonder if most Americans realize just how much Trump has irrevocably torched opinions of the US. People are afraid to visit, see the country increasingly as an adversary, and that’s *before* the tariffs. This is doing long term damage—and that’s in our closest ally
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This is the biggest news of the last 24 hours—not the Signal Scandal.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
Trump executive order boosts proof of citizenship requirements for voting in federal elections | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to boost proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, which critics say could disenfranchise poor and older voters who don...
www.cnn.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This is the biggest news of the last 24 hours—not the Signal Scandal.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
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King grills Gabbard about why climate change wasn't included in the threat assessment for the first time in more than a decade
March 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
King grills Gabbard about why climate change wasn't included in the threat assessment for the first time in more than a decade
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Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.
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Republicans won't be satisfied until every acre of our public lands is sold off for exploitation and profit
Republicans aim to generate support for selling off America's public lands
“This playbook, in my mind, is to dismantle, divest, and then privatize."
www.motherjones.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Republicans won't be satisfied until every acre of our public lands is sold off for exploitation and profit
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“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war,” write Phillips Payson O’Brien and Eliot A. Cohen. That “makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic”: theatln.tc/FOIXEMOC
Russia Is Losing the War of Attrition
Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse. That makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.
theatln.tc
March 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war,” write Phillips Payson O’Brien and Eliot A. Cohen. That “makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic”: theatln.tc/FOIXEMOC
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"If this type of mining opens in Minnesota, it will be the end of Minnesota as we know it."
- State Sen. Jen McEwen's powerful testimony against copper-sulfide mining in MN.
youtu.be/ngQinkbwwu8
- State Sen. Jen McEwen's powerful testimony against copper-sulfide mining in MN.
youtu.be/ngQinkbwwu8
Protect the Boundary Waters from Trump | Minnesotans Demand Action
YouTube video by FriendsOfTheBWCA
youtu.be
February 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"If this type of mining opens in Minnesota, it will be the end of Minnesota as we know it."
- State Sen. Jen McEwen's powerful testimony against copper-sulfide mining in MN.
youtu.be/ngQinkbwwu8
- State Sen. Jen McEwen's powerful testimony against copper-sulfide mining in MN.
youtu.be/ngQinkbwwu8
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NPR has identified dozens of Jan. 6 defendants that Trump pardoned with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.
www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence
Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.
www.npr.org
February 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
NPR has identified dozens of Jan. 6 defendants that Trump pardoned with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.
www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
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After Trump’s huge corporate tax giveaway in 2017, corporations enriched wealthy CEOs and shareholders instead of investing in workers or lowering prices.
This is the tax scam Trump and Republicans are trying to repeat.
This is the tax scam Trump and Republicans are trying to repeat.
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
After Trump’s huge corporate tax giveaway in 2017, corporations enriched wealthy CEOs and shareholders instead of investing in workers or lowering prices.
This is the tax scam Trump and Republicans are trying to repeat.
This is the tax scam Trump and Republicans are trying to repeat.
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This was the first use of implicit government force by Donald Trump to enforce an order he knows was illegal.
It will not be the last.
It will not be the last.
NEW:
“Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [Phyllis Fong] out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration.”
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
“Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [Phyllis Fong] out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration.”
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
Exclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This was the first use of implicit government force by Donald Trump to enforce an order he knows was illegal.
It will not be the last.
It will not be the last.
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Egg prices are soaring 🥚📈, up 20% in 2025 due to avian flu & inflation. With millions of hens lost, tight supply means costly breakfasts for a while. This highlights how infectious diseases disrupt food supply & strain economies. 🛒💡 Thoughts? #BlueSky
January 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Egg prices are soaring 🥚📈, up 20% in 2025 due to avian flu & inflation. With millions of hens lost, tight supply means costly breakfasts for a while. This highlights how infectious diseases disrupt food supply & strain economies. 🛒💡 Thoughts? #BlueSky
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Never. Forget.
New footage of Capitol riot released by Jan 6 committee
YouTube video by The Independent
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Never. Forget.
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"I think it is really important to get angry because the public right now is quite unfocused."
Dr Peter Kalmus and Dr Varun Sivaram talk to @cathynewman.bsky.social about the LA fires and the role played by climate change, driven by fossil fuels.
Read & watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/la-fire...
Dr Peter Kalmus and Dr Varun Sivaram talk to @cathynewman.bsky.social about the LA fires and the role played by climate change, driven by fossil fuels.
Read & watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/la-fire...
LA fires root cause is fossil fuels says climate expert
We spoke to Dr Varun Sivaram, a senior fellow for energy and climate at the Council on Foreign Relations and Dr Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist and the author of “Being the Change: Live Well and Spa...
www.channel4.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"I think it is really important to get angry because the public right now is quite unfocused."
Dr Peter Kalmus and Dr Varun Sivaram talk to @cathynewman.bsky.social about the LA fires and the role played by climate change, driven by fossil fuels.
Read & watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/la-fire...
Dr Peter Kalmus and Dr Varun Sivaram talk to @cathynewman.bsky.social about the LA fires and the role played by climate change, driven by fossil fuels.
Read & watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/la-fire...
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It's official: Trump is now a convicted felon.
He will be the first president to enter office as a convicted felon.
He will be the first president to enter office as a convicted felon.
January 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It's official: Trump is now a convicted felon.
He will be the first president to enter office as a convicted felon.
He will be the first president to enter office as a convicted felon.
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Big Oil spent over $75 million electing Trump.
The 5 biggest oil companies—with $80 BILLION in profits—stand to gain $2.2 billion from his corporate tax cut.
Oil billionaire Harold Hamm says he hand-picked Trump’s Energy and Interior nominees.
This is how you rig a system.
The 5 biggest oil companies—with $80 BILLION in profits—stand to gain $2.2 billion from his corporate tax cut.
Oil billionaire Harold Hamm says he hand-picked Trump’s Energy and Interior nominees.
This is how you rig a system.
January 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Big Oil spent over $75 million electing Trump.
The 5 biggest oil companies—with $80 BILLION in profits—stand to gain $2.2 billion from his corporate tax cut.
Oil billionaire Harold Hamm says he hand-picked Trump’s Energy and Interior nominees.
This is how you rig a system.
The 5 biggest oil companies—with $80 BILLION in profits—stand to gain $2.2 billion from his corporate tax cut.
Oil billionaire Harold Hamm says he hand-picked Trump’s Energy and Interior nominees.
This is how you rig a system.
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The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
December 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
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Vaccine skepticism turning into institutional anti-vax hostility. Rapidly.
"Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Vaccine skepticism turning into institutional anti-vax hostility. Rapidly.
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Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.
December 19, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.
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We have established a playing field in which the forces of MAGA can slander, libel, and defame with near impunity...while simultaneously using libel law to attack legitimate critics in an attempt to chill everyone else’s speech.”
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Weakness Is a Provocation
ABC News, billionaires, media orgs, and CEOs are surrendering to Trump because they think he’s a lame duck. They’re making a terrible mistake.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
We have established a playing field in which the forces of MAGA can slander, libel, and defame with near impunity...while simultaneously using libel law to attack legitimate critics in an attempt to chill everyone else’s speech.”
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
From @jvl.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...