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Michael Hilliard
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Photographer/creative director based in the upper-left corner of the US, escaping the toxic wasteland of Twitter for more rational discourse... and pictures of dogs.
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Please take 15 minutes to watch, then share this. Unforgivable.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10d
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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If you missed the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium (theme: how microbial metabolites influence the brain, the immune system, & metabolism), the videos of the talks and the panel discussion are now available here:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thanks to all who helped make it happen!
2025 ISB Microbiome Symposium - YouTube
The 2025 ISB Microbiome Symposium was a virtual scientific event hosted by the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) on December 12, 2025. The symposium brough...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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anntelnaes.bsky.social
Speaker Mike Johnson's halloween costume:
Weenie waiting for the Rapture

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October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A friend’s new substack is great at taking a longer, more thoughtful view of issues; something we’ve lost in this age of digital immediacy and verbal bomb throwing.

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The Worst Names We Call Each Other
Some dahlias, a memory, and the names we throw around
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October 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings
October 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Shot in the head with pepper spray
This is Trump's America
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October 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

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Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference September 16, 2025 Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation. Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time. Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost. Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..." And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma. First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or "irregardless. " But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I. The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny. The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us? The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed." That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed. A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme. Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%). The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration. But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Democrats are right to remind people that when Trump falls there will be accountability.

I also think we should start issuing criminal referrals to DOJ. While they won't be acted on by our corrupt Attorney General it puts Congress on record against lawbreakers.

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hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · Sep 18
House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
September 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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anntelnaes.bsky.social
An email headline from one of the news sources I subscribe to:

"Vance's crackdown on left-wing groups"

No- should be:

"The unconstitutional actions of the VP of the United States"

News orgs, do better.
September 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Listening to this exchange again is infuriating. Trump’s bombastic claims that he will fix everything, while Kamala drops truth bombs about Putin’s intentions for Europe, starting with Poland.

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September 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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anntelnaes.bsky.social
Trump announces new Dept of Education guidelines for protecting prayer in public schools.

A reminder:
September 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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anntelnaes.bsky.social
"Trump says he’ll seek ‘long-term’ control of DC police and signals he’ll target other cities next"

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August 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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anntelnaes.bsky.social
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Trump and his NFP hold a news conference
The autocrat in chief announces his takeover of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department
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August 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.
August 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Every document coming from RFK Jr. and his minions should be written in comic sans.

These are not serious people.
May 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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There's always a tweet.
May 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Oh really? 🍿
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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#GoodTrouble
April 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/B65oJv1H
Join me on April 5th
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March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
February 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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In an open letter organized by Justice Connection, some 900 former prosecutors emphasized that the oath they swore "was to the Constitution—not to the President, Attorney General, or any other individual."
Jack Smith among 900 former prosecutors alarmed by Trump's DOJ
They said they've "watched with alarm" as DOJ leadership has tested values they swore to uphold.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Some of us grew up with Schoolhouse Rocks and learned how government works, while consuming our Saturday morning cartoons and cereal. “I’m Just a Bill” was brilliant, and this rivals the best of SHR’s stuff, while being depressingly accurate about Project 2025.

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The Project 2025 Song!
YouTube video by Kravits
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February 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM