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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

👇👇👇👇 this this this👇👇👇👇

December 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸

@nothoodlum.bsky.social

You know you’re a winner when you leave Putin looking like this.

August 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

May the powers that be protect our troops on bases in the Middle East. 😔

June 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM

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Dean Obeidallah

@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

GOP President George W. Bush gave us the Iraq war based on a lie. Now GOP's Donald Trump gave us the Iran war based on a lie.

June 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM

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Dean Obeidallah

@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

REMINDER: Netanyahu convinced Trump in 2018 to withdraw US from Iran nuclear deal that Obama and allies had negotiated. That Deal would've prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The death and destruction we're seeing now is 100% bc of Trump & Netanyahu www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...

June 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM

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Krassensteins

@krassenstein.bsky.social

June 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social

@pissed-off-g.bsky.social

May 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

April 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM

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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙

@mommamia.bsky.social

🙋🏼‍♀️ Tootlefuckingloo!

Former Rep. George Santos sentenced to more than 7 years in prison www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Former Rep. George Santos sentenced to more than 7 years in prison

Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence the former Republican congressman from New York to 87 months for his "unparalleled crimes."

www.nbcnews.com

April 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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Erick Contreras-Johnson

@all4thepeople.bsky.social

They start with the criminals. Then the foreigners. Then the intellectuals. Then those of different cultures. Then those of different color. It keeps going until the state🏛️ becomes something you must follow or else.

Remember, that history DOES NOT HAVE TO REPEAT🙅‍♂️. We all see it, so now what to do?

courage the cowardly dog is talking to a frog in a bathtub

ALT: courage the cowardly dog is talking to a frog in a bathtub

media.tenor.com

March 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM

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Stephen King

@stephenking.bsky.social

It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.

March 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

The US added only 151,000 jobs in February, lower than the forecast 170,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.1%.

Yet again, a Republican president is blowing the strong economy he inherited from a Democrat.

March 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Sharp as a tack

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 7

REPORTER: How concerned are you that the large-scale federal government layoffs will weaken the labor market?

TRUMP: The large-scale fentanyl what?

March 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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The Enemy From Within

@enemywithinyt.bsky.social

March 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM

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Unseen History

@unseenhistory.bsky.social

Lunchtime at a California school, 1942, shortly before Japanese American students, including the boy pictured, were forcibly removed and imprisoned in "Relocation Centers" until the end of WWII.

March 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Preach, AOC 👏👏👏

AOC Perfectly Shames Republicans Who Won't Hold Town Halls After Her Town Hall Video Goes Viral

Preach, AOC!

www.comicsands.com

March 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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Adam Kinzinger

@adamkinzinger.substack.com

The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster.

Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

March 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Karly Kingsley

@karlykingsley.bsky.social

🚨 State Attorneys General have filed for a temporary restraining order against multiple federal agencies to halt mass layoffs of federal probationary employees and seek reinstatement for those affected. 🧵1/7

(MD, MN, DC, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MA, MI, NV, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, VT, WI.)

INTRODUCTION
President Trump and his Administration have made no secret of their contempt for the
roughly 2 million committed professionals who form the federal civil service. Nor have they
disguised their plans to terminate vast numbers of civil servants, starting with tens of thousands of probationary employees. These large-scale, indiscriminate firings are not only subjecting the Plaintiff States and communities across the country to chaos. They are also against the law.
Federal statutes and regulations set forth procedures that federal agencies must follow
when conducting reductions in force ("RIFs"). Critically, these procedures require that federal
agencies provide 60 days of advance notice to affected employees and to states, so that they have
an opportunity to mitigate the harms of layoffs. Where an agency fails to provide such notice, the
employees "may not be released."
3. Over the past month, the new Administration has run roughshod over the RIF requirements.
Specifically, as part of an effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce, the Office of Personnel
Management ("OPM") has unlawfully directed federal agencies to conduct mass terminations of probationary employees, suddenly and without any advance notice. Defendants have followed
through on this directive, firing employees by the hundreds and, in many instances, thousands— all without following the procedures for conducting RIFs and without providing notice to the
affected employees or states.
4. This campaign has inflicted immense harms on tens of thousands of probationary
employees and their families. It has rendered them jobless without providing any advance notice

that might have given them an opportunity to seek other employment or even budget to prepare
for the loss of income. As a result, many affected employees and their families are struggling to
make ends meet-
-to pay rent, buy groceries, and care for their loved ones.
This campaign is harming Plaintiff States, too. In addition to the informational and
procedural injuries resulting from the deprivation of notice to which they were entitled, the lack of notice has impeded the ability of many Plaintiff States to support affected employees and thereby
mitigate the financial and other impacts on state services. In fact, pursuant to federal statutory
requirements, Plaintiff States operate rapid response teams that provide immediate services and resources to workers subject to mass layoffs. These services include job placement and job training
services as well as connections to social services like unemployment insurance and health
insurance. Because of Defendants' failure to adhere to the RIF notice procedures, many Plaintiff
States have had to scramble and expend additional resources to identify even which agencies have
conducted layoffs and which affected employees require support.
Because of the lack of notice, many Plaintiff States have also faced increased administrative demands related to adjudicating unemployment claims; decreased tax revenues; and increased demands for social services. Some Plaintiff States have also lost the benefit of services
provided by federal employees embedded within state agencies, without any time to prepare.
7. To address these harms to Plaintiff States, this action seeks declaratory and injunctive relief
requiring Defendants: to cease the RIFs of probationary employees that they have conducted
unlawfully and without notice; to reinstate any probationary employees who were terminated as
part of mass terminations on or after January 20, 2025;

March 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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Mackle Pinn

@scrappyaf.bsky.social

Anybody know what this is?!! No satellites on the launch schedule. Viewed at Warderick Wells Exuma Land and Sea Park. Please pass around, I’d like an answer. @astrojaz.bsky.social ??

March 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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Pete Buttigieg

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

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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John Skiles Skinner

@skiles.blue

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

18f.org

March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM