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Sarah Posner

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Investigative journalist, columnist, expert on the Christian right. Working on something new. Author, Unholy. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605774/unholy-by-sarah-posner/ More: https://www.sarahposner.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm here for all manner of publishing trends and literary takes. Bring it on! (Or maybe I'll start something...?)

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 15m

There is nothing Republican leaders are doing that even suggests they are serious about ending the shutdown or preventing your health care costs from skyrocketing—House Republicans aren't even here!

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 15m

If someone told you a year ago this would be a headline in 2025, you wouldn't have believed them.

Authoritarianism has taken over our country.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17m

Egg man brain no work good

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26m

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 44m

Bishop Seitz on meeting with Pope this morning: “Our Holy Father is very personally concerned about these matters. He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue. It means a lot to all of us to know of his personal desire that we continue to speak out.”

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 23m

Well, it was a "Christian" law school, and the students would be taught to follow "God's law," so...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

Oral argument on the first set of pre-trial motions is scheduled for Nov. 19.

Oral argument on the second batch is scheduled for Dec. 9.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

A second set of pre-trial motions is due by Oct. 30.

Comey’s defense counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, said he expects that batch to include a motion regarding abuse of grand jury process and an “outrageous government conduct” motion.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 38m

"My Republican colleagues are likely not actually outraged at Jack Smith’s perfectly legitimate act of seeking four-days of phone records related to these crimes; they are outraged that anyone investigated the President’s insurrectionary plans on January 6 at all."

House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 42m

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell issued the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s investigation and prosecution of Trump and his co-conspirators for their criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Ranking Members Raskin, Swalwell Statement on Senate Republicans’ Misdirected Outrage Regarding DOJ’s Investigation of the Criminal Conspiracy to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election

Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, released the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation and prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators for their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election:

democrats-judiciary.house.gov

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 43m

Mike Johnson, always submitting to the authority of Trump

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 44m

Did anyone do a video reel of Pam Bondi dodging Epstein questions at that hearing earlier this week?

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 47m

Republicans are so incredible at party unity. Absurdly so.

In Virginia they are running a black Christian nationalist who thinks that homosexuality is "an immoral lifestyle choice" for governor alongside a white gay man who ran a blog featuring slavery and Nazi fetish content.

Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 46m

"I think it is statutory law"

It IS.

He's the fucking Speaker of the House and he can't say that definitively?

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 1h

Speaker Johnson appears to say furloughed federal workers should get back pay under 2019 law

"It has always been the case. It is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position."

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 49m

There are a few ways to read this piece, but my way is that top Trump regime officials know he is very weak with the public on Epstein and his lawless crackdown on immigrants

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Trumpworld's Least Favorite Cabinet Secretaries

“Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2.) Bondi. 3.) Bondi. 4.) Bondi. 5.) HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 52m

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 1h

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4h

When you read this about people being *afraid to go to. church* lest they be snatched by ICE, remember that Cardinal Timothy Dolan serves on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission (www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...) and was honored by the Becket Fund this year (becketfund.org/media/cardin...)

The letters and video he brought to Leo detail the fear that even legal migrants are facing every day. U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters by federal agents. In Leo’s hometown of Chicago, agents have stormed apartment complexes by helicopter as families slept, deployed chemical agents near a public school and arrested a city councilman in the hospital.

“They can’t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,” wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo. Originally from Guatemala, she has lived in San Francisco for a quarter-century and qualified for asylum years ago, but has relatives in the U.S. who are not legal.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

Stunning and brilliantly reported piece from @lisang.bsky.social at @newlinesmag.bsky.social about how religious nationalists are taking over secular Tel Aviv

The Settlers Bursting Tel Aviv’s Bubble

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We could have been at a posh event hosted by bourgeois secular Tel Avivians, but for two factors: The food was all kosher, and there were guns everywhere. The publisher of one of Israel’s best-known far-right media platforms, a 50-something man with a generous paunch and a crocheted skullcap on his bald spot, had an M16 rifle slung over his shoulder like a purse with a cross-body strap. At least a third of the men roaming the room or standing in clusters of people chatting while nibbling from plates of food had holstered automatic pistols tucked into their waistbands. One young woman with long hair, about 19 years old, wearing a long-sleeved, modest dress that suggested she was religious and conservative, also carried an M16. When I lived in the country, this entire scene, of armed religious nationalist settlers sipping espresso on the Tel Aviv University campus, would have been inconceivable. This was not their turf — until suddenly it was.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The testimony from Adam Kincaid, the director of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, included the following information:

• That Kincaid had numerous contacts with the White House and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over the redistricting effort — including sending messages on Signal that were set to automatically delete.

• That Kincaid viewed a draft of a letter sent to Texas by DOJ officials, urging them to redistrict because of concerns about race-based districts in the state’s existing map.

• That Kincaid was hired by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to draw the map.

• And that Kincaid entirely ignored the input of ordinary Texans, provided at public hearings held over the summer — instead taking input only from the White House and Texas’ GOP congressional delegation.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h

Watch the video. It's very good. More, please.

Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 2h

So Trump thinks we should give a $20B bailout to the right wing government in Argentina, but we can’t afford to keep your healthcare from going up by $1000s of dollars a year? Bullshit.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h

He's very good on the economy, tho! 🙄🫠

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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