Shelley
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Donald Trump’s Justice Department has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbit.
What?!
What?!
Trump’s DOJ Paying Nearly $5M to Capitol Attacker’s Family
Tim Miller breaks down the political and legal implications of Donald Trump’s Justice Department agreeing to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, the woman fatally shot by police during the January 6 Capitol riot. Watch Michael Fanone's conversation with Ben Parker: https://youtu.be/h8x_E2L49rA Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join
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May 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Donald Trump’s Justice Department has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbit.
What?!
What?!
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About cuts to National Weather Service & FEMA:
"Wake up, folks. The tornado is on your doorstep, and this time you’re not going to get a warning."
When the Cuts Hit Home
by Joyce White Vance
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"Wake up, folks. The tornado is on your doorstep, and this time you’re not going to get a warning."
When the Cuts Hit Home
by Joyce White Vance
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
When the Cuts Hit Home
I am not an alarmist.
open.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
About cuts to National Weather Service & FEMA:
"Wake up, folks. The tornado is on your doorstep, and this time you’re not going to get a warning."
When the Cuts Hit Home
by Joyce White Vance
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"Wake up, folks. The tornado is on your doorstep, and this time you’re not going to get a warning."
When the Cuts Hit Home
by Joyce White Vance
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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This lady could be bigger trash if she were three old Cheetos bags and a used carton of milk.
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This lady could be bigger trash if she were three old Cheetos bags and a used carton of milk.
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Could we at least live in the kind of cinematic dystopia that wouldn’t have gone direct to video?
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Could we at least live in the kind of cinematic dystopia that wouldn’t have gone direct to video?
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Trump was just negotiating with Saudi Arabia, the country responsible for 9/11 and dismembering a Washington Post journalist. And took a $400 million bribe from the country that finances Hamas, famous for its hostage taking. So take a seat, you crazy, white supremacist bitch.
May 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Trump was just negotiating with Saudi Arabia, the country responsible for 9/11 and dismembering a Washington Post journalist. And took a $400 million bribe from the country that finances Hamas, famous for its hostage taking. So take a seat, you crazy, white supremacist bitch.
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BREAKING: Kennedy Center staff announces intent to unionize. My latest:
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center employees announce plans to unionize
Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for layoffs and a lack of transparency under President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
BREAKING: Kennedy Center staff announces intent to unionize. My latest:
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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A win! A federal appeals court just ordered Elon Musk and his DOGE to resume efforts to hand over internal documents. The ruling directs Musk’s team to answer questions and provide records requested under the Freedom of Information Act records they’ve been stonewalling for months.
May 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A win! A federal appeals court just ordered Elon Musk and his DOGE to resume efforts to hand over internal documents. The ruling directs Musk’s team to answer questions and provide records requested under the Freedom of Information Act records they’ve been stonewalling for months.
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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
May 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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Wow! Congress is actually attempting to do something! In a rare bipartisan stand to defend its own authority, lawmakers are quietly pushing back against Trump’s attempt to take control of the Library of Congress.
May 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Wow! Congress is actually attempting to do something! In a rare bipartisan stand to defend its own authority, lawmakers are quietly pushing back against Trump’s attempt to take control of the Library of Congress.
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A move that would undermine the separation of powers and the independence of the legislative branch’s top research institution.
May 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A move that would undermine the separation of powers and the independence of the legislative branch’s top research institution.
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This was always how this was gonna end. Trump never had any strategy and isn’t even capable of explaining how every country in the world is “ripping us off.” It’s all just performative idiocy for no reason, other than perhaps insider trading opportunities.
April 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This was always how this was gonna end. Trump never had any strategy and isn’t even capable of explaining how every country in the world is “ripping us off.” It’s all just performative idiocy for no reason, other than perhaps insider trading opportunities.
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Ever since Kilmar Abrego García was wrongly deported, his wife, Jennifer, has had no choice but to become everything at once: A single mother to three kids with special needs. An advocate. A fighter.
I spent an afternoon with Jennifer. Here’s her story: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
I spent an afternoon with Jennifer. Here’s her story: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Her husband was mistakenly deported. Now she’s caught in a political frenzy.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura has fought to bring her husband, Kilmar Abrego García, home from a Salvadoran prison while caring for their children, two of whom have autism.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Ever since Kilmar Abrego García was wrongly deported, his wife, Jennifer, has had no choice but to become everything at once: A single mother to three kids with special needs. An advocate. A fighter.
I spent an afternoon with Jennifer. Here’s her story: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
I spent an afternoon with Jennifer. Here’s her story: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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In SCOTUS's 7-2 ruling stopping more kidnapped people from being sent to El Salvador, the majority justices didn't wait for Alito to write his dissent.
That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.
That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.
April 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
In SCOTUS's 7-2 ruling stopping more kidnapped people from being sent to El Salvador, the majority justices didn't wait for Alito to write his dissent.
That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.
That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.
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Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that.
Oops! Day one funding freeze
Oops! Ebola
Oops! Nuclear security workers
Oops! Bird flu
Oops! PEPFAR
Oops! HHS firings
And on and on and on...
Now this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Oops! Day one funding freeze
Oops! Ebola
Oops! Nuclear security workers
Oops! Bird flu
Oops! PEPFAR
Oops! HHS firings
And on and on and on...
Now this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that.
Oops! Day one funding freeze
Oops! Ebola
Oops! Nuclear security workers
Oops! Bird flu
Oops! PEPFAR
Oops! HHS firings
And on and on and on...
Now this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Oops! Day one funding freeze
Oops! Ebola
Oops! Nuclear security workers
Oops! Bird flu
Oops! PEPFAR
Oops! HHS firings
And on and on and on...
Now this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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Breaking news: The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status amid President Trump’s row with the institutions that his administration views as "woke."
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of President Trump’s feud with Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions and other nonprofit groups his administration views as “woke.”
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Breaking news: The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status amid President Trump’s row with the institutions that his administration views as "woke."
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That the United States is not only sanctioning such shocking inhumanity, but is also *paying* for it, is so despicable.
And that silence you hear is not one conservative "Christian" speaking out against it.
And that silence you hear is not one conservative "Christian" speaking out against it.
April 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
That the United States is not only sanctioning such shocking inhumanity, but is also *paying* for it, is so despicable.
And that silence you hear is not one conservative "Christian" speaking out against it.
And that silence you hear is not one conservative "Christian" speaking out against it.
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Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours
Massive applause for Booker
Massive applause for Booker
April 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours
Massive applause for Booker
Massive applause for Booker
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The other thing about this is that it's possible that the Schumer/CR debacle will end up being the inverse of a pyrrhic victory. You're actually seeing Senators now lining up to show they can fight. Booker's the big one. But you also see Gallego and Schiff announcing holds.
This is so on the mark. Does Booker see an opening here for himself? Absolutely. You want people like that.
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The other thing about this is that it's possible that the Schumer/CR debacle will end up being the inverse of a pyrrhic victory. You're actually seeing Senators now lining up to show they can fight. Booker's the big one. But you also see Gallego and Schiff announcing holds.
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Like Elon Musk, I've been involved in losing races in Wisconsin but it never cost me $27 million.
April 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Like Elon Musk, I've been involved in losing races in Wisconsin but it never cost me $27 million.
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WOW. Read this entire affidavit.
This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
WOW. Read this entire affidavit.
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My fellow Americans, we officially hit a new low today.
Thanks to felon Trump’s all out assault on democracy, we are now on a civil rights loss warning list with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan & Serbia.
Nonviolent civil resistance is a must!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thanks to felon Trump’s all out assault on democracy, we are now on a civil rights loss warning list with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan & Serbia.
Nonviolent civil resistance is a must!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My fellow Americans, we officially hit a new low today.
Thanks to felon Trump’s all out assault on democracy, we are now on a civil rights loss warning list with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan & Serbia.
Nonviolent civil resistance is a must!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thanks to felon Trump’s all out assault on democracy, we are now on a civil rights loss warning list with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan & Serbia.
Nonviolent civil resistance is a must!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“Americans are getting more stupid and I didn’t think that was possible.”
—The World
—The World
March 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
“Americans are getting more stupid and I didn’t think that was possible.”
—The World
—The World
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"They haven’t found a single dollar of fraud. And the waste and abuse they’ve been clamoring about has turned out just to be government agencies, programs, and spending that Trump, Musk, and Republicans simply don’t like."
Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy
The playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"They haven’t found a single dollar of fraud. And the waste and abuse they’ve been clamoring about has turned out just to be government agencies, programs, and spending that Trump, Musk, and Republicans simply don’t like."
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"Russia Russia Russia" isn't about attacking Trump, per se. It's that it's increasingly the only explanation for Trump's behavior that makes it make sense.
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/four-dimen...
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This Isn’t Four-Dimensional Chess. Trump’s Helping Russia.
President Trump’s recent moves with respect to Ukraine may seem bewildering. But they’re not. He’s partial to the country’s invader.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Russia Russia Russia" isn't about attacking Trump, per se. It's that it's increasingly the only explanation for Trump's behavior that makes it make sense.
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/four-dimen...
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/four-dimen...