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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

As the government shutdown moves into its second week, air travelers can expect longer airport security lines—as TSA employees call out sick in higher numbers.

Hundreds Of Unpaid TSA Agents Are Calling In Sick—Expect Longer Airport Security Lines

As the government shutdown moves into its second week, air travelers can expect longer airport security lines—as TSA employees call out sick in higher numbers.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16h

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 14h

We discuss WHY Black women are facing a uniquely bad labor market right now and cite work from Dr. Valerie Wilson who cites cuts to manufacturing, the federal workforce, and professional business services.

Is the economy slowing? Ask Black women. : It's Been a Minute

Black women’s unemployment rate is hovering at 6.7% — higher than the rate for white workers. Is it a sign the broader economy could sour? These economists say yes.Black women are the 'canary in the ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21h

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

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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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs

Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

"He has 100s of 1000s of Arabs' blood on his hands. Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza."

What I told Piers Morgan on his show this week, about the ludicrous and colonial plan to have Blair help Trump run Gaza.

Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19h

They're demonizing immigrants when in reality the only non-citizens getting free healthcare off US tax dollars are Israelis, because while universal healthcare is "communism" in the USA, it's a human right in Israel, which I'm told is our greatest ally and a model of democracy in the Middle East.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18h

This week The Atlantic & Johnathan Chait published a hit piece on me. It’s replete with disinformation, so I’m compelled to write this rebuttal.

Such pundits have caused incalculable harm to our public discourse, & its long past time to call out their hypocrisy.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 17h

"Cliff Notes Fascism" is a good one.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 17h

Well, here we are.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's Four Freedoms:

Freedom from shame. Freedom from accountability. Freedom from responsibility. Freedom from empathy.

This whole stupid, destructive mess is about being freed from the obligations of reasonable, kind, responsible adulthood.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

I’ve repeatedly said we need messengers not martyrs. The below link will let you sign up for a No Kings Protest near you.✊🏽

If you’ve never been to a protest, grab a friend & attend. We have a Constitutional right to protest. Use it while we still can.❤️

Register: courage2025.org/nk2
#Courage2025

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?