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Elizabeth Kraft

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · May 4

Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:

He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution

He’s fine with a recession

Americans can do with less

Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Feb 2

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hiring freeze ordered at US Dept of Veterans Affairs, which operates dozens of hospitals, 100s of clinics and veterans benefits programs nationwide

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Jan 19

1/ I keep returning to one core thought: civics education really matters. It’s absence, at least in part, is what makes a Donald Trump and a MAGA movement possible.

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Bruce @mac-thebruce.bsky.social · Nov 24

Government should never be run like a business because: the business of Business is to create profit for the few. the business of Government is to create opportunities for the many.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Nov 21

Trans people just want the right to exist safely as their true selves, like everyone else.

But they’ve become easy scapegoats for the GOP, who vilify them and threaten to criminalize their very existence.

It's straight from the authoritarian playbook.

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