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rayctwo.bsky.social @rayctwo.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

What a great message to start the day with!

Opinion | Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 3d

Bridge over Chicago Waters. This morning during the Chicago Marathon.

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rayctwo.bsky.social @rayctwo.bsky.social · 11d

How Jane Goodall’s Death Initiated Netflix’s Newest Show www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

Don’t miss this interview! So timely about a woman who changed the way we think.

How Jane Goodall’s Death Initiated Netflix’s Newest Show

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 11d

Reuters: FBI has fired an an agent who refused to arrange a media “perp walk” for Comey to turn himself in: www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say

An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.

www.reuters.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11d

No prison sentence for criticizing him. Yet.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 11d

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

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rayctwo.bsky.social @rayctwo.bsky.social · 11d

Ya think?

Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: The same day Pres. Trump announced a link b/t Tylenol & autism, Aaron Siri, Kennedy's former campaign lawyer, petitioned the FDA to add a warning.

He told me that he did not know if his office, which sought clients, had any against makers of Tylenol.

Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h...

Kennedy’s Ties to Ally Leading Vaccine Lawsuits Raise Ethical Concerns

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13d

Basically:

In her best-selling memoir this year, the former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams wrote of the company’s executives that “the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become.” These words are also as good an epigraph for the Trump era as any. Rereading them in light of Big Tech’s full capitulation to the current administration makes clear that, although these about-faces are politically convenient, they reflect a broader harmony between the tech platforms and the MAGA movement. So much of Trump’s core appeal to his supporters is that he offers permission to behave in his image—to live shamelessly but also to enjoy a life of impunity and operate without having to realize that one’s actions have broader consequences for others. It is, in other words, an invitation to simultaneously grow more powerful and less responsible.

Big Tech’s MAGA pivot is cynical, cowardly, and self-serving. It is also a perfect match.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14d

Hey folks:

Many of you have been asking for a syllabus for "America at 250" -- the lecture course I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage.

Here you go (scroll down to the bottom):
president.yale.edu/committees-p...

president.yale.edu

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14d

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

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rayctwo.bsky.social @rayctwo.bsky.social · 16d

Isn’t Fort Bliss in Texas??

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19d

It’s wild to me that the Pentagon is just… fine with reporting that most of our senior military are going to be in the same location.

Personal security nightmare.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Hillary Clinton: "When I hear people like Kennedy talking about getting back to a time where we aren't vaccinating, we're drinking raw milk - yeah, & people didn't live! I mean, this is so crazy, it's so wrongheaded, it's so shortsighted and it's going to cause deaths... it already is costing lives"

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25d

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state
constitutions block public funds from supporting religious
entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe,
Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) .
The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional
provisions.
The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state
governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious
entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See
also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597
U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower).
Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the
government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of
jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not
all religions will receive public funds, the government forces
minority faiths to support other faiths, or else.
The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and
public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of-
government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty
structure.
As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church-
state separation and federalism principles. The Court's
nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution
"has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 26d

We must guard our freedoms.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 27d

Exactly this

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · Sep 1

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:

RFK Jr is a danger to public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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CNN @cnn.com · Aug 30

Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that DOGE put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.

Social Security whistleblower resigns ‘involuntarily’ | CNN Politics

Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.

www.cnn.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Aug 30

It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history.

According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

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Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · Aug 28

Arresting fire fighters as they fight the largest fire in Washington.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Aug 28

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

www.seattletimes.com

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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · Aug 21

“More than 80 years ago, the base was an official U.S. Army facility that was used as a temporary internment camp, holding nationals from Japan, Germany and Italy.”

Shame on every Republican who voted for this.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks