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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3h

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6h

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10h

Fifteen million are about to lose health care. Premiums are set to double. Housing & child care are outrageously expensive.

Meanwhile, Trump’s priorities are demolishing the White House, bailing out Argentina & now threatening war with Venezuela.

What happened to America First?

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Freethinkers United @freethinkersunited.bsky.social · 5h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrEy...

DOUBLE LEAK: Mike Johnson VIDEO and GRINDR Messages SURFACE

YouTube video by Keith Edwards

www.youtube.com

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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 14h

We are one week away from Open Enrollment.

Under the GOP health care crisis, millions of families will lose insurance.

There is no time to waste. We need to pass a budget that protects everyday Americans.

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Harold Snigel @speedsnail.bsky.social · 57m

This is brilliant.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

I will be very disappointed if this doesn't happen.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1h

If he were right, the import price index (which measures pre-tariff prices) would have fallen by enough to offset the sharp tariff hike. It didn't.

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Harold Snigel @speedsnail.bsky.social · 59m

Just read an article on how Russians are finally complaining about Putin. Not because their kids have died over Ukraine, or because thousands of relatives died when he lied about Covid & threw doctors out 3rd story windows. Because of the price of potatoes. Half our country has the same mentality☠️

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7h

Hungry people don't stay hungry for long

-Rage Against the Machine

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 5h

A whole bunch of Americans died in a field in PA trying to stop Osama Bin Laden’s cronies from destroying the WH.

That asshole just destroyed the WH for him.

The terrorists must be so pleased.

TACO accomplished what Al Qaeda could not,

while all the mouth breathing “patriots” let him do it.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

As Republicans keep up attacks on congressional maps, they should get used to seeing my law firm in court. On Wednesday, North Carolina Republicans enacted a newly gerrymandered map that targets Black voters to create an additional seat for a white Republican. The next day my law firm sued.

Republicans Keep Gerrymandering and I Keep Suing

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 8h

Trump also signed an executive order that would impose a 25% tariff on countries that import Venezuelan oil, a move which underscores the importance of Venezuelan crude in U.S. trade and energy-geopolitics. From a raw-oil-access perspective: it puts the U.S. in a position to dictate all terms 🧵4/5

The Impact of the New US Oil Tariffs on Venezuela - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA | CGEP %

Get the latest as our experts share their insights on global energy policy.

www.energypolicy.columbia.edu

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Harold Snigel @speedsnail.bsky.social · 1h

It’s always about money…

Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 8h

He confirmed earlier this month that he authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for operations in Venezuela, and Venezuelan officials publicly accuse the U.S. of pursuing regime-change motives tied to control over Venezuelan resources.

This isn’t about narco-terrorism - it’s about oil 🧵5/5

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 5h

Prince Andrew, entangled in Epstein's depravity, now haggles to flee his peppercorn-rent Windsor mansion as palace hacks amp up the squeeze, dodging eviction via ironclad lease till 2078. #RoyalScandal

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 5h

America's regime propagates biometric tyranny at borders, forcing non-citizensincluding kids and eldersinto facial scans, fingerprints, even DNA grabs to crush visa dodgers and fraud. Privacy slaughter, with racist misfires on minorities. #SurveillanceState

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 3h

As shutdown squabblers starve 41 million via SNAP sabotage, Trump stockpiles loot for detention thugs while spurning contingency cash. Republicans, fresh from imposing brutal cuts, now tout fake concern for the famished. #GovernmentShutdown

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.

I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 3h

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 13h

I’m so disgusted by this administration and all the cowards who have the powerful to stop this but refuse to.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

Republicans want voters to believe Democrats hate this country.

#VoteYesOnProp50
I voted YES because I ❤️ this country, and we can’t tolerate authoritarianism.

Prop 50 explained…

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4h

Elon moves $133 million in crypto from SpaceX, and Trump accepts a $130 million donation. Hmmm… is Elon buying his spot back? Probably just an odd coincidence.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4h

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

We have never needed fearlessly pro-democracy media more than we do right now. The 21 person team at Democracy Docket works around the clock to keep you informed. No corporate overlords. No compromises. Never bows down.

Support its mission by signing up now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

“.. It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic ..”

@pbsnews.org
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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