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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · Jan 25
Listen in to yours truly:
shrinkingtrump.bsky.social Shrinking Trump @shrinkingtrump.bsky.social · Jan 24
Shrinking Trump livestreams at 3pm EST today. Pass it on. We discuss “Day One” of the new regime and the blitzkrieg of executive orders with New Republic reporter Hafiz Rashid.

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Trump’s First Day will Live in Infamy | Shrinking Trump
YouTube video by Really American
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Joshua Sharfstein @drjoshs.bsky.social · 9h
CDC is the nation's leading public health agency, but it's been a very tough few months for those who work there.

An interview with Yolanda Jacobs, AFGE chapter president.

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Public Health On Call: 966 - “CDC is a horrible place to be at this time”
About this episode: Following months of personnel cuts, funding terminations, and escalating violence, CDC employees face a new hurdle with the government shutdown. In this episode: Yolanda Jacobs, pr...
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 5h
ICE terror in Chicago has forced residents to take community safety into their own hands—alerting each other to raids, delivering groceries to neighbors, and watching out for at-risk families during school dismissal. From Emma Janssen: trib.al/M2yVqcD
Two Months of ICE Terror in Chicago - The American Prospect
Chicago is a notoriously segregated city, which means that some neighborhoods have been completely transformed by ICE’s presence, while in non-Latino neighborhoods, it’s mostly been business as usual. But the response to the federal incursion knows no boundaries.
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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 6h
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!

Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Map of US with purple and blue icons over central US indicating severe weather billion dollar disaster events in 2025 and one fire in LA.
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · 5h
In the VF article he says that his sister-in-law is Jewish and that he grew up listening to Dropkick Murphys and Dead Kennedys
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · 6h
My first story since returning from leave. He’s still going, too.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h
The government may be shut down, but at least one Democratic senator is still working. trib.al/hO171T7

“Trump wants us to believe that Portland, Oregon, in my home state, is full of chaos and riots. Because if he can say to the American people that there are riots, he can say there’s a rebellion."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d
“In some cases, ICE appears to have violated protections that still remain in official policies by failing to allow undocumented parents time to find an appropriate caregiver or to make travel plans for their children as they are taken into custody and deported, CNN found.” #FamiliesBelongTogether
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 1d
Black lung is still killing America’s coal miners. Last week, a group of black lung patients made the long journey to Washington D.C. with a simple plea for Trump’s Department of Labor: enforce the silica rule, and stop this plague.

My report for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump Has Handed Coal Miners a “Death Sentence.” But They’re Not Going Without a Fight.
After the government betrayed them by refusing to enforce a crucial workplace health rule, a group of coal miners traveled to DC to put Trump on notice.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d
Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d
exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 2d
Wrote about Trump rolling out his IVF “plan” to discount one (1) fertility drug at the same time that his party is refusing to extend Obamacare subsidies. That means any cost savings could be eaten up by increasing monthly premiums—if people can afford health insurance at all. Me in @msnbc.com:
Opinion | Trump's IVF announcement disappoints everyone – even his own supporters
His official plan, laid out Thursday, should be a wake-up call for anyone who still believed he would make IVF free.
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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 3d
With alt text.

Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters
Camila @camilapress FULL REPORT: Colombian public media reports that a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15—the second attack on a vessel by the U.S. in the Caribbean that we're aware of—was a Colombian boat and was in Colombian territorial waters. At least one of the three victims extrajudicially killed in the strike was Colombian lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza. Alejandro's identity is confirmed by his cousin. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. EN VIVO SANTA MARTA - EXCLUSIVO Señal Colombia EN DIRECTO RTVC NOTICIAS EXTRA SEGÚN CBS NOTICIAS 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 LANCHA FUE BOMBARDEADA@* 7:53 PM • 18 Oct 25 • 395K Views
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 2d
I was wondering how deep into this I would have to read before encountering the word "birthrates."

Answer: 16 words.

These folks are always exactly as creepy as you assume.
juliablack.bsky.social Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social · 3d
While I was reporting this NYT profile of defense tech investor & JD Vance ally Katherine Boyle, a State Department official told me: “If you’re looking at her project as a policy project, you’re not really understanding it. Her project is ultimately civilizational.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
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John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 3d
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d
“… pundits and politicos insisting that the president’s recent announcement that he considers himself “THE KING” is a frivolous distraction, even as Trump and his lieutenants have been deploying everything in their arsenals to grant him the powers of one.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 3d
everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d
Oftentimes I see people cite Yair Lapid as evidence of a meaningful opposition to Netanyahu. Here is Yair Lapid's vision of peace in his own words last year.

Then, here is what Netanyahu said in 2018.

Compare them.
A power advantage in our favor, that creates two political entities that are not equal in power, or in value. One is a demilitarized Palestinian state, that is small and dependent on us, and [the other is] a strong Israel” “A potential solution is one in which the Palestinians have all the powers to govern themselves but none of the powers to threaten us,” he said. “West of the Jordan, Israel and Israel alone will be responsible for security… It’s not just a question of hot pursuit. It’s also having the ability to be there all the time.” “It is what it is. You can give it any name you want: state-minus, autonomy-plus, autonomy plus-plus … We’re not going to imperil the life of the state [of Israel], you know, for a label or a good op-ed.”
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d
A Border Patrol agent in Round Lake Beach on the morning of Friday 10/18 tells the person filming his license plate, "we change plates out every day."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d
NEW — Bill Nye, at "No Kings" in DC, on Gaza:
"There's something wrong when you have one country ruining, leveling another country…the whole thing just makes you furious."

"In the US, we had an agreement…we're going to leave religion out of our government. There's some value there, I think…"
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Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social · 4d
Really dumb timeline we’re in
eyesontheright.bsky.social Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 4d
Are they wearing Burger King crowns because of that one really racist guy or something else?
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5d
New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5d
"A federal appeals court has extended an order blocking President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago, saying the administration is unable to show that there is an organized rebellion nor that officials are otherwise unable to uphold law and order in the city."
‘Political opposition is not rebellion’: Appeals court rejects Trump’s rationale for Chicago troop deployment
The court also rebuffed the administration’s argument that judges have no power to review the president’s decisions to federalize the National Guard.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 6d
amazing opening
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You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor. I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor. Who would it be? David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist. Thank you for the correction. Very welcome.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 7d
Hilariously, they've arrested fewer people with criminal records than if they'd just picked up random folks off the street. Oh wait, they ARE picking up random folks off the street. Wow, they're terrible at this.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d
Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.
Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.
www.msnbc.com
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