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Sleepless In America

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Unlike pandas, life isn’t black and white, so we need to live in the gray. Sometimes that means accepting or forgiving people for not always being perfect. Hitting a paywall for a link? Check https://archive.ph/ to see if it's been saved.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · Apr 2

Trump is not that tough. He likes to pick on those who have less power than he does, but will run like a baby if someone fights back.

It's easier if we all fight back together.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 9h

Negative coverage does not mean biased coverage. Trump's coverage is negative because he does so many bad things. He is ripping up our Constitution, trashing our economy, and threatening our institutions and neighbors, all while taking every opportunity to enrich himself and reward his allies.

Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 13h

Well, you've certainly changed my mind. Now that I think about it, the media never reported on Obama or Biden invading American cities, or accepting foreign jets, or launching vindictive prosecutions, or disrupting the economy with their tariffs, or undermining health and science research, or ...

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 14h

Early in my career (many years ago), retirement planning articles would use examples where a young worker saved enough to have $1 million in a 401(k) at retirement, and would be in great shape.

At some point, I did notice that the examples started assuming $1.5-$2 million would be required. Sigh.

Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 14h

What a wonderful thought!

Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 14h

WSJ is rocking it.

"The warden called a 'town meeting' for inmates. She warned that if inmates made threats to Maxwell, put her in any sort of danger or talked to the press about her, they would be shipped to a harsher facility, people familiar with the matter said."

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 20h

Surprise lockdowns and a mysterious meeting: How Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrival stirred up a quiet Texas prison.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 15h

With tails positioned as if to say, "Just try not to step on me."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 15h

Free link: archive.ph/BzTYo

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 21h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 15h

It crypto'd. It was always going to crypto.

Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 15h

Just want to say, a million bucks is still a lot of money, even today.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 15h

They don't care. Other people are just NPCs.

Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 16h

OK, if he started with nothing, and he now has almost nothing, hasn't he come out ahead? I mean, losing 99% of $30 million leaves you $300,000--did he put more than $300,000 of real money into this?

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 16h

Do you want to have to live on only one yacht?

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 16h

You know, the Times has had that Katie Porter story on the home page for 4-5 days now. I can't tell you how often I've heard about some Trump-related story early in the day and have not been able to find the Times story on it that evening.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 17h

This is something that, when I finally got around to reading it, I meant to just skim, and ended up reading all the way through. I would put this up with Adam Serwer's "The Cruelty Is the Point" article (archive.ph/NjiSx) as one of the key explainers of why things are so bad today.

Many millions of Americans love Trump because he routinely humiliates people. It validates their own actions. They live vicariously though him, imagining the humiliation they could inflict if they were given greater power. He also normalizes the behaviour. The symbolic power of having someone of his open sadism in the Oval Office is massive. It is changing our society, making humiliation much more acceptable, and corroding the norms that partially restrain humiliators.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 22h

Never take responsibility for anything.

Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 22h

Other way around.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 1d

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

…really?

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 1d

Talk about the gang that can't shoot straight. Was this just stupidity, or more of Russell Vought's "put Federal employees in trauma" crap? (Either one is believable.)

Free link: archive.ph/JfaUN

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 1d

"...the old issues of How To Read This Chart are not available at The Washington Post website, but can (somewhat spottily) be found at the Internet Archive. Why? Because the internet is rotting away beneath us. (Also because The Post doesn't archive its newsletters.)"

You didn't save them yourself?

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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PRRH @prrh.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this?

Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, then move to Florida, book says

Fred C Trump III calls comment ‘appalling’ in new book All in the Family, to be published next week

www.theguardian.com

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