The Policy Geek
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Democrats and sane people will have to rebuild when this is over. There's no way around it. Let's just see how much we can keep intact in the meantime. #resist
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Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays
A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.
gothamist.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
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Democrats, listen up.
As we look toward the midterm elections, we need to define ourselves as the only party taking on corruption and show the American people that we'll fix a broken system that puts billionaires and corporations before them.
As we look toward the midterm elections, we need to define ourselves as the only party taking on corruption and show the American people that we'll fix a broken system that puts billionaires and corporations before them.
Voters See Dems as More Corrupt Than Republicans Despite Trump's Grifting
Even in an era of Trump meme coins and library fund shakedowns, voters in key congressional districts see Dems as the corrupt ones, a new poll finds.
www.rollingstone.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Democrats, listen up.
As we look toward the midterm elections, we need to define ourselves as the only party taking on corruption and show the American people that we'll fix a broken system that puts billionaires and corporations before them.
As we look toward the midterm elections, we need to define ourselves as the only party taking on corruption and show the American people that we'll fix a broken system that puts billionaires and corporations before them.
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Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
www.motherjones.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
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Michael Duffey broke the law by holding up aid approved by Congress to Ukraine. Now, he’s up for a Pentagon job that decides where billions of dollars in government contracts go.
We can’t trust him with our military budget.
We can’t trust him with our military budget.
Trump’s nominee for Pentagon weapons buyer was a key figure in the president's first impeachment
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the military’s top weapons buyer was the official who directed the Pentagon to withhold aid from Ukraine in 2019.
apnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Michael Duffey broke the law by holding up aid approved by Congress to Ukraine. Now, he’s up for a Pentagon job that decides where billions of dollars in government contracts go.
We can’t trust him with our military budget.
We can’t trust him with our military budget.
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Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now
Thanks for your service to our country
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now
Thanks for your service to our country
March 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now
Thanks for your service to our country
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now
Thanks for your service to our country
This POTUS might be able to siphon away other people's money like a vacuum, but the buck definitely does not stop anywhere near him.
March 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This POTUS might be able to siphon away other people's money like a vacuum, but the buck definitely does not stop anywhere near him.
Unacceptable policy.
Un-American policy.
Un-American policy.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Unacceptable policy.
Un-American policy.
Un-American policy.
Standard policy
In a just world this would be a career headstone.
March 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Standard policy
Great policy
Some good news — Rep. @natrixdreammom.bsky.social (D-Nashville), who ran for her seat to change gun laws after her son Akilah was killed at Waffle House, and won… just got “Akilah’s Law” passed through subcommittee🎉
March 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Great policy
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Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.
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The acting head of the government’s human resources arm, Charles Ezell, is refusing to testify in tomorrow’s case that challenges the legality of the recent mass firings of federal workers. His absence raises serious questions—what is there to hide?
March 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The acting head of the government’s human resources arm, Charles Ezell, is refusing to testify in tomorrow’s case that challenges the legality of the recent mass firings of federal workers. His absence raises serious questions—what is there to hide?
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JUST IN: Heavily Mutated SARS-CoV-2 BA.3 Variant Detected in South Africa with 57 Spike Mutations.
March 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
JUST IN: Heavily Mutated SARS-CoV-2 BA.3 Variant Detected in South Africa with 57 Spike Mutations.
Privatizing is just a fancy word that means turning all our functioning departments, the envy of the world, into for profit companies run by ill equipped and unskilled oligarchs. Google Tammany Hall.
Bad Policy
Bad Policy
Privatization you say? And it's not just Social Security. It's the VA, Medicare, Medicaid, the Postal Service, schools, the police, prisons, NASA, scientific research... They want to privatize everything.
Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"
March 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Privatizing is just a fancy word that means turning all our functioning departments, the envy of the world, into for profit companies run by ill equipped and unskilled oligarchs. Google Tammany Hall.
Bad Policy
Bad Policy
Turning the White House into a used car lot is bad policy. 👎
Hey Democrats, isn’t this a flagrant violation of federal law? Shouldn’t you be doing something about it???
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
President Trump poses with Tesla vehicles in 'show of confidence' for Elon Musk: See photos
President Donald Trump said earlier he would buy a Tesla as a 'show of confidence' for Elon Musk.
www.usatoday.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Turning the White House into a used car lot is bad policy. 👎
Lying and stupidity are bad policy.
Leavitt: Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries and a tax cut for the American people
Reporter: Have you ever paid a tariff? I have. They don’t get charged on foreign countries
Leavitt: I think it’s insulting that you are trying test my knowledge on economics
Reporter: Have you ever paid a tariff? I have. They don’t get charged on foreign countries
Leavitt: I think it’s insulting that you are trying test my knowledge on economics
March 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Lying and stupidity are bad policy.
Bad Policy
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Bad Policy
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Bad policy
Evil policy
Evil policy
I never thought I'd see the day where a President of the United States would DELIBERATELY sabotage the most successful Social Program of a lifetime. Donald Trump's trying to DESTROY Social Security.
We're NOT powerless. We MUST be relentless in holding Congress accountable. EVERY DAY. 202-224-3121.
We're NOT powerless. We MUST be relentless in holding Congress accountable. EVERY DAY. 202-224-3121.
March 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Bad policy
Evil policy
Evil policy
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Thanks to President Trump’s and Elon's decision to put the CFPB on ice, $100 million meant to help scammed borrowers is now stuck in limbo.
This is the opposite of lowering costs.
This is the opposite of lowering costs.
Consumer watchdog payouts in limbo as agency defanged by Trump administration
The Trump administration's decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot of money intended for borrowers allegedly harmed by the student loan servicer Navient sitting in limbo, according to an advocacy organization.
www.reuters.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Thanks to President Trump’s and Elon's decision to put the CFPB on ice, $100 million meant to help scammed borrowers is now stuck in limbo.
This is the opposite of lowering costs.
This is the opposite of lowering costs.
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An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
March 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Bad Policy
Our professional infectious disease prevention team internationally has been cut to 1/10 the size.
They've been cut off from communicating with WHO.
The spending freeze has stayed frozen. Period. USAID is gone. Permanently canceled. Gone institutionally. Period. 750 frontline workers gone.
They've been cut off from communicating with WHO.
The spending freeze has stayed frozen. Period. USAID is gone. Permanently canceled. Gone institutionally. Period. 750 frontline workers gone.
February 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Bad Policy
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The deal isn't even a deal. It's a promise to talk about a deal. 😅
“Without confirming that an agreement had been reached, Trump said on Tuesday that IN RETURN for the deal, Ukraine would get "THE RIGHT TO FIGHT ON”.
WTF does that mean?
Wasn’t he supposed to end the war on Day 1?!
He has extorted Zelenskyy once again!
Stand with 🇺🇦
www.bbc.com/news/article...
WTF does that mean?
Wasn’t he supposed to end the war on Day 1?!
He has extorted Zelenskyy once again!
Stand with 🇺🇦
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ukraine PM says minerals deal agreed with US
Denis Shmyhal said the Ukrainian government would not sign a deal without security guarantees.
www.bbc.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The deal isn't even a deal. It's a promise to talk about a deal. 😅
Take action
February 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Take action