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The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)

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"It will be the first time a Democrat has held the seat since it was redistricted in 1980." www.wgal.com/article/pa-s...

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Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🇺🇸😳 www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...

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NEW: At US House hearing on Capitol security, Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger says the failure of Congress to hang a plaque honoring the police heroes of January 6 has hurt officer morale

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🇺🇸 ‼️ Trump is now going after elections and threatening to pull the funding of states that don’t comply. (TLDR: You are not alarmed enough) www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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1. The 1Q 2025 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map is complete, and there are big changes. I have issued a "Do Not Travel" for transgender foreign citizens. Risk has deteriorated broadly across the US. Transgender youth see changes in previously safe states. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

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Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the Trump White House's request. These changes will strain the already struggling Social Security system and could even deprive some people of benefits entirely. www.axios.com/2025/03/24/s...

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We should be going after cartels, traffickers, and criminals—not hardworking families who’ve been here for decades. We can have border security without cruelty. www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

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A group of Dem senators are demanding answers from the Trump admin about the war plans Signal debacle: 1. What disciplinary action will be taken against those involved in the "Houthi PC small group" Signal chain? Will you revoke their security clearances? What security training had they received?

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"I find it curious that such a blue state continues to allow the closest thing the U.S. has to slavery at this time."

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Start here: runforwhat.net Check out these: runforsomething.net/run/candidat... Get the book: bookshop.org/a/100021/978...

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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

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this is so wretched, and doing it under the pretense of fighting antisemitism makes me sick www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

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Let's continue to keep the pressure on our House Reps for SB 287. It was not called today; however, it's on the schedule for tomorrow. Not sure who your State House Rep is? Find them in our new quick look up tool, with their direct contact info! www.madvoters.org/contact-your...

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The question I’ve been asking myself all day The other question: why was Goldberg on his contact list

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This is the first of what I think are going to be A LOT of primary challenges along these lines.

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Buttigieg: "I know this -- in my experience both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system."

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You've got to wonder how many signal chats are going on in the Trump administration that they didn't accidentally include the Editor in Chief of The Atlantic in.

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This guy was on the Signal group chat, and is apparently Tulsi Gabbard’s unannounced Chief of staff.

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A hate crime against who?? Teslan-Americans??

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Good night everyone. Take care of yourselves.

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Let’s all welcome @barackobama.bsky.social to Bluesky! 🦋

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"A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration bought Vice President JD Vance’s Virginia home in an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market." $170,000 ABOVE ASKING PRICE

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Hey @leahgreenberg.bsky.social is on with @symonedsanders.bsky.social in just a minute! Tune in!

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"I love you so much. You make me so happy," I heard my wife exclaim. I was temporarily stunned by the outburst of emotion and felt so happy. I walked towards her to give her a hug and realized...she's talking to the cat.

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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

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Romania's social media regulator has hit back at Washington's claims that it is censoring speech, saying it is instead fighting an information war with Russia to stop election meddling.

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Reminder, sunglasses hide your identity more than masks. As research in Scientific Reports shows, "Face masks are less effective than sunglasses in masking face identity." Will policymakers also ban sunglasses? hats? #NoNYMaskBan CC @govkathyhochul.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Look what happens when a democracy allows itself to have nice things.

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some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

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99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

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I HIGHLY recommend picking up “Let This Radicalize You by @prisonculture.bsky.social & @mskellymhayes.bsky.social”. It’s a fantastic primer for Organizers and Activists this exact moment.

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Dear Bluesky, Thanks to your support our newsletter has grown by 52,000 people in the last three months. As a result we now can afford the booking agency to get big guests for our live show. Thank you so much! - God

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We uncovered in 2024 that Chicago police was breaking a law requiring it to report police stops to state: It had failed to report ≈ 200,000 (!) stops. Here: boltsmag.org/chicago-poli... Chicago police finally concedes this, in new Sun-Times investigation: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

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Chris Blackwell + Sarah Sax have a story up in @nytimes.com about the brutality of prison strip searches. "A state-imposed violation, which some experience as a form of sexual violence, which costs states and local governments millions in lawsuit settlements..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...

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New research confirming what was anticipated: abortion bans have been more likely to force Black, Hispanic, and poor people to give birth www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

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CLARKSVILLE: @RepMarkGreen can’t show up for a free & open town hall but he can charge $500-$3500 to have coffee with him at a country club Friday? He knows a majority of his constituents can’t afford that. Who does he represent? 🤔

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