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Richard Mullaney

@rwm7k.bsky.social

See, kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent / Talking big words on the mic, but still irrelevant. #GoHoos

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Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 6h ago

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

nytimes.com

Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · yesterday

There’s been a bipartisan commitment to the idea of immigrant labor without immigrant people or immigrant rights, which in its way is as corrosive to meaningful democracy as ethnonationalism imo

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Something that seems impossible for future historians to capture is how simultaneously stupid and evil the Trump admin is. Like they’re sending innocent human beings to prisons in countries they aren’t from and also they’ve been randomly obsessed with a reflecting pool conspiracy for like 2 months.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

Mike Rothschild@rothschildmd.bsky.social · 6d ago

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3d ago

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0

Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here’s what to know

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months ...

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Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

nytimes.com

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump 9 points underwater *IN TEXAS.* It's literally impossible to tell how the media would cover a Dem President with equivalently low approval ratings (because there's never been one before) but you'd be hearing LAME DUCK every 15 seconds

Hyde T. Voltyge@hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 6d ago

Folks... this is a reputable pollster.. And the gov race!?! With "extremely interested" voters it's 53 Talarico - 47 Paxton. GOV: Abbott 50 - Hinajosa 49 !!!! Article claims "extremely motivated" there... 53 Hinajosa - 47 Abbott. Yeah uh what??? www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 5d ago

DHS told employers it had ended TPS for about 350,000 Haitian immigrants, triggering mass layoffs affecting travel, nursing homes, schools Let go: Nursing assistants, dietary aides, housekeepers, janitors, airplane cabin cleaners, wheelchair attendants, landscapers, bus drivers, security guards

Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers

The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.

washingtonpost.com

Phillip Anderson@phillipanderson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Make no mistake here. This is Trump objectively taking the side of Iran, a nation we are currently at war with, over the Americans in Minnesota because he hates the governor and the fact that a majority of voters there did not vote for him

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

Richard Mullaney@rwm7k.bsky.social · 5d ago

Good news for voting rights in Virginia! Spanberger restores voting rights to more than 60,000 Virginians • Virginia Mercury share.google/T2aasKnKOira...

Spanberger restores voting rights to more than 60,000 Virginians • Virginia Mercury

Gov. Abigail Spanberger has restored voting and other civil rights to more than 60,000 Virginians since taking office in January, reversing the more restrictive restoration process adopted by her pred...

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Richard Mullaney@rwm7k.bsky.social · 5d ago

"The most radical and useful policy would be to stop making the prenatal care and birth of Americans dependent on the whims of each state’s Medicaid policy and the national political currents of the day." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse

Care will be in shorter supply, travel distances will stretch farther, and high-risk situations will more likely result in tragedy.

theatlantic.com

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 5d ago

This new data compiled by @mattbarnum.bsky.social is invaluable. It makes clear that worries about the teacher shortage, downplayed by contrarians, were and are warranted. Importantly, it raises a largely ignored factor affecting student mental health, behavior, and academic success.

A ‘lost generation’ of teachers left the classroom. Schools are still dealing with the consequences.

Veteran teachers left, principals cycled through too, and high-poverty schools likely faced the greatest strain. Here’s what years of churn did to classrooms.

chalkbeat.org

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 5d ago

Imagine a job the core work of which can be so satisfying that millions of Americans are willing to accept insufficient pay, disrespect, and overwork to pursue it and then the system seems to be constantly asking itself, How can we make that job harder?

Richard Mullaney@rwm7k.bsky.social · 6d ago

I will be glad to see Pearson go, but whoever is next probably won't be much better. Maybe we should stop the mass testing scheme altogether like our peer countries whose students outpeform their American counterparts. virginiamercury.com/2026/07/29/v...

Va. education department seeks new student assessment vendor • Virginia Mercury

The Virginia Department of Education took the next step toward replacing its student assessment system, a move estimated to cost the commonwealth at least $30 million a year, after criticism over dela...

virginiamercury.com

Ryan Dobbs@rwdobbs.bsky.social · 6d ago

There's plenty of things to disagree with Richard Nixon but pulling out of Vietnam, the Clean Air & Endangered Species Acts, creating the EPA, establishing diplomatic relations with China and an anti-ballistic missile treaty with the USSR, he'd be branded a communist in the 2028 Republican Primary.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...