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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · last yr.

“And [Trump] has hinted that he sees the promises of nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services that he has extracted from the elite law firms…as a legal war chest to be used as he wishes.” NO SYMPATHY for these law firms that entered into these agreements w/Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. (Gift Article)

To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...

nytimes.com

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · last yr.

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters Friday evening. So… (1) Trump is lying & he signed it? (2) Trump is senile & doesn’t remember signing it? (3) Trump had Marco Rubio use the autopen to sign it? www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/p...

Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, e...

cnn.com

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · last yr.

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says

‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done,’ despaired her mother

independent.co.uk

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last yr.

As digital privacy advocates have explained for years, every back door you create for yourself is a front door for an attacker. There's no chance code cooked up in a week by Musk acolytes is secure. The question is when, not if, the Treasury will be compromised by hostiles beyond Musk himself.

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.

The changes made by Elon's coders are focused on "creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked."
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2y ago

NEW: Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.

Pete Hegseth's drinking worried colleagues at Fox News, sources tell NBC News

Ten current and former Fox employees say Trump’s pick for defense secretary drank in ways that concerned his co-workers. A Trump transition team spokesperson called the claims "completely unfounded an...

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