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Doug Monroe

@dougmonroe.bsky.social

Former Southern newspaper reporter and New York City Teaching Fellow. I live in Athens, GA. Father. Grandfather. Angry Democrat. "All you Fascists bound to lose." -- Woody Guthrie.

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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system.

Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

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Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025β€”now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

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The Pathetic Weakness of MAGA Men As I watch men on the Right arguing against the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, I am reminded again how weak they all are, what a pathetic joke MAGA manhood is as an idea.

Guys who never shut up about protecting girls from harm immediately fold when called upon to step up and actually advocate for them.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-pathet...

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When you’re definitely not guilty.

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"Fear is the tool of the tyrant."

Maurene Comey

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Former NYPD Commissioner Accuses Mayor Adams of Running β€œCriminal Enterprise” and Cites ProPublica Investigation A lawsuit filed by former Commissioner Thomas Donlon alleges that the NYPD’s Community Response Team was a β€œrogue” unit that answered β€œonly to City Hall.” The complaint draws extensively from ProPubli...

NEW: Former NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon has sued Mayor Eric Adams and other top police officials, accusing Adams of running the force as a β€œcriminal enterprise."

The suit draws extensively from a recent ProPublica investigation into a NYPD unit Adams championed.

By @ericumansky.bsky.social

17.07.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5174    πŸ” 1497    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 101
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Maurene Comey warns her former colleagues: β€˜Fear is the tool of the tyrant’ β€œIf a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen,” she wrote.

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that β€˜Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

β€œThey don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

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Well this sure as hell isn’t incriminating! Nothing to see here.

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The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now β€œcommunicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism

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Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues (2) Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees, according to two peopl...

There is no reason to do this *unless* you don’t want advice about ethics news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Bookman: Trying to parlay football career into US Senate run is a tired play, even with Dooley name β€’ Georgia Recorder If I wanted a failed football coach as my U.S. senator, I’d move to Alabama. And I’m not moving to Alabama. Seriously, what in Derek Dooley’s resume makes him think his next job ought to be serving Ge...

New commentary from opinion writer Jay Bookman (@jaybookman.bsky.social): If I wanted a failed football coach as my U.S. senator, I’d move to Alabama.

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Today marks 43 years sober. πŸŽ‰

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There's 1000 percent some serial killer somewhere pretending to be ICE to abduct their victims right now.

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Narrator voice: He didn't get this

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Did Donald Trump eat Jeffrey Epstein's client list? Logic suggests he did. | Opinion After considering the announcement that Jeffrey Epstein's notorious client list doesn't exist, I've concluded that President Trump ate the list.

Look, I don’t make the rules of Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories, I just play by them.

cc: Elon Musk

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives.

I think the evidence is clear. apnews.com/article/weat...

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NEW: Federal agents rolled into MacArthur Park in LA in an unmarked armored vehicle.

My source tells me Mayor Bass showed up with LAPDβ€”and the so-called β€œagents” got the hell out.

Shady AF!

(Just west of DTLA)

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β€œDo not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the greatest of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 180 AD

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Senator London Lamar: β€œWhat Congress just passed isn’t a budgetβ€”it’s a roadmap to devastation for working families in Tennessee and across America… the largest transfer of wealth from the working poor to the ultra-rich in American history.” substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Bookman: Trying to parlay football career into US Senate run is a tired play, even with Dooley name β€’ Georgia Recorder If I wanted a failed football coach as my U.S. senator, I’d move to Alabama. And I’m not moving to Alabama. Seriously, what in Derek Dooley’s resume makes him think his next job ought to be serving Ge...

Bookman: Trying to parlay football career into US Senate run is a tired play, even with Dooley name georgiarecorder.com/2025/07/03/b...

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