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Why did folks stop talking about grocery prices? I just left the store and OMFG…

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Carl and Shirley ❤ the best kitties ever. #Caterday #blackcat

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This is absolutely reprehensible.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o... we celebrate immigrants — knowing full well that California has become the fourth-largest economy in the world, not despite our immigrants but because of them.”

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Trump’s Tax Scam to slash Medicaid and SNAP would also dramatically increase ICE’s budget. We need to keep up the pressure on GOP senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt... Or you can help us connect voters in key states with their Republican senators: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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👇👇👇👇

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Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson torched her colleagues on the Supreme Court for appearing to favor "moneyed interests" in a scathing dissenting opinion in an environmental case decided on Friday. More details: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Website crashes and missing info crippling Social Security after DOGE overhaul

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This is the most important thing I have written recently that you probably haven't read. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

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Former NIH director Francis Collins speaks out about why he left NIH: “I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.” #medsky www.aamc.org/news/former-...

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Gift article. #ICE “Maine lawmakers pass bill limiting police interaction with federal immigration authorities” www.pressherald.com?p=7467782&uu...

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LA RESIDENT: “The cruelty is staggering. People are hiding in their homes from the federal government like Anne Frank. If you’re a Christian and you’re still supporting this you’ve lost your mind. You’re not gonna get a job because of what they’re doing. Absolute brutality.”

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REUTERS: Younger and older Dems both want universal health care & affordable child care and higher taxes on the rich. #MedicareForAll (Younger Dems especially feel the party doesn’t not prioritize these things)

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First, the failure of Padilla’s security detail to intervene when other agents were manhandling him is inexcusable. They have a duty to prevent violence inflicted upon a U.S. Senator. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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How do viruses spread from bats to other animals? Camera traps in Python Cave, Uganda, showed 14 vertebrate species (incl leopards, primates, raptors, and small carnivores) feeding on a colony of Egyptian fruit bats, a confirmed Marburg virus reservoir. 🧪🦠🦊 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Phang: As many as 48% of battered women said they had delayed leaving a dangerous situation out of concern for their pet’s safety. The Act—was introduced so that shelters could get the funding needed to allow victims to bring their pets with them.. And of course, Republicans want to do away with it

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A ProPublica investigation revealed that the FDA did not routinely test the drugs as they were circulating in the U.S. or proactively track whether consumers had been harmed. Here’s how we conducted our reporting, which spanned more than a year.

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I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

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Ever since Tim McVeigh, US leaders have pretended all this right-wing domestic terrorism is made up of “lone wolves." They’re not. They’re foot soldiers. Violence like the Minnesota shooting is what Trump wants—he wants an opposition too scared to stop him. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-s-no...

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What Eisenhower said over 70 years ago is even more true today.

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Make this go viral.

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Brutal.

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why did we let anyone other than the engineers of the noble honda civic even attempt building for space flight www.theverge.com/news/689183/...

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Trump flip-flop alert ➡️ www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/b...

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NEW: ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.

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A Reflection on Peace and Violence in Gettysburg 🗃️ #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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I am not afraid of Donald Trump. I am not afraid of Tom Homan. I will stand up for the people of Illinois.

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I reviewed Sam Tanenhaus’s epic biography of William F. Buckley Jr. for Democracy: democracyjournal.org/magazine/77/...

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🎶 And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free 🎶

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good time to follow some of the NYC court rats (complimentary) ⬇️ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social @jayshams.bsky.social @klasfeldreports.com @jonesieman.bsky.social (there are a lot more but not sure who is on here vs. the other place, comment or DM me if I missed u!!)

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NEW: A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

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Another sign that the dollar’s dominance is in trouble: US importers are increasingly being asked by their foreign counterparties to settle transactions in currencies other than the US dollar, such as euros, RMB, Mexican pesos, and Canadian dollars.

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“Then Civil War soldiers marched by, but they were in the WRONG COLOR uniform, not the one worn by the folks all our best forts are named for, but the blue one.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Weird poses

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Helpful 🧵 thread Calm the F down, everyone

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One of the best years for my peonies 💖 #peonies #flowers

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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 6 days ago • 259 comments

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

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Checked in with Tim Walz spokesperson and as of three min ago, President Trump had not called him, according to the governor’s office

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Everything was peaceful in downtown LA until the cops attacked, with horses, flash bang grenades, rubber bullets, and tear gas, But it won’t be reported like that.

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