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Whether to stay or go must be a hard decision. Whether people can do more good on the inside or outside. I respect everyone’s decision and blame the people who made them have to choose.

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A Florida weatherman goes on his own news station's program to tell his viewers that he can no longer predict their safety with accuracy, because of "this sledgehammer attack... the federal government cuts to the National Weather Service." Gives them numbers. Urges them to call their reps.

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It's wretched to see my once-favorite newspaper being butchered alive.

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There will be more and more of this. This is how you Make American Healthy Again. You fucking murder the sick.

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Are they ICE agents or vampires? Apparently they’ll say anything to get “invited inside”

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So, Alex, since you're on your own without the spouse and kids, did you happen to have miniature chocolate-dipped ice cream bars as your entire dinner? Well, aren't you inquisitive. Maybe just MYOB.

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I don’t care what drugs Elon Musk uses. What I care about is that his policies are causing 1,500 babies to be born with HIV every single day and that an estimated 300,000 people (over 200,000 of whom are children) have already died. Who is holding him accountable for that? #pd

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Darren Beattie, a Trump-appointed official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit, is married to a woman whose uncle has taken several roles in Russian politics and once received a personal “thank you” message from Vladimir Putin. No paywall: archive.ph/2025.06.03-1...

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The cost to repair D.C. streets after Trump's upcoming military parade could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials.

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Jay Bhattacharya’s right wing MAGA anti-science kookiness is having awful consequences

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“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

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One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in February when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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So the woman sitting next to me at a wedding tonight explained to me that NIH is only cutting poor quality science grants like the one trying to make mice transgender. We have lost the communication battle

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the kids who are actually playing against trans athletes who aren't auditioning for a gig as a right wing grifter are way more mature than the adults crying about it

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This is what our medical establishment was saying during the deadliest wave of the pandemic. Why should we trust them now?

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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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Get the sense that attack in Colorado was the work of a single individual and thus hard to prevent. But worth recalling how how many FBI have already been pulled off counterterrorism and other forms of crimes for immigrant round up duty.

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Turns out that many clients and employees don't want to work with firms that cower in the face of authoritarianism. Gift link. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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They promised to root out waste and abuse and found none, and in the process wasted money and abused innocent people. They promised to deport 20 million people but are not getting anywhere near that, so they are desperately arresting anyone they can get their hands on whilst wearing face masks.

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We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org‬ @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month! Let's begin with this little poem that I've loved for so long. Not only a good example of a bleeding title, but how a title can be crucial in framing a poem. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth #Poetry #Pride2025

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SSPE is a nightmare result of measles: in rare cases, the virus doesn't go away entirely, and it attacks the brain about a decade later. It's irreversible progressive brain damage ending in death. This can be easily prevented by vaccinating.

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A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.

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Слава Україні!

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Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

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In the future, they’re going to call 2024 the Heaven’s Gate Election. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

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He made off with a giant trove of US government data, which is what he really wanted. Anything the government knows about you, now Elon knows it too.

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Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

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Watching RFK Jr. scrap a $600 million Moderna contract for pandemic and vaccine research feels eerily similar to when Trump dismantled Obama’s pandemic preparedness. We didn’t learn a damn thing from Covid, did we?

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