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The atmosphere is a needy sponge, demanding more and more water as it warms. This "atmospheric thirst" is largely responsible for the increase in drought severity and areal extent seen in the last 40 years, a new study finds. "A hotter world is a thirstier world." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...

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Good!

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It’s on record.

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When Obama and Biden won, Republicans said “fuck them, we’ll break them” and went on to rally their base. When Republicans win, Democrats blame their left and say “we’ll work with Republicans.” And it fucking sucks.

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The 28th Ramstein-format meeting has begun, with Zelensky joining online. Hosted in Brussels, the meeting is led by UK and German defense ministers John Healey and Boris Pistorius. Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov is attending in person. For the first time in 3 years, the U.S. is absent.

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You can make a meaningful donation to Ukraine yourself, right here. u24.gov.ua

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Join us every day as we observe a minute’s silence in honor of the men, women and children who perished in this savage war. They laid down their lives not only for Ukraine, but for all of Europe! RIP - Nataliia Boiko, Andrii Martynov (47), Anton Shevchenko (18), Georgian fighter Dolu Doluashvili

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Jeffries: Yes Joni, the American people know that at some point in their lives, they are going to pass away. The cause of death should not be Republican cruelty

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This morning I’m fighting back against Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted me. And I’m calling on government watchdogs to investigate the Trump Administration — because “revenge orders” have no place in America. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/treason/...

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Ming Li Hui, who has lived in a Missouri town for 20 years, is getting deported. This has shocked and angered the locals, many of whom back Trump. She spoke to us on our podcast straight from jail. She broke down in tears and made a wrenching appeal. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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Greg Sargent interviews a woman who’s lived in Kennett, Mo., for 20 years but has been jailed and targeted for deportation. Residents in the Trump-supporting area have offered their support, but apparently too late. “We don’t ask for food stamps,” she said. “We work. … We are not criminals.”

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THIS:

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Elon Musk, who ordered federal workers into the office, has been attending Tesla meetings remotely, the Times reports www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

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“…we have to keep in mind is that the press isn’t being played, per se. If they were naïve little boys and girls that premise might have some kind of salience here, but the mainstream media is going into this farce as a clear-minded disinformation partner.” www.oliverexplains.com/p/elon-musk-...

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If you’re looking for ideas as you draft a letter to your Republican member of Congress, things you think are important to say, here’s an example for you… 🗳️Vote all Republicans Out!🗳️

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@naturalwoman.bsky.social Happy Pride Month to all homophobes.

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The GOP are all criminals

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Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

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Also, that time Justice Thomas sat on the Trump v. U.S. case where the Court gave Trump broad criminal immunity in a 6-3 decision, even though Thomas' wife had been very pro-Jan 6 protests. How quickly a president's crazy makes a country forget joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-must...

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Don't worry, everybody. We stopped all our climate research. Not sure how temperatures can rise if nobody's measuring the temperature.

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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social These paramilitary forces are being used against waiters and busboys. Why?!? These ICE forces seem to be BEGGING for a dangerous escalation. Californians are in danger. Do something.

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While Russian officials continue to "feed" Russians with tales about patriotism and the "decaying" West, their wives live in luxury on stolen money abroad and their children receive elite education and own real estate worth millions of dollars⤵️

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"There's no way those leopards will ever eat my family's face," said South Florida Cubans and Venezuelans. www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...

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I am at a global health conference this week. I do not think Americans fully understand the degree of harm we have done to our international reputation and to our ability to wield soft power for decades to come.

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Again, authoritarianism as a component of capitalism is about shifting from a society of relative privilege to one where it becomes normal that people will needlessly die, that to protest or speak out means risking death or imprisonment. This has been building for decades.

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The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

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

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Reporter: Wall Street analysts have a new term called the TACO trade.. Saying Trump always chickens out on tariffs… Trump: I kick out? Reporter: Chicken out.

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Trump has probably been sharing intelligence on Ukraine with Putin the entire time. Remember when aid to Ukraine was stopped and Russia suddenly got very precise with its strikes within the hour?

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The Trump administration says there is “no attack on journalism” and any journalist that says so should go to prison.

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Yes. Scholars have been saying this for years! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Important lawsuit for people who care about free speech & the free press. NPR sues Trump admin over a basic constitutional principle: Congress, not POTUS controls the power of the purse & their fed’l funding www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

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Trump’s latest retaliatory cancellation of all of Harvard’s federal contracts (whatever the harm to national security!) erases any doubt that he is trying to punish Harvard with a Bill of Attainder that the Constitution would forbid as a usurpation of Judicial Power even if Congress went along.

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Well, yeah.

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