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🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition. This may force thousands to drop out.

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My latest: Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right. 3,421 words. Please consider reading and passing this along!

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Wow. Judge Boasberg orders the Trump administration to come up with concrete plans to allow all the migrants renditioned to a Salvadoran gulag a way to challenge their renditions in court, declaring them illegal:

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So many things are going to go wrong...and Trump is setting himself, his administration, and his party as obviously responsible (for specific, easily understood reasons) if/when things do go wrong. And yeah...

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1/4 Trump’s Assault on Science & Academia Is a National Crisis The Trump regime slashed federal research funding in a sweeping ideological purge, gutting the NIH, canceling almost 2500 lifesaving projects, and punishing universities. This is sabotage. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Republican claims that cuts to Medicaid are about reducing fraud are flat out wrong and they know it. Protecting Medicaid isn’t a partisan issue. We’ve had letters from Republicans in the Washington state legislature saying don’t make these cuts.

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“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

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56 boys and 40 girls russia murdered in Kharkiv region with its shellings and bombings. We bring toys for them to their memorial, as Russia continues to kill kids.

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SCOOP: The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul. www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

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Republicans are lying through their teeth about Medicaid cuts. 1 in 10 Veterans rely on it. Cutting it isn’t just cruel — it’s a direct hit on those who served. They think no one’s paying attention. We’ve got the receipts. Don't let them spin it. MORE: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

submitted 11 hours ago • 231 comments

This is just absolutely perfect. Kennedy destroys Lutnick and vividly illustrates the absurdity of the Trump trade policy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

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NEW: Judge Xinis allows Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers to seek sanctions relating to discovery that had been ordered. On Tuesday, the parties filed a sealed motion (177) that included copies of what was turned over and the sanctions request. This was explained in a side-filing (178, posted here).

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Taking health care away from nearly 11 million people to give tax breaks to billionaires while increasing the debt. What do you call that act? The Aristocrats!

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Between 80% and 89% of people around the world want their governments to do more on climate change, but this is not reflected in most news coverage. Join journalists, including Sentient's @jennysplitter.bsky.social, to discuss breaking the story with @coveringclimatenow.org's‬ #The89Percent Project.

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#ProudBlue This shameless display of racism & unnecessary cruelty must be illegal in multiple ways. Who is contesting it on behalf of justice in America?

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It's time to Free Andry! We're heading to the steps of the Supreme Court this Friday at 5PM to get loud and mad about it with @votesaveamerica.crooked.com . Join us! More details here: www.mobilize.us/vsa/event/79...

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

Sadly true.

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So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?

submitted 23 hours ago • 151 comments

The US is openly, proudly engaging in collective punishment targeting a family, including 5 children. Undemocratic, to say the least, but also a deeply disturbing trend that could lead to much worse in the future. Just as gross is seeing the way these "anti-hate" groups salivate over it.

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Republicans are going to force 7.4 million Americans into hunger so billionaires can continue to write off the full cost of their private jets and yachts on their taxes. 8 of the 10 states hardest hit will be Republican states. Republicans call this "America First."

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The harsh and arbitrary decision to close the Pinellas County Job Corp casts students into an uncertain future, disrupts job training & creates housing insecurity for hundreds of young people across Florida. I am urging on the Department to reverse their decision. castor.house.gov/news/documen...

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During Reagan’s first term, union members declined by 2.8M or 14%. Union density shrank from 23% in ‘80 to 18.8% in ‘84. How has labor survived? Democrats. That’s why Teamsters not endorsing any candidate was dumb move. #DemVoice1

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ALL Democratic leaders should be calling out the surge in antisemitic violence in the U.S. This increase in antisemitic violent action is occurring on Trump’s watch - which is a stark reminder to American Jews that you cannot vote out the hate of your fellow Americans. abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-...

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BREAKING: Constituents are in body bags blocking their GOP Senators’ office doors in DC. Trump's spending will kill people by taking away our healthcare, our jobs, and food assistance — all so Elon Musk and Oil CEOs can get a big tax break.

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“Israeli settlements are [...] they’re primary instruments of dispossession, control & apartheid. Settlements are closed militarised zones on Palestinians’ stolen land, cutting off our access to our resources .”

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3 June 1941 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Henriëtte Jacobsen (left), was born in Rotterdam. In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her elder sister Sara Channah. They were murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

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If you want to know, real time, about ICE activities in your area, check out stopice.net for text alerts and reporting.

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Murray: Those funds were appropriated by congress and your department was to allocate them and it looks like the department is illegally impounding funding…

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Dear @safety.bsky.app I second this request. Pls take action on accounts being reported for trying to justify what happened in Boulder. Nothing justifies it. We don't need more people being radicalized. You promised us an environment free from hatred. Please deliver on that.

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i cannot understand the lawyerbrained thinking that led these firms to believe clients would hire them to fight the administration that they're capitulating too. and i'm not talking about lefty clients: business interests don't want to hire cowards either

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