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NYT: “.. European nations are increasingly optimistic that they can support Ukraine financially and militarily against Russia even if President Trump decides to wash his hands of the conflict ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

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McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

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New CBO numbers out on the Big Beautiful Bill and it creates $2.4 trillion in deficits over a decade. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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Massachusetts high school volleyball team rallies around teammate detained by immigration agents apnews.com/article/mass...

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WSJ: BLS “told outside economists this week that a hiring freeze at the agency was forcing the survey to cut back on the number of businesses where it checks prices.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

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Stephen King knows horror better than anyone.

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i am simply floored to learn this about a guy who held a nazi rally at madison square garden eight months ago

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The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will revoke a federal policy that required hospitals to provide emergency abortions when necessary to stabilize a woman’s medical condition. We will be allowed to die.

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As they amp up to 3,000 arrests a day (2-3X the current level), will 2025 have a "long hot summer" of unrest?

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I can’t speak for anyone else, but this analogy of “Lady Liberty’ held captive, is exactly how I feel about this presidency & administration and what their attempting to do with our rights and freedoms… The New Yorker captured the feelings perfectly… One word, UNACCEPTABLE!

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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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Warren’s Senate report on Musk is getting some pickup. $TSLA @cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...

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THIS.

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JUST IN: Judge Xinis GRANTS a motion by news organizations to unseal certain records in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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John Dewey said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy, and what we are suffering from today is not democracy but all the impediments and obstacles to it—and all the attacks on it.

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Another judge just ordered govt to reveal its deal with Bukele to another alien sent to CECOT. A magistrate judge in Columbus, GA (MDGa) did so in the case of Venezuelan EDQC, sent to CECOT on 3/15 without opportunity to raise a fear-of-torture claim. 1/5 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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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...

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Someone just sent me a group email making the case for Jamie Dimon for president. No. No more rich oligarchs

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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

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Raygun is on it 😂

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KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal? LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?

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This month's jobs report was unexpectedly weak. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

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Man Who Tried To Lawlessly Do Congress’ Job For It Criticizes ‘Pork-Filled’ Bill talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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Trump is on a quest to exact revenge on DOJ employees who prosecuted him and his Jan 6 loyalists. Now there's a volunteer network of lawyers to defend them. New at @notusreports.bsky.social: www.notus.org/courts/doj-n...

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Would you want your mother taken without cause or due process? Elsy Noemi Berrios is a mom, a worker, an asylum seeker. ICE must grant her a day in court. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump

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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

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Unsurprising but important finding: Neighborhoods easily traversed by bike or on foot have lower car ownership and less PM2.5 pollution. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

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we're gone from "90 deals in 90 days" to sending letters to other countries pleading with them to negotiate

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“.. empty containers have been piling up at the Los Angeles-area seaports .. the idea that a sudden reversal in tariff policy or even a spate of framework agreements to work towards eventual trade deals will instantly put the global supply chain back on track is mistaken.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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“.. The politically inconvenient data prompted administration officials to block publication of the written analysis normally attached to the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.” 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Page One in Philly: @inquirer.com

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Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) knows this is a disingenuous argument of why there are so many nationwide injunctions against Trump. Professor Kate Shaw stuffs him in a locker with her answer, ‘Trump is engaging in much more lawless activity than other presidents.’ Brava Kate!💥🔥💥

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On June 14, we are showing up and showing OUT! THAT is the day that we show Donald Trump and the GOP that WE, the PEOPLE, hold the power. From small towns, to large cities, we have a simple message: No thrones. No crowns. No Kings. LFG!

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Hegseth apparently also wants to rename vessels named for Thurgood Marshall, Harriet Tubman and a slew of other civil rights leaders. www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-ne...

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MURPHY: Did you worry about what your decision would do to these kids where you've ripped away their counselors & social workers literally in the middle of the program? McMAHON: I certainly worry about mental health MURPHY: It's a really cruel thing to do M: I can't evaluate every program

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Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

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Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

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PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

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Yeah, Mr. Senator, YOUR job, which provides healthcare that WE pay for. One third of the jobs for the rest of us don't provide healthcare.

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What I like most about this Musk/GOP fight is the absence of any angle for Musk. It's not like he's a sincere fiscal hawk, or that this somehow positions him better with liberal customers. He's just mad his friends don't like him anymore so he's pouring his drink on their board game.

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This is so evil.

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I mean, if you had a serious, important job and you made a mistake like this, you'd probably get fired...

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This is horrifying. Avelo Airlines should be ashamed. You can call Avelo customer service at (346) 616-9500.

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Just plain unconstitutional.

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America cannot be a country where this is considered acceptable. Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121 #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump

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