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Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

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Even the mods of a pro-AI subreddit tell me they are having to ban an uptick of unwell users who think ChatGPT is letting them talk to god, or turning them into a god, etc www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre...

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Jonathan Joss's murder & the media's erasure of the anti-queer, racist violence that preceded it reminds me of what @marisakabas.bsky.social wrote about Nex Benedict's death & the media's erasure of the anti-queer violence that caused it. www.thehandbasket.co/p/nex-benedi...

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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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The entire thing is a grift. It's all one big grift. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

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In light of CNN’s recent reporting that the administration has cut back access to the President’s Daily Brief, I trace here the evolution of a dozen presidents’ choices about the PDB’s dissemination—a 60 year “who’s who” of intelligence-policy relations: engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-u...

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NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

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All across the country, this is what is happening. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

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So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

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@gregsargent.bsky.social interviews Carol Hui, the woman whose detention by ICE has mobilized Kennett, MO. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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Pride Month has fallen.

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NEW: The National Sheriffs’ Association(!) puts out a statement saying the Trump admin’s publication, with no feedback first, of a list of Sheriff departments alleged to be sanctuary jurisdictions “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”

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I’m not saying this story is false but I am saying it is totally in the interest of the Trump White House to have a story out there suggesting that some universities are looking to acquiesce.

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It is very obvious to me, as a person who knows my own family history, that the reason the government is targeting Palestinians and their advocates is because they would very, very much like to have people blame The Jews for all this instead of blaming the Christian Nationalist fascists.

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With the degradation of the FBI and other national security institutions, we are sitting ducks for a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil. I gifted this article to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

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As I note here, really zero reason to believe Elon is stepping away from anything. This is all a crisis comms campaign. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

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I keep seeing people say Musk “failed” in his government takeover. No, he did not fail. He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US. That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.

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"In all then, the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end the legal status of more than 1 million people on the shadow docket and in opposition to four court rulings ...." Read @chrisgeidner.bsky.social at Law Dork —>

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setting everything else aside, "Vermin were not a problem prior to March 17, 2025" was a very funny line to read in a court doc h/t to @courtwatch.bsky.social for digging up this gem in this week's newsletter (and go subscribe!)

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NEW: Trump says Elon Musk is 'really not leaving,' and federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices. read @makenakelly.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, and me:

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Interesting piece on the Nazi junkie, strung out on a huge array of drugs seemingly at all times, who effectively destroyed huge sectors of the US government and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people so far. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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"Miller has trained Trump’s rubes to believe that migrants should have no due process. But this time around, Miller’s puppet Leavitt is saying that small business owners are not entitled to due process."

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There’s little to nothing new in NYT profile on Musk’s debauchery. Much less comment that Trump let this man destroy US soft power, kill children, and access US person data unfettered.

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The richest man in the world took actions that will kill thousands, perhaps millions, of children, and NYT relegated that point to the op-ed section.

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NEW: We're about to enter the year's busiest stretch of elections (minus November...), with major races for governor, attorney general, mayor, sheriff, prosecutor... & even a showdown between MAGA and librarians. So I put together this guide of the 40 elections you should be watching. Explore!

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

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"Judge Jeannette Vargas said in her ruling that she was clearing the way for the Elon Musk-backed team at the Treasury to access these systems because the Trump admin has created a process to train the DOGE staffers & prevent improper disclosures of private data." www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/p...

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still waiting for one (1) reporter with access to ask Musk or Trump what they think about Amy Gleason’s job performance

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RFK Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science. Its citations, however, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions -- and seven of the cited sources don't appear to exist at all.

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" on Tuesday, Judge Chutkan ruled that Elon’s continuing role in DOGE made this lawsuit viable. On Wednesday, Elon announced he would not be continuing at DOGE."

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Reassuring the Jim Jordan types he'll keep them out of prison when they commit crimes.

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the 192 on the y axis is doing a lot of work here tbh

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I could've sworn I saw a trio of chickens, or perhaps pigs, singing "How You Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)" on the Muppet show. But I cannot find it! Anyone else remember this? Anyone? Mandela?

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Changing the stickers I put on Teslas from “Elon Musk is a Nazi” to “This is the car Chris Cillizza drives”

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