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Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

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The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

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Republicans failed to kill Obamacare eight years ago. Now they're back with a new plan that could leave millions uninsured. www.thebulwark.com/p/they-are-i...

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In 2022, @propublica.org found landlords were using RealPage software to raise rents — potentially in violation of laws against collusion. Cities then moved to ban such pricing algorithms. But now, @wsj.com reports that House Republicans are seeking to “muzzle” those local efforts. THREAD

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Thou shalt call Donald a TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) from now on because HOLY SHIT HE HATES IT.

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Today in the Oval Office, Trump said he’s considering pardoning the men convicted for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

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How does this Make America Healthy Again?

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🧵 1 / Back in February (feels like ancient history), news articles blew up claims of “lurid sex chats” on an NSA employee forum. Even then, it didn’t sit right. It felt less like a scandal—more like a reboot of the Lavender Scare. 🏳️‍🌈🕵️‍♂️

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Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it. This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1. It now goes to the senate. It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

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Here we fucking go. We knew it was coming. www.npr.org/2025/05/15/n...

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Stay awake. Do not comply. Make a plan. Help others. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

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In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas. (Published Jan. 2025)

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An unflattering story about Donald Trump Jr. triggered a White House assault on Business Insider and parent company Axel Springer—and signaled just how far Trumpworld is willing to go to silence critical coverage. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/trump-jr-h...

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Nobody forced Donald Trump to run for president. He chose this. But a president and his family having business deals with foreign countries is a textbook conflict of interest. Trump must divest of his businesses. All of them. Or resign.

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SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

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IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall 👏🏽

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I real thought the Trump’s face on giant banners phase of our North Koreaization wouldn’t hit until his military parade.

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1. Huge news: A Montana judge has issued the final blow to the state's gender affirming care ban for trans youth as unconstitutional. Because it was a state court, it doesn't even matter what SCOTUS says - it will remain blockd. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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I wionder if it’s just a coincidence that Trump starts attacking judges with his tweets and then the number of tweets attacking judges increase… 🧐

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This is a stain on our nations soul

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If Elon Musk continues to dominate the space-based internet, he could end up with more power over information than anyone in history, writes Ross Andersen:

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"Free speech for me, not thee" newrepublic.com/post/195192/...

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This is how we save our kids, by making them drink contaminated water. We have to own the libs. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Helping the U.S. gets you banned, being white gets you a welcome mat. Got it.

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It’s pretty fucked up that Trump knows he can lie and take bribes because he knows the press won’t use the words “lie” or “bribes.”

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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

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Half the time they’re wearing this kind of stuff to grab moms with green cards.

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EXCLUSIVEGrant Hill, rising GOP star running for Congress spent three years in jail for child sex offences www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Putin and the rest of the world continuing to laugh at these bumbling fools.

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Who gave the order to arrest Ras Baraka while he was on public property complying with an officers order? And who was the officer who shoved the Congresswoman? We need names.

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Eugenics via tax incentives. (W&M = Ways and Means)

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I’ve see this screenshot of the article circulating and while definitely the scenario is not good, one of the “children” was 19, so in fact not a child. He couldn’t drive so they waited there for another family member to come pick them up (and deal with the truck).

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If your gut reaction lately has been, “Trump can’t do that...right?” you’re not alone. A closer look at the Constitution helps clarify what’s really at stake under Trump 2.0.

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Staffers at the Energy Information Administration said they believe changes were made to their Energy Outlook report out of fear that spotlighting unwelcome findings would make the agency a Trump target. “There was a concern that any narrative we put out would be seen as ideological.”

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I don't see how this is any different than Russia forcing workers to clean out Chernobyl. The ruling class using and abusing the bodies of the working class to line their pockets. It's why the wealthy refer to us as "human capital stock." www.cbsnews.com/news/west-vi...

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Yeah I feel super bad for these investors. </s>

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People need to be ready to specifically defend porn and erotica as art. There is nothing that the government does to censor porn that they won’t use on every marginalized group after. Banning porn means banning people of color, queer people, disabled people being depicted in sexual relationships.

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Paul Krugman out here spitting one of the most facty of facts of Trump II:

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Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.

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Republicans always claim that Liberals do a “war against Religion”. Now that the Vatican chose a liberal leaning Pope, just notice how the Republicans go to war against him…

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NEW: Our CBS News review found approx. 500 of the AMERICORPS program grants terminated by Trump Admin are in states Trump won in 2024 Nonprofits, charities, ed. programs, child abuse prevention initiatives lose millions. Some report "damage & chaos" www.cbsnews.com/news/americo...

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Stockholm issued a defiant response to a U.S. embassy request to drop equality, diversity and inclusion policy related to contractors.

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