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Holy shit. "Has been killed in the line of duty." Just horrendously unethical and dishonest.

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Trump’s tax bill, which robs from the poor to boost the rich, steers hundreds of billions of dollars into wasteful pet projects. Here we survey the biggest boondoggles of the Big Beautiful Bill ⤵️

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It's not clear what all of the GOP's last-minute changes are or if this bill has the votes to pass, but Mike Johnson is moving forward with a middle-of-the-night vote on Trump's sweeping policy package that slashes health and nutrition programs to enrich the rich. www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...

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Three teenagers in Colorado almost got away with an arson attack that killed an innocent family. The way detectives caught them could put all of us at risk: www.wired.com/story/find-m...

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We asked Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks about her vote to take health care away from 13.7 million Americans. She ran away.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Fight Trump's politicization of public services. Write a comment opposing the proposed Office of Personnel Management rule to politicize public services. You can do it in 5 minutes. Deadline is May 23rd!

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On top of the cuts to Medicaid and the ACA, this bill proposes $500 BILLION in Medicare cuts. Republicans don't care who they hurt as long as they get their tax cuts. Beyond egregious! youtu.be/WKKZjLwk3sc?...

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By a vote of 51-45, the #Senate confirmed Charles Kushner to be Ambassador to the French Republic and to the Principality of Monaco. Dem senator voting in favor: Booker. GOP senator voting no: Murkowski. Senators not voting: Hawley, Kelly, Schatz, & Wicker.

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Unbelievable. With Dem support, the senate passes an industry-friendly crypto bill that does nothing about Trump's crypto corruption. Ignore these Dems' speeches. Watch their votes. They're telling you they don't get it. And then they spam you to say Trump is bad so please donate more money.

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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

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🚨REPORT: The Trump-GOP attack on Medicaid could close 15 rural hospitals in TN Republicans are willing to sacrifice rural hospitals and YOUR access to care just to give their billionaire sponsors tax breaks they don’t need. NEWSWEEK: www.newsweek.com/medicaid-cut...

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BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

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President Trump is quite literally selling seats to a private dinner and White House tours to foreign nationals for $4 million+ a piece. Much of the money goes into his own pocket. This is corruption to the highest degree.

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Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

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Russian FSB spy ring members including 2 honeypots each sentenced up to 10 years in prison in Britain. They were arrested in a raid in 2023. Their espionage spanned years across Europe, including at the US military base in Stuttgart, Germany.

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More like how many people lost their jobs because the oligarchs thought a computer could kind of write a sentence a lot cheaper than a human could write one.

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How dare my chatbot spread the same lies I am without my consent.

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Time to sing for democracy!

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“Without her mother she doesn’t know how she’ll get to her treatments.” ICE grabs the mother and brother of a 21 year old 🇺🇸 citizen with cancer, leaving her without a caretaker. (She had to be carried from her car for the interview) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGpFscH...

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When Nixon and Ohio’s governor did this in Ohio to stop a peace march, it ended in one of the greatest tragedies to haunt our nation. Ohio National Guardsmen killing unarmed college kids. This is not a mission the guard has any business undertaking.

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Pain clinic CEO faced 20 years for making patients "human pin cushions." He got 18 months. https://cbsn.ws/43j6mQC

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Super important to tell everyone you know that on June 14th we are celebrating Trumps birthday/vanity military parade by protesting nationwide. indivisible.org/statements/i...

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Trump's military parade isn't the only way to celebrate Flag Day

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LIVE NOW: Join us for an emergency live Bulwark+ Q&A with @citizencohn.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social on the chaos Trump and the GOP are unleashing on the health care system open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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As Russia bluffs about a truce, Putin is quietly preparing a major summer offensive to seize more Ukrainian land by force, before he’s pressured to give it up at the negotiating table. www.kyivpost.com/post/52634

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Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, warned that it’s not immune from Trump’s tariffs. It plans to raise prices on many items as Trump’s global trade war sends the company’s costs higher.

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Instead of deporting criminals, he's inviting them in. SMDH newrepublic.com/post/195230/...

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Call ☎️ your MOC at 202-224-3121 and tell them to OPPOSE the GOP’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’.

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Every. Single. Day. Convicted Felon Donald Trump shows us how much he wants to be a dictator. Every. Single. Day. And Republicans, being the ball-less suckups they are, allow it. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #FuckTrump popular.info/p/trumps-big...

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Walmart says it's raising prices starting this summer because of the Trump tariffs. www.wsj.com/business/ret...

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Ben Cohen, a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, was arrested on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., after he interrupted a Senate hearing to protest Congress’s funding of Israel’s military as it wages war against Hamas in Gaza.

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JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.

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REMEMBER #krasnov NO FUCKING KINGS HERE! EVER!!! nokings.org June 14th! EVERYWHERE! BE THERE!! #NoKings apnews.com/article/trum...

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Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, mark your calendars 🗓️ www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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