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More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

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Belarus is a warning that democracy is fragile and that authoritarianism is not a wrecking ball but a hatchet, which slowly chips away until everything is broken beyond recognition. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

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The cost of servicing the debt will only get worse over time with their big ugly bill. "Republicans are proposing to take hundreds of billions from the poor to give it to the rich." Your children's children will carry the burden of these tax cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

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A new survey from Pew shows only 17% of people are willing to pay for their news. Instead, they consume only whatever's "free". Maybe that's why their knowledge of facts and contextual understanding has suffered. www.newscaststudio.com/2025/06/25/p...

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Certainly close enough to the real truth!

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Just in case you were wondering why Trump bombed Iran

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Trump's gift to our adversaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

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“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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Remember how MAGA says that ICE is going after the violent criminal? Less than 7% of the people they've detained actually fit that category.

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We've traded "soft power" and the righteousness of truth for bluster and bullying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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If Congress cuts its support for social safety net programs and states are left to pick up the slack, the result could be reduced benefits and higher taxes. taxpolicycenter.org/features/how...

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Reporter Is Detained by ICE After Reporting on Immigration Protest. I suppose not shooting him is a step up from the treatment the police have goven to other journalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

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The right-wing extremist and alleged political assassin, Vance Luther Boelter, has a long association with Christian Nationalists and the New Apostolic Reformation. They preach that political violence is NOT something to sky away from. These are domestic terrorists www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-20...

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"It’s time we talk about the problems created when people who believe they — a Christian white man with an addiction problem — are supreme, face the kind of public humiliation that destroys the core of their identity." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...

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In what was the biggest protest in Seattle history, 70,000 "No Kings" protesters gathered in our neighborhood park and peacefully marched to Seattle Center. Millions of like-minded Americans did the same. I think we made the point pretty clearly. No Kings in USA www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

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Yup #NoKings

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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

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A US Senator thrown to the ground and handcuffed. How to say the DHS is cadre of fascist thugs without using those exact words.

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youtu.be/baR4logaaOQ?... Jimmy Kimmel last night talks about what’s actually happening in Los Angeles for those who believe the city is some kind of totalitarian hellscape…

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According to ABC News

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There's a connection between authoritarian regimes and being anti-trans. Anyone "different" is a threat to the conformity and uniformity that authoritarians seek for comfort. Remember that "different" covers a lot. Don't doubt that the rest of LGBTQ will be next. theconversation.com/antagonism-t...

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You know the example of the boiling frog, right? His advice is that we take advantage of all the political space that's available to us before it shrinks further away. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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Who's paying those tariffs? You are.

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What's next? Thought crimes?

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Presiding over a culture of corruption: A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

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