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this is not legal advice but there are like twenty circuit court cases holding that you do in fact have a first amendment right to record the police

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The use of the Royal We gives it extra credibility

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Catching up some +news+ today, and I'm given to understand that House Republicans killed Big Bird?

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LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

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So giving legal things away is illegal...?

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"Offline, in real-world Los Angeles, most Angelenos are having a perfectly normal day. But online, the fires and riots are still raging. The powerful algorithms that fuel social media platforms are feeding users days-old and sometimes completely fake content." www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...

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The least-off do the worst, and the best-off do the best on the GOP reconciliation bill, per this new analysis from CBO. You can dig into the data yourself. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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... also A. You literally control what's in your own feed, and B. No one's making you be here, so why are you reveling in your discontent and trying to subject others to it

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The free-speech anti-cancel-culture people say you should boycott Walmart because the founder's daughter-in-law bought an ad www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Love being the age where I just get a random shooting pain in my wrist in the middle of a set of push-ups and can talk with my friends about the indignities of colonoscopy prep

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Maybe not +the+ most depressing 🧵 you'll read today, but it'll be up there:

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Today, the House of Representatives will vote on a rescission package that will instantly gut all federal funding for public media. All of it, gone. Here’s more information: protectmypublicmedia.org?utm_source=n...

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Oh man, this is nuts reporting. “Federal agents came to suspect that Bukele…had diverted U.S. aid funds to the gang as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes…”

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maybe the 10th time i’ve had to post this one. shout out to the Slate staff writers going through it but i’m built different

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🎶 That's my soul up there 🎶

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Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which…

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doth protest too much etc.

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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

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Stay safe out there this weekend, folks apnews.com/article/no-k...

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Virginia governor hopeful Winsome Earle-Sears touts her business background. The reviews weren’t great. A Yelp-y, Google-y story via @notusreports.bsky.social: www.notus.org/virginia/win...

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Wonder Woman wonderful

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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

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Between them, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone account for a hefty percentage of the greatest American songs of the greatest decade in popular music history. This week is a bit much on all counts

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The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

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1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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NEW: The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned en masse to protest what it called unprecedented interference by the Trump administration

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More good news from Pennsylvania!🥳 A federal court permanently dismissed a lawsuit from the conservative 1789 Foundation that sought to remove 277,00 Pennsylvania voters from the rolls. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Sq...

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It seems hard to overstate how dangerous and retrograde it is that the president and other public figures on the right are openly relitigating the legacy of Robert E. Lee

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Good morning to everyone who's not misrepresenting the anti-ICE protests

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More good news for Democrats:

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Good reporting here from @swin24.bsky.social and company -->

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Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

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Do any Trump voters regret their choice? Our Strength In Numbers/Verasight polling data finds a large chunk of 2024 Trump voters do. And when 2024 non-voters were able to cast ballots in a hypothetical do-over, Trump loses to Harris in our poll. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/do-trumps-...

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🚨 Trump is pushing Texas Republicans to pass a new gerrymander of their already-gerrymandered congressional map to try to insulate their narrow House majority in 2026

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Happy Pride! We will continue to lead with love and recognize that love is love.

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NEWS: @governor.ca.gov & I are suing to put a stop to President Trump’s unlawful, unprecedented order calling federalized National Guard forces into LA. Trump is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends. This is an abuse of power—and not one we take lightly.

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Frog walked into the house. It was dark.

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A little toe-dip into research suggests that this isn't the least bit atypical ... still a weird thing to wake up to at 3 a.m.! www.seattleareafelinerescue.org/do-cats-dream/

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A sure sign that Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center is a roaring success is when we see events being sponsored by such leading corporate benefactors as “Moxie Pest Control”

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we’re back

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"Talks" = cute little mews and such

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So, um, I just figured out that my cat talks in her sleep -- Normal? Unheard of? I've had cats most of my life and this is definitely a first for me

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Really important piece on what a catastrophe it was when Arkansas imposed (paper)work requirements on Medicaid. Now Republicans are going to do it nationwide, and it will be one of the worst policy disasters in decades. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

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the tech right suddenly discovers due process

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