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‘The Age of Trump’ Enters Its Second Decade 🐔🌮🍊🤡 It has been 10 years now since Donald Trump descended to the lobby of his tower to announce his campaign for president. Ten years of jaw-dropping, woke-busting, scandal-defying, status quo-smashing politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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Mike Lee draws outrage for posts blaming Melissa Hortman's assassination on the far left 🤯 “I have condemned what Mike Lee did,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. “I’m going to tell him: This isn’t funny.” Senator Klobuchar was close friends with Rep. Hortman. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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Trump celebrated his 79th birthday and the U.S. military’s 250th birthday with a $45 million parade, like the kind they have in North Korea. But Trump’s attempt was more like a Shein children’s tricycle that, you realize upon delivery, is actually made of cardboard. www.jezebel.com/i-didnt-thin...

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MAGA Madman Also Shot Slain Democrat's Rescue Dog 🐶 The alleged MAGA assassin shot murder victim Melissa Hortman's beloved pet dog so badly it could not be saved. "The cruelty knows no bounds." www.thedailybeast.com/maga-madman-...

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Trump has gutted institutions, engaged in corruption, violated the law, diminished our international standing, put Americans at risk of terrorist attack, pandemic, and disaster, and weakened every national security institution defending us since World War II. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-us...

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“The Federalist Society and the broader conservative movement have been so focused on the courts that many members ignored the breakdown of constitutional values on the right” ⚖️ “They failed to see the rest of the constitutional structure decaying under their feet” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Conspiracy theories about Minnesota shooter aren't just deflection. They're dangerous. 🐔🌮🍊🤡💥 False counter-narratives signal to other terrorists that MAGA has their back www.salon.com/2025/06/16/c...

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The United States faces a significant brain drain. The brightest minds in the country are taking their scholarly endeavors elsewhere. Historically, the U.S. has attracted top talent, but the Trump administration may have reversed these conditions in record time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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"A colossal waste of time, effort, and money 🐔🌮🍊🤡 $45 million is what the White House admits to. But this town was shut down for three days. You can't get across the 14th Street Bridge. They shut down the airport for 3.5 hours. We're going to have to fix the roads." www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-pa...

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How Trump's Golden Escalator Predicted the Next Decade 🐔🌮🍊🤡 After two impeachments, a bungled pandemic response, an insurrection; a country in chaos, its institutions denuded; an executive branch flagrantly violating the law and enriching itself—How does it end? www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-t...

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Many Americans feel conflicted about military power and patriotism in the Trump era 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump wanted his military parade to be a grand, raucous event. It wasn’t close. Taxpayers paid millions to let a few people watch tanks rumble and soldiers march in old costumes. newrepublic.com/article/1968...

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Ever since he was ignominiously blocked from shooting George Floyd protesters, Trump has been itching to sic the military on U.S. citizens 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Seizing California’s National Guard and sending Marines into Los Angeles brings his festering fever dream closer to life www.alternet.org/amp/trump-wa...

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The white skirt suit is a familiar trope for Melania Trump, who's stuck in the 1980s. She has given up: The outfit looks cheap. It's boring, and it has shoulder pads. The blazer's hem hits at a weird part of her body. It's impossible for anyone to pull off that look. www.thelist.com/1886437/mela...

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Trump's parade was closer to a town’s July 4th celebration: families, picnics, small crowds 🐔🌮 Darker parades synonymous with tyrannical regimes don’t announce corporate sponsors, nor do they sell pretzels 🍊🤡 The event felt closer to Las Vegas than Pyongyang www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trump's military parade got off to a rocky start with torrential rain and swarms of protesters 🌧️✊ The show was stolen by an unexpected display – a towering eight-foot-tall statue of Trump perched on a toilet 🐔🌮🍊🤡🚽🧻 The toilet "is the only throne fit for this King" www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

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“Nothing Trump does with our military will be to protect American citizens,” said D. Earl Stephens. “Everything Trump does with our military will be to protect himself from American citizens. 🐔🌮🤡🍊 We are at the most dangerous juncture in America since the Civil War” www.rawstory.com/amp/if-you-t...

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Like a soggy taco 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Donald Trump humiliated as a disappointing crowd turns up for his Washington DC military parade www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

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The United States is a fraying society, torn by polarization and extremism. Cheap weapons of mass murder are readily available. Into that tinderbox, Trump adds incendiary rhetoric. We may still be shocked by political violence, but we can no longer feign surprise. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault on vaccines could have been avoided. His nomination for health secretary rested in the hands of one Republican senator: Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana physician who gained prominence by vaccinating low-income kids. Then Cassidy caved. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Donald Trump has no relationships, just transactions. When people are no longer useful to him — wives, lawyers, Cabinet members — he discards them. 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump's world is a dark, foreboding place, driven by greed and lust. He has zero capacity for empathy or love. www.alternet.org/amp/trump-is...

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Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ 🌿 Melissa Hortman was one of my first students. She achieved great things in a life of public service. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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How the L.A. Raids Ignited a New Fight Over Immigration 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Los Angeles is home to the country’s largest population of undocumented immigrants. When Donald Trump’s immigration raids arrived, many expected trouble. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Deportation theater with Kristi Noem and Alex Padilla 🐔🌮🍊🤡 It is painfully clear who gets to be “delicate, beautiful, and tiny,” and who is seen as a violent threat to law enforcement

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'This would make great TV': How Trump got his military parade 🐔🌮 The Army will display 6,700 soldiers, 150 vehicles (among them dozens of tanks), 50 aircraft, and rocket launchers 🍊🤡 About 6 in 10 Americans say that the parade is "not a good use" of government money abcnews.go.com/Politics/mak...

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Trump Has Turned Deportations Into a Spectacle 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The White House’s callous tactics are warping perceptions of reality 🧵🪡🧶 A thread, part 1 of 2 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Across the U.S., people who have never participated in a demonstration showing solidarity with immigrants targeted by Trump and with Americans who don’t want a dictator 🇺🇲 > 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Such solidarity is the foundation of the common good. It is growing across the land. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In an Anxious Moment for America, Historians Say This One Is Different 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The country has become a cauldron of anger and unease at a critical historical moment. “The biggest source of chaos is the president. Rather than bringing stability, he is fueling the fires.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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