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Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland informed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could face steep fines for having accepted a luxury jet from the Qatari government, arguing the gift violated the Constitution and a federal gifts law, and required congressional approval.

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The really critical thing to know about the Trump/Musk throw down is that the “Big Beautiful Bill” would explode the debt, exacerbate economic inequality, and cause cruel and grievous harm to the most vulnerable Americans and we really should be talking about that a whole lot more.

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Ukrainians watching this big beautiful beef unfold:⚡️ Zelensky promised to end the war between Trump and Musk within 24 hours.

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NO

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I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

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In a new declaration in the DVD case, an ICE official describes how ICE officers and detainees face medical and security threats in South Sudan—the place where the government’s own lawyers proposed keeping the migrants in order to conduct reasonable fear interviews pursuant to a court order

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President Donald Trump is throwing himself a $45 million military birthday parade while veteran and military families are suffering under the impact of ongoing cuts to critical programs and services. More from @allisonlmcmanus.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

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Do the math. Tell Congress to stop Mango Mussolini's wasteful and authoritarian military birthday parade here: bit.ly/3EQEN9l #ResistTrump

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yes. and then on top of that another 5 million are going to lose ACA coverage because Republicans refused to extend the Biden subsidy boost, so a total of 16 million

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Built by Palantir. Authorized by Trump. They say it’s efficiency. It’s actually surveillance. Your data is the weapon, and they’re loading it now. Even Trump’s most loyal base of far-right white nationalists are sounding the alarm.

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Heartbreaking! Reporting suggests that the facility is currently operating nearly 300 PERCENT above capacity, with 1,700 people crammed into a facility with an official maximum capacity of 600. The conditions have devolved dramatically in the last few months, threatening health and safety.

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(via Kevin Gordon) #NYFed

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"Judge Boasberg's #NoKings Message to Trump on El Salvador" King George III's practice of shipping men to overseas prisons without due process helped earn him a revolution, the judge reminded Trump. My latest, @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/boasberg-n...

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As I predicted, we are now entering an era where we cannot necessarily trust data coming from the federal govt on things like inflation. Something to watch VERY closely for GDP, unemployment, everything. www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

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Dems have a real opportunity to portray Trump as wasting resources picking up Moms and constructions workers rather than going after real criminals

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Judge Boasberg rightly held the Govt must “give those it summarily expelled to El Salvador the due process they had been denied.” Absent this relief, it could snatch anyone off the street, hand him to a foreign country “and foreclose any corrective course of action.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

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Of all the evil, despicable slime in the Trump administration, he is the worse. I cannot see his photo without thinking of Goebbels.

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Procter & Gamble said it would cut 7,000 jobs or about 6% of its total workforce over the next two years, as part of a new restructuring plan to counter uneven consumer demand and higher costs due to tariff uncertainty.

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What this gentleman said. 😳👇

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Trump is redirecting anti-drone technology to Ukraine. The move comes as Trump said Putin told him he would respond forcefully to Ukrainian drone attacks. Pete Hegseth skipped a meeting at NATO headquarters on coordinating military aid to Ukraine. (Wall Street Journal)

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🚨 CONFIRMED: Newly released footage of the Russian bombers that were destroyed shows they were already equipped with Kh-101 long range cruise missiles, meaning they were scheduled to take off to attack Ukraine that same day, as we reported two days ago.

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Why do Donald Trump and Mike Johnson want to enslave us?

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The blatant graft and open corruption of this administration is beyond belief.

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JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump administration effort to dismantle Jobs Corps. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: Judge Boasberg has ruled that the Trump administration must quickly propose a way to give the 140 men sent to El Salvador in March — some on evidence he says was "flimsy, even frivolous" — proper due process. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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NEWS The Trump admin must facilitate the ability of immigrants incarcerated in an El Salvador prison to seek habeas relief, Judge Boasberg ruled, denouncing the Kafka-esque dystopia into which the men were "plunged." Here's the introduction. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The main takeaway from the ADP job data released Wednesday is that the U.S. labor market has cooled in the second quarter, economists said. ADP reported private employers added a scant 37,000 jobs in May, down from 60,000 in April and the weakest in over two years.

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Earlier today, Trump posted about the ADP employment report, which shows private-sector job creation slowing dramatically since he took office. Trump pathetically tried to blame Powell for not lowering interest rates, but Biden created more than twice as many jobs under higher rates:

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In January, @pkrugman.bsky.social highlighted the “real threat of fake numbers” and the possibility that the public might start thinking twice about the integrity of federal data. Five months later, these questions are suddenly a bit louder. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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This is the king making legislation everyone said they wouldn't tolerate. What are you waiting for? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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CBO now estimates that combination of Trump's budget bill + other parts of the GOP health agenda (e.g. allowing enhanced ACA tax credits to expire as scheduled) will increase # of uninsured people by 16 million. This is a backdoor Obamacare repeal by any other name www.cbo.gov/system/files...

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#DOGE ended up being, quite literally, a drop in the bucket. 🤡 @cnn.com

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The CBO estimates that Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which is stuffed with tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, will explode the deficit by $2.4T and kick 10.9M people off their health insurance. This has always been the GOP strategy: socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

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No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Republicans’ new slogan is “We are all going to die”. Their new MAGA Murder Budget will make sure it happens quickly.

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Talking on @cfr.org about how Sunday’s drone attack on Russia was an inflection point in the history of warfare—a “Pearl Harbor” moment. youtube.com/shorts/MJry9...

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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Two sources say that various concerned citizens, activists, and other individuals immediately began making calls — including anonymous VoIP ones — to the 800 number, delivering profane tirades and insults. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“One Big Beautiful Bill”? Try one big, bold-faced lie. They swore this mess wouldn’t add to the deficit…but the nonpartisan budget office says otherwise. $2.4 TRILLION added to the deficit—and for what? Tax cuts for the rich.

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“I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled,” said Eden Tanner, a chemist at the University of Mississippi... "“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

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Republicans are lying to Americans. The big ugly budget bill will significantly increase the deficit by $2.4 Trillion. finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-...

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