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BREAKING: Iran's state-run agency Tasnim says Tehran has launched missile attacks on US bases in Qatar and Iraq.

Breaking news . Trump says the US has control of the skies over Iran.

🇺🇸🫡 "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution. We are willing to die to protect it!" - GEN. MARK A. MILLEY🇺🇸 #SheShed

So devastating 💔

Hey, Mike. As someone whose wife barely survived an assassination attempt, let me tell you: Your joke isn't funny and you have an entire state to apologize to.

NEW: A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

They want to give away YOUR land to their rich asshole buddies

This is an insurrection.

Thou shalt expel Mike Lee from the Senate and banish him from society, for he mocked and celebrated the murder of a political opponent.

Senator Mike Lee pretended he was on the phone to avoid being confronted by @smith.senate.gov after he mocked assassination victims this weekend. She made sure he heard what she had to say.

How can anyone who follows Jesus’s teachings let children go hungry?

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."  —Louis Brandeis

Is this why we’ve been seeing so many masked, unidentified ICE agents? As of May 29, 2025, ICE has 635 active agreements in 40 states—deputizing local cops to act as ICE. DEMS: Hold hearings. Sanctioned or not, we need answers. ☎️ Call your Senators and Reps now: (202) 224-3121

Good night 😴 “Reading is the key that opens doors. Reading shaped my dreams and more reading helped me make my dreams come true”. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Happy Pride month

Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

“Four years after moving here, I can hardly utilize the mountains I love,” writes Brandi O’Brien in an op-ed.

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

A Friendly Reminder.

Sean Duffy, who has presented himself as one of the intellectual forefathers of Trump’s trade agenda, sold between $75,000 and $600,000 of stock two days before Trump announced a plan for reciprocal tariffs, disclosures show. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and ‪@bxroberts.org

The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Celgene kept the drug’s price low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients. But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price. ➡️ Read more: propub.li/43jfFQF

It's hard to adequately describe how scary it is to watch mainstream political journalists barely push back against a sitting U.S. president accepting a $400M plane from a foreign government that would literally be designated as an emergency command-and-control center during a nuclear war.

The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The US is unloved. Meanwhile, China keeps improving its global standing 👇 www.politico.eu/article/usa-...

Check your receipt. Grow your own veggies. Ask about senior discounts. NPR readers share their top tips on cutting costs at the grocery store.

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

NEWS: U.S. and China agree to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to U.S. ports plummeted. Tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from 145% to 30%. Tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125% to 10%. If tariffs should result in massive job growth and make the U.S. rich, why lower them?

Zero! 😳

The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.

The new pope

And the Supreme Court is Complicit in his War.......

Trevor, a voice of reason and truth.

Every single day I read the news and it feels like I'm going crazy. Who can relate?

And thank you #marcelias

The difference between one of the happiest societies, Norway and America is that in Norway they spend $300 million helping the homeless dude on the sidewalk, while in America they spend $300 million rebuilding Alcatraz. Do you get it yet?

Buttigieg: Like I love A1 steak sauce, but A1 steak sauce is not one of the most important things confronting humanity right now. Artificial intelligence is. And somebody who doesn't understand that probably should not be leading an important federal agency.

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

The law is still the law.