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We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.

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The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

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NEW: Two years ago, Texas lawmakers cut millions of dollars in funding for child ID kits, after ProPublica and @texastribune.org revealed there was no evidence they work. Now, some legislators are again pushing to spend millions to purchase such kits.

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Indeed….

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"...The strategy is to overwhelm the American bureaucracy and the legal system, and to exhaust his enemies with an endless stream of bullshit; by the time we shake out what’s legal and what’s not, much of the damage has already been done." 404 Media

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Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out theonion.com/politic...

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THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

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In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

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This is an excellent chart… only wish the print wasn’t so teensy-tiny…

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😂😂😂. Oh would that drive that Orange Fat Bastard into a rambling maniac that we’ve all read & heard from before. Perhaps that p.o.s. will stroke out or have the big one.

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The mother fucker who received due process 4 times says “I don’t know” when asked if people deserve due process. Anyone who is surprised by this authoritarian answer should count backwards from 11,780.

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No lies detected! #ResistTrump

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No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com

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“Do not mock us.”

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Billionaires get a tax cut. Big Bird gets laid off. Congrats, Trump voters. You defunded kindness for nothing!

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Exactly ⬇️

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Not just the kids - feed everyone who's hungry

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Do not come in my mentions claiming that the public isn’t engaging in widespread pandemic denialism when you’re referring to Covid in the past tense.

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Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

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@paulapoundstone.bsky.social

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The Golden Age of Corruption www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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Everyone’s gonna be wide awake at his funeral. If only because they’ll play Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration” at full volume.

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If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

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Let’s start with the basics.

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I remain proud AF to have voted for both of these brilliant supremely qualified women, I’ll never regret it.

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Gotta love Canadians. 💯 💙 😎 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🌈🌈

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Feels like this isn’t hitting like the bombshell it should be. Has the Times or the Post even covered it yet? abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg...

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Please let them fail. Please let them fail...

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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“WAR ON CHILDREN”— Republicans claim Trump slashing federal programs will just send💰to the states, but Pro Publica shows that is already not what’s happening: “The impact of these cuts rippling out to state and local agencies serving children nationwide.” www.propublica.org/article/how-...

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Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

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THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

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Got that right...

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Donald Trump, a man whose name we only know because his father was a multi-millionaire who gave him over $400,000,000 to rescue him from his incompetence in business, is pretending to cherish "meritocracy." How hilarious. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Yes please

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Intriguing thread

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We could have had this beautiful family in the White House - I’ll die mad about it.

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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

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