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ICE agents or bounty hunters? A raid at Home Depot on Wilshire in Los Angeles earlier today. What’s disturbing is that they’re wearing masks and vests you could buy on Amazon. They’re in unmarked cars, and I don’t see any IDs on the officers — regular SUVs with standard plates.

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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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The 22-year-old appointee has more experience bagging groceries than fighting terrorism.

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The Secret Police have to stay secret because Americans might be mean to them? People on the public payroll have to be... well, public. We pay for them. We deserve to know where our money is going, and what is being done in our name.

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The Senate is now looking at messing with Medicare as well as Medicaid and SNAP in order to get the Trump bill passed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-...

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Banks are aiming to issue cryptocurrency. Lawmakers just put a line in the GENIUS Act saying when a bank issuing crypto goes bankrupt, crypto investors get paid before regular depositors. In other words: your savings account becomes crypto’s bailout fund. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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This has to be one of the most obliviously disastrous policy proposals since the Iraq War. It’s almost guaranteeing that crypto causes a financial crisis and then taxpayers bail out crypto companies. Crypto is just an elaborate scam—and this is its ultimate heist.

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We’re not history professors but it just kinda seems like the founders were pretty intentional about setting up our system so our fate wouldn’t be decided entirely by the moods of billionaires with the fragilest egos imaginable. 🇺🇸

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A reminder that the damage Trump and Musk did to U.S. state capacity was immense, some of it likely illegal, and they should be held to account for it. They won't, but we should keep repeating that they should.

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Nobody tell Elon that “the guy I got elected president is a child rapist and I’ve known it all along” is not the sick own he thinks it is.

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In defiance of Trump’s announcement last Friday that he was firing her, Kim Sajet — the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery — has continued to report for work, conducting meetings and handling other museum business as she did before

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German Chancellor Merz sets the record straight after Trump tries to draw moral equivalence between Russia and Ukrainian actions: "Ukraine is only targeting military targets. Not civilians, not private [property], not energy infrastructure. This is the difference."

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Basically, Biden did what he promised, which was increase the audit rate on the rich, which is where the most consequential tax evasion occurs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

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"The Golden Dome isn’t just a scam—it’s a gold-plated monument to stupidity, greed, and authoritarian cosplay. It’s Trump University with rockets." Now on substack: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/americas-m...

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"The fact that Tesla has gone out of its way to not release any data regarding its self-driving effort should be a real red flag to anyone interested in the effort." #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall electrek.co/2025/06/05/t...

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NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

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The New York Times insists on treating Christopher Rufo not as a far-right activist who has been successfully pushing an ideologically defined rightwing agenda, but as a respectable conservative voice and a serious interlocutor on key political issues. That is an active, deliberate choice.

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🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart “Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.” piers: “Wow.”

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It's bad that USDA political leadership reportedly interfered for political purposes with the timing and text in a report around a statistical release. Cold comforts: they reportedly didn't interfere with the statistical estimates per se. Similar reports have not emerged from BLS, BEA, nor Census.

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We need to bring back shame. And honor, too.

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You don’t have stories like this in countries with national healthcare systems

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somehow reading this made me even more persuaded that this is more about the resentments and ax grinding of professional commentators than an honest electoral analysis www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Congress is about to pass a stablecoin bill that, experts say, will reopen ways of destabilizing the financial system that have been closed for decades talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-de...

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What happened?

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Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

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BRENNAN: The speaker of the House estimates that this is gonna add $4 to $5 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years, and there's a debt limit increase BESSENT: That's CBO scoring BRENNAN: That's the speaker of the house

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And again. “The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.

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Totally inappropriate and really unprecedented for a cabinet secretary to overtly intervene in an election of an ally like this. And even more wildly (though unsurprisingly) on behalf of the pro-authoritarian party.

submitted 6 days ago • 194 comments

Trump dismantles a 164-year-old history project. #TrumpWarOnKnowledge www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

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Jake Tapper's TV show ratings are tanking and his book isn't selling, proving that peddling irrelevant BS during a time of an actual national crisis isn't a winning formula.

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Any university leader doing this deserves all the shame that history will bestow upon them. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

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If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

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The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

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A federal grand jury indicted a former New Hampshire businessman this week on charges that he orchestrated attacks on the homes of journalists who had investigated claims of sexual misconduct against him.

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Buried in the Republicans’ “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a provision that shields Trump and his Admin from being held in contempt of court. So it doesn’t just cut taxes for billionaires — it also undermines the courts and emboldens an already lawless presidency. We must stop it.

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Tucked inside the House GOP tax bill? A massive national voucher program. $5B/year in tax credits to subsidize private & religious schools—$20B over 4 years. Public money, zero oversight. A backdoor defund of public education masked as “choice.” Hands Off Public Schools

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The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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As the FBI assigns hundreds of additional agents to focus on arresting people for deportation, agents "have been told by supervisors not to document moving resources away from high-priority cases toward immigration-related work." www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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🚨BREAKING: The SEC just dropped its lawsuit against Binance—days after the crypto exchange listed the Trump-backed stablecoin USD1. me, for @forbes.com

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Most major networks managed to cover Trump's controversial pardon of a tax cheat. CBS and right-wing networks ignored it.

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1 in 5 Trump pardons since J6 spree went to people financially tied to him: ABC

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Every time I hear people argue that democrats need better messaging I come to the realization that one party is playing by old rules where facts matter and the other has gone all-in on flat out lies, and it works because the media writes more about how the facts aren't messaged well than the lies 🤷‍♂️

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will be v interesting to see if the NYT devotes the attention to this it gave to the president of Harvard's citations!

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Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

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