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The Supreme Court's third decision is Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin. Per Sotomayor, the First Amendment requires Wisconsin to exempt religious organizations from certain taxes even if they do not proselytize or serve only one faith. Unanimous! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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The Supreme Court's first decision is Ames v. Ohio. Per Jackson, the court holds that members of a majority group do NOT have a heightened burden to prove they faced workplace discrimination, reversing the 6th Circuit. Unanimous. (More opinions to come.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Mayor Wu defends calling ICE ‘secret police’ after US ttorney says it a ‘false narrative’

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Should be a crime to see people reference the 4B movement as if it’s still a thing in 2025. That shit crashed and burned in 2022.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Trump. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...

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Jeffrey Epstein invested with the billionaire Peter Thiel. Now, his estate is reaping millions, little of which is likely to go to his victims. https://trib.al/CoFmxeO

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Trump travel ban includes exemption for World Cup and Olympic athletes

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Report: Israel contributed NIS 700m to Gaza aid mechanism it claims not to fund https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-contributed-nis-700m-to-gaza-aid-mechanism-it-claims-not-to-fund/

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Right now it seems more likely than not that the Knesset will dissolve in the next couple of weeks with elections to be called likely in October. Since I posted this thread, Shas has joined resolution to dissolve Knesset if no solution to conscription crisis is found by next week. 1/

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A federal judge has issued an order stopping the deportation of family of the man charged in the firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado.

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New, from me: A Brown student built an AI-powered harassment machine of university staff. When the university investigated (and cleared) him, he was presented as a free speech victim. He became a right-wing celebrity, which was his goal all along. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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Senate Democrats warn Trump plan to wipe out public broadcasting funding will shut down stations, eliminate essential services. But House GOP scheduled to vote to clawback $1.1 billion next week.

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New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

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Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

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“In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers have shown for the 1st time that mRNA can be delivered into the cells where HIV is hiding, by encasing it in a tiny, specially formulated fat bubble. The mRNA then instructs the cells to reveal the virus.” The virus can no longer hide!

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NPR - Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing that work for their bosses, according to OpenAI researchers. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5423607/openai-china-influence-operations

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EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing Serbia and other Balkan nations to take in migrants deported from the US

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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South Korea’s liberal-led legislature passes bills to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and criminal allegations against his wife.

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Less than 30 hours after LJM took the oath of office, three special prosecutor bills passed the National Assembly by an overwhelming majority. These bills had been stalled for over a year due to vetoes by Yoon Suk-yeol.

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I usually don’t answer replies like this, but I know just how hard legislative staff and most legislators work. So what the heck, let’s have a transparency moment (swipe to find out!)

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I am late catching up on this fascinating controversy in Malaysia. The Malaysian government had planned to submit the New Villages (where rural Chinese were forced to move during the Communist insurgency) as a World Heritage Site. Controversy ensued 1/3 www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...

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Just 35% of Americans approved of what Musk was doing in the government, according to a poll from April. 57% disapproved, with 46% strongly disapproving. If Dems are serious about only supporting ideas that are popular, they would never entertain the idea of allying with a guy who was so hated.

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ENT surgeons say the MAHA report wrongly dismisses tonsil and ear tube surgeries as harmful, ignoring evidence that these procedures can greatly improve sleep, hearing, and behavior in children.

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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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The "fact sheet" associated with this executive order is of course even more deranged and preposterous than the executive order itself. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July

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President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to suspend visas for new Harvard international students.

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Trump administration plans $1,000 fee to fast-track tourist visas, @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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In defiance of President 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.

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NEW: "Big Balls" is making big bucks. The infamous technologist is now a permanent federal employees (with a GS-15 grade), as are other DOGE operatives like Luke Farritor, who was closely linked to the destruction of USAID. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

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New: Two months ago, a cadre of Texas and federal authorities crashed what they later described as a Tren de Aragua gathering in Hays County and detained 47 people, including kids. Since, the authorities involved in the raid have not said much. 🧵 www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

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I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.

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"They also said they now feel overwhelmed by economic anxiety, making “traditional milestones,” like buying a home or saving for kids’ college, “feel impossible,” an analysis of the research said." what gets me: no one pretends to have or want solutions to these www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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The Trump administration is redirecting a key antidrone technology earmarked for Ukraine to American forces

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New: A Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there was flown back to the United States on Wednesday after a judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return, his lawyer said. www.reuters.com/world/us/gua...

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The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.

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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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While people online argue day and night about how to be a good coalition member, here is the leading opponent to Cuomo, a Muslim democratic socialist, urging his supporters to also rank the rest of the WFP slate in order to maximize the anti Cuomo bloc's vote.

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Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

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I've seen a lot of people wondering why the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster has taken so long — it was first leaked in 2021 — when it doesn't have a ton of huge changes. The answer is simple: It's developed by Creative Studio 3, the team behind FFXIV and FFXVI... and they've been pretty busy

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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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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

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NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

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Judge Boasberg's intro to the J.G.G. class cert. starts with Kafka. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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WelcomeFest is tomorrow and it features a lineup of pundit all-stars including Matthew Yglesias, Adam Jentleson, Derek Thompson and Richie Torres. My colleague @merryvishmas.bsky.social and I put together a quick explainer of who is behind the summer's hottest centrism conference

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Speakers at WelcomePAC have mentioned being dunked on by BlueSky posters no less than a dozen times in the first hour alone. This site has broken their brains

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Zvika Klein, an American born Israeli Jew and the editor in-chief of the right wing Jerusalem Post, calls for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza during an interview with Britain's Channel 4

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