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I always think of this 2018 oral history of Stephen Miller’s high school years, in which almost all his peers remember him as loathsome, racist, oppositional, inaccurate, and constantly playing the victim card lamag.com/politics/ste...

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Tech journalist Kara Swisher discusses what Elon Musk's dealings at Tesla and his years in Silicon Valley reveal about how he's approaching his escalating feud with President Trump.

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These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 47 days ago • 86 comments

UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!

submitted 82 days ago • 217 comments

Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful: Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

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She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked. Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.

submitted 19 hours ago • 194 comments

💥 BREAKING: ICE tries to raid Home Depot located at 6400 Alondra Blvd. Paramount, CA Protesters are able to successfully stop them. 6/7/2025 @12 pm #ice #raids #losangeles

submitted 20 hours ago • 701 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are not backing down in their clash with ICE agents over raid operations in the Los Angeles area 📍Paramount, CA

submitted 17 hours ago • 541 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

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As usual, the cruelty is the point. Missouri has lived under the boot of a GOP supermajority for 22 years and they have consistently defunded schools. And now they are planning to close schools for the severely disabled.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in U.S. custody after being illegally deported and will now face federal human trafficking charges in Tennessee.

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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This is not going stop the focus on musk

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After accidentally sending out hundreds of e-mail notifications relating to next Monday’s Order List earlier this afternoon, #SCOTUS has apparently decided to just … post the whole list:

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“We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health & quality of life worldwide.” This makes for a grim read. ONE MILLION species at risk of near term extinction. That’s 999,999 species plus the species containing all the people you love.

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As I noted on @cnn.com, drug comments to attack Musk would be next. And here they are via minions. The car move, of course, is weak sauce.

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"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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Imagine fleeing a dictatorship only to end up detained indefinitely. At Krome in Miami, countless of Cuban migrants are protesting: - No release - No basic healthcare - No answers Their crime? Wanting freedom. This isn’t justice. It’s cruelty. #OnYourSide

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Today, the fourth #mpox emergency committee is taking place.

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McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... (link opens warren's very punchy short report in pdf format)

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

David Hogg’s fight for the future of the Democratic Party

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"If you need to update Social Security about a move or bank account change, it could take longer than usual... "Changes like these may take longer, and thousands of Americans could see delays or even stopped checks in the meantime, employees warned USA TODAY..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Truly unconscionable

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“Half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime.” As this heartbreaking eulogy makes clear, the amount of beauty & wonder we’ve lost is truly overwhelming. All life is connected, & we’re currently on track to learn this truth in the most painful way possible.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

great, provocative column from larry tye on what it took to defeat the american nightmare of joe mccarthy and the ism that bears his name. along these lines, may i also point you to the 2nd season of my podcast, “ultra”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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"To hear the president tell it, the process of making laws and policy the proper way is overly burdensome..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

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Absolutely appalling and unacceptable

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"If Crater Lake were fully staffed this summer, it would have eight park rangers, said a current park employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Instead, it has three...." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Not knowing there is a hurricane season but convinced there is an invasion of immigrants that warrants the Alien Enemies Act, is why your kids will die of measles, lock jaw, and polio.

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Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action

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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/31/m...

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“FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE: Many parents are notarizing power of attorney documents to ensure their children will be cared for if they are detained or deported.” www.newschannel5.com/news/familie...

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"Support for the law firms that didn’t make deals has been growing... "At least 11 big companies are moving work away from firms that settled with the administration or are giving more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals..." www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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"The agreements were supposed to buy peace and allow the firms to move on, but in the weeks since they have caused rifts between partners, alienated younger associates and created problems with longtime clients..." www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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“Penn Wharton, Trump's alma mater, finds that most households earning less than $51,000 will immediately see their after-tax income drop. Meanwhile, the bill boosts incomes of members of the top 1% by nearly $70,000 in the first year alone…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Keystone cops www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

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"California Republican Reps. David Valadao and Young Kim's districts are among the highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the state. In an April 14 letter, both said they were against the bill if it included Medicaid cuts — but then they voted for the bill anyway..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.

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Nearly half of the Medicaid cuts in the house bill will come from provisions that affect ONLY states that have expanded Medicaid under the ACA. This isn’t about kicking undocumented immigrants off Medicaid or curbing waste and fraud. It’s a direct assault on the ACA.

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Not only did they cite about 7 FAKE reports generated by AI but RFK just canceled the contract with Moderna to develop a bird flu vaccine!Because RFK Jr doesn’t believe in MRNA technology!! But it’s perfectly OK to keep a dead bear in the back of your car just in case you get hungry later. WTAF!?

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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department. And it may already be happening in the US.

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