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MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today

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The Trump administration is kidnapping and trying to deport American citizens who look “foreign.” No warrant. No due process. No rights. Americans voted for cheaper eggs, not for a night of broken glass. #MAGAKidnappers

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BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

McCartney turns 83 today. Music legend — and perfect straight man. 🙏🏼 “SNL/The Chris Farley Show” (1993)

💰 Trump signs an ICE deal with @CoreCivic — the private prison company with high death rates that fails every audit here in Tennessee. A reminder what they’re doing to immigrants isn’t just cruel, it’s also big business. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Stepped out of dinner and found a beautiful double rainbow over St. Louis.

* FED LOWERS 2025 GDP ESTIMATE TO 1.4%, LIFTS INFLATION TO 3% 🇺🇸

Republicans say they’re targeting just criminals and gang members. Bullsh*t. They’re targeting anyone who “looks illegal," and it will only get worse. They need to make their 3,000 a day quota no matter what. #MAGAKidnappers

Last night in Connecticut. Former President Barack Obama and historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social . www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIBC...

When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

So “pro-life.”

Notice the media has completely moved on from the fact that 50%+ of the men trafficked by the White House to El Salvador have no criminal record or charges and remain in a concentration camp until someone liberates them.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

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Interesting peek into how tariffs may shorten the lifespan of Social Security — by requiring higher cost-of-living adjustments and suppressing the number of jobs/workers who pay into the fund. (A lower birth rate doesn’t help.) @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...

Q: Have you made a final decision on what to do? Trump: I have ideas as to what to do. I like to make the final decision one second before it's due

The Trump administration broke the law when it withheld funding for the nation’s libraries, a nonpartisan government watchdog said on Monday. The executive branch can't just stop funding programs it doesn't like.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

Q: Could your recent dustups with Newsom impact wildfire relief? TRUMP: Sure, maybe. He shouldn't have fires like that. You clean the floor of your forest and you won't have any forest fires.

While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:

This is going to come as news to the President. 🤡 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

via @ntarnopolsky.bsky.social 💥Benjamin Netanyahu & Régime Change: A Love Story Lasting 43 Years.

We are witnessing an epidemic of the abuse of the power of the federal government, including the criminal system, to target and intimidate Democrats and their supporters. Trump will escalate this until people stand up to him. It is time we all have the courage to peacefully stand up and say enough!

This is freaking weird. Trump just posted a text message he received from Mike Huckabee, his ambassador to Israel, urging him to attack Iran: “I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven, and that voice is far more important than mine.”

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

Parnas: He sends the Marines into American cities not to protect us, folks, but to silence us. He ignores court orders like they’re optional. He surrounds himself with loyalists who exist solely to carry out his will. This is a leadership style that’s called authoritarianism.

Adriana Smith did not give birth to a baby. She was used as an incubator, cut open, and a baby was taken out of her lifeless body. A Black woman was used as a science experiment.