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Who is Calley Means, the architect of the MAHA revolution? Was he really a Coca Cola lobbyist turned whistleblower? His boss and mentor @thewarningses.bsky.social reveals the true story. open.substack.com/pub/tarapalm...

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The Trump Administration is slashing funds that keep our buildings safe from earthquakes, flooding, and fire. Since when is protecting people and property from natural disaster - waste, fraud, or abuse?

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The Trump Administration is slashing funds that keep our buildings safe from earthquakes, flooding, and fire. Since when is protecting people and property from natural disaster - waste, fraud, or abuse?

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PROGRAMMING NOTE: Streaming our DC town hall tonight 7p ET/4p PT on Substack and YouTube My thanks to @repjasmine.bsky.social @rosie.com @oliviaoftroye.com @milestaylor.bsky.social @tarasetmayer.bsky.social @aaronparnas.bsky.social @libradunn1.bsky.social & Fanone youtube.com/@jimacosta?s...

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Can Democrats who covered for Biden run credible campaigns in 2028? Will ‘I didn’t see it myself’ work when they were vouching for him on T.V.?

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Ukrainian strikes on four Russian airbases mark an escalation in cross-border incursions before peace talks in Turkiye.

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Trey Gowdy - and anyone else blaming the "Free Palestine" chant/slogan for isolated attacks - is a fool.

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Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Florida): I hope MIT class president Megha Vamuri ripped up her degree. They can hate us for free. We don't need to fund their education. They don't need to be here studying on student visas. We need to step up deportations even more.

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Ukraine was jubilant on June 1 as news filtered through of a stunning drone attack targeting Russian heavy bombers, that simultaneously targeted four air bases, two of them thousands of miles inside Russia. Here's everything we know — and don't know — about Operation Spiderweb.

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Video shows Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupting, sending a plume of ash and smoke 3.5km into the sky from the crater.

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Tom never disappoints! 😭☠️😭 Live look at Stephen Miller camped out in front of Elon Musk's house trying to get his wife back ~ Tom Adelsbach

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Donald Trump has finally commented on Boulder, Colorado after 18 hours of silence, with a typical lie. Mohamed Sabry Soliman entered the US with a valid visa through Los Angeles International Airport in 2022 - legally.

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Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about Joe Biden forgetting someone's name, yet we still do not have a book about the fact that dozens of people who have been in sustained contact with Donald Trump say that he is borderline illiterate and not just euphemistically

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Donald Trump is a stupid evil piece of shit that paints his fucking face orange and cries on social media all day.

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⚡️Ukraine seeks to bring back up to 1,200 people in next prisoner swap with Russia, Zelensky says. The next prisoner exchange will reportedly include young people between the ages of 18 and 25, as well as people with serious injuries.

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Amnesty International calls for an investigation into the ‘reckless’ attack in the violence-hit Zamfara state.

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Russian state media publishes Moscow's official peace demands — 5 Ukrainian regions, ban on NATO, limits on Kyiv's army. Among Russia's key demands is the official recognition of Russia's annexation of Crimea, as well as four other oblasts.

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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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If we’re all going to die why force everyone to be born? I don’t think these people think about their “beliefs” for one second it’s why they never have a consistent answer and why their actions never align.

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The two sides agree to swap prisoners and remains of about 6,000 soldiers killed in combat but are at odds over a truce.

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The threat is from within!

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Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has been declared the winner of Poland's 2025 presidential election. The result marks a significant shift in Polish politics, with consequences for both the domestic and international landscape — particularly in dealings with Ukraine.

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Yesterday, I completed the first leg of the AIDS/Lifecycle ride. 22.5 miles in, look at these beautiful views!

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The Ukrainian and Russian delegations concluded peace talks in Istanbul on June 2, agreeing on a new prisoners of war (POWs) exchange but failing to reach a ceasefire.

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The Kyiv Independent spoke to children and their families to understand how war affects childhood, how it quietly rewrites dreams, creeps into fantasies, and redefines what it means to be safe.

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Judges say Berlin broke EU law by refusing Somali asylum seekers entry.

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MAGA now is in favor of a database for all Americans. When do they give up their guns since they are walking back everything they ever believed?

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"They just don’t see a ceasefire as such at the moment," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 2, commenting on Russia's proposal for a brief truce to retrieve fallen soldiers' bodies. "I think they’re idiots, because, fundamentally, a ceasefire is meant so that there are no dead."

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Trump ended funding for HIV vaxx research at Duke Univ & Scripps The work was broadly applicable to a wide range of treatments for other illnesses: Covid drugs, snake antivenom & therapies for autoimmune diseases The More You Know 🌈✨ #Pride2025 #LGBTQ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires employer health care plans cover PrEP free of charge This radical right wing religious extremist is hellbent on suing the federal govt to end coverage for PrEP and other HIV prevention medication

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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado): I offer my amendment to prevent Trump and Vance from using their public office for personal enrichment. This prohibition should extend to all assets. No elected officials should be in the business of speculating and issuing cryptocurrency.

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In Ukraine, the operation quickly drew comparisons to some of the most uplifting moments since 2022 – including the sinking of the Black Sea Fleet’s flagship Moskva, the attack on the Crimean Bridge, and the surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

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Trump made the swamp a cesspool. He’s making the Deep State deeper. He’s done nothing for the average American and doesn’t plan to. This fantasy roleplay of Trump being for the every man needs to be shut down

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⚡️DTEK to build one of Europe's largest energy storage facilities, company announces. Ukraine's largest private energy company DTEK secured a $72-million loan to build one of the largest battery energy storage complexes in Eastern Europe, the company said on June 3.

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois): Leader John Thune needs to immediately put Senator Lindsey Graham's Russian sanctions bill on the floor for a vote. It has 80 cosponsors. Trump, the whole world is watching the United States to see if you will stand firm against Putin and our other adversaries.

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⚡️Zelensky says he's ready to meet with Putin, Trump in Turkey. "I told (Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan) that I support a meeting at the level of leaders, because I have the impression that there will be no ceasefire without our meeting," Zelensky said on June 2.

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York): 80 senators from both sides of the aisle including Leader John Thune and myself cosponsor Lindsey Graham's Russian sanctions bill. Both sides should quickly finish negotiating any changes, then put it on the floor as soon as possible. It's needed, and needed now.

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Ukraine should liberate Russia.

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If DOGE uncovered fraud where are the charges? That’s all you need to ask yourself. One simple thought breaks down the bullshit.

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Norway will help Ukraine cover a potential one billion euro ($1.08 billion) gas deficit, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced following a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Vilnius on June 2.

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Goodnight 🌙 Fuck Ted Cruz

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Stop allowing Trump to extort & bribe people, institutions, news & schools that don’t like him!!!

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ICE to impersonate cable, gas & electric company techs to access homes of tax-paying immigrants to deport them. Immigrants Make America Great.

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Immigrants Make America Great.

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