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the frequency with which this sort of openly racist and hateful bile comes from GOP electeds is staggering. Most instances go totally unremarked on. In addition to being wildly offensive, it's civically degrading in a way I wish there was more shame about.

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We can't afford cancer care for veterans, school lunches for kids or Meals on Wheels for seniors because Trump is spending: • $1 billion to retrofit a hand-me-down Qatari plane • $330,000,000 to play golf • $100,000,000 to build a new ballroom • $92,000,000 for a birthday parade But DOGE

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DOGE hooked the White House communications system up to Elon Musk's unsecured Starlink internet service over objections from Donald Trump's own communications experts. Does Trump team think it’s Musk who looks culpable here? www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...

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"You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser." “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male." 🔥 www.huffpost.com/entry/simone...

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While govt moves to dismiss Abrego Garcia case, his own attys seek to pierce atty-client privilege invoking the "crime-fraud exception." "There is ample evidence that defendants have actively strategized to avoid compliance with court orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Trump administration’s spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking. www.axios.com/2025/06/07/u...

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all this to arrest a couple guys working in the kitchen at carrabas

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The justices also separately reined in orders seeking transparency at DOGE. It's pretty clear the 6 right-wing justices are in favor of a surveillance state with citizens at the mercy of their fascist collaborators. apnews.com/article/doge...

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"Once again the this court dons its emergency responder gear, rushes to the scene, and uses its equitable power to fan the flames rather than extinguish them," Justice Jackson wrote, adding citizens will now see their personal data compromised. www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

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The whole point of having a union of states is that the national government isn't allowed to do this www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

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NEW: In the case over Trump's unconstitutional order targeting the WilmerHale law firm, WilmerHale's lawyers at Clement & Murphy had to go back to court, asking the court to amend its judgment because DOJ is being appallingly intransigent. DOJ's Richard Lawson is really skating on thin ice here.

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NEW: Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China nyti.ms/4mUDTtG

submitted 19 hours ago • 70 comments

Reminder that California subsidizes red states.

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Former US Attorney Damian Williams has left Paul Weiss, a law firm that struck a deal with Trump to avoid his wrath, and joined Jenner & Block, a law firm that fought back against Trump in court and won. "Jenner & Block fearlessly advocates for its clients,” Williams said.

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Pretty sure this should tell you all you need to know about the veracity of the DOJ's charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 19 hours ago • 285 comments

Pam Bondi wraps up her press conference by accusing Abrego Garcia of being a child-groomer human trafficker and gang member and the walks away

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🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Republican National Committee petition to hear case to overturn voting rights victory in Pennsylvania. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

submitted 17 hours ago • 103 comments

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

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"The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization," FDR stated in his inaugural address. "We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit."

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Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

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“Harvard University’s $120B endowment is ammunition for our enemies, & we can’t let the enemy have that much ammunition or we’re gonna lose” - JD Vance, May 2021, at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life (Vance launched his US Senate campaign less than 2 months later. 1/

submitted 18 hours ago • 61 comments

Or at least the sticky-futoned creeps, waifu-pillowed shut-ins, unemployed tiki marchers, restraining order collectors, and incel reply-guys who make up Twitter these days have spoken.

submitted 18 hours ago • 51 comments

Two weeks ago, Ben Schrader - the highly respected chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville - announced he had resigned. According to LinkedIn data, that was May 21 - the same day as Abrego Garcia's indictment. 1/2

submitted 18 hours ago • 37 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

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@aaronparnas.bsky.social: "if Joe Biden was the name and not Donald Trump, House Republicans would be hauling Merrick Garland up to answer questions already. That they aren't [to AG Pam Bondi re Epstein files] shows, I think, that they know what's in there and don't want the truth coming out."

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A federal judge has declined to block the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ruling, issued today in ALA v. Sonderling, will allow the administration’s cuts at the independent agency while the case proceeds. www.ala.org/news/2025/06...

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Elon is right... there is so much "pork" in Trump's Big Bill Republicans plan to slash food assistance for kids & seniors and Meals on Wheels so they can increase subsidies for Florida's big sugar producers by 20% Rob from the poor to give to the rich floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/05/t...

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Meghan McCain is promoting her partnership with a “detox” company for people who “regret” receiving the COVID vaccine. Each jar of 120 capsules is $89.99, developed by “leading pandemic expert” Peter McCullough, cardiologist who had his certifications revoked after he promoted vax misinformation.

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What's most striking is how revealing this is that each knows what a corrupt, lying piece of shit the other is, don't give a fuck about the people they're supposed to serve, and don't seem to be aware we can hear them.

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💛💙

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You love to see it: Santa Barbara County residents are helping shape the future of the Santa Barbara News-Press, guiding its transformation into a nonprofit newsroom rooted in public service. www.newspress.com/2025/06/04/s...

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A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. propub.li/4dMHupk

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I smell smoke

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I encourage you to be reminded what a real American President sounds like. Thank God the Meat Puppet President we have now was not in power then. 🇺🇸

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"For example, RFA is no longer broadcasting to Tibetan or Uyghur audiences. Beijing has added 26 new Tibetan language frequencies and 16 new Uyghur language frequencies since the end of March, the same period when RFA began pulling back." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump, and everyone in his administration, is Foxhole Norman, and we are all Corporal Lipton screaming at these brain-dead empty-uniform fuckwits who couldn't lead if their lives depended on it WE ARE SITTING DUCKS OUT HERE

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When considering whether Musk could be an ally, start by remembering he thinks empathy is weakness. Then move on to his polluting of Black and working-class communities and calling life-saving aid to the world's most vulnerable a commie plot.

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“We’re seeing, spectacularly demonstrated before our eyes, all the limitations of a hyper-commercialized media system, in the ways that they fold so easily, they prematurely obey a would-be autocrat, and also the rise of these media and tech oligarchs," says @victorpickard.bsky.social

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NEW: Texas legislators dropped efforts to spend millions of dollars to buy what experts call ineffective child identification kits weeks after @propublica.org and @texastribune.org reported that lawmakers were again trying to fund the program.

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