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NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

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Oklahoma Republicans installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state's public school students to be taught conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. So a group of parents is using a law passed by Oklahoma Republicans in 2024 to opt their kids out.

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Trump Republicanism targets firefighters, first responders, miners, people who work in manufacturing: "We’re really losing 40 years worth of work. Even if they restart them, we’re going to have lost so many people to follow up...” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social. #TACOTrump

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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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New — Video shared with me that was taken yesterday at Manhattan Immigration Court (290 Broadway) shows ICE officers in the midst of an arrest putting on face masks once they realize they’re being filmed my witnesses.

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New state fact sheets show how the House Republicans’ extreme budget plan would cut food and health care for millions while delivering bigger tax breaks to the wealthy — forcing families, veterans, seniors, and others in every state to bear higher costs and more red tape.

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Watching Mike Johnson champion a bill that will cut $715 billion from Medicaid, $300 billion from SNAP and perhaps $500 billion from Medicare Lie about it-claiming the programs WOULDN'T be cut And argue the legislation is "moral" Is maybe the most perverse thing I've ever seen a politician do

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WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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The DOJ charged Representative LaMonica McIver with assault after she visited an immigrant-detention facility. “Interpreting this as anything other than an attempt to punish criticism and intimidate Democrats is difficult,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes.

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Remember when WH press corpse circled the wagons when the successful Black president said Fox was not news? www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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You are personally ordering the deportation of people because of things they’ve said and op-eds they’ve written. You don’t give a fuck about free speech.

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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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We must heed the lessons from cautionary examples of authoritarian regimes in Italy, Turkey, Philippines, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Israel. It’s not too late…yet.

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New grads from across the country reveal how DOGE cuts have led to rescinded job offers, confusion, and dashed hopes for careers in public service.

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This is completely false and not From Liz or me.

submitted 7 days ago • 600 comments

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

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We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.

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Democrats don’t canvass in my rural community, but neither do Republicans. The difference is that churches often do the work of the Republican Party three times a week…

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“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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14 ballistic missiles and dozens of drones were aimed at Kyiv last night. This is Putin's follow up to his two hour chat with Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Heather Cox Richardson ❇️ Podcast ❇️ 5/22/2025 "This bill highlights a truism: In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

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Donald Trump has just blocked Harvard University from admitting and enrolling international students, terminating Harvard’s student visa program. How is this effing legal?! This most certainly will not make America great. Peak brain drain.

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"April home sales dropped to the slowest pace for that month since 2009" There is a coming economic recession that few people are ready for and it's 100% because of Trump and GOP. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/a...

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Make America The Great Society Again

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Call your Senator today using the 5calls app. "This bill is a 'significant restriction on the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders." "Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored.”

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Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

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The United States is open for bribes...in direct violation of the constitution

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BREAKING: Republicans are cutting Medicare in their budget bill, Speaker Johnson wants a vote today but three Republicans are already a NO, Target sales plummet because of DEI protests, and more. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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The bar is so low for the president that doing the bare minimum has the media praising him

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I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding. That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.

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The GOP's budget would make brutal cuts to food assistance and our colleagues won't shield veterans from their cruelty. Veterans are not waste. They're not fraud. And they're not abuse.

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Permitting Texans to bring guns to the polls would increase the risk of violence in a state where election workers are already worried about their physical safety. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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“How is it possible that a party that has done pretty well in its management of the economy over the past three decades—better than the other party on this front—gets no political benefit? Democrats have had a striking inability to get credit for good results.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-big...

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A heated exchange between Van Hollen and Rubio: "Writing an op ed to the Tufts newspaper is disrupting the foreign policy of the US? That's pathetic, Mr. Secretary."

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Number of US gas stations currently selling gas for $1.99: Zero. @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social @nbcnews.com 🇺🇸

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