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Grigory Melkonyants, the head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison after being convicted of working with an "undesirable" organization, according to Russian news agencies and his attorney.

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A reminder that if this same headline and subhed was published somewhere else with Qatar changed to Israel, the same Free Press that published this piece would scream that it was antisemitic.

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No, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

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Doing it out in the open doesn’t make it not corrupt or legal. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty care to comment about any of this or nah? www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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When AG Sulzberger says he thinks a president declining an interview with him is an attack on freedom of the press on par with a president using bad faith lawsuits and abuse of merger oversight to get media orgs to toe the party line, kicking out AP, and arresting students for op-eds, I believe him.

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If Barack Obama had appeared in a photo like this, Republicans would have impeached him and then someone would have assassinated him.

submitted 4 hours ago • 137 comments

Good morning to everyone but the most corrupt president to ever exist, who is at this moment selling out his nation to the funders of terrorism so his boy can sign another $2 billion deal. Oh and Tom Holman

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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The Supreme Court could give a major boost to the Trump administration's muscular use of executive power when it hears arguments Thursday over his plan to end birthright citizenship. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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What blatant racism to allow white South Africans into the country saying they are fleeing danger while deporting brown people many who have legal status Tony

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Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.

submitted 13 hours ago • 562 comments

BREAKING: Dems have FLIPPED the Omaha mayoral race. John Ewing Jr has beaten the GOP incumbent!!

submitted 13 hours ago • 739 comments

There's always a tweet.

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Chris Murphy: "I just don't know that our Republican colleagues will ever break. This is a cult that operates like a cult, and for the time being, if Donald Trump says that black is white or 1+1=5, the Republican Party is gonna agree with him."

submitted 18 hours ago • 157 comments

Oh look, more corruption: “The nation’s railroad agency, has brought in the Boring Company, the tunneling firm founded by Elon Musk, to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar Amtrak project.”

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Trump lifts sanctions on Syria after offer of a Trump Tower in Damascus, praises MBS, salutes Saudi generals, and defends a Qatari jet gift—while banning press from Air Force One. GOP splits over drugs, jets, SALT, and Social Security. Catch up:

submitted 16 hours ago • 231 comments

The Signal app & crypto have facilitated unmitigated corruption.

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Trump just casually meeting with MBS, another friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who chopped up a US citizen and everyone just sits around pretending that’s normal behaviour.

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“As with donations to a presidential inaugural committee, gifts to the library fund fall between the cracks of campaign finance regulations and rules governing ethics in office.” @jacobtlevy.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her. It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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US tourism industry on track to lose 31 Qatari luxury jumbo jets’ worth of income.

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As far as I can tell, the Democrats are experts at appealing to the middle. The party needs to expand to the left, not the right. I doubt we'll lose "the middle" by advocating for a public health option or supporting the LGBTQ+ community. If you want to be a republican, go be a republican.

submitted 18 hours ago • 199 comments

The cognitive dissonance required to support the government saying both “Forget vaccines, you just need fresh, healthy food” and “We’re firing all the food inspectors” is truly staggering.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"Government just big enough to fit into your bedroom, your womb an now apparently in your toy chest." 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THE FAST TRACKED, WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN "REFUGEES," WELCOMED TO THE U.S. TODAY, HAVING BEEN PERSECUTED IN SOUTH AFRICA! Meanwhile, they're throwing out Afghanis who helped the U.S. military in the war.

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Jeffries: "Millions of people in this country are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck ... and Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas? I mean, you can't make this stuff up."

submitted 22 hours ago • 183 comments

#HamasForceOne #SwampForceOne ✈️

submitted 22 hours ago • 55 comments

The truth about the South African "refugees" from a South African....

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Trump, who is set to accept a $400M floating palace airplane from Qatar, tweeted this about Obama in 2012:

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Breaking: leaked audio proves Sean Duffy knows flying right now isn’t safe.

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FOX: You said, 'They better not touch our members.' What happens if they were to go and arrest these members or sanction them? JEFFRIES: They'll find out. That's a red line. I think that the so-called Homeland Security spokesperson is a joke ... no one is intimidated by this dude.

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Incredible article on Rodney Hinton Jr. by @loloverruled.bsky.social and how little focus is placed on the sickness of a system that drove a father to seek revenge against the very institution that murdered his child loloverruled.substack.com/p/im-not-sad...

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

Hey military people… is a U. S. President suppose to salute a foreign military (Saudi)? My husband (an ex-Marine) says never!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

Let's all join Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the fight to SAVE MEDICAID! It's time to flood the congressional phone lines. Call your representative TODAY and tell them to vote against these massive cuts. LFG ✊

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One of Donald Trump’s first executive orders, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” signaled where the administration was headed. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

submitted 21 hours ago • 32 comments

The Adderall has worn off. He needs the XR version.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

🔥 @repstansbury.bsky.social : “These guys (Republicans) are proposing to give $7 TRILLION in tax breaks to billionaires, millionaires, and their corporate donors by taking away food from children.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJm-oY9...

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Murphy: "There's no guarantee that we are gonna have a free and fair election in 2026. He's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the opposition, so that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s next year, there isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign"

submitted 18 hours ago • 706 comments

Exactly.

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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After an ICE raid in Waltham, MA, on May 4, a 12-year-old boy was left alone after agents arrested the adult with him. A Neighborhood Watch volunteer told the child his rights & walked him home. Agents refused to ID themselves, and one drove his car at City Councilor Colleen Bradley-MacArthur.

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Lets be PRECISLEY CLEAR: The STORY is NOT that Boeing is late on Airforce 1 The STORY IS THE POTUS OF THE US TOOK A BRIBE IN THE FORM OF A 747 FROM A TERRORIST NATION. THAT IS THE STORY AND THERE IS NO OTHER STORY

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GOP heavyweights join bipartisan bashing of Trump Qatar jet deal Senate Majority Leader John Thune and GOP firebrand senators are among those voicing discomfort with the deal.

submitted 18 hours ago • 168 comments

BREAKING: Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case, allowing charges to continue

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Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement

submitted 19 hours ago • 481 comments

Black and brown people who experienced similar persecutions as those South Africans are not welcome. Got it!

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments