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President Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking a sledgehammer to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The result:

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every day i think they can’t get any worse. every day i’m wrong.

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Kremlin: Russia to demand Ukraine destroy Western weapons to end war Moscow is adding more pathetic demands to its so-called "peace memorandum."

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Totally normal

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When Trump reversed Biden's executive order on voter registration, it didn’t just halt new federal voter registration efforts. It erased years of research that identified barriers to the ballot box among some of the most vulnerable communities, and how federal agencies could mitigate them.

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"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."

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Trump has not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the aftermath of the assassination of House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman. www.startribune.com/trump-attack...

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That puts the “ass” in “mass” deportation.

submitted 6 days ago • 125 comments

Vance Boelter is a suspect in the Brooklyn Park shootings of two Minnesota state elected officials and their spouses and is considered to still be in the Twin Cities area looking for a way out. If you see something, say something.

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This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful. Then Trump brought the chaos. He is responsible.

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Newsom suing Trump administration over an “illegal, unconstitutional” federalization of National Guard www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgmofwN/

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Trump administration is cancelling immigration hearings and then arresting people who showed up for those hearings but had not received ruling. Fucking evil abuse of law www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgmohe7/

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Fact check: True.

submitted 12 days ago • 131 comments

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

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👇👇

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Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

submitted 12 days ago • 976 comments

Gathering of fascists in Moscow, Elon Musk's father in attendance

submitted 12 days ago • 113 comments

Donald Trump will do anything to become the richest man in the world, even if it means hurting those who voted for him. He’s obsessed with money, and he is using the White House to enrich himself.

submitted 17 days ago • 60 comments

Read? The Gazpacho Police and Peachtree Dish lady?

submitted 17 days ago • 1238 comments

Thank you for having this conversation today. The chair is always yours.

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

Mike Lindell will not present any evidence at trial that 2020 was rigged because it was all talk. Fascinating.

submitted 17 days ago • 139 comments

CBO is a nonpartisan, neutral org. Its director, Phill Swagel, worked in the GWBush administration and was appointed by Republican lawmakers to his current post. For many reasons, it's laughable that he or his professional colleagues would be cooking the books to help Democrats.

submitted 17 days ago • 92 comments

In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

submitted 19 days ago • 2191 comments

People protesting ICE grabbing a Massachusetts high school boy www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjXKeKsP/

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“If this can happen in a Member of Congress’s office, it can happen to anyone — and it is happening...” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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how it started / how it's going

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Pop quiz: What are the American people paying closer attention to right now? 1) Former President Joe Biden’s stage four prostate cancer diagnosis 2) Trump’s gutting of cancer research (Hint: It's not #2) Jeff Nesbit reports on the story worth your attention.

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

FAA Approves Elon Musk's SPACEX Starship return to flight--after two catastrophic explosions that sent debris falling down to earth. This means Starship will launch again soon. Will see if another Starship blows up.

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"Kennedy’s FDA is not merely removing the recommendation for the COVID booster and letting people make their own decisions," writes @jvl.bsky.social. "They are affirmatively restricting access to it." "They don’t want people to 'do their own research' ... Kennedy and MAGA want control."

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BREAKING: The Department of Justice will move to drop police reform agreements, or consent decrees, that the Biden administration reached with the cities of Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis. Let's revisit one of the MANY Louisville violations: shero.substack.com/p/louisville...

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He’s not gonna like this.

submitted 29 days ago • 1596 comments

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department.

submitted 29 days ago • 86 comments

Clowns

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For no particular reason, I thought I’d remind folks about the time Trump reposted a full-size, full-color image of a truck that was “decorated” with an unconscious Joe Biden, arms and legs bound as though he’d been kidnapped, during the campaign. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 34 days ago • 151 comments

but seashells!

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Military commanders are being told to snitch on transgender troops by tricking them into going in for a routine health assessment that will out them. Because it’s the transgender people that can’t be trusted, you see. apnews.com/article/tran...

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Here’s the thing: line officers at DHS routinely lie about stuff like this. Some studies suggest manufactured statements occur in 15-20% of cases, sometimes higher. Border Patrol is the worst offender but ICE does it too. Read this John Washington piece from 2019. theintercept.com/2019/08/11/b...

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In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how clear it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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The president of the U.S. appears to be improving his own health through access to great medical care and great medical science. That's what he gets. Simultaneously, his administration is doing so much to hurt regular Americans' opportunity to achieve those same good health outcomes the same way.

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Back-to-back headlines on Washpost homepage tonight

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Aaaand there it is.

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

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Mary Boyle, a commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission who Donald Trump tried to fire, explains to Rachel Maddow that product safety has never been a partisan matter. No one wants their beer cooler to chop off their finger. So what is Trump's problem?

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