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You can’t have a functioning democracy with a government that constantly lies to the public. If we want to keep our freedom, we must defeat the Trumpers.

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Rubio announces the US will "aggressively revoke" the visas of Chinese students. More racism from the Trump Administration because Trump is embarrassed China won't bend the knee on his tariffs so he's punishing Chinese students. youtu.be/T2qKdYtlCfc?...

submitted 12 hours ago • 68 comments

Judge blasts Trump administration for noncompliance with court orders wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/05/30/r...

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under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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President Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency that enforces ethics law and protects whistleblowers, despite Ingrassia's links to extremists.

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Authoritarians harass their political enemies with the instruments of the state. This is authoritarianism. We need to be clear-eyed about what is happening here. www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...

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when you look at the powers trump is claiming and boil it down, he really does seem to see himself as the literal embodiment of the executive branch, if not the entire nation, and thus his authority extends to everything www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

submitted 14 hours ago • 177 comments

‘Chilling and dangerous’: Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data. A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations. grist.org/accountabili... #Law #Courts #Climate #Louisiana

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Middletown, where JD Vance spent most of his youth, has had $5.6 million in funding yanked by the Dept of Ed. Funding they were going to use to finish construction they had already started. www.wvxu.org/education/20...

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There is a gap between “what the Trump administration says about its mass deportation campaign in court, where it is required to tell the truth, and what officials say in public as they attempt to blunt criticism,” writes Nick Miroff:

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So, brainworm man is going to crash our vaccine system And the serial rapist is taking away women's autonomy And the man whose family escaped anti-Jewish pogroms & the man whose family fled Cuba are exiling people to concentration camps with no due process? ENOUGH. Protest on 6/14 #NoKings

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"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation... Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."

submitted 22 hours ago • 25 comments

There’s your empty shelf. US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record

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1/ We got government data showing that the Trump administration knew the majority of Venezuelan men it sent to a prison in El Salvador had no criminal record in the U.S. - and that only a handful had been convicted of violent crimes - before calling them all terrorists and deporting them.

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How RFKjr decimated the pipeline of new Covid and flu vaccines to reward his crony Matt Memoli.

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Kristi Noem gets caught in another probable false claim. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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“.. raising questions over whether [Trump] might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.” @nytimes.com $PLTR www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 23 hours ago • 207 comments

One of the worst parts of this whole ongoing ~thing~ has been watching the very few members of our media-political-intellectual-economic-etc elite who do actually care about the collapse of the constitutional order discover how few of their colleagues agree with them.

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Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

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...how do we know it's only immigrant kids? How long before other databases are merged and precious Kayden/Hayden/Maiden/Brayden are on the list as well?

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My @wired.com colleagues reporting continues to astound me. These SCOOPS were all JUST YESTERDAY: • Migrant children's DNA stored in criminal database • DOGE leader Nicole Hollander is leaving • Former DOGE staffer on how the group was run • Trump visa ban could derail US AI efforts Links below

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The press continues to credulously report that Elon Musk is "leaving" the White House. The first rule of writing about Musk: His words are meaningless. There are 20 years of Musk's broken promises. Be skeptical, folks. www.salon.com/2025/05/30/e...

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NEW @propublica.org Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, the DHS' own data shows: • 130 had NO U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations; • 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.; • 6 of those were violent crimes.

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It's working!!

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NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.

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“Gaza is the hungriest place on earth," said OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke. "It's the only defined area, a country or defined territory within a country where you have the entire population at risk of famine. 100 percent of the population at risk of famine." @afpnews.bsky.social

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As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

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"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

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RFK Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report seems riddled with AI slop

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Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.

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The total lack of concern or awareness from these people that they have just participated in unprecedentedly illegal, unconstitutional, destructive activities that have killed people & dismantled essential public functions suggests they are not only arrogant & ignorant schmucks, but also sociopaths.

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It can’t be said enough: a commitment to see every single person involved with this arson prosecuted to the fullest extent is a nonnegotiable for any politician that wants my vote

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BREAKING: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, Judge Xinis denies DOJ’s request for an extension of the discovery deadline after plaintiffs say the Trump administration has only turned over one document during this period. The May 30 deadline will stand. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bet you a dollar they used ChatGPT

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OPM memo: Fed job applicants must now pledge in writing to implement Trump's political agenda. The final step in the Authoritarian playbook on the civil service: ✅ Purges disguised as "efficiency" ✅ Gut oversight agencies ✅ Weaken regulatory enforcement ➡️ Replace experts with loyalists ← UNDERWAY

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They’re kidnapping children and those whose cases were being tossed out by the state Either way - it’s pure fucking evil m

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The North Carolina Supreme Court has allowed a new law to take effect that strips the Democratic governor's power over the state election administration and hands it to the Republican state auditor. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Beyond parody.

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COVID-19 was one of the 10 most common causes of death for all age groups in 2021 www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nv...

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But let’s talk more about Joe Biden.

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Sounds about right. This is a reminder that, yes, ICE can in fact bring people back that it has wrongfully deported. It is just choosing not to do that for Mr. Abrego Garcia, in violation of a court order. But in this case, it doesn't have the figleaf of CECOT to hide behind.

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Your periodic reminder that immigration "judges" are employees of the executive branch who, despite serving a quasi-juridical function, can be fired at the whim of the president and AG like most DOJ employees. They are not independent Article III judges.

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This. This is the point. Protesting against authoritarianism shouldn't be partisan. It's American. It's pro-democracy. It's pro-We The People. Democracy requires effort. Now is the time.

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An administration that wants to curtail, cut off, control, and punish knowledge and learning is trying to stamp out independence and resistance. It is a scared administration. Because knowledge is power.

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A student said to me at an event today, ‘I’d love to speak out and say stuff but I can’t because I’m on a visa.’ What has happened to America? Trump and Rubio and MAGA have killed free speech and the First Amendment in this country.

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