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The other new bad part of the moratorium is that it also changes the BEAD program to be an AI subsidy program. BEAD is meant for broadband deployment to low income and rural areas. Cruz added the option for states to spend the money instead on AI deployment. It’s a giveaway to Silicon Valley.

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More adventures of Bridget the black and white cat.

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Latest from me, @bxroberts.org and @ericumansky.bsky.social

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remember, this guy ran illegal medical experiments on autistic children using castration drugs and lost his medical license because of it

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This sweet girl ❤️

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Several extremely loud explosions in Kyiv; several ballistic missile strikes reported Ballistic missiles at Dnipro Shahed kamikaze attack ongoing

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Who gets custody of JD Vance?

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these journalists were: strip searched, bound & blindfolded, asked questions about their children/families, and threatened that they would be tracked down if they published images of israeli military locations.

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The bird dance for the ages

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South Korea's President-elect Lee Jae-myung: was a child laborer lost the last election by less than 1% survived a knife attack live-streamed his rush to parliament during martial law wins election with the biggest vote share since 2012 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Dems on the House Oversight Committee moved to subpoena Elon Musk today, catching Republicans off as few Repubs were present. Hilariously, Nancy Mace then lost control of the hearing as they tried to scramble to get their members to actually show up: youtu.be/HdNbaoo5bdM

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The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

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once again I must tap my own sign

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What a day.

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Trump Travel Ban Punishes Victims of the U.S. War Machine Trump’s latest travel ban hits Afghans who aided the U.S. in its failed 20-year war. theintercept.com/2025/06/05/t...

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A team of journalists at the BBC were held at gunpoint by the Israeli army in Israeli-occupied southern Syria

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Masked ICE thugs terrorized Chicago yesterday. They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials. THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.

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Judge Cites Kafka Regarding Renditioning Venezuelans To Salvadoran Concentration Camp, But Allows Kafkaesque Conditions To Continue Generally speaking, if a judge begins an order — in a case where hundreds of men were illegally renditioned to a Salvadoran concentration camp directly against that…

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Yes. Trump is incompetent & lazy. But can we talk about the fact that Sleepy RoboJoe Biden received 90 PDBs at this point in his presidency… while Obama & Trump’s first terms amounted to 118 COMBINED?! So, please, Jake Tapper, tell me again how he was too old for the job.

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Republicans have been engaging in a war on women for awhile now and Trump just gave these extremists more armor and ammo to take away a women’s right to life and bodily autonomy — Permission to let women die by rescinding protections meant to keep us alive. #RepublicanDeathCult #WomensRights

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So, organizations seeking DV grants (which already requires cooperation with the criminal legal system) will also now require orgs disavow that DV is a "system issue," which is so obviously is.

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The Women's Bureau was created 105 years ago today to promote the welfare of working women, a mission that continues to provide vital resources today. Now, a new budget reveals the Trump administration's plans to eliminate it entirely.

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The basic concept of law enforcement is to make society safer. The concept is as old as laws themselves. ICE isn’t making society safer. ICE is creating dangerous situations and risking full blown riots. That’s the opposite of making society safer. It needs to stop before a city burns.

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Ukraine Has Cards open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

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Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: "When Trump promised mass deportations, he and his team stressed that they would be getting gangs and criminals out of America. Legal experts and immigrants themselves warned it was a ruse...Now those predictions are coming true." www.thebulwark.com/p/love-in-th...

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“I refuse to eat at this restaurant. I keep giving them money for delicious food and they refuse to buy anything from me. What a ripoff!”

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Takeaways from CBO's latest analysis: 📈 Debt: $2.4+ trillion (not including interest payments on new debt + more budget gimmicks) 📉 Lost health insurance: 10.9+ million people (not including the millions who will lose their health care because of expiring ACA credits)

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A very good reason to & definitely a good day to subscribe to Anne's Patreon. Sea Otter & Ermine. Poetry & baking. And the moon shining over all.

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Republicans want to codify Trump’s USAID cuts into law — the same cuts that researchers say have killed 300,000 people in just four months. Absolutely not. Helping to keep the world healthy is in America’s best interests and makes us stronger.

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NEW: In April, 7 abortion providers traveled to Texas. Prior to their trip, they were required to submit a list of abortions they provided in the past year. This wasn't some new Texas law—it was a requirement of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. My first story for @autonomynews.co

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Not counting resolutions disapproving individual federal regulations, the 119th Congress has passed a grand total of three laws in its first five months. THREE!! Granted, we might be better off with this Congress sitting on its hands, but that's still a remarkably low (and telling) total.

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Republicans are holding a hearing to accuse Ivy League schools of price-fixing, yet they brought in expert witnesses who admitted they had no evidence of price-fixing. It’s all performance and a smokescreen intended to smear higher education.

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@samthielman.com lol

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NEWS: Kari Lake has told Congress her plans for Voice of America and its parent agency. Down from 1000+ employees, it would keep 81 (30+ for Cuba) > Farsi: 2 positions > China: 2 positions > Afghanistan: 2 positions > VOA: 11 positions Here's Lake's full letter to Senate

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New from the Congressional Budget Office: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 10.9 million people through changes to Medicaid and the ACA. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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Unbelievable www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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Imagine that

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Erasing Harvey Milk’s name is disgusting, blatant discrimination—and during Pride Month to boot. He served the U.S. Navy and his country honorably, and he was assassinated while serving the public and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights. Hegseth should be ashamed of himself and reverse this immediately.

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SCOOP: The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul. www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

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South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.

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NEW: Republican Sen. Jerry Moran, chair of the Senate appropriations subcommittee the funds the Census Bureau, tells Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that the "limited" information that Congress has received so far about President Trump's budget request for the Commerce Department is "insufficient"

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Important and timely independent research, given the increasing efforts of the Trump administration to reverse 60 years of progress to (modestly) fund nonpartisan non-commercial local media. current.org/2025/06/stud...

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Even with massive cuts to Medicaid & SNAP… even after slashing housing, and gutting public education… Republicans’ $3.7 trillion tax cuts still add $2.4 trillion to the deficit. Our kids & grandkids will have the GOP to thank for the economic train wreck they will be left with.

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They just want to erase everyone who isn’t a straight white man They are pieces of shit. Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/p...

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Are you pregnant or trying to become pregnant? The Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline has clinicians available to talk no matter where you are. Keep their contact handy in case of need. BUT if you live in a red state, we recommend first downloading and using the StartPage browser.

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When some say that “no 💉has been tested for safety”, not only is that wrong (safety is one of the key pillars of 💉 studies), but they ignore the “post-marketing surveillance data”of 💉, which typically contains data on X millions of doses over Y yrs/decades (X & Y depend on the 💉). There. Is. Data.

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