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Two of the three states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally are the red states of Texas and Florida. Trump, notably, does not name their cities when calling on ICE to execute more aggressive immigration raids. He does, however, name LA, Chicago and New York.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests.

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U.S.-CANADA TENSION: Spent this weekend in Montreal and multiple bars are abandoning American whiskey. One bartender told me they ripped all US whiskey brands off the shelf this year (checks out; I went to this spot last year and they had several bourbon options). 🥃

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

It's impressive how the Republicans like Mike Lee who cape as the most "principled, moral, and historically informed" of the bunch turn out to be the most shameless, lying propagandists.

submitted 16 hours ago • 75 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 13 hours ago • 226 comments

FT: “.. fewer passengers travelled through US airports in the past 90 days than in the same period last year, as air traffic declined for the first time since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/28fd...

submitted 14 hours ago • 30 comments

www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...

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Our unofficial crowdsourced estimate of yesterday’s protest turnout is rising to 4.2-7 million as we gather more data. At this point potentially the second-largest single day of protest in U.S. history! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

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It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”

submitted 14 hours ago • 258 comments

Brennan is just wrong here. Lazy journalism based on assumptions, old data, and misinformation. Shows you how much damage certain high-profile pundits can do to the information environment. It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

submitted 16 hours ago • 44 comments

According to the latest WaPo/Schar School poll, Trump’s handling of deportations has 37% approval, 52% disapproval. And Quinnipiac has it at 40% approval, 56% disapproval. But @facethenation.bsky.social insists “public approval is so high on deportation.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 178 comments

Mike Pence: "The president was wrong to pardon people who assaulted police officers on January 6...Anyone who would ever use violence, whether it be against law enforcement of political violence, must be condemned universally."

submitted 20 hours ago • 280 comments

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

submitted 23 hours ago • 266 comments

So much government efficiency it's hard to take. Nice that these folks are drawing compensation from private and public sectors simultaneously. Stick your hand in the till....

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Large crowds across the U.S. gathered on Saturday to protest the Trump administration. See photos from the “No Kings” rallies here. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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It is official! Despite tanks and planes, Trump’s parade was “listless and low-energy.”

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

Chicago showed the fuck up!

submitted 1 day ago • 564 comments

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

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NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly! Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest. #NoKings #50501Movement

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I'm not sure about what media to pay for these days, but I never question my subscription to boltsmag.org. I appreciate the attention to what actually gets done in state and local politics.

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Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, writes Nicholas Florko.

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Nearly 2 in 3 U.S. adults oppose the use of government funds for this weekend's military parade in Washington, D.C., according to new data from the NBC News Decision Desk Poll.

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law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

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absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

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Trump just announced new 50% tariffs on household appliances like dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators. Hope no one out there was in the middle of a remodel, or had a stove recently conk out www.reuters.com/world/us/hom...

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Breaking news: A federal judge agreed to block the Trump administration from deploying the California National Guard, granting a request by Gov. Gavin Newsom and saying the president acted illegally in dispatching the troops amid immigration protests.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich 2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor 3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history. The anti-Robin Hood.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Trump: "Russia fought with us in WWII and everybody hates them. And Germany and Japan, they're fine — some day somebody will explain that...Everybody hates Russia and they love Germany and Japan...It's a strange world."

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A federal judge has cast doubts on the legality of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to LA.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects. We the People.

submitted 3 days ago • 740 comments

The gaslighting here is off the charts. With a quiet, moderated voice, measured cadence, and downcast eyes, Johnson will gladly facilitate the disintegration of our government.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

“.. ‘Whether people are legal or not, they don’t care,’ Alvarado said. ‘If chaos and fear is what they were after, they’ve accomplished it.’” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/ice...

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Dozens of House Dems marched to Hill GOP leaders’ offices in protest of Sen. Padilla’s detention by federal agents.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Pritzker and Newsom are showing the way.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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SCOOP: The Army pushed back on a MAGA pop-up shop being set up at Bragg for Trump's speech but were overruled. Here's how orgs with deep Trump campaign and Jan 6 ties got merch to be sold to troops. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments