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DON’T RANK Cuomo but you must also RANK ALL FIVE MAYORAL SLOTS to ensure the predator is not elected. I explain why in this video please watch and share. 1/2

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Australia has approved the sale of slaughter-free Japanese quail, becoming only the third country in the world to permit the sale of meat cultivated from animal cells.

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Because all they need is some dude giving the sieg heil salute in the background. Everyone will get the gist.

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They’re not coming for the most dangerous or violent. They are abducting people at their jobs, calling them in for fake check-ins to meet their daily quotas, and kidnapping US citizens. They’re coming to tear apart our communities. The cruelty is the point. #MAGAKidnappers

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On this week’s Australia Podcast: Rebecca Jones talks to reporter Ben Westcott about the potential fallout from the Pentagon’s review of the Aukus pact.

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The US State Department told embassies and consulates they must vet student visa applicants for “hostile attitudes towards our citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles” but said they should resume appointments that were paused in late May.

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My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

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🦠ATTENTION ATLANTA! 🤒 While the new anti-vax members of ACIP discuss how best to restrict vaccine access, we're holding a parade of diseases outside CDC. So brush off that polio costume and come dressed to kill! *Plz dress as the organism-not an infected person-we don't want to appear to mock ppl

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CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

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As a result of today's decision, the Trevor Project board of directors is matching every dollar donated with $3 until June 22. So a $25 contribution becomes $100! GO DONATE. Help save the lives of trans kids. www.thetrevorproject.org

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this goes for all the chuds he’s inevitably going to bring with him, that’s his goal, the vice president doesn’t have anything to do and has no interests beyond trolling you and encouraging people to abuse you, freeze all the motherfuckers out in silence

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Omigosh. Is he putting these in so he can say he has the best polls of any president, and then claim he meant poles whenever people point out that's bullshit?

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since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

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Is this the first National Defense Area conviction? /this is the thing where they declared a specific 60-foot strip of the border to be a military property and therefore anyone crossing it was trespassing on military property. www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr...

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Can’t even spin this that he meant to say the Revolution but got tripped, which would be bad enough for an event so central to, you know, the Declaration of Independence. But to give the casualty count for the Civil War (600K IS the lower estimate, vs ~50K for the Rev) means he MEANT the Civil War.

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments

I don't remember planting all these lillies.

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CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson just told reporters that he's going to veto this ordinance. "I stand against this proposal because we need data-driven, effective strategies to guide our community," he said.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Scroll for so many great orgs. The Trevor Project had gift-matching today, but don't forget the other smaller orgs that probably need our dollars more. 💜

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Slotkin is good here. And Hegseth feels he doesn't have to answer a Democratic woman senator's questions.

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

Twitter is a toxic wasteland, while Bluesky seems kinder... except for sudden influxes of the people from twitter that are making that place uninhabitable. Not perfect, but definitely more community minded.

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“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

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NEW: A federal appeals court tossed out a redistricting lawsuit filed by tribes in ND, saying they weren't allowed to bring a suit under the VRA — only the DOJ can. That's just the tip of the iceberg of really escalating threats against Native voters. Must-read, quite distressing reporting:

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Local rain and a world on fire didn't stop Penny and her BFF Rainier from enjoying their romp through the woods today.

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One shouldn't have to be an "outraged liberal" to think that roughing up and arresting Democratic officials for no good reason are extremely dangerous portents of totalitarianism. Not sure that "Trump's crackdown" is the best name for this authoritarian offensive.

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I wrote this in November and, in light of the Skirmetti decision, am once again begging Democrats not to see abandoning transgender rights as the right play politically

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Musk succeeded in destroying an entire sector of the American economy (international humanitarian assistance), and is trying to do the same to another (public lands management).

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Joni Ernst claims we have never talked abt American citizens killed on October 7 which ... is not how I remember this. I wonder if she cares that Russia just killed an American citizen.

submitted 19 hours ago • 27 comments

Let’s explore the concept of a space DUI because I know who definitely has one

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Think I would rather avoid this. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

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Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

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Antiwar protests went straight under the "Campus Antisemitism" heading but what exactly counts as right-wing remains an impenetrable mystery to the tools of responsible objective journalism

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one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?

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The day before Kristi Noem's goons premeditated an arrest of Brad Lander, NYC amended its lawsuit against Noem, catching them lying to explain their theft of $80M. I'd say that's just a coinkydink...But Ras Baraka is suing Noem too. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/18/r...

submitted 21 hours ago • 34 comments

Get the federal troops out of L.A. Now.

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Trump's Treasury Department is considering proposals that could threaten hundreds of colleges' financial stability by removing their tax-exempt status

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Hirono asks whether Whiskey Pete will follow the Breyer opinion in CA. Whiskey Pete says he doesn't think District Court should set policy on NatSec.

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The title says it all. The truth is devastating. “If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed...immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases” - Dr. Fiona Havers Call your legislatures, especially Republicans. #FireRFKJr - he has to go NOW.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

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well this is just about the most ominous thing I've ever heard

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Whiskey Pete says that Iran understood that when Trump said 60 days, Iran understood that. Which is nutty bc not even Steve Witkoff did.

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