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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

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The Trump administration’s spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking. www.axios.com/2025/06/07/u...

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NEW: Only three board members had the power to remove Richard L. Bean as superintendent of the Tennessee juvenile detention center that bears his name. And for decades, those positions have been held down by his closest friends and allies. With @wpln.bsky.social

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Excellent question.

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Q: Congressman, are cuts to Medicare now on the table? REP. JOHN McGUIRE: We just want to right size it. Make sure the right people get it. Not illegal aliens.

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Banks are aiming to issue cryptocurrency. Lawmakers just put a line in the GENIUS Act saying when a bank issuing crypto goes bankrupt, crypto investors get paid before regular depositors. In other words: your savings account becomes crypto’s bailout fund. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

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This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

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Russ Vought lies on CNN: "The reality is that this bill reduces debt and deficits, and I'm explaining to you why Congressional Budget Office skews their results."

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Uhhh. That seems like a pretty big error? Have the authors addressed this?

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EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

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We got two months of pre-tariff pull-forward in auto sales. Now, the biggest monthly decline in five years. $GM $F $STLA

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Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

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The part of the May jobs report that everyone is overlooking: “The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised down by 65,000, from +185,000 to +120,000, and the change for April was revised down by 30,000, from +177,000 to +147,000…

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9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies. They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.

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In order to meet quotas, Honolulu police wrongfully arrested at least 129 people for drunk driving whose blood alcohol levels were 0.000 between 2022 and 2024. The ACLU of Hawaii is taking the police department to court.

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Democrats — don’t even think about taking money from Elon Musk. It’s blood money.

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Might be a lesson here somewhere about outsourcing capacity for key government services to a guy who lives in a lair under a volcano

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This is f*cked up! Stories of ICE luring immigrants to hearings just to arrest them keep coming—now they’re going after kids. Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth grader from Southern California, went to a hearing in Houston with his dad. Instead of an update, they were both detained and separated by ICE.

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Many people who served shoulder-to-shoulder with the US did not qualify for the special visa program. Khalid Khan, an Afghan refugee living in Pakistan, said he worked for the U.S. military for eight years. “I feel abandoned. So long as Trump is there, we are nowhere.” apnews.com/article/trum...

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Remember when Republicans were losing their minds about leaving Afghans who worked with US troops to be killed by the Taliban? Well, Trump has revoked their asylum and is planning to send them back to be murdered.

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Here is the video for the world to see. DHS officers came to my Congressional office to intimidate my staff and office. There were no protesters. There was no riot. This is an extraordinary Executive Branch overreach into Congress, a co-equal branch of government and this is totally unacceptable.

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TEXAS: Trump said ICE raided a “Tren De Aragua Gathering” — turns out it was a birthday party, with kids, and nobody had a criminal record. www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

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You can't just pick and choose when the Constitution applies. Congress makes law. Courts uphold it. Stay in your lane, Mr. Vought.

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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POCAN: How many federal dollars go to funding illegal aliens getting Medicaid? VOUGHT: Because of the money launderi-- POCAN: How many federal dollars go to illegal aliens for Medicaid? Simple question. VOUGHT: It's not a simple question

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Ah, the golden age.

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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KENNEDY: Harvard is in many respects violating federal law SCARBOROUGH: What federal law is Harvard violating? KENNEDY: Harvard practices ideological capture

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Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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If @MarshaBlackburn is pushing a law to make it illegal to name ICE agents… doesn’t that mean it isn’t currently illegal? So what are she and @AndyOgles investigating Mayor O’Connell for exactly? 🤷🏻‍♂️ (Also: if ICE agents are this ashamed, maybe stop?) nypost.com/2025/06/04/u...

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Good morning. Fuck Jake Tapper. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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For the life of me I cannot figure out why Donald Trump is trying to destroy higher education

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We were on the cusp of an immense breakthrough: A cure to our HIV epidemic. A vaccine to prevent one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Until RFK Jr. defunded vaccine trials because a cure to HIV isn't as important as tax breaks for rich people like Big Pharma CEOs.

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New — I wrote about the injustice unfolding before our eyes as rich reality stars are pardoned for their crimes while law-abiding immigrants are rounded up and caged by ICE, and the way communities are rising up to say fuck no.

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Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

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Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

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What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.

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Not knowing about things doesn’t mean they’re not happening.

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