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New from retired General Mark Hertling on the danger of cyber attacks: “WHEN I VISITED THE CYBER CENTER in Tallinn, all I could think of was what if this happened in the United States @markhertling.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/slashing-c...

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truck drivers are out of work — literally stuck sitting, waiting and in some cases going broke — because of Trump’s tariffs. here’s one of them. thank you @nicollewallace.bsky.social for the time to tell this story.

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Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

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Repost if YOU are going to a No Kings Day rally on Trump’s birthday, June 14th. This is a great summary of what the events are for and why it’s important to TURN OUT! Please watch and share.

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Trump, who has questioned Biden's mentally capacity, shared a post last weekend asserting that Biden was actually "executed in 2020" and replaced by a robotic clone. Now he orders an investigation into the latest conspiracy theory. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

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One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism. @hannahallam.bsky.social

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NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

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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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Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more than $500. Five days after his pharmacy visit last year, Cole had a severe asthma attack and died. nbcnews.to/4mM9cGV

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We've waited over eight years for Trump to reveal his health care plan. Here it is. 10.9 million more uninsured (plus at least 4 million more from letting IRA subsidies expire).

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Trump once attacked crypto as a danger. Now he’s made billions from it. His meme coin allows any foreign state, King, pardon seeker or criminal org to secretly put money directly in his pocket. And Trump’s SEC mysteriously dropped 13 investigations against crypto fraudsters.

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CBO ESTIMATES TAX AND SPENDING BILL WOULD INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE BY 16 MILLION IN 2034

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Reminder in first Trump term they repeatedly lied about deficits their tax cuts would create and not only did they not pay for themselves the deficit went up every year of Trump’s Presidency. In fact Trump increased the deficit by more than other post war POTUS. www.reuters.com/article/econ...

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ICYMI, yesterday Zelenskyy and his wife met with kids in an air raid shelter in Kyiv. I subtitled the video in English. More details in the video description. #Ukraine

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Just your average 2am ramblings

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A reminder that in 1990 Trump PRAISED the CCP's violent crackdown on Tiananmen protests www.businessinsider.com/trump-praise...

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They’re getting closer to outright rigging the economic stats www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

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Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

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Greg Rosen, a former Justice Department prosecutor who quit in protest days ago, tells CBS News' Scott MacFarlane about the "shocking" treatment of FBI employees who worked on the Jan. 6 criminal investigation.

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He eliminated a State Department office that dealt with Russian disinformation campaigns—and is married to a woman with family ties to the Kremlin. It's another clear conflict of interest that's extremely typical within the Trump administration. https://trib.al/AANtzmh

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Science, advancing through rigorous research and international collaboration. All under threat from this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/h...

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A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days. EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

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SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets. www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

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MAGA’s new motto: punish the poor, protect the powerful. Trump and his crew are pushing work requirements for food, housing, and healthcare—while handing out tab breaks to billionaires. If they really cared about “fraud”, they’d start with their own damn tax returns.

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I asked Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the IRS if the President can legally tell the IRS to target a specific taxpayer. He couldn’t give me a straight answer.

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New in PN: The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state "Despite the endless handwringing about Biden Old, a sitting president acting like a cross between a 4Chan thread and Q truly is a major concern — one the mainstream media actively minimizes."

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This morning I’m fighting back against Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted me. And I’m calling on government watchdogs to investigate the Trump Administration — because “revenge orders” have no place in America. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/treason/...

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A lawless regime

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Fraud , waste, and abuse right? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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"There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities: (1) Failed states, where criminals contest the government’s hold on power. (2) Authoritarian states, where the government has total, unchecked power." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...

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After penning an anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018, Miles Taylor became the target of a Trump executive order accusing him of treason. Taylor spoke to us about his experience in a Q&A 👇

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My latest column: RFK Jr.'s fake citations were only the start www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Today at 4:44 am, 🇺🇦 SBU detonated 1,100 kg of explosives under Crimean bridge's supports. The structure is now critically damaged. It’s 3rd successful strike. No civilian casualties. Preparation took months. Chief Maliuk: Crimea is Ukraine. No illegal Russian object is safe. We finish what we start

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Trump’s advisers have given up trying to restrict his phone use. His personal cellphone has become, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social write, “the most pivotal technological device in the federal government, directly linking Trump to the outside world.”

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The US Securities & Exchange Commission used to be a highly professional, apolitical law enforcement agency. Now its best and most principled staff are quitting in disgust at its perversion into a tool for investigating regime enemies, impunity for regime friends. Poisoning our institutions.

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Blown away by M. Gessen's excellent piece on the investigative journalist Christo Grozev: "The story of the resources that were marshaled to silence a single inconvenient voice is a terrifying reminder of what Putin, & beyond him the rising generation of autocratic rulers, are capable of "

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“There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities: (1) Lawless failed states… (2) Authoritarian states… Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...

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New: The FTC's investigation into online advertising goes beyond just Media Matters. About a dozen other groups, including industry watchdogs and ad organizations, are also under investigation. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...

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NEW A gift link for a detailed story in the Atlantic story about President Trump’s cell phone usage. The president is very accessible (not a good thing) and giving a large intelligence gift to foreign intelligence agencies (enemies and allies).

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Totally normal political movement that is in charge of every branch of government.

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