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Trump-Appointed Holocaust Council Member Slams Trump Nominee Over Antisemitism Siggy Flicker shared a graphic calling Paul Ingrassia "Antisemite of the Week" meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...

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Jay Bhattacharya has been a catastrophic, damaging NIH director. His staff have gone public to say how dreadful he is & how awful his censorship is. People I know at NIH tell me he is utterly hapless & disastrous. And now he has to RESTORE MANY OF THE GRANTS THAT HE CUT👏 thehill.com/policy/healt...

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As a constituent of Ron Johnson, I hesitate to cast aspersions on the brokenness of any other state’s senators. And the competition is fierce among the candidates for worst of the worst. But, at least for today, I ask you to consider Mike Lee. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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He said it. Yes.

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UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more

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And then the murders began…

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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Very cool that several people who used to yell at me in DMs for being too mean to Facebook are now running some sort of extralegal posse informally deputized by the actual United States Army.

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I hope everyone at these labs is in full PPE to protect them from these three pathogens.

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This one is so completely plausible that it’s not really satire.

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Beyond devastating. The cruelty and idiocy of this ban is mind-numbing. So many brave men and women, serving their country honorably in uniform, purged from the ranks because of the president's vile, unvarnished bigotry. My heart breaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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“He seemed a little surprised to be confronted.” Yeah, that’s the problem with the clubby atmosphere of the Senate. This guy thinks he can spread vile lies without pushback. Good for @smith.senate.gov for puncturing that delusion

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The Senate Majority leader is lying

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“Asked about Lee’s reaction, Smith said, “Honestly, he seemed a little surprised to be confronted.” Lee regularly posts vile stuff so he is living in some kind of obscene maga bubble. Might be a story there… www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Have any Utah Republicans called Mike Lee out? Anyone ask @spencercox.bsky.social? Or how about the LDS church? Do they have any firm positions on lying and laughing about murder?

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Mike Lee’s reprehensible behavior and comments on MN and so many other things are not just about Lee, they are a reflection of the lack of moral character of every voter in UT who put him there, & every cowardly Republican colleague and the Mormon Church who refuse to say a word.

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Photo from The Hill's Al Weaver (from Xitter) catches Tina Smith confronting Mike Lee.

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A federal jury in Colorado has found "that one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company after the 2020 presidential election." www.usnews.com/news/busines...

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Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, 👇🤷‍♂️

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Trump's Sunday night screed about Democrats who are "sick of mind" and "hate our country" is the exact sort of rhetoric that radicalizes people like Boelter to commit acts of violence. But instead of responding to the Hortman assassination by turning down the heat, Trump keeps ramping it up.

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Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilling effect to convince us to go away." Other reporters say they have been targeted too. My story below:

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"The amenities were quite poor. I had to supply my own undersea cable cutter!"

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Russia arrange propaganda trip directly to 🇸🇯 Svalbard. "It will never be profitable," says former head of Moscow's tourism branch in Barentsburg in this interview with the Barents Observer.

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More to the point, it's news media that ignore the GOP's own age (and sanity) issues while giving Tapper space and airtime. Republicans ignore their own age issues in pursuit of Biden’s frailty www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator

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I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.

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This is the politicization of law enforcement. It's not about "immigration," it's about demonizing cities and winning elections

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I think one measure of who is bringing the violence to protests is how many reporters have been injured by protesters and how many have been injured from police.

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@maggiewittlin.bsky.social @alahav.bsky.social @jamalgreene.bsky.social @marinklevy.bsky.social just saw a outstanding production of west side story and thought of you guys. Probably forgetting some of my other social media musical people too

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This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

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BREAKING: Shooting suspect Vance Boelter was arrested by authorities late Sunday evening in Sibley County, according to a high-ranking state official.

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Bizarrely, it appears that Trump’s nominee to lead the FAA has been lying about holding a commercial pilot license www.politico.com/news/2025/06... #aviation

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Many columnists at major newspapers basically write crap. When it's right-coded crap, they get more praise for it on Twitter, because fewer people there tell them it's crap than do so on Bluesky. But they want the people who say it's crap here to come back to Twitter so they don't lose reach.

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Upon reflection, I really should’ve left the word ‘weird’ off.

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www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles...

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Not the most important thing here, but is he deploying ICE to decide who can play on women’s volleyball teams?

submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

Sorry but I think I want to talk about your lame parade and the huge “No Kings” turn-out for a couple more days.

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All that we’re missing is calling the Dems cockroaches and Tutsi scum

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A huge amount of catastrophic policy right now is being driven by the fact that Stephen Miller grew up in Santa Monica and was furious when a life change pushed him into a school district where he had to share a classroom with Hispanic kids he despised. This is his revenge tour.

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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

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It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

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The end of PEPFAR--and yes, despite what Marco Rubio claims, it is so severely disrupted as to be essentially dead, according to my sources on the ground--is for me personally one of the most upsetting things Trump has done. He has murdered people. Yes, let's call it what it is.

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RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore -America’s anti-vaccine era is truly beginning.

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My fed agency helped build an IRS login system that didn't rely on face recognition, we felt it was invasive. For this were attacked by The Daily Wire as "a cabal of perpetually triggered leftists obsessed with politics and pronouns" Per Musk's tweets, this is part of the reason he fired us all.

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He took over a small antivaccine group he liked in 2015, turned it into his own propaganda & money-laundering org that became the biggest antivaxx source in the world and made him more than $20K/week. You have to be very intentionally stupid to think this started in 2020 or was ever about liberalism

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