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Senate Passes Massive Cryptocurrency Bill, Ignoring Risk To Financial System talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-...

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Impromptu presser outside 26 Federal Plaza as elected officials gather, calling for Lander's release.

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Scenes from DC following a tense week in America.

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“Dishes included truffle agnolotti, chilled English pea soup and an American Wagyu bavette and grilled prawns.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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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

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Trump birthday parade sponsored by coinbase

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A few scenes from NYC’s No Kings protest today

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MN Dems have a one seat majority in the state Senate; the House is evenly split www.fox9.com/news/melissa...

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Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

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Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

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SCOOP: The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up its transfer of undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay. Some 9,000 people are being screened, including hundreds from European countries, according to documents. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” Without invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

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President Trump is at the UFC as the National Guard is deployed in Southern California. UFC Fighter Kevin Holland greeting him here.

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Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight

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There’s a meatier issue at the heart of the Breakup We All Saw Coming.

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"The new right"

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New: Ilia Chernov fled Russia in 2023 for the US after prosecutors threatened to charge him with extremism and discrediting the military after he staged a protest at a military recruitment office. Chernov won political asylum in March. ICE won't release him: talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

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This Russian Dissident Won Political Asylum. ICE Refuses To Release Him. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

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- mexican man arrested for writing letters for threatening trump - letters were actually written by a wisconsin man whom the mexican guy was going to testify against for robbing him & slashing him with a box cutter - mexican guy still detained & facing deportation

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The waste, fraud and abuse call is coming from inside the house.

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EXCLUSIVE: Internal Docs Raise Questions About Trump IRS Pick Billy Long’s ‘No-Show Jobs’ And ‘Strange’ Schedule Inside A Powerful Agency talkingpointsmemo.com/news/interna...

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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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Congress is about to pass a stablecoin bill that, experts say, will reopen ways of destabilizing the financial system that have been closed for decades talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-de...

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Russian can be such a beautiful language t.me/mash_gor/8033

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NEW: Trump says Elon Musk is 'really not leaving,' and federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices. read @makenakelly.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, and me:

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RIP to former NYPD commissioner and Rudy Giuliani bestie Bernie Kerik whose dogged efforts to obtain millions of dollars while trying to reverse the 2020 election resulted in the epic "can you I have some money" text message exposed by TPM. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/be...

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The State Department staffer who wrote the Substack manifesto in defense of "Western heritage" and European ultranationalist parties has ties to dark money groups, hidden Twitter poems, and a mom whose immigrant story turned him to the right. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-sta...

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I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Trump Nominates His Defense Lawyer-Turned-DOJ Fixer To Federal Appeals Court talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-n...

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BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

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"The FoundingFathers knew this!" "to rule otherwise would be unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding Fathers!" Two exclamation points!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kennedy’s MAHA movement is fracturing. The vaccine hardliners are angry. And the health influencers are too bland for the base. Read the latest False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/maha-disar...

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This is as good a piece as everyone says. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.

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Huh ... a pretty revealing look at Pete Hegseth's bestie Christian Nationalist pastor talkingpointsmemo.com/news/an-outs...

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“Asked about the meeting, which has not previously been reported, a Pentagon spokesperson told TPM that Hegseth is an admirer of the pastor (Doug Wilson).”

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Little scoop in here: outspoken christian nationalist pastor Doug WILSON, who once wrote that antebellum “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races," met with Secretary of Defense Pete HEGSETH this month talkingpointsmemo.com/news/an-outs...

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Idaho pastor Doug Wilson is bringing his church to DC talkingpointsmemo.com/news/an-outs...

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Following a recusal from Justice Barrett, a split 4-4 Supreme Court decision leaves in place a ruling blocking the country’s first religious charter school www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

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