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My local numbers at wastewaterSCAN. For context, in two weeks we’ve gone from one of our lowest points ever to near the peak of last year’s winter wave.

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Due to the end of tax subsidies in the budget, insurers are already anticipating a "death spiral" in the ACA marketplace, where healthy people drop out and the rest have to pay higher premiums. Tell our Senators to vote no on the budget and protect ACA Fetterman 215 241-1090 McCormick 202 224-6324

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This👇👇👇@joycewhitevance.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

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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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He walks away, each step unraveling illusions imposed since childhood by the American oligarchy. There, health is privilege; in Europe, a right. The quiet revelation: life untethered from cost, fear. He sees now—dignity isn’t earned, well-being isn’t bartered, how the world he once knew deceived him

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At a time when we desperately need to bring down the temperature, the president of the United States is deliberately turning up the heat. His thirst for chaos and division is dangerous and deeply un-American.

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“Insurrection” is the word tyrants use when the people refuse to obey. It’s how the perpetrators of oppression frame themselves as victims to silence dissent, smear resistance, and cloak their violence. But history only asks one question: Who stood for justice: the regime or the resistance?

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What makes the far-right so popular? British activist Matthew Collins breaks it down 👇

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This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

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Rachel Maddow’s entire feed is filled with pictures and videos of #nokings protests across the country and world. On Father’s Day I’ll be scrolling through these with my daughter. Showing her we’re not alone. Explaining why. What a day. Hope. Joy. Defiance. @maddow.msnbc.com

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Tambourines. Trumpets. "Blasting horns so the little fuckers had a terrible sleep.” Demonstrators outside LA-area hotels—where ICE agents are believed to be sleeping—are employing creative methods to keep those agents awake. @annamerlan.bsky.social writes on "No sleep for ICE."

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1. Let's put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) www.wired.com/story/shooti...

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Boston showed up for No Kings Day!

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Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

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The scale of the rally in Portland is MASSIVE. Simultaneously crossing the Morrison and Hawthorne Bridges in one long parade of democracy. Tens of thousands of people. #NoKings

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#nokings

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#NoKings

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Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

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Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

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If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

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absolutely horrifying: "Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer."

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Excellent article. If you ever asked yourself what you would have done as your country slipped into a dictatorship… It’s what you are doing now. 👇

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Erica Chenoweth, "Civil Resistance What Everyone Needs to Know"-- "Nonviolent resistance is a stunningly successful method of creating change...one of the most important success factors for civil resistance campaigns is the ability to bring in a broad range of supporters."

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Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade. #NoKings #NoKingsDay

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Gnight, all. We ride at dawn. Let’s make tomorrow one for the history books.

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😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns

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#AOC: They have released chaos in LA by violently raiding and ripping apart peaceful public spaces and now they are tackling and arresting US sitting members of Congress while going on the record and lying about what happened. This is an out of control agency.

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Ran to Target for laundry detergent, saw about a dozen women in their 60s or thereabouts buying poster board and markers. I would have assumed they were teachers getting supplies until I remembered school's out and then it clicked.

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Covid vaccination protects against severe kidney damage, study suggests A new study finds that patients hospitalized for Covid were less likely to suffer severe kidney damage if they were vaccinated.

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LMAOOOO www.instagram.com/reel/DK2nMmJ...

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Love this for them.

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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

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Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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i think this is exactly right

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Explosive moment during tonight's NYC mayoral debate: Cuomo: "He’s never dealt with the city council, he’s never dealt with the Congress..." Mamdani: "I’ve never had to resign in disgrace...I have never hounded the thirteen women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment."

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😬 When no one wants to buy your debt, so you print money to buy it yourself. Tick, tick, tick…

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Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

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A group of us have arrived on the Senate floor to challenge our colleagues - on both sides of the aside - to rise to this moment and jointly condemn what has happened to Sen. Padilla. Yes we still need to collect the full facts, but this appears to be a defining moment for the country.

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If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

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