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Fraud? Are there any guardrails here?

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China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S. flip.it/Ncqzh2

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The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

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As a reminder, firearms are the leading cause of death in children and adolescents publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-re...

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I think maybe the only way to salvage Humphrey’s Executor after tonight’s shadow docket kneecapping is for Dems to pledge now that next time in office they will fire every Republican official from every agency on Day 1

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Really can't downplay the seriousness of this for all of higher ed. But at the same time you wonder how putting powerful enemies into an unmistakably existential crisis will pay off for a regime still consolidating power

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And only Luigi is being charged with murder

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You know that video that Trump showed today purporting to be a mass "burial site" of white farmers? Well, Elon tweeted it out last week -- and it's actually footage from a memorial procession five years ago after two people were killed in an armed robbery. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

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BREAKING Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, has had his nomination to serve as US Ambassador to France confirmed by the Senate. Notably: Cory Booker voted to advance his nomination. Here’s what former US Attorney Chris Christie said about the crimes Kushner committed.

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Former FBI Director James Comey accused President Trump and his administration today of using their powers "to aim at individuals, eroding the rule of law," as he addressed his "8647" Instagram post that incensed Trump world.

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Injured DC police officer Dan Hodges on Justice Dept settlement with estate of Ashli Babbitt: “…Trump wants to pay the insurrectionists so that he'll have them on retainer for the next time he wants to influence the course of history with mass violence.”

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Fact-check: True

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She showed up for her annual check in… www.al.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 11 days ago • 274 comments

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

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They received presidential pardons for this ‘message’ and it wasn’t seashells on a beach.

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but seashells!

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Is this what they meant by they can be “assimilated easily”? 🫤 www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...

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"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive information about Americans, including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers." Your Irony OTD...

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Afrikaaners are just salty white folks who wish apartheid was still legal in South Africa. Their ancestors invaded and created an apartheid state, and they're mad that the indigenous majority now controls their own country.

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I'm sure Pam Bondi will be cleared of any wrongdoing by Pam Bondi

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Republican Tommy Tuberville has blocked a Democratic resolution that would have condemned the proposed gift of a luxury jet from Qatar to Trump.

submitted 15 days ago • 325 comments

New from me, with the help of some math on the blockchain. $TRUMP coin was launched as part of a contest to have an exclusive dinner with Trump. But due to a quirk in the rules, some winners sold all their coins, at a profit, before it ended. With @ericlipton.nytimes.com and David Yaffe-Bellany 🎁

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could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

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🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

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The emoluments clause wept

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ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.

submitted 18 days ago • 328 comments

Abolish ICE. I am having nightmares about these incidents and waking up absolutely frozen in fear... and I'm not the one living them. This is terror, this is fascism. We must end this nightmare.

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Look there’s a lot of horrible things going on and it’s easy to get distracted but I don’t want anyone to forget that Stephen Miller went to Duke.

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The self-destructive tendencies of white supremacy are in full display. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration

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She has a fetish for using public bathrooms and no amount of evidence will change my mind.

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How do we prevent/exclude unserious people from holding positions of power in the real world?

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NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record. Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history. Today, we’re seeing the results.

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When killer climate-change-driven heat waves arrive this summer, as they inevitably will, remember we are not all equally responsible: "Emissions from the top 10% highest-earning individuals have raised the probability of 1-in-100-year summer heat in the Northern Hemisphere by 11.5 times."

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Scoooop w/@lmatsakis.bsky.social: A 'Trump Card Visa' is already showing up on immigration forms (courtesy of DOGE): www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

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Our NRA World: Florida high school student brings a loaded gun to school in his backpack. Freedom!

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DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

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“I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” "No work, no play" sounds like an incredibly rewarding college experience.

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Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 109 comments

Refuse. Resist. Ridicule. That's the recipe to bring down authoritarians - always has been. The regime requires our compliance - we decide what happens next.

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Trump regime to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk: SpaceX and Starlink owner may benefit from Trump cuts to projects that could have led to regulations and costs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Truth be told

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