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I need you to make calls to Congress because on Tuesday, the House Committee responsible for Medicaid is meeting to slash funding for Medicaid—the health program 80 million Americans rely on, the health program that has kept me alive. This piece is not paywalled, it is not locked—please share it.

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I couldn’t write a more eye-opening lecture on race and white identity politics than what this administration is offering in its differential treatment of Afrikaners versus every other refugee or immigrant group.

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The transformation of a democracy into an authoritarian regime is rarely marked by a single dramatic moment. Instead, it's typically a process with identifiable "points of no return" — moments when key democratic institutions or norms are eroded so thoroughly that a return to democratic (1/13)

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Wetland destruction and deforestation have robbed us of many things

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a multiple felon in possession of a presidential office, must be in want of a wile.

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It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

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MomTube

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“Someday, maybe it will all go backward.” “I think it will.” “Everyone just wants things to get better.” “Yes.” Mom and I talking on the back porch. #dementia

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Imperative.

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This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

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My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut everyone loses services.

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less urgent but still telling: one of the nurses at a clinic I use told me the reason they stopped doing telehealth visits is because Medicaid stopped reimbursing those, and insurance companies follow Medicaid's lead on everything.

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Opening an inter-dimensional portal …

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Afrikaners, Elon Musk’s people, weren’t bystanders in South Africa’s apartheid system. They built, enforced, and thrived under it. Not just “white-ruled segregation”, it was systematic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power. They aren’t victims and don’t deserve refuge status!

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All you need to know about the Republican tax plan: The wealthiest 5% would get tax breaks. Everyone else would see crucial health care and nutrition assistance programs slashed. Call your reps.

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Executive branch’s irregular militia tries to force its way past the legislature’s lawful police defenses for the second time in just over four years

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“See arguments as something to unravel. Untie the knots.” — @jeffersonfisher.bsky.social, from his Today Show interview, Monday, May 12, 2025

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Newark city officials were back in front of Delaney Hall on Monday morning to serve the owners of the immigrant detention center with violation notices, a few days after Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside the facility in a dramatic scene with federal officials.

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#ResistanceRoots “Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” — Timothy Snyder

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Energy & Commerce text is out. Will go through it in this thread. tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)

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THIS is the most devastating constitutional crisis.

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Every day, letter carriers hit their routes and serve 169 million delivery points nationwide. Yesterday, letter carriers went the extra mile. Thank you to Naperville, IL Branch 1151, Manhattanville, KS Branch 1081, and ALL our members who help make #StampOutHunger a success!

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"Transaction" is also an interesting choice of words

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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

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Change a letter ruin a band The No-Go's

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The sword fern I transplanted to the front porch a few years ago has spread and now there are four or five large ferns on either side of the stairs. There’s so much great cover that a baby bunny just darted out in front of me as I was descending the steps and scared the bejesus out of me!

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“The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.” #Andor

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Change a letter, ruin a band Prince and the Devolution

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change a letter ruin a band Dank Williams

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‘We had the same moral panic about TV’ is a common refrain when people bring up social media, but like, in terms of social-political impacts, it’s hard to not see the ‘moral panic’ about TV as at least partially vindicated! A reality TV star is president! He’s filling his admin with Fox News hosts!

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change a letter ruin a band SHAM

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•••••HAPPENING NOW••••• The first group of White South Africans granted refugee status is departing for the U.S. today, flying on a State Department-chartered plane — at the expense of American taxpayers. The Trump regime has made great efforts to facilitate the swift resettlement of white…

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They are attempting to create the narrative. I hope people have plans.

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Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.

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It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.

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AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.' The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

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Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

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Rep. Menendez: "They had over 20 armed ICE HSI officers, they were heavily armed, their faces were covered, and they wearing no identification. So this is who they chose to have come engage with the mayor of Newark and 3 elected members of the House of Representatives."

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"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

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What’s happening in areas like public media sounds horribly like what’s happening in areas like health research: They’re going after basic infrastructure that’s taken decades to build.

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The foreign emoluments clause was written to prevent exactly this. Blatantly unconstitutional

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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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“This is probably the single most significant aggregated repository of data about American air travelers,” said Edward Hasbrouck, an expert in travel data privacy. “That the government has gotten access to it is a very big deal.” www.levernews.com/airlines-are...

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