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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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The "TheoBros" are opening a church in Washington D.C. The leader of this mission? Doug Wilson, a pastor known for saying that women should never have been given the right to vote.

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7-2 AGAIN. This is very good. www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/p...

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Meta gives advertisers flagged for running scams second chances. Also, sixth, seventh and eighth chances. Per internal documents in my final WSJ story: it takes a minimum of eight "strikes" before Meta shuts down an advertiser perpetrating fraud. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

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

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Really confusing day for anyone who worked in a restaurant to realize that when we were told an item on the menu had been "86'ed" that meant the kitchen staff had assassinated it in cold blood.

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WSJ exclusive: This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out. Manager at Newark says his agency is understaffed, stressed out, experienced equipment failures that forced him to record flight info with pen and paper www.wsj.com/business/air...

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“When 2028 rolls around, voters will have the opportunity to oust three corrupt Republican justices who tried to help Griffin steal an election.” @billycorriher.bsky.social writes. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/with...

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It was never about birthright citizenship, this is about limiting the power of the courts www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

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Having run out of racists in diners for sympathetic interviews swallowed whole, the #BrokenTimes & Trump now import them. "Mr. Langton said he felt much safer already." An Afrikaner Farming Family Trades South Africa for Alabama www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

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I talked to the AP about grok's "white genocide" meltdown. A few hours after publication, xAI admitted to hard coding it. This is important accountability journalism because people use AI as an arbiter of truth & here we see AI owners making the tools match their politics apnews.com/article/elon...

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The effort to erase Brown v. Board and return to Jim Crow America is treated with such calm in the #BrokenTimes. Where is the alarm? Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

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NEW: Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined.

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BREAKING: A sweeping ProPublica report reveals the U.S. State Department is interfering with foreign countries on behalf of Elon Musk. Officials in both Washington and Gambia have aggressively pushed for the West African country to approve a license for Starlink, of which Musk owns a $150B stake.

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Trump’s attempted takeover of the LOC may also be a test case to see how susceptible congressional Republicans are to his power grab. If they let him install ideologues throughout the LOC, maybe they’d let him do the same to other indispensable legislative entities.

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“Joseph A. Darrow, a 10-year veteran of the [immigration] unit, said he could not ‘with clean conscience’ defend the department’s actions under Ms. Bondi, claiming they ran counter to the law, Constitution and ‘basic principles of fairness and humanity,’ he wrote in a resignation email" NYT obtained

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"You are not refugees. You are just a case study of white flight dressed up as martyrdom. You are not escaping violence, you're escaping equality."

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Remember how the media credulously reported that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Guess what: Buried in the House GOP bill is a provision that would create a new and expanded tax break for exactly those types of wealthy investors. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1952...

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DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?

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Virtually every single figure in right-wing media is boasting about how white Afrikaners can easily assimilate into US society and they don't understand that that is a damning indictment of US society

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Not to be forgotten, as the President now attempts to take over the Library of Congress: He did something similar in February when he fired the Archivist of the US. It's now three months later and counting, and he apparently has notified Congress of his reasons for doing so, as required by law. 🗃️

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A man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them

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Medicaid provides essential health coverage to over 80 million Americans, ensuring access to care for families with low incomes, children, and individuals with disabilities. Protecting Medicaid means protecting our communities. @aoc.bsky.social spoke on this during today's debate.

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Not to be forgotten, as the President now attempts to take over the Library of Congress: He did something similar in February when he fired the Archivist of the US. It's now 3 months and counting, and he apparently has not notified Congress of his reasons for doing so, as required by law. 🗃️

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The House Ag bill released tonight would take away or cut #SNAP food benefits for millions of low-income people struggling to afford groceries—families w/ children, seniors, ppl w/ disabilities, veterans & workers in low-wage jobs.

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Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.

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Celgene kept the drug’s price low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients. But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price. ➡️ Read more: propub.li/43jfFQF

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This whole thing where AI just makes up quotes from whole-cloth and attributes them to people is...not great! Especially when companies make no effort to verify!

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In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

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Dugan is accused of helping an undocumented man evade arrest and obstructing federal agents.

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AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

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WTH man? Real World bro also serving as Transportation Sec Sean Duffy reportedly changed his wife's flight to avoid Newark and then went on TV to broadcast it's safe to fly in and out of Newark. @paleofuture.bsky.social w the details. ↘️

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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet

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If you're wondering how White Afrikaaners are considered "persecuted" in South Africa, it's probably because they only own 70% of the land where as white Americans in the United States own 98% of the land. How are they supposed to survive on only 70% of the land? Do you people have no shame? /s

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Red food dye isn’t the number one killer of kids. Guns are…

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IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

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REPORTER: Are you ready to impose sanctions if Putin doesn't agree with the 30 day ceasefire? TRUMP: I have a feeling they're going to agree

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@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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What happened before Mayor Baraka’s arrest needs daylight. Did masked ICE agents let him in just so they could arrest and perp walk him to send a message of fear. Because that’s what it looks like. We’re sliding into fascism—and fast. And if we don’t stop it now, we may not get another chance.

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New: a man 'disappeared' by ICE was not included on a government list of people deported to El Salvador's mega prison. But we found his name in a hacked flight manifest to the country. Raises questions about how much the government knows about who it is deporting www.404media.co/man-disappea...

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"[Trump] casts those Americans who would complain about the economic pain that he is inflicting on them as feminine and hence as contemptible, deserving no more respect than spoiled children." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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