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🧵MEGA THREAD: I'm tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month. Also, how are organizations, corporations, and lawmakers responding to the Trump Administration and Republicans' ongoing efforts to erase and criminalize the transgender and queer community.

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Dozens of House Republicans are scrambling behind the scenes to head off the deep Medicaid cuts in the Senate version of the party-line megabill that could pass as soon as tonight.

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Mamdani on "globalize the intifada": "That's not language that I used. The language that I used and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights."

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I want to be very clear about what’s happening: Senate Republicans know the parliamentarian will say they can’t use 312 to pretend tax cuts are free (because two have two Byrd rule problems). So they are refusing to meet with her so they can pretend they never ignored her when they do it anyway.

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"When Will the West Stop Exploiting Women’s Rights for Imperial Aims?" Powerful piece from Fatima Bhutto, who says nothing about the US and Israel attacks on Iran were about 'liberating' Iranian women:

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(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: This massive report is epic, crossing years and continents and scandals some readers won’t have encountered before—from golf to crypto, intel to international law. But everything in this slow-boiling report comes back to why the Iran War happened, and why it likely will restart.

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If Dems and their backers are not right now cutting ads featuring Tillis to be played in Maine, Alaska, Missouri, Louisiana, and elsewhere, it’s political malpractice.

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Dave Bradley’s weekend commentary on BFIA is second to none. “Think of all this in the light of the MAGA congress trying to shove Trump’s Big Bad Bill through during a holiday week with a major distraction in Trump’s incredible screw up in the Middle East.” #iowa

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Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

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I regret to inform you that Stew Peters wrote a children's book. And it's just as bad as you'd think it is. angrywhitemen.org/2025/06/28/s...

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Sam Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Brings Disgrace Upon the Supreme Court flip.it/XeeN6A

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If things are going so well for the establishment, why does ONE young Dem mayor nominee scare them so much? They are terrified of what comes next.

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White Christian nationalist Andrew Isker professes a belief in witchcraft, says European Christians put an end to it in the Americas, and offers a justification for the Salem witch trials. angrywhitemen.org/2025/06/27/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

trump remade the Republican party in his own image over the course of like six months so yeah, i do think political parties can pivot to do things that work

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

"They are happy to use us as pawns for their own political purposes." Jewish mayoral candidate & Mamdani ally @bradlander.bsky.social & slams Trump & rightwingers both for their use of antisemitism to smear their opponents & their Islamophobia. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/they-use-u...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Fight back against the Gestapo.

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Low enrollment, high costs, a backlog of more than 5,000 applications: Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program — the only one in the nation — offers a window into how the GOP’s nationwide proposal could impact your state 👇

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Not only are ICE bounty hunters, who look more like criminals than law enforcement, abducting people from workplaces & off the street—we’re now seeing they’re being held in private detention centers w/some of the most deplorable conditions imaginable. REPEAT: people are profiting from this cruelty.

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almost ten years ago. what a different world this would be if people had listened instead of mocking her.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.

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ICE blasts through door using explosives, armored vehicle & drone—all 3 people in house were U.S. citizens. Agents did not knock or give warning—immediately set off explosives & flew in a drone. Then at least 10 agents who were crouched behind an armored vehicle stormed the house.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 3 days ago • 241 comments

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

submitted 3 days ago • 313 comments

The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans. They wear blue jeans or battle fatigues. They approach Latinos, yelling and carrying assault rifles. If someone runs, they’re taken. If they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. If they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.

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I would be more persuaded about the SCOTUS claims that injunctions are bad if they were willing to show any sort of alacrity to address obvious constitutional violations

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A genuine “Thank you,” to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for the mention in a recent issue of her newsletter. You are likely already subscribed, but if you’re not…the Heather Cox Richardson Substack newsletter is essential reading.

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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” “In sadness, I dissent.” “With deep disillusionment, I dissent.” What’s next?

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‘Not just an imperial Executive, but an imperial Supreme Court’: @tribelaw.bsky.social reacts to birthright ruling youtu.be/Dkzub79HxEw?...

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Or that the Navy named a ship after Peterson in 1943: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pet...

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He can see the writing on the wall. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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If your leaders keep failing you by being weak, and everyone makes fun of them for being weak, and they lose all the battles they should have won? Then it’s long past time to replace your leaders. because they are obviously very bad leaders. You don’t owe them a goddamn thing.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like. Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college. Game. Set. Match.

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