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Republicans are not pushing for higher restrictions for voting in an election because they actually BELIEVE that there is a citizenship issue with voter fraud. They do it because it suppresses the vote and people stay home, which benefits their party. Don't fall for it. apnews.com/article/trum...

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SCOOP: DOJ is dissolving its four-decade old transnational crime fighting network, OCDETF. Its operations, I've learned, will be absorbed by the new DHS task forces But many q's remain. A group of Democratic senators have sent a letter to AG Bondi seeking answers 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"Give me liberty or give me death!" Trump admin - okay, let's go with death! The admin's guidance says that state abortion bans can force hospitals to turn away pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies that jeopardize their health, including reproductive health, & potentially lives.

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CBO is a nonpartisan, neutral org. Its director, Phill Swagel, worked in the GWBush administration and was appointed by Republican lawmakers to his current post. For many reasons, it's laughable that he or his professional colleagues would be cooking the books to help Democrats.

submitted 13 hours ago • 82 comments

The integrity of our legal profession is on the ballot in this year's D.C. bar election. Please cast your vote by TOMORROW www.directvote.net/DCBA

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House Republicans are considering a new judicial requirement that would allow Trump to skirt court orders for a short time. Legal experts warn it would cause chaos in the courts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. The current setup of the Flock ALPR system is incompatible with a free society.

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The independent federal agency that investigates prohibited personnel practices, whistleblower complaints, and violations of the Hatch Act should be scrupulously apolitical. Trump’s nominee is anything but. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Fuck yes to this. He is the human manifestation of the word "dank" and taking him seriously as an intellectual is a sign to everyone else that you have all the mental rigor of an overmoistened saltine cracker, and the empathy of an expired slab of ham.

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Why aren’t Dems on everything talking about the Joni Ernst “you can die” bill?

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DOJ and DHS again at odds over the deporation of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron in violation of a federal appeals court order Left: DOJ says "series of unintentional administrative errors" led to deportation. Right: DHS says "There was no 'error.'" Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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We are going to see this administration escalate even further on immigration as they fail to hit the outrageous numbers that Miller is demanding.

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"Some senior Tesla executives were alarmed last year when Elon Musk denied a Reuters report that the company had killed a planned all-new $25,000 EV that investors had expected to drive explosive vehicle sales growth ... The executives knew that Musk had, in fact, canceled the low-cost vehicle"

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In an excellent AP story about Trump’s public health disaster, the name “Trump” doesn’t appear until the 2nd sentence of the 4th paragraph, and it shows up just once in the first 20 paragraphs. Does this let Trump off the hook? No, but perhaps it avoids triggering MAGA’s “fake news” response.

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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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They all want to be defense contractors cause it’s one of the rare industries that supports their model of spending tens of millions on things that don’t work

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Turns out Zelensky DID have the cards.

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Marcelo Gomes was supposed to play in the band at his high school's graduation ceremony yesterday. He was in ICE custody instead.

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A federal judge has decided that First Amendment protections don’t shield an artificial intelligence company from a lawsuit accusing the firm and its founders of creating chatbots that figured prominently in an Orlando teen’s suicide. www.legalnewsline.com/florida-reco...

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She’s not officially on staff. She holds no White House or campaign job. Yet Laura Loomer has played a role in major decisions—including the ouster of Trump’s national security adviser. Now, Trump’s advisers have officially grown tired of her. And they hope that Trump may soon too.

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I've been genuinely surprised that there have yet to be leaks of tactical orders DHS has given to ICE teams on face coverings & courthouse arrests--it's a sign goons like it. But this Sat story in WashEx DOES have leaks fr Stephen Miller being an asshole. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

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SCOOP @statnews.com: The FDA will begin the agency-wide rollout of its AI tool, called "Elsa," tomorrow — weeks ahead of schedule. For the most details yet on the FDA's Claude-based AI tool, plus criticism from FDA employees: 🖥️🩺 www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/f...

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The District of Columbia attorney general's office has secured its first settlement in a lawsuit accusing landlords and technology company RealPage of conspiring to inflate rental prices.

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Karoline Leavitt said the Trump regime is pushing for the trades while defunding Harvard. Now, they’re defunding Job Corps. They aren’t advocating for trades people. They want uneducated folks with no skills to work for any wage and any condition www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

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The 9th Circuit on May 30 refused to allow the Trump administration to carry out mass layoffs of federal workers and a restructuring of agencies, leaving a lower court order in place that blocked the sweeping government overhaul reut.rs/4mvX3FQ

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Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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I spoke with the Financial Times about fissure in conservative legal movement FT: "Frustration with legal setbacks may push Trump to prefer loyalists in future appointments. On Wednesday, he nominated Emil Bove." A test for Leonard Leo and conservative Republican Senators on judicial appointments

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“People will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so," House Speaker Mike Johnson said. Several experts and organizations expose this for the lie that it is.

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A Trump intermediary tells CNN’s parent company that they can buy peace with Trump by making a highly flattering documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Trump Jr, which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money. The move appears to meet the legal standard for extortion.

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🦬 As we head into a summer of protest, I hope we all reflect upon these hard truths: Protest itself isn’t a form of change. Protest itself doesn’t build power. WE are responsible for taking direct action and enacting change. I greatly enjoyed this episode and hope y’all give it a listen.

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The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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#MomSky Truly good guidance.

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Americans who report paying “a lot of attention” to news (everyone on this platform) are (a) in the minority of voters and (b) very, very prone to assuming the other side of the aisle is all extremists. This is counterproductive to broader party efforts at persuasion. I have sources: 🧵

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Cracks are forming among Senate Republicans on the House-passed budget bill. And it's not just the usual suspects as some conservative members are teetering, too. The point is, now would be a good time to call your GOP Senators and tell them to kill this bill. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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CNBC: Even Elon Musk said he's not happy with this bill REP. DARIN LaHOOD: He doesn't understand how the tax bill works

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New Office of Personnel Management memo details how all federal job applicants at GS-5 (basically entry-level) or above will now have to write short essays including one explaining how they would "advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities." www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

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Classic Musk. "Bitcoin style encryption" isn't a meaningful term. Does he mean SHA-256 hashing? Elliptic curve cryptography? No one knows. And "whole new architecture" is a garden variety IT security snake oil. It just means it hasn't been exposed to attacks like longstanding programs have been.

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Pride Month isn’t about elevating one existence over others; it’s about lifting those who have been told their existence or their love is wrong, that they are less. I’d love to not need a month dedicated to lifting people from persecution, hate, or self-loathing. Till then, I’m here for the lift.

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👊 Join one of the many #TeslaTakedown protests worldwide or create one in your city at Teslatakedown.com

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Play MAGA games, lose major clients 💥 Top law firms bent the knee to Trump, offering up to $1B in pro bono work to dodge executive retaliation. Now it’s backfiring. Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Oracle, and McDonald’s are cutting ties and moving to firms that didn’t fold.

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That would be awful. Don’t share this.

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Friday night news dump; the Trump admin just posted all the Congressional budget justifications, the specifics details of Trump's budget priorities (outside reconciliation). At ICE, the document references "the Administration’s strategy of 1,000,000 removals per year and 100,000 detention beds."

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@wired.com has been crushing it. 🔥👇🏾

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JUST IN: 9th circuit rejects Trump admin bid to lift the court order that blocked mass RIFs and agency reorganization. Trump violated the separation of powers and usurped congressional authority with hte large-scale reorg, the split 2-1 panel rules. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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