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The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding. This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science. This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience zurl.co/NA6BY

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🍎 Last day of school: time for this year’s edition of the Makey Makey Banana Drum Machine #iTeachPhysics

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This photo. ICE is a gang.

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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed. The suspect had a hit list. And what did we do? We blamed each other. We justified. We spun. Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/political-...

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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You’ll notice that the American state media are no longer concerned about age seeing as the orange felon is now nearly 80 years old and all they’ve been doing is normalizing his birthday dictator march. They have completely failed all of us as well as our democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 463 comments

I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 3 days ago • 326 comments

A lot of folks warned that pardoning the J6 criminals would create a permission structure for more political violence. They were right. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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It was really just a concept of a parade

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Best image of the day:

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Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

submitted 3 days ago • 621 comments

Yiiiiiiiikes

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A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 4 days ago • 689 comments

Trump has not just offered "tacit approval of violence," he has consistently celebrated it: "I'd like to punch him in the face," as he said of a protester at a 2016 rally. @theatlantic.com adduced "40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens."

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them

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The demonstration at the Texas Capitol yesterday was very festive except during a moment of silence for the lawmakers in Minnesota who had been shot earlier in the day. youtu.be/8dyhb1Jz5es?...

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What if he threw a $45 million parade and nobody came? Boring. Low energy. Sad!

submitted 3 days ago • 981 comments

Nations typically throw military parades to demonstrate their organizational prowess and national unity. So…uh… message received.

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

True…

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"The painting of a man (George Washington) voluntarily walking away from the leadership of a powerful army rather than becoming a dictator hangs today in the Capitol Rotunda." We are a country of "No Kings". We will resist tyranny! #Resist

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Trump came to office promising to end the Ukraine war in a day. Now Russia is mounting its heaviest air strikes on Ukrainian cities. He said he wants to end the war in Gaza, and that is continuing as well. He tried to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran. Now there’s an Israel-Iran war. bit.ly/45jFrXL

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"Two recent international polls...show that many people in Western democracies understand what’s happening here, even if some Americans are slow to see it. Perhaps more instructive are the views of people in nations that have watched their own democracies erode, such as Hungary, Poland and Turkey."

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“This is a moment when you can make a difference” encouraging words from Joanne Freeman. “Speak up, stand out, live up to this moment.”

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The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 4 days ago • 121 comments

Just a reminder: The guys who broke up the Nazi child sex ring have been reassigned to arresting farm workers and day laborers.

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I just wanna say something really plainly that I haven’t seen spelled out like this There is no such thing as legal immigration anymore. Because they are taking people at their citizenship hearings they are taking people who are doing everything by the book. 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

submitted 6 days ago • 555 comments

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

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BESSENT: We are trying to bend the curve on medical cost. And I believe that the medical expenses are out of control. TINA SMITH: But you're not controlling medical expenses by taking insurance away from people. You're just shifting the cost to hospitals and individuals and uncompensated care.

submitted 6 days ago • 156 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

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Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare. Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home. Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

Will the audience sing along with "Master of the House"?

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

Just maybe assign your science reporters to write the story about the new members of the vaccine approval advisory commission. Not the politics gang. Just to try it.

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Hard to believe that conspiracy-monger, disinformationist, and anti-vax activist RFK Jr. had a plan to undermine the nation's vaccine system and did not share that with US senators during his confirmation hearings.

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You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

Trump’s actions and his inactions would be the precise conduct of someone whose goal was to destroy our country. We need to face what that means.

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A terrifying escalation:

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Somebody finally got it wrapped up in a nice little phrase!

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This. Might some intrepid reporter ask Bondi this?

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"There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits..."

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

The SECDRUNK doesn't know what's in the Constitution.

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As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

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