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We are in the midst of the broadest attack on civil rights in a century and Trump may be ushering in an era of unchecked discrimination. My essay in today’s New York Times Magazine. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

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This Week in American Autocracy 📅 June 23–June 29, 2025 | Trump is spreading Iran disinformation, dismantling safety nets, and expanding mass surveillance. What we’re watching is an authoritarian regime in action.

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Icymi last month: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into a national criminal database originally built for people convicted of sex offenses and violent crimes

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Every change they’ve made to this bill has kicked more people off healthcare.

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ICE already can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

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“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

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The fossil fuel industry owns the Republican Party.

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Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know

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Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident. On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.

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Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."

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Donald Trump—the habitual con man always finds those he can con: the uninformed, the greedy, or the power-hungry; sometimes they are one and the same. They are clearly visible in the State and U.S. MAGA House of Representatives and the State and U.S. MAGA Senate.

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Most functional, prosperous modern democracies are pushing to streamline process/use digital identity, reduce paperwork, and operate more efficiently to interact with + provide services for the electorate. In these countries, the wealth gap is less insane. The US is moving the opposite direction.

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The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

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They’re not normal presidents. They’re terrorists waging war on most of us.

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These numbers for ice are insane

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"The whole thing is just a disgrace. A policy disgrace. A moral disgrace. Rural hospitals will close, and working-class people will die so that Trump’s golf buddies can get tax cuts of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars." https://trib.al/bBYxuas

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Opinion | I am voting for the Senate megabill. But I'd still like the media to give me credit for expressing reservations about it. by Josh Hawley

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Guns aren’t America’s favorite tool for self-defense, they are America’s favorite tool for self-destruction.

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Deeply experienced National Park Service staffers are leaving in the face of budget cuts and uncertainty, and they might never be replaced.

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Can someone explain why barricades are going up around the treasury dept. he is up to something nefarious. He kept hinting about something happening yesterday.

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Dozens of Marines are now patrolling the border near Campo, California. Not just in support roles, but shoulder to shoulder with Border Patrol. A direct challenge to the Posse Comitatus Act, which bans the military from civilian law enforcement.

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Poor people have to starve and do without healthcare but at least we are funding concentration camps and genocide.

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The long-term effects of Trump's policies are projected to translate into an 8% reduction in US GPD, a two-year loss in average life expectancy, and hundreds of thousands of deaths in the developing world annually. But at least he doesn't trip over his words the way Biden did.

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Investors are dumping U.S. Bonds at the fastest pace since the onset of Covid 🚨🚨🚨

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Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them

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Trump’s ICE death machine strikes again. Johnny Noviello—lawful permanent resident since 1991—died on June 23 in ICE custody, brushed off as another ‘removable alien’ despite serious health needs. This isn’t justice, it’s state violence. How many more must die under Trump’s cruelty? #humanrights

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So much for Christian religious freedom. Our new theocracy loves Christianity - just not all colors of Christians.

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You can't make this shit up.

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More Jan 6 prosecutors have been fired. Per a memo sent to one of them .. the termination is “effective immediately” (Reminder: Justice Dept prosecutors secured a 100% conviction rate at jury trials)

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Collins always gets in line to do the worst thing but she gets a lot of publicity with the hand wringing.

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So far The Dictator has accomplished absolutely nothing but ruining the lives of a lot of people: federal employees, immigrants who’ve done nothing wrong, small business people etc. Markets are flat, prices are up, the world hates us & we have no allies. Total failure.

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"Miami just canceled its November election and pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled. As a result, term-limited officials like Mayor Suarez and Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year. That’s not democracy; it’s a power grab..." www.threads.com/@barbaraj.so...

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"Principled" Republican Murkowski got Alaska, and Alaska only, exceptions from some of the starve the poor provisions of the GOP bill. In return, she voted to advance the Massive Cruel and Venal Bill.

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🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

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Honestly, this is so much money and it’s completely unaccountable, very much feels like a completely unimaginable future, just the end of any America we know.

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And Trump just gave asylum to 17 of the cartel's family members. Because he's tough on the cartels, you see. www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/p...

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I’ve read this three time the language from the government is what you would see from the government dealing with a country we have no diplomatic relationship with and aren’t literally neighbours to? 55 Canadians is a lot of Canadians in horrific conditions, wtf. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

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A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.

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Susan Collins could stop this she won’t. Along with her votes on justices who took away Roe she has arguably done more to harm America than any single senator.

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New CBO Analysis Shows Senate Bill Will Cut Medicaid by $930 Billion: A new preliminary analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows the Senate reconciliation bill will slash Medicaid by $930 billion — cuts that, added up, are much deeper than those in the package passed by the House.

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