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My colleague and friend @scripps.edu, @ardemp.bskyverified.social, on the NYT front page today

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The Absurdity. (May 1945, Berlin. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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VAN HOLLEN: I'm simply asking you to provide the committee with a reorganization plan, and your response is 'maybe yes, maybe no.' Am I getting that right? LUTNICK: We're going to follow the law VAN HOLLEN: The law requires to you to submit these major changes to the Senate

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OK, I'm stupidly proud of the unicorn cupcakes I made to match the cover of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association for the book launch party. I made a video and everything.

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I say, I say, I say people in poverty are not allowed to be helped because Senator Foghorn says they are immoral and are all lying!

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Little Mikie just said they have to keep the House and Senate in 2026 or if the Dems win… they will impeach the President… hmmm Mikie… so you seem to know there’s grounds to impeach? That’s so interesting….

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FL woman hurls racial slurs and maces Black girls playing with bubbles: cops www.rawstory.com/florida-woma...

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The “american dream” is the most expensive and powerful entity in the world standing in front of a taco shop in Minneapolis, with military grade weapons to destroy families Please note “make tacos not walls” behind them

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Mediaite: John Morales, a meteorologist at NBC 6 South Florida, warned viewers about the 2025 hurricane season. Due to federal budget cuts at the National Weather Service and NOAA, he would no longer be able to accurately predict hurricanes. #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n... Top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is demanding answers from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about why employees fired from his department were denied health care coverage they had already paid for.

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ICE arrested Elsy Noemi Berrios without cause or due process, damaging her car and traumatizing her family in the process. America cannot be a country where this is considered acceptable. Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121 #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump

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California Senate Approves Film & TV Tax Credits Bill

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Please don’t use bleach to try and “cure” your child’s autism… You cannot cure autism… and anyone who tells you that you can is grifting, lying, and almost always encouraging child abuse. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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Proud dad moment. Congratulations, Gus!

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Something I’m keeping an eye on: the conjunction of US deportation policy and US favor-based foreign policy leading to 1) the persecution of deported people by the governments to whom they’re being deported 2) governments shaping policies toward their diaspora for worse by favor-begging.

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South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae-myung, promises to keep selling weapons to Europe despite his conciliatory stance toward China and Russia.

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The GOP Tax Scam rips healthcare away from millions of everyday Americans. Yes, that’s a disgusting abomination.

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Tell your state senator that #Ohio's SAVE Act (SB 153 / HB233) is unAmerican and unacceptable 📲 Find your state senator by typing your address below this map: ohiosenate.gov/members/dist...

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You know what touches me deeply — how people prioritize saving their animals above all else. They leave everything behind — their belongings, their homes — but they take their dogs with them. Ukrainians are incredibly humane. May 24, 2025. Shakhove, Donetsk region. The second trip to the village.

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The coin-operated presidency. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Page One in Philly: @inquirer.com

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🔥NASHVILLE: “We don’t stand for love & hatred, we stand for hope & compassion.” @jermainecole.bsky.social spoke out at the Metro Council meeting against councilman David Benton and his support for Pinocchiogles’ anti-immigrant fearmongering and anti-constitutional ICE raids.

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Meet India May, the woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst. She's a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall opposing bills aimed at defunding libraries and sequestering or burning books. Now she's running for a slot in the state legislature.

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We've announced 60,500 jobs since I've taken office. We've also celebrated the highest wages in Kentucky's history. We're going to keep building on this progress knowing that every job announced is a new opportunity for a Kentucky family to live better lives.

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KENNEDY: Tell me your understanding of the Trade Expansion Act? LUTNICK: I don't have a really good understanding of the term KENNEDY: You're not familiar with the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 that gives the president almost unlimited authority to impose tariffs?

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Deportation efforts have entirely missed White folks. ICE agents, please note: EVERY Irish pub in this country is wall-to-wall illegal employees. And I mean EVERY single pub (worked in lots of them from Seattle to Minneapolis). Listen for the Irish singalong then detain everyone.

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Even with massive cuts to Medicaid & SNAP… even after slashing housing, and gutting public education… Republicans’ $3.7 trillion tax cuts still add $2.4 trillion to the deficit. Our kids & grandkids will have the GOP to thank for the economic train wreck they will be left with.

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This email makes its clear that ICE has always wanted to do illegal behavior, that they despised the constitution for constraining them, and that they never wanted to focus on criminals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.

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I remember a conversation in grad school with a white woman from California who was upset that “minorities would soon be the majority” there. When I asked why that would be so bad she sputtered and left.

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#MollieDog sleeps 🐶💤

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Tampa school board goes after book-burning superintendent. "You did not engage with parents. You did not engage with our PTA. You did not engage with the union." School board members grill superintendent over his unilateral decision to ban 600 books from library shelves.

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On CNBC, Ron Johnson insists that a critical mass of GOP senators are serious about opposing the reconciliation bill as it stands and pleads with Trump not to insult them

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Alright look. Don't all get mad at me. It's almost like he doesn't have a coherent ideology and will do whatever he thinks is most advantageous? Maybe I'm going too far

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Prasad says he has never met RFK Jr. when asked why Secretary doesn't want research published in certain journals. he says one of Kennedy's issue is he wants govt papers publicly available - someone in audience yells out this has been policy for 20 years.

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36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre. World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6

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"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength." -- Donald Trump, 1990

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We ran out of Milk in my town yesterday It’s the Trucking Industry cut backs from the #TrumpTariffs I live on a Mountain, and we sometimes have supply issues, but usually during Winter I snagged the last carton of Half and Half for 5.89 Our Stores are definitely price gouging us, too

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