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Thank god I’m in a blue state. A liberal since my parents voted for Kennedy. Read books to stay sane in this Orange nightmare. Gardening helps too
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Rumors swirl as Stephen Miller's wife leaves White House to work for Elon Musk www.rawstory.com/katie-miller...

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Tucked inside the House GOP tax bill is a massive national voucher program. $5B/year in tax credits to subsidize private & religious schools—$20B over 4 years. Public money, zero oversight. A backdoor to defund of public education masked as “choice”

Very importantly, Supreme Court signals that members of Federal Reserve Board are constitutionally protected from presidential removal without cause. "The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity...."

Ralph Lauren joins others in saying they will raise prices.

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

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Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation. This passed the house! Call your senators!

House Republicans smuggled this👇attack on the federal judiciary into their reconciliation bill. Courts rarely require plaintiffs to post security, so this provision, if passed into law, would render a vast number of existing judgments—including Boasberg's contempt order—effectively unenforceable.

caught in a lie by Sen. Whitehouse, Lee Zeldin starts yelling at him and has a meltdown

What's both hilarious and depressing about this post is that there are people out there dumb enough to believe that Springsteen, Beyonce, Oprah, and Bono need Kamala Harris' money. Of course Trump believes it because he's always on the grift and can't imagine anyone who isn't.

DOGE staffers attempted to assign a team and take control of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), but CPB leaders resisted citing federal law that protects the nonprofit’s independence from government interference.

@sanders.senate.gov and the minority staff on the Senate HELP Committee did not come to play in advance of RFK Jr.'s testimony before the committee tomorrow. RFK Jr. and his entire team are a disgrace. www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom...

RFK Jr. yesterday: “There has never been a President more willing to stand up to the oligarchs” Trump today: lunching with 32 banking, tech, energy, etc. CEOs and fund managers in Saudi Arabia

Not that this needs to be said, but bribery out in the open is still bribery.

Within the Secret Service, the potential gifting of a plane by a foreign government for presidential use is being viewed as a “security nightmare,” a law enforcement source said. “The (US Air Force) would have to tear it apart looking for surveillance equipment & inspect the integrity of the plane."

The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the GSA has given preferential treatment to a tech startup linked to some of President Donald Trump’s most influential Silicon Valley allies, including Peter Thiel. By @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.

#ICYMI: Records show that the 25-year-old DOGE engineer owned as much as $715K in stock in companies — including Tesla, Apple, Alphabet and Alibaba — on the CFPB’s “Prohibited Holdings” list for staffers to prevent conflicts of interest.

Syracuse lacrosse rallies from 6-goal deficit to defeat Harvard in OT in NCAA tournament: Final score, recap, photos https://www.europesays.com/2070387/ Syracuse, N.Y. — The No. 6 seed Syracuse lacrosse team takes on the Harvard Crimson in the first…

Syracuse men's lacrosse rallies from seven goal deficit for thrilling comeback overtime win over Harvard to advance to the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals ⬇️

Great idea from @cherijacobus.bsky.social.

Republican Jefferson Griffin has conceded to Democratic Justice Allison Riggs in the North Carolina Supreme Court race, officially closing the final unresolved race from the 2024 election. #WEARETHEMEDIA

“Master of the house, isn’t worth my spit! Comforter, philosopher and lifelong shit! Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire, thinks he’s quite a lover but there’s not much there….” Les Miserables 2012 Look up all the lyrics, every word fits!

U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show…but but Hunter Biden

We just lost a second fighter jet off the coast of Yemen. Let’s check in on the Commander-in-Cheat to see what he’s up to …

America is in the thick of a measles crisis, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is busy on Fox prattling about nothing. Rather than promoting the merits of vaccinations and helping to protect people from a highly infectious, potentially deadly disease, Kennedy has…

omg😆

Walking Dead

Bezos is a sniveling coward!

Whatever the final vote tally ends up being in this Canadian Election, the new Carney Government will have to address this incredibly dangerous cultural disinformation attack on Canadian sovereignty by Trump’s allies, which should be considered PART of any sovereignty attack by Trump. #CanadaStrong

FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK: JB PRITZKER: “It's wrong to snatch a person off the street and ship them to a foreign gulag with no chance to defend themselves in a court of law. And I wanna be clear. This is not an argument about immigration. This is an argument about the constitution.

Nytimes DeSantis crime family

I’m old enough to remember when he called these veterans suckers and losers…

I prefer media outlets that will join the fight for freedom and democracy and NOT surrender to extortion and corruption.

"One of the primary goals of all authoritarian regimes is to make people reticent and fearful to engage in basic acts of decency and civic virtue. It’s important that we find the courage to keep doing these things." open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

“On the line is not just Kilmar’s eventual liberation, but whether or not there will be consequences for lawless behavior from the executive. It’s not hyperbole to say the outcome of what happens with Kilmar has implications for every person living in the U.S.” www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

The Trump Administration is mocking the courts.

Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

“On Wednesday night, the Justice Department submitted a filing in district court in which it appears to openly describe steps the government took to essentially evade the court’s temporary restraining order.” open.substack.com/pub/justsecu...

Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"