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As a Republican, their whole party has to engage in an agreement with each other & the media to lie about wealthy blue cities/states like SF, NYC, Ca, etc… so your voters in red areas don’t understand how bad it they have it. Rather than fix things, they lie about successful blue areas.

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Of course newrepublic.com/post/197149/...

submitted 8 hours ago • 879 comments

The Trump administration is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal records. To maintain the illusion that their focus is criminals, they're ginning up charges including by leveraging testimony from criminals who then get leniency.

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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq. The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for. He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction. He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.

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Aggravating, yes, but you will not find this surprising.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Mitch McConnell has a net worth of up to $52 million, and has had high quality government-financed healthcare for decades. Losing your healthcare, losing your loved ones, losing your life, isn’t something people should be told “get over it.”

submitted 2 days ago • 483 comments

This “big, ugly bill” is dangerous and will destroy rural health care. In Kentucky alone, 35 hospitals are under the threat of closing, stripping care from families, cutting jobs and crippling local economies. 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 610 comments

ICE has detained this Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby. When his 2yo son Noah asks for his mother, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. Monsters

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When Norfolk first elected reform prosecutor Ramin Fatehi, homicides rose, as they did nearly everywhere during the pandemic. But local politicians cynically blamed him anyway. Now, homicides in Norfolk are down 43% and Fatehi was just reelected to another term. boltsmag.org/norfolk-virg...

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CNN: Three sources tell CNN that according to an early U.S. Intelligence assessment, the U.S. Military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back a few months

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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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For-profit insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are defrauding taxpayers out of $80 billion a year. HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies. That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."

submitted 2 days ago • 284 comments

Good Lord.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

100 days. 💔

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

Well, gosh, whoda thunk

submitted 3 days ago • 964 comments

Damn—the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that a LOT of the reconciliation bill requires 60 votes to pass, including a massive assault on federal regulations and several heinous attacks on civil service protections. This effectively guts a big chunk of the bill. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

submitted 3 days ago • 445 comments

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

If my robotaxi service was caught doing all this on day fucking one (or I were the regulatory body implicitly blessing this woeful level of performance) I wouldn't be commenting either

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

submitted 2 days ago • 784 comments

Lots to watch tomorrow beside Cuomo-Mamdani: —other progressive vs centrist clashes for mayor… in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo —prominent progressives in the NYC council face expensive primary challenges: key to strength of local left —Anthony Weiner comeback —Alvin Bragg re-elected? My guide:

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California City, CA Baldwin, MI Leavenworth, KS Elizabeth, NJ People across the country are fighting back against the opening & operation of CoreCivic and GEO Group ICE detention centers in their communities.

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He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 4 days ago • 1135 comments

Update: looks like this is going to fall out as a result of the Byrd rule, per the Parlimentarian's ruling tonight

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Reminder again: this is the 22 year old boy Trump put in charge of preventing a terror attack at home:

submitted 3 days ago • 775 comments

🤷🏼‍♀️

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In case you missed it, I demonstrated how little evidence exists for this argument last week. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

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I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 7 days ago • 440 comments

Hey everyone. I've heard this now from multiple people. Passport offices are refusing to comply with the court order to issue passports to trans folks and change gender markers.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

though the Journal doesn't indicate its sourcing, this is the most direct reporting i've seen that Miller was responsible for defying Judge Boasberg's order to turn around the El Salvador rendition flights (Axios said only that he and Noem orchestrated the flights)

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat

submitted 3 days ago • 256 comments

The piping plover chicks at Montrose Beach!

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NEW: The alarming provision in the GOP tax bill that makes it nearly impossible to sue the Trump admin for breaking laws -- essentially allowing Trump to operate as a king -- is likely getting axed after the Senate parliamentarian ruled it breaks Senate rules. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-ta...

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Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

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OUTRAGEOUS: A man who witnessed an immigration raid at a shopping plaza in Los Angeles was forcefully removed from his car and taken into custody for simply filming the activity. Welcome to Trump’s Amerika. 😡 ktla.com/news/local-n...

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hey @nytimes.com what if instead of this you reported accurately that the president of the united states has violated the united states constitution by entering into war with a foreign power without the approval of congress, just like, what if

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So the ICE agents scattered like cockroaches 🪳 timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

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