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ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

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For the first time in its 116-year history, the NAACP will not invite the president to their convention. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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“God is reaching out to you [to] find[] the ways that we may be able to do something with our own lives to serve others. “And in that service to others we may find that coming together in friendship, building up community, we too can find true meaning in our lives.” www.osvnews.com/full-text-ad...

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The Trumpists talk a lot about representing “real America.” How much of a bizarre propagandistic lie this is was on full display yesterday - when a vast, heterogeneous coalition of people mobilized in protest while all the regime offered was an embarrassing, lame, sad excuse of a military parade.

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Best image of the day:

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From one corner of the state to the other (and everywhere in between), Missouri said #NoKings. We're making a Blue Missouri, friends. LFG. #bluemissouri

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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

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The blue dot of Louisville Kentucky

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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

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What we are seeing in Los Angeles right now with #NoKings is after several hours of a massive protest that was 100%, law enforcement—abruptly and without provocation—began firing tear gas, flash bangs and pepper balls at protesters. It was broadcast live on air. “Unrest” is on them.

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the Chinese practice their parades for months, sometimes years - this is not conducive to actual military readiness but it does look good! the sloppiness and half-assedness of this is indicative of both the general vibe of Hegseth's Pentagon and the lack of US tradition here.

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The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.

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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.

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Polling this week the worst of Trump 2.0. Job approval: 43%-52% (-9) Econ/YouGov 43%-54% (-11) Civiqs 42%-55% (-13) Navigator 40%-53% (-13) YouGov 38%-54% (-16) Quinnipiac 39%-60% (-21) AP-NORC Budget bill wildly unpopular. He's now deeply underwater on immigration and deportations too 👇

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you may have to squint a little to read between the lines but it says “daddy please don’t deport me or cancel the government contracts that made me rich”

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I had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with @zachwahls.bsky.social a few years back and I swear my immediate reaction was “I wish we had more representatives in DC like this guy.” Principled, smart, courageous. If you’re in Iowa, please give him a close look.

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The Silence of the Generals As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense. By Tom Nichols www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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If you live in LA, please post videos and photos of reality as much as you can because the Fox News Cinematic Universe is working hard to sell this dystopian fiction.

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Newsom: The personnel currently being deployed are being sent here for this theater of absurdity, that were working on fentanyl interdiction and task force operations—our rattlesnake crews, all of these extraordinary efforts that can no longer be done, or at least are being disrupted

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Making the whole thing a street party is exactly the right approach. Keep the violence and escalation on the side of the state. Images of repression, undermine governmental legitimacy. And the more sympathetic that protesters look, the harder it is to paint them as dangerous.

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My hometown has its charms!

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I'm a dual citizen and a product of the US scientific training mechanism - I am proud to be a signatory on this letter supporting my colleagues and friends at NIH, and denouncing the wholesale destruction of the US health science environment.

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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June 9, 2025

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Let’s talk about Stephen Miller, shall we, because if a botched exorcism learned to say “anchor baby” before it learned empathy, you’d have Stephen Miller. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

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Trump said he would deport 11 million people and I guess his voters couldn’t visualize what that would look like? That’s the same amount of people who live in Iowa and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas combined…

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The rigged election folks are coming to terms with the fact that My Pillow Guy was yet another lying hustler

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it isn’t and they know it which is why 1) they are rushing to do 4+ years worth of harm before the midterms, fully expecting to lose Congress but just hoping the damage is irreversible by then; 2) they are doing mostly small-scale symbolic horrors to intimidate the public, due to limited capacity

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If you’re watching @maddow.msnbc.com’s A Block you understand that people who stand up for other people can change the course of those people’s lives & our history. We have the power to refuse Trump’s path forward. Protesting actually works. Let’s go.

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True story…

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Trump's budget bill must be defeated. Otherwise Project 2025 will become the law of the land and our 250 years of 'No Kings' will be undone. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

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The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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Indeed we do.

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I think a lot of of those folks dressing up like ICE are not even cops much less federal agents. The way they carry themselves. The way they are dressed. Something is off.

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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

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“If you wonder whether Medicaid is important in Iowa… more than 600,000 Iowans are enrolled in Medicaid. That’s almost 20 percent of the state, including 2 in 5 children. 50 percent of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. So… the funding is life or death for many,” Sen. Ernst. -Dan Rather

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Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies—from trans rights to travel bans from foreign nations and deportation policies. This is a WIRED guide on how to best protest safely.

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🚨 URGENT: Call your Members of Congress NOW. Why are ICE agents still operating with total impunity - masking their faces, concealing their identities, and terrorizing communities without oversight? Demand public hearings, sanctioned or unsanctioned. We deserve answers. We deserve accountability.

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MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

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I’m a freedom-loving conservative. I left the Republican Party 5yrs ago. Today, I’m doing something I never thought I’d do - I’m formally joining the Democratic Party. Here’s why:👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

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open.substack.com/pub/contrari... important to acknowledge these people are fucking nuts

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This.

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🇺🇦 Today the Ukrainian side officially handed over to the Russian side a list of Ukrainian children who need to be returned, - Yermak These are hundreds of children who Russia has illegally deported, forcibly relocated or is holding in temporarily occupied territories.

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Mentions on this morning's Fox & Friends Medicaid: 1 Biden: 39

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