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"Due to actions early in Trump’s term, FEMA has lost an estimated 2,000 employees out of about 6,100" prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

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In the midnight hour she cried Moore, More, Moore With a rebel yell she cried Moore, More, Moore

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This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

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If you had important information for voters, and kept it to yourself to sell books after it was too late, you’re not a hero. You’re an asshole.

submitted 15 hours ago • 498 comments

This is why you need an Otterbox case for your phone!

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The Department of Justice is now just another part of the Republican voter suppression war machine. I will do everything I can to "thwart" its efforts to under free and fair elections.

submitted 18 hours ago • 74 comments

A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

submitted 18 hours ago • 329 comments

It’s called taxing the rich, buddy.

submitted 22 hours ago • 728 comments

All the popcorn please. 🍿🍿🍿

submitted 18 hours ago • 146 comments

On Musk’s attacks on the Abominable Bill, Republicans say: “I think the question for our members is going to be, ‘Would you prefer the alternative?’ And the alternative isn’t a good one.” Yeah, it’s a bunch of angry billionaire donors not getting their tax favors.

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STORY —> GOP bill for Trump's agenda would add $2.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says The nonpartisan CBO also found that the House-passed legislation would increase the number of people without health insurance by 10.9 million by 2034. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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New: Ilia Chernov fled Russia in 2023 for the US after prosecutors threatened to charge him with extremism and discrediting the military after he staged a protest at a military recruitment office. Chernov won political asylum in March. ICE won't release him: talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

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leopards devour Elon Musk's face after he leans in to pet them masterful gambit, sir www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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i suppose it's only appropriate that selling your soul to the MAGA death cult also gradually turns you into a Madame Tussaud wax husk of yourself

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Republicans Unlock New Slogan for 2026: "We Are All Going to Die" Republicans have gone all-in on killing as many Americans as possible to promote a wealth transfer to the wealthiest people at the expense of our health care, Medicaid, and social services. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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This NYT story on FTC's investigation into "collusion" leading to boycott of Xitter does not mention antisemitism, one major reason for the boycott. Spending federal $$ to support antisemitism violates several Trump EOs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...

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Ukraine launches a massive drone attack deep within Russia, a hacker may have deepfaked Trump’s chief of staff in a phishing campaign, and an Iranian man pleads guilty to a Baltimore ransomware attack, in this week’s security roundup. @evystadium.bsky.social has more:

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

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Trump wants to bring Harvard “to its knees,” as if this is unremarkable, when it should be depicted as the power-crazed ravings of a Mad King. https://trib.al/DQTPrBE

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Ming Li Hui, who has lived in a Missouri town for 20 years, is getting deported. This has shocked and angered the locals, many of whom back Trump. She spoke to us on our podcast straight from jail. She broke down in tears and made a wrenching appeal. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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For all his professions of piety, Mike Johnson is a gifted liar

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The number of legally-eligible Americans who would lose healthcare coverage due to the House GOP budget bill is somewhere between ~15.9 million (CBO estimate) and ~46.0 million (total current combined enrollment in ACA exchange plans + Medicaid via ACA expansion). acasignups.net/25/05/23/sta...

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Trump: “Ukraine has no cards!” Ukraine <destroys 1/3rd of Russias bomber force> Trump: “”

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Trump doesn’t know how to deal with China. His cowardice only makes a war with Taiwan more likely | Simon Tisdall

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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Awkward way for Joni Ernst to find out she isn’t funny. Let’s stop sending people like Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham to the Senate.

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Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶

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🚨NEWS: The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man theonion.com/reagano...

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Never has any leader had so many people wanting to make the argument that “not wearing any clothes actually makes the emperor better dressed if you think about it.”

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Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

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So it turns out that Elon Musk is 5X the sex-crazed, drug-addled freak that Republicans claimed Hunter Biden was...and whereas Hunter played no role in his dad's administration, Musk was basically running much of the country for the past 4 months. Lovely.

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