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If this article doesn’t inspire you to make your voice heard everyday to your legislators, all we have left is hope. In Florida, cops enforcing the state’s new anti-immigration laws arrested a 20-year-old and tried to transfer him to ICE custody — even after his mother provided his birth certificate

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#climatechange #climatecrises #greenenergy #science #globalwarming

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Reminder that the federal funding NPR directly receives mostly supports the Public Radio Satellite System, which reaches nearly 400 stations to transmit emergency messages in the event of a nationwide crisis. The rest backs the safety & security of journalists in war zones, including in Ukraine.

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The Trump admin is working hard to root out waste, fraud, and abuse by *checks notes* commuting jail sentences for people that committed massive Medicare fraud?

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The White House is sending Congress a $9.4 billion rescissions package that would codify some spending cuts made by the Trump administration, effectively having lawmakers reverse spending they previously voted into law

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That didn't take long

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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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Excellent interview, and terrifying.

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My latest

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More of this!!!

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One thing that social media is actually structurally terrible at, and I think a truly great founder would address: how do you reward the truly meaningful interactions/content that tend to be well past the context of the original post? It's not unsolvable.

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Americans have few ways to fight back against the oligarchs. The boycott is one of them. That’s why fascist Republicans — in the oligarchs’ pockets — are attacking our power to organize boycotts.

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😂

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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine

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I think JD Vance owes Zelensky an apology.

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I don't know how anyone could read this and not understand what's at stake. 💔

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This shit is so absurd I can't even articulate it.

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@nebraskaexaminer.com this is excellent!

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SSPE is a nightmare result of measles: in rare cases, the virus doesn't go away entirely, and it attacks the brain about a decade later. It's irreversible progressive brain damage ending in death. This can be easily prevented by vaccinating.

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One of the best Last Week Tonight episodes yet. Just straight fucking rational fire. And hilarious AF.

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Tech has become so goddamn dysfunctional. The original sin was in believing that someone with good timing and a lot of luck was a philosopher king. And the cycle just keeps accelerating.

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It ain't that confusing.

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