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I just think there needs to be more attention paid to the uniquely creepy, mendacious, awfulness of Speaker Mike Johnson. Don’t underestimate the depth of his ambition and breadth of what he is willing to do to never return to Shreveport.

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“Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.” www.notus.org/health-scien...

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Linda McMahon: Higher Ed Should Be Fascist Like Trump https://twp.ai/4imtJs

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The Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners recently voted 5-2 to reject the GOP’s nominations of two prominent election deniers to the county board of elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Whatever you do right now, do NOT Google or search social media for “solicitor general asteroid.” You’ll regret it. You’re welcome.

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This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they “feel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause. Reverse Discrimination. Welfare Queens. The whole thing survives on myths. www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...

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I was hesitant to write this obituary. Struggle as I might, I don’t have a grand life lesson of his life; nor I any clear meaning to make of his death. I’m just heartbroken that he’s gone. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-m...

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JD Vance's Claim Of Irish Roots Hits Brick Wall https://twp.ai/4imwaj

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What About Women's Bodily Autonomy? https://twp.ai/4imwai

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The billionaire White House adviser noted the president's signature legislation would expand government borrowing.

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Ionosphere Declines Offer Of Horse www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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What no one in political media is telling y'all is that no in D.C. is taking Trump's Golden Dome proposal seriously. Not the military. Not the media. Not lawmakers. No one. It is the policy equivalent of putting a child's shitty crayon drawing on the fridge.

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New this evening: A lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of wielding unconstitutionally vast powers across the US government can proceed, a US judge ruled. The Trump administration adopted a "perverse reading" of the Constitution's system of checks and balances, Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote. buff.ly/7jDznks

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"And then he said, ‘Canada is going to pay for my "Golden Dome"!''

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It definitely made sense for the stable genius to start a trade war with Canada and talk about making them our 51st state right before he rolled out a grand plan for a Golden Dome missile defense system that requires the cooperation and help of Canada. Master strategist.

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This is completely false and not From Liz or me.

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A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035. Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

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Kristi of Arabia

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"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom." - Abraham Lincoln

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Toddler, at the playground: I DON'T WANT TO GO HOME Me: Okay, how about we set a 5 minute timer, and when it goes off we'll leave. Toddler: Yes, okay Me:

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spoken like a man who just received reassurance from the supreme court that he cannot be fired

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@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

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@nytimes.com

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Owner of loudest peep machine wonders why there no peeping.

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Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions. Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.

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FEMA to North Carolina: Drop Dead. Trump administration insists North Carolina taxpayers should pay hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up out west (Western North Carolina). The money is more urgently needed in Elon Musk's bank account. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

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What Memorial Day Is For "While we are not in the midst of a civil war, we are in the most dangerously divided time in our modern history. As some seek to undermine democratic norms and concentrate power, our centuries-old republic faces real peril." open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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He never stopped. He laughed at Trump and continued the killing, because Trump is an international joke and his foreign policy team is filled with bumbling, weak, appeasing incompetents.

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On Memorial Day and every day, Donald Trump is an insult to those who died serving this nation. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

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“America is more resilient than many may fear. Unlike countries where democracy has recently unraveled, the United States displays at least six exceptional traits that are protecting it from the Trump-led assault,” Mila Versteeg and @kevinlcope.bsky.social write:

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A generation of Americans gave their lives for democracy and the American idea. This Memorial Day, we face our own test — not of war, but of character. Fear is rising. So is cruelty. The question is: who will we choose to be? I wrote about that here. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

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1/ If you read my newsletter, Civil Discourse, you know I try to cut thru the noise & offer clear, accessible analysis of the legal & political developments reshaping our democracy. I go straight to the source—pleadings, opinions & other primary materials, using my 25 years at DOJ to interpret them.

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The president railed against the Russian president — but also blamed Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Joe Biden for the ongoing war in Ukraine.

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