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You know, the country’s bananas, big media has failed, our allies are confused, our enemies are in fits of laughter, there’s a zillion problems large and small to solve — but honestly, the stupidest thing I’ve had to do this week is try to find a copy of my transcript from grad school 🤦‍♀️ don’t ask

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Tomorrow, June 13, Kilmar Abrego Garcia will appear in court for an arraignment and—potentially—a pretrial detention hearing. In @lawfaremedia.org, James Pearce writes about what to watch for during Abrego Garcia’s Hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

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Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

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Today’s daily threat from Meathead Dan.

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How is it possible to increase the deficit by trillions while still making tens of millions of Americans poorer? Because this bill would cut more than a trillion from health care and around $300 billion from food assistance. This bill would make the poorest poorer while making the richest richer.

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We’re seeing things that are so unprecedented in American history that I think we shld reserve a lot of space for uncertainty abt public the direction of public opinion. That said, we’re seeing how ingrained certain assumptions are - police/soldiers in the mix, good for GOP

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Stefanik, who is considering a gubernatorial run, uses her questioning time to try to demolish Kathy Hochul

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Someone reposted this in comments, and since 2018 feels like 400 yrs ago I had almost completely forgotten about it But, just here to say, this piece pissed off aaaaaaaaall of the goons and we were right about them and it’s a tragedy many are now national brainworms www.wired.com/story/inform...

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"Don't let the eyeliner fool ya! I'm way too butch to tell Broadway musicals apart! Isn't that funny??? Isn't it??? I'm so fun, y'all! I am."

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holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

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We may disagree on many things, but we stand together on the fundamentals. We are relearning the meaning of “solidarity.” This is absolutely vital. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/solidarity

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Don’t know why every US paper doesn’t have this as the top article with a push breaking notification I guess they assume only the rich people read the news which isn’t at all problematic

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Democrats finally figuring out something Republicans knew years ago. This is the present and future, and campaigns who continue to rely on pouring tens of millions in network ad buys are just setting donor money on fire and making consultants rich.

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"The stakes just keep rising. Since the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, we have weathered three years of extreme politicization of abortion rights."

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Today Marco Rubio would like to congratulate Russia on its 70,000th forcibly kidnapped child from ukraine!!! Our people have so much in common.

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Translation: Targetting actual foreign criminals is hard work, so Trump's troops have detainee working immigrants. They do tough, low paid jobs that US citizens refuse. Rich people soon notice when these roles aren't being done and the very richest of them have text Trump to say they're angry.

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the secret to blue sky is threads that go like this

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HASSAN: Have costs for new parents increased or decreased under President Trump? BESSENT: I'm not sure how you're defining that HASSAN: The answer is that costs have gone up for new parents

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Odd, how MS-13 gang members are all ALL OVER California during elections, but conspicuously absent when ICE is rounding up "criminals" in that state. Instead, ICE goes to Home Depot to arrest helpful people looking for home improvement jobs. It's almost as if everything Trump tells us is a lie.

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HASSAN: Since you testified that Americans don't pay the president's tariffs, will the Treasury reimburse this New Hampshire small business for the tariffs they paid to the government? BESSENT: I think we have to look in the aggregate

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NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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If you don't prepare for police aggression, they could hurt you. If you help your friends prepare for police aggression, they could arrest you. This sends a clear message: they don't want you to resist at all.

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A spokesperson for China disputes Trump’s claim that a deal has been struck, saying it was only a “framework.” ZERO deals in 64 days!

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The timing really matters. No tax on tips, etc., are all temporary provisions - and the cuts get deeper over time. 2030, roughly half the country loses or gets nothing.

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I used to write a lot on that other platform about the primary driver for all donald’s arsonist antics: content. Content is his king. He needs it to control the nation. He must have the right content, before he can enact each & every part of his destructive plan. So… fuck up the content.

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"The Moment We Have Feared Is Here" open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Moms for Liberty Legislator of the Year 2023

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America’s verdict on Trump’s presidency: hard pass.

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You know what's petty, Rand? Not losing respect for a lying troll who causes a violent insurrection because he is too insecure to admit to a loss, and is currently breaking the law by harassing US citizens with our military, but losing respect over a silly party invitation because it affected YOU.

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By rewriting history, staging propaganda events, and testing the military’s loyalty, is Trump laying the groundwork for a future coup attempt? @hartmannreport.com #RobertELee killed more Americans than #Hitler. hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-p...

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This is silly. Everyone knows that the Trumps are the Thénardiers.

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Some joy! open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...

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"If Trump is successful in LA, he will export his tactics everywhere. Trump doesn't only want to be authoritarian in the eyes of Angelinos. Autocrats aren’t in the business of imposing limits on their own power. He wants to be an autocrat everywhere. LA is where he’ll start but not where he’ll end."

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Warren to Bessent: "The only people who are saying publicly that it's not gonna add to the national debt are you, Donald Trump, the Republican in Congress. Do you have an independent group that has put forward numbers that disagrees with all of these conservatives groups & the Wall Street Journal?"

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Oh wow this is cool

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While researching my new book, I was re-reading the transcript of a call I sat in on with 75 or so chief public defenders from all over the country. This was very early in the pandemic, and they were strategizing/venting. At one point, everyone starts going off on then-Gov. Cuomo. /1

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Seems that govt may be consenting to Kseniia Petrova's release with conditions. (This relates to criminal charges for bringing in undeclared frog embryos.)

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Funded by your tax dollars.

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Warren to Bessent: "Why is the national debt so very important that you're trying to kick 16 million off their health insurance, but increasing the national debt doesn't seem to matter if you're cutting taxes for billionaires? ... you don't want to answer the question."

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Yep. I hear folks in leisure and hotel biz are just loving the collapse of tourism into the US.

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Rs are literally weeks away from making this permanent law. We have only a short time to organize a successful opposition. Extremely uphill battle - but we thought we would lose on ACA repeal as well. This week and next week are crucial in getting Senators to no and House members to flip to no.

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6 in 10 Americans say that Trump’s Saturday parade is “not a good use” of government money, including 1 in 3 Republicans. (AP-NORC)

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Politicians need to be sure to frame this in concrete $ terms and not income deciles. In 2000, Al Gore noted that Bush's tax cuts would go to the "top 1%" but a poll after the election showed about 20% thought they were in the "top 1%" and another 20% thought they would be there within five years.

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Amidst the incoherence is the truth

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That seems to be a strategic decision to avoid the harder questions of whether the courts can order the president to engage in negotiations with a foreign country.. @talkingpointsmemo.com #DOJ morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/abrego-gar...

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