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Here for news and fun. Hoping to find the right balance. Commonsense and kindness shouldn't be too much to expect. Will repost courage when I see it. 🌎🌈🌻
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🚨Everything Trump has said about the Qatar plane is a LIE. Amazing story in the Post. - Qatar did NOT offer it, Trump requested it - Qatar expected a sale, not a “gift” - US Air Force says it’s in poor condition - $1.5 billion to make it useable - $500 million ADDITIONAL cost for Trump to keep it.

ICE agents rounded up around 40 people today across Martha’s Vineyard—grabbing some out of their cars. The sweeps were carried out as part of a series of traffic stops with the help of FBI and DEA agents. “You should be ashamed of yourselves,” one person shouted at several agents gathered outside.

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Karoline Leavitt is the organ grinder’s monkey who’s distracting the spectators as the pickpockets work the crowd.

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

WATCH: Kanew calls out Bulso for knowing Ogles is wrong about non-citizens not having a right to due process— but not speaking up at that anti-immigrant presser inside a locked Capitol this week, despite preaching about “following the law” and “Liberty”🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKMsmpZ...

🚨 ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process. This is not law enforcement. This is authoritarianism. Demand accountability. Stay loud. Stay informed. Stay safe.

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

The Republicans' so-called 'Big, Beautiful Bill' will: gut Medicaid, devastate rural America, and drive providers out of business. Senate Democrats will fight this every step of the way. Via @bennet.senate.gov

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

JUST-RELEASED GEORGIA TEEN Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.” More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

This hits hard.

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Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

“I will end that war in 24 hours. I’ll stop all those lives from being lost. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be tough because I know just what to say to each of them. It may not even take 24 hours.”

📌The Cabinet of the United States of America is a collection of the worst, most incompetent morons in history, and we are supposed to just suffer through it as if it was just another cloudy day.

WHERE CORRUPTION AND RACISM MEET: Among the crypto assets owned by invitees to last night’s Trump dinner: “wallets” named F*CK THE JEWS, (alt-right hate cartoon ) Pepe the frog, and one wallet named simply the N word. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Because it’s a cult!

I hope legacy media covers the connection between last night's memecoin dinner and this morning's social media tariff threats. He's manipulating the stock market.

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Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes

Trump pushes baseless 'white genocide' claim in tense meeting with South African president South African President Cyril Ramaphosa apparently hoped to persuade his American counterpart that many of his assumptions are wrong. That didn’t go well. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.

The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. It may not be the battle we wanted, but it is the one we face. The state of our democracy and the future of our country depends on our willingness to take risks, ignore the naysayers, weather setbacks and fight fiercely for democracy.

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BREAKING: MeidasTouch, the nation’s top independent pro-democracy media network, is proud to announce that attorney and renowned legal analyst Katie Phang has launched a brand-new YouTube channel in partnership with MeidasTouch. Subscribe now: youtube.com/@katiephangnews

AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this

Tons of news today and I have two powerhouse guests to break it all down at 4p ET/ 1p PT on Substack! Starting with Dem rising star @repstansbury.bsky.social and the one and only @katiephang.bsky.social - plus journalist Juliegrace Brufke will get us up to speed on the GOP tax bill. See you soon!

“This is what Republicans are fighting for: lining the pockets of their billionaire donors while children go hungry and families get kicked off their health care.” — Brendan Boyle (D-PA) Trump’s domestic agenda passes the House. newrepublic.com/article/1955...

There’s a reason Republicans want to hide what’s in their newly passed megabill. If that sounds like hyperbole, it’s not.

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.

Crockett: Right now, it seems like you don’t care about the constitution unless it’s the second amendment and that’s misinterpreted as well. There’s other amendments.. And we don’t get to just change it because our fearless leader says that he doesn’t like it

Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...