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The NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed official used someone else’s identity in a bid to avoid paying income taxes on money he made while moonlighting as a basketball referee, records show. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/12/j...

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News: in aftermath of Israeli strikes on Iran, and the potential widening of the conflict, staffers from the Voice of America Persian language service have been urgently called back - per 4 VoA staffers. An admission by Trump administration of the network's utility during crisis.

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Read that again. 11 million people would lose health-care coverage from the #BigUglyBill's current cuts - with an additional 4 million losing insurance when Affordable Care Act subsidies expire. This is a bad bill that will hurt working families. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/h...

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The #BigUglyBill would: ⚠️Gut critical protections for student loan borrowers ⚠️Restrict access to higher education ⚠️cost families thousands of dollars All to deliver tax cuts for the wealthy. @thesbpc.bsky.social protectborrowers.org/senate-repub...

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The conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark are untenable. With serious security lapses, numerous reports of mistreatment by staff of detainees, complaints of persistent food shortages, and a troubling lack of transparency from facility administrators…

submitted 9 hours ago • 196 comments

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

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🚨 BREAKING: Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order

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Powerful words from these Jewish scholars: "Stop erasing Jewish voices that don’t conform to your preferred narrative. Stop treating criticism of genocide as antisemitism. And start treating Jewish people as complex individuals capable of thinking for themselves." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Curious about how thin the justification was for parking lot lawyer-turned-Trump prosecutor Alina Habba to indict a sitting member of Congress? ME TOO. Fortunately, Alas always, @lizdye.bsky.social has everything you need to know at Public Notice.

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"Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn't express opposition in private. 'We had a clear U.S. green light,' one claimed. ... The U.S. side has not confirmed any of that."

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The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of accessibility requirements for new construction via rulemaking. This unprecedented move, which seems to be illegal, could be the blueprint for other federal agencies to follow. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.

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None of the possible scenarios for what actually happened with regard to the Israeli attacks reflect well on the U.S. president and his team, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social. This latest development only extends the Trump Admin’s foreign policy losing streak. www.thedailybeast.com/how-iran-str...

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This week, President Donald Trump attempted to kill, once and for all, California's plan to accelerate the sale of zero-emission cars and trucks in the state—taking aim at their goal to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in the state by 2035. What will that mean for EVs?

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Former Rep. Billy Long has been confirmed as the new head of the IRS. While in Congress, Long tried to abolish the agency. He's one of many Republicans who wants the IRS to lose capacity so that the rich can get away with paying fewer taxes. apnews.com/article/bill...

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Senator Alex Padilla tried to ask Kristi Noem a question He was assaulted, removed from the room, forced to the floor, handcuffed and arrested Meanwhile, Noem blathered on about “liberating” Los Angeles But arresting those who question authority is what tyrants do www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

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The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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"And now, in the latest of a string of appalling actions, a sitting U.S. senator has been assaulted and detained in the state he honorably serves solely because he tried to do his job as a public servant. The good faith experiment is clearly over." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-good-f...

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WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

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Here are just a few reasons why it’s so damn important for you to get out there tomorrow and protest at a “No Kings” rally near you. Today’s Substack, check it out.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

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“Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn't express opposition in private. ‘We had a clear U.S. green light,’ one claimed.” www.axios.com/2025/06/13/h...

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... US tariffs jeopardize medicine supply chains

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“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

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🚨New: “Trump Org Keeps Bringing In Foreign Workers To Staff Its Clubs And Winery” It’s sought to import 1,880 foreign workers since 2008, per Labor Dept. records—including 31 farm workers for its vineyard this year. me, for @forbes.com 1/

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Before Kristi Noem’s thugs assaulted Sen. Padilla, she said, “We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country.” To “liberate.” www.americaamerica.news/p/waging-war...

submitted 19 hours ago • 73 comments

I have many issues with the PSL but this is really bad and they will absolutely be doing this with the DSA next

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Republican who once tried to abolish the IRS will now run it—into the ground https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/6/12/2327581/-Republican-who-once-tried-to-abolish-the-IRS-will-now-run-it-into-the-ground?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 19 hours ago • 82 comments

I wrote about international student enrollment and how misunderstandings of it are misshaping the conversation around it. I'll share some charts from it below. 🧵 bit.ly/4kAKGqC

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Another terrific scoop from @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-warran...

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Be aware: Speaker Johnson just spoke to press and said that Padilla's behavior rises to the level of a censure. Are you freaking joking me.

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Trump's military moves - the political Fort Bragg speech, L.A. troop call-up, tanks in D.C. for a Kremlin-style parade - aren't 'a distraction' It's the essence of his regime, and he's pulling a slow-motion coup to crush all dissent and take control My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/coup...

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🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.

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Imposter scams hit military families hard. - Veterans are 2x more likely to lose money. - Active-duty members face 76% more identity theft. pausetake9 teamed up with bluestarfamilies and wefightcybercrime to share one simple step #Take9 #CyberCivilDefense pausetake9.org/join

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Time to do this with “Trump is imposing military dictatorship”

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“We cannot let this stand, never mind letting it escalate. We must take to the streets, we must do everything in our power to change the collective perception of the political environment.” www.liberalcurrents.com/now-is-the-m...

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Me literally holding up my water glass and saying “SALUD!”. @carbajal.house.gov

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“Mr. Trump doesn’t like fat people,” a Trump Org VP once told a caterer. When Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization, he humiliated one winner by publicly calling her “an eating machine” and, unbeknownst to her, invited the press to watch her work out at a gym. newrepublic.com/article/1967...

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Feds greenlight $9 billion in supplemental Medicaid funds as GOP weighs new limits www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/m... via @statnews.com

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If a senator is no longer allowed to ask pointed questions at a public press conference, our democracy is in real peril. This is a step toward authoritarianism that cannot be ignored.

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There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social

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Opinion: The AMA is not properly representing physicians www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/a... via @statnews.com

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"An analysis by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill requested by top ranking Senate Democrats found that 338 rural hospitals could be at risk of closure based on percentage of patients who are enrolled in Medicaid and past financial health." www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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One thing you can say to people is that Trump's parade will cost more than all the cuts Trump has made to libraries in your state. 1. It's true and gross. 2. I'd bet most people have no idea how much Trump has gone after libraries.

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One thing you can say to Thom Tillis is DON'T VOTE TO KILL 5 OF NORTH CAROLINA'S HOSPITALS!

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A vaccine expert explains why she is very worried about RFK Jr. and new CDC vaccine advisers www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/v... via @statnews.com

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I just saw @padilla.senate.gov speaking on @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com visibly moved by the attacks on his own consituents. It felt real and raw. Way to take the attention focused on you and redirect it to those you serve. Damn impressive.

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