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"President Trump told senior aides late Tuesday that he approved of attack plans for Iran, but was holding off to see if Tehran would abandon its nuclear program, people familiar with the deliberations said."

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youtu.be/1FH7WO-alN0?...

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ProPublica obtained records showing how a DOGE software engineer with no health care or government experience created an AI model to identify contracts to kill at the VA. @bxroberts.org‬ takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️

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Utah voters: Are these really your values? Mike Lee is the best you can do?

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This article was published last year. It’s a fascinating yet scary read.

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“No King But Christ.” What does this mean? Read my latest article here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/no-kin...

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US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

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There must be an office or someone at DoD who understands the symbolism and protocol of parade routes, so this has to be deliberate. The Secretary of the Army ought to be asked about this

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SCOOP: Who set up the new private Trump club in DC that costs up to $500,000 to join? A SF developer who's a business associate of David Sacks, Trump's crypto and AI czar, who's been promoting the club. Government ethics experts say this raises questions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Israeli government issuing ‘illegal’ orders that must not be obeyed, say IDF intelligence officers

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Buried in the House’s budget reconciliation bill — now pending in the Senate — is a legislative provision that takes aim at the federal judiciary. Congress should remove it.

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It’s the only way any advertiser would want to market there — under specious legal threat www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Republican is a synonym to hypocrite. This tweet is real. Kristi Noem, the Governor of South Dakota, posted this statement on her official X (formerly Twitter) account on February 6, 2024.

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How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard? One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended. Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️

submitted 12 days ago • 266 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 13 days ago • 381 comments

This is beyond horrific. If Biden did this Republicans would call for his impeachment and removal. This should be no different.

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Both cruel AND counterproductive.

submitted 14 days ago • 31 comments

Very good question.

submitted 15 days ago • 321 comments

Look what Jake Tapper did to us. His garbage book—which contains none of the proof it claims to include—is the foundation a vile madman will now use to justify ending our democracy by undoing actions he’d otherwise not be able to touch. Democracy dies as Tapper swims in gold, Scrooge McDuck-style.

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The North Carolina Supreme Court allowed a controversial Republican-backed law — which strips the Democratic governor of power over state election administration and hands it to the Republican state auditor — to take effect. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

I wonder how Elon got the black eye?

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

submitted 28 days ago • 1290 comments

"Trump is unique among the nation’s presidents in having no interest in presiding over a functioning govt, let alone building institutions that will survive his term in office. That's why the analogies pundits have tried to draw between the early periods of other presidencies fall entirely flat."

submitted 28 days ago • 138 comments

House GOPers Just Voted for the Biggest Medicaid Cuts in History—After Promising to Protect It www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A foreign crypto billionaire feared arrest for helping criminals move billions— then dropped $23M into Trump’s meme coin to score a private dinner with him. The SEC dropped its case against him after he invested $75M in Trump’s crypto company. These are bribes Trump is for sale

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Did you know that $100M in food aid is rotting in warehouses that could feed the entire population of Gaza for a month and half, but a 28-year-old at DOGE is holding it hostage? www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

submitted 30 days ago • 239 comments

Trump on his fake white genocide allegations against South Africa: "It'll be the end of the country if it's not resolved."

submitted 30 days ago • 155 comments

Some days it feels like our country's humiliations are endless.

submitted 30 days ago • 59 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 31 days ago • 1232 comments

The US has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Tehran.

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🚨Trump’s war on truth is working. CBS just lost its top exec after Trump sued for $20B. This isn’t accountability… it’s authoritarianism in a MAGA mask. If the press folds, democracy’s next. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

Terrifying. youtu.be/IXR9PByA9SY?...

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Our guest this week @mikelevin.org breaks down the BULLSH*T Republican tax scam. WATCH and spread the TRUTH!!!

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Yes, the level of invention, fiction and fanatacism here hard to put into words. This bill is going to explode the deficit which is a reason Moody’s downgraded. They cannot admit to the clear “sky is blue” reality of what they are doing.

submitted 33 days ago • 216 comments

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

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www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/p...

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A decorated soldier who died protecting his troops was wiped from a military webpage. But his hometown won't let him be forgotten.

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JUST IN: Internal Trump administration document reveals plans to cut roughly a third of discretionary federal health spending. cnn.it/3RnVA6e

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BREAKING - Trump abandons fallen soldiers, goes golfing instead Trump was supposed to meet coffins of 4 fallen US soldiers who died in an accident in Lithuania — meeting them at Dover Air Force Base as presidents traditionally do Instead he’s going to Florida — so he can golf

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Oh my God... it was all ChatGPT. They didn't even care enough about the American economy to do any of the work themselves. It almost feels... impeachable? How could sloppily using AI to create domestic policy, then hiding it, be consistent with the Oath of Office?

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BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

submitted 96 days ago • 98 comments

Tragic and heinous

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Trump hugged the flag, then stabbed veterans in the back. Cutting 80,000 VA jobs won’t improve services-it’s a betrayal of those who served. Veterans kept their promise, why won’t he? Read more: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...

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Lies, Cuts, Closures: Trump and Musk Ravage Social Security Administration - Rolling Stone

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Murphy calls out the "Mar-a-Lago cabal" and says of the Republican spending plan, "you are taking about the most massive transfer of wealth and resources from poor people and the middle class to billionaires and corporations in the history of this country."

submitted 115 days ago • 132 comments

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

submitted 116 days ago • 709 comments