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Can someone please ask Karoline Leavitt why the Director of White House Personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if “Sergio Gor” is the name on his birth certificate. Seems kinda important.

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Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

submitted 5 hours ago • 481 comments

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2075 comments

“Republicans seem to think they can win by changing the rules after an election or making it harder to vote. And Trump’s DOJ wants to help them do it,.” @billycorriher.bsky.social‬ writes. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/doj-...

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 7 hours ago • 793 comments

🚨🚨BREAKING TRUMP SAYS THE UNITED STATES IS NOW INVOLVED IN ISRAEL-IRAN WAR. "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran...Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA."

submitted 7 hours ago • 391 comments

Would love to have reporters dig into this incident, which is reminiscent of the Portland arrests of protesters in black vans. My additional question: did these black vans even have government plates?

submitted 10 hours ago • 53 comments

Senate Republicans released their tax and health plans for Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. This new Senate bill means MORE people lose health care to fund even BIGGER corporate tax breaks.

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments

Just so I’m clear… Terry Moran got fired, but Mike Lee is still a sitting US senator?

submitted 22 hours ago • 361 comments

The White House is considering pocket rescissions to cancel Congressionally authorized spending without a vote, the Times reports. The GAO found the tactic to be illegal in 2018.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Sen Mike Lee & the silence from Republicans made it clear: decency is in the rearview mirror. After he mocked a political assassination, Ed Shelleby, a senior staffer to Sen Tina Smith, wrote to Lee’s top staffers. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com read it on-air, and honestly everyone should hear it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 175 comments

Local, state, and federal law enforcement officers who cover their faces while conducting official business could face a misdemeanor charge in California under a new proposal. cnn.it/443mdTX

submitted 18 hours ago • 349 comments

A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?

submitted 18 hours ago • 114 comments

Causes cancers of lung, pleura, and peritoneum... But, it's natural

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

Donald Trump arrived in Canada and demanded that Russia be admitted into the G7. He falsely claimed Canada had Russia kicked out. He refused to work out a deal with allies on the Middle East crisis and he left town before President Zelensky showed up. Surprised?

submitted 23 hours ago • 301 comments

What the holy he🏒🏒. (The Guardian is a reputable source.) Call your MoCs! A few details: 🔹️Doctors at all US VA hospitals "could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by [Trump]." 1/5 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

“I asked Grok” “I asked ChatGPT” Well I asked the non-partisan CBO and they confirmed the GOP tax scam would hurt the finances of low-income Americans the most while giving benefits to the wealthiest among us.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Weird how the “we’re broke” crowd goes quiet whenever war is on the table But we have to throw 11 million off health care, cut food stamps, etc right?

submitted 19 hours ago • 232 comments

Censure now

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 22 hours ago • 822 comments

This man aided the U.S. military in #Afghanistan and would have been in danger from his own government if he had stayed when the U.S. pulled out. He showed up for his immigration hearing and... #ICE snatched him. --------------- Backstory link about translators: www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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The Senate bill would cut Medicaid "far more aggressively" than the House bill: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

This is perfect

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

www.axios.com/2025/06/15/a... Padilla says FBI and National Guard escorted him into Noem's press conference

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Mike Lee shouldn't just be expelled from Congress, he should be expelled from public life, just completely shunned by everyone he encounters like in that episode of The Twilight Zone. He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.

submitted 22 hours ago • 142 comments

“Perhaps they should change the name of the agency if they are no longer about protecting the health of Americans.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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I think we are dangerously underestimating how many jobs we will lose to AI and how deep the spiritual cost will be. The industry tells us strong restrictions on AI will hurt us and help China. I wrote this to explain how they pulling one over on us. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/in-our-scr...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users’ right to privacy

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This fundraising campaign for the Hoffman family is verified - through Yvette's school, where she works as a para for in a kindergarten special ed classroom. We've donated. www.gofundme.com/f/support-yv...

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A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

If Congress doesn’t fix the GENIUS Act, billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could launch stablecoins that track your purchases, exploit your data, and squeeze out competitors. These billionaires will come begging for a taxpayer bailout when it inevitably blows up.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 1 day ago • 2662 comments

I haven’t seen nearly enough people talking about this. The levels of greed and inhumane thinking on display is actually terrifying. America really is dystopian as fuck.

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Raskin on Trump's corruption: "Whatever kind of varnish they had from the first administration is completely off now. They're not even pretending to do anything else ... it's a gangster state."

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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“As former ACIP members, we are deeply concerned that these destabilizing decisions, made without clear rationale, may roll back the achievements of US immunization policy & put families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses” Letter from the former ACIP members who RFK Jr fired last week:

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