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1. Trump and his Republican allies say their budget cuts are targeted at waste, fraud, and abuse But Trump's new 1,223-page budget proposal, quietly released on Friday afternoon, reveals the real target: Poor children

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"Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment," observes @jvl.bsky.social. So why are agents who purport to represent the Department of Homeland Security now wearing masks? Because "America can no longer be reasonably viewed as a stable democracy."

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Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

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What if video analytics systems violated the Fourth Amendment? digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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This was last night’s party favor. The next sound you hear will be Trump’s billionaire buddies shorting a collapsing market.

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This seems like the crux of the issue. Harvard produced the data. DHS demanded more. Harvard produced more. DHS still said it was insufficient without saying how and revoked SEVP. It's just coercion.

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And whose mental state is rapidly deteriorating as Republikans schedule hearings on the old guy who is no longer president.

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if you're letting your freak flag fly, time to lower it to half mast. CDC shut the office which tracks outbreaks/clusters of STIs

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

When urologists become central to a conspiracy theory, that is a strong indication that it has jumped the shark.

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NEW: CBS News president and CEO Wendy McMahon is stepping down from the network. In a memo to staff, she cited leadership differences: "It's become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward."

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Okay, so in huge victory the likes of which has never been seen before Trump puts back on the ground the rake he stepped on four weeks ago. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/u...

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The crash of an airliner with a military helicopter in DC was apparently caused by the Secret Service doing experiments outside their authority. That is, Trump’s Secret Service: apple.news/A3vw7tMMBR6W...

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Weekend reading: I wrote about the MAGA government siding with the German Neo-Nazi party. They share the same enemy: liberal democracy. What a moment in U.S. history. This week’s piece:

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I wonder how many Americans realize that Bribery is one of just two impeachable offenses specifically enumerated in the United States Constitution and the case that Donald Trump has now committed that crime dozens of times in his second term is a legal slam dunk. So shall we get started?

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This public health nightmare continues. “Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents of newborns to “do your own research” before vaccinating their infants during a televised interview in which he also suggested the measles shot was unsafe and repeatedly made false statements”

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I'm a staff writer at WIRED, and I'm looking to speak with folks taking compounded GLP-1s and how you're being affected now that the FDA has said compounding of semaglutide and tirzepatide must stop. Feel free to reach out on Signal at emullin.06 or email at [email protected].

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One stated goal of the tariff is to encourage people to buy American. The costs of overseas supply chains should be something the administration wants to highlight, no?

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HAPPENING NOW: Protests continue outside a courthouse in downtown Milwaukee in support of Judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest today

submitted 39 days ago • 46 comments

Top notch Leopards/faces moment here from the managing director of Thiel Capital and the person who coined the term "Intellectual Dark Web." Yeah, so weird how much antisemitism there is on Musk's platform...real head scratcher there, my dude.

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So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue: ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant. The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge. This is ridiculous.

submitted 39 days ago • 716 comments

this says Doge staff marked 4 million people as dead in the social security master death index (death master file) system and there's a huge backlog to fix it not just the 6K very alive immigrants they've been harassing archive.is/qPNiu

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After citing Trump's tariffs as an excuse for mass layoffs, automaker Stellantis is rewarding shareholders with a $2.26B payout. Big corporations will use any cover they can — like inflation or tariffs — to pad profits and line their pockets at workers expense. Know the truth.

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What does the expression “a loose dog won't surf” mean? Absolutely nothing. But if you type that into Google, AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived. Oh AI...

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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

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i highly encourage you to share this story!

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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if you lived through the lead up to the iraq war then you know that this is the most delusional thing anyone has ever said

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RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.

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BREAKING: I’m demanding answers from the White House and Office of Government Ethics about whether anyone in the Trump family or administration profited off of this tariff chaos through insider trading.

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Not an expert but fairly sure one of the major flaws of authoritarians or personalist regimes is the leader surrounding himself with people who tell him what he wants to hear… the infamous “yes men”

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This really undermines the Bessent attempt at a message around shared sacrifice.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

with apologies to @xkcd.com

submitted 60 days ago • 23 comments

Great thread. For me an important new understanding of why Trump is wildly imposing tariffs—not just because he’s an economic idiot, but to force business leaders under his heel as he’s trying to do with law firms and universities and the media. Because he’s a gangster autocrat.

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Narrator: "It did not make them rich."

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Elon Musk has "fallen for audience capture, just like Joe Rogan has in the podcast world, just like the Gawker writers did in the peak of lefty Twitter," Nick Denton said on Semafor's Mixed Signals podcast.

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