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While nursing a severe shoulder injury, Derek Carr said he chose to retire because he couldn’t “just take” the New Orleans Saints’ money while sidelined for the 2025 season. Carr surprisingly announced his retirement from the NFL on May 10, ending an 11-year career. 🔗 nyti.ms/45GsMxZ

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Supreme Court sides with a straight woman who sued her employer in a ruling that makes it easier to file "reverse discrimination" suits.

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#BookSky

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Happy Fragile Straight Man Month!

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Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

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Happy Philly Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ From the 600-foot pride flag we carried, to the inclusive community, and the Batala Philly drummers #batalaphilly this was one of my favorite Pride March experiences!

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It’s true. It works. Especially for those of us that live in the impacted areas. And for our kids. It’s the biggest big quality of life move since Bloomberg’s smoking ban. “Congestion pricing works, and NYC is not going back” ⁦‪@amNewYork‬⁩ www.amny.com/oped/op-ed-c...

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⚡️ Kim Jong Un reaffirms 'unconditional' support for Russia's war in Ukraine during Shoigu visit. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed that his country "unconditionally supports the stand of Russia and its foreign policies."

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🚨Breaking News: The Trump administration barred people from 12 countries from entering the U.S., primarily from #Africa and the #MiddleEast.

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Fox News personality slash Trump Family member Lara Trump praised the big guy for bringing down prices that are all actually higher today than they were when he took office. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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Let the rematch begin 🔥 Edmonton hosts Florida in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final as the Oilers and Panthers meet in the final for the second straight year. Follow live: http://dlvr.it/TL9gqy

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This is about increasing crop yields and preserving soil quality, you hare-brained Luddites.

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NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

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Phang: And listen, he’s got a beefy lawsuit here. You can imagine what discovery is going to be like once this case moves forward—because it will. It will not be dismissed…

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Russell Vought: "Impoundment, which is also a possibility. We are dusting off muscle memory that existed for 200 years before President Nixon in the 1970s and Congress acted to try to take away the president's ability to spend less." (Impoundment is literally illegal.)

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A plume of gas and ash has destroyed part of Mount Etna's crater. See more photos from the volcano's eruption:

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This is disgusting and this regime needs to be held accountable. Cadets who met all Air Force Academy graduation standards denied commissions because they’re transgender www.yahoo.com/news/cadets-...

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🚨Exclusive: The US is refusing to provide #air #defenses to back the “reassurance force” the #UK and #France are planning in a postwar #Ukraine. Read more here: bloom.bg/4kkWu04

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Trump has walked back his absurd promise to end the war in 24 hours. But he hasn't stopped repeating the claim that Putin never would have invaded Ukraine under him. Despite the fact that, you know, an invasion is ongoing.

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Guess who is going to pay for the tariffs?

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"Trans issues are too complicated to talk about publicly." Lawmakers will drill into details on foreign policy and the economy that make voters' eyes glaze over in boredom, but somehow, trans equality is complicated? No, it's not. The data and science are there. Just admit you're chickenshit.

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Nashville ICE raid reignites city’s turmoil with GOP leaders.

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OOOOPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS... looks like someone has NOT READ THE CONSTITUTION! Shame on her! 💩🤬🤡🤑🤮☢️🦇

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White House is already making up data and analysis, saying repeatedly that the budget bill will - not increase the deficit (lie) - not cut Medicaid (lie) We are already there.

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KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal? LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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The credit rating of the United States was downgraded due to how fiscally irresponsible Trump’s bill is. It’s ridiculous they are arguing this point.

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The FBI has made an arrest in New York in connection with an explosion of a Palm Springs, California fertility clinic, two law enforcement officials familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

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Donald Trump said Wednesday that it was “extremely hard” to make a deal with his Chinese counterpart #Xi #Jinping, at a time when the White House has been suggesting the two leaders could talk this week amid rising trade tensions.

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The federal government told states to turn over names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about food assistance recipients. Amid a legal challenge, the agency says the request is on hold.

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

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Texas lawmakers have voted to ban THC edibles, but will Gov. Greg Abbott sign it into law? A fierce debate has erupted around the state’s multibillion-dollar industry.

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Yep, I've been harping on this but much less eloquently

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Unbelievable www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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It wouldn’t be hard to protect Medicaid and funding to rural hospitals and still reduce our nation’s ballooning debt and deficit. The Rs would just have to make the wealthy and corporations pay slightly more in taxes. (PS Rs are never serious about the debt and deficit when they are in power).

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🚨#Exclusive: Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi #Panagiotakopoulos of the #CDC resigned on Tuesday as co-leader of a working group that advises outside experts on #COVID-19 vaccines and is leaving the agency, two sources familiar with the move told Reuters.

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REED: We have this crisis in education and literacy, what we're gonna do is pull back and let the states do it McMAHON: No. We'll spend it more responsibly REED: I doubt it very seriously McMAHON: Let's hope we do REED: Hope is not a plan

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www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

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This what real leadership looks like.🇺🇦

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We don’t celebrate Pride for the rainbows or parades, we do it because right now someone out there believes they don’t deserve love, just because of who they are or who they love. That’s why we celebrate Pride—because we want to build a world where no one feels that way.

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