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Talk about a blue wall of resistance!🔥 Every single Democratic Governor has signed a statement standing with Gov. Newsom @governor.ca.gov and eviscerating Trump for abusing his power by deploying California’s National Guard and threatening to send U.S. Marines into American neighborhoods.

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Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere. Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines Trump: The bar is what I think it is.

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I seem to be back in Glasgow, with its refreshing attitude to authority.

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"Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area" Ohio State really not beating the allegations out of Ann Arbor here.

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Russia has started calling its terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities a "response" to Ukraine's special operation targeting strategic bombers. These so-called "responses" include strikes on residential buildings in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lutsk, Pryluky, and other cities.

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Good headline work here

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Tear gas & ‘pepper balls’ = chemical weapons Paid for by your tax dollars to be used on you for peaceful protesting. Chemical weapons Demask & Demilitarize law enforcement.

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“you’re making the gestapo sad” is a hell of an argument

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The problem with sending messages out into space is that if you stop doing it, the aliens know that things are so fucked on your planet that you had to slash funding

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Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful arrest and continued detention has caused irreparable harm to him and his family. As Mahmoud approaches three months in ICE detention, the Trump administration must release him immediately.

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While Trump and Musk Fight, Stephen Miller’s Purge Plan Continues at Full Blast americasvoice.org/press_releas... via @americasvoice.bsky.social

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#godisacon and you’re the mark

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HSI / ICE raid happening in downtown Los Angeles right now. They’ve locked the doors & holding employees inside - 940 Towne Ave

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SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

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Superb piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social pointing out that both Trump and Musk "agree that the U.S. state should dramatically roll back its commitment to providing minimal social and economic resources for lower-income Americans, including the working poor."

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Pam Bondi wraps up her press conference by accusing Abrego Garcia of being a child-groomer human trafficker and gang member and the walks away

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If a Democratic president cut off one of the red states dependent on federal funding, it would be a political scandal. But cutting off California -- the single biggest "donor state" in the nation, one that sends in to the fed'l gov't ~$80 billion more than it gets back -- is straight-up theft.

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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

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These are concentration camps on US soil and we need to start treating them as such really, really fast.

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This reminds me of the correspondence between Jefferson and Adams, if you dipped their letters in grease, set them on fire, and dropped them in a dumpster, which was also on fire.

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KHANNA: “Who gets custody of J.D. Vance in the divorce?”

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Exactly.

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Somewhere a presidential historian is wheezing into a paper bag right now

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The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

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Republican members of Congress are very upset about being forced to choose between Elon Musk, their party's biggest donor, and Donald Trump, their reality TV star president. They say that they were not supposed to have to make decisions as Republican members of Congress.

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Gift link with details on Polis violating state laws to turn over children to ICE: When he shows up on the national scene, treat him like Andrew Cuomo.

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Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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Meanwhile in #Mississippi, Dems are putting the fear of the voters into the hearts of the GOP by flipping several seats.

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Colorado River’s hidden, below-ground reservoir is quickly shrinking, researchers say

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Forcing myself to read discussion on AI coding practitioner forums and was struck by the repetition of literally the same “have fun being poor” argument for LLM adoption, including referring to people who can’t afford to blow a ton of credits to vibe-code their app into a working state as “brokies”

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i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were

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The New York Times insists on treating Christopher Rufo not as a far-right activist who has been successfully pushing an ideologically defined rightwing agenda, but as a respectable conservative voice and a serious interlocutor on key political issues. That is an active, deliberate choice.

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Biden’s I.R.S. Doubled Audits on the Wealthy, Data Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

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i suspect this is why trump is such an apex predator for the GOP in the era of social media, he's able to establish an affective bond with his base and basically monopolize the attention economy and suck oxygen away from serious governance

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Oregon relies on more than $11 billion in federal funding each year to cover about 75% of its Medicaid program. Under the Republican tax bill, that could be halved. @miamaldonado.bsky.social explains why Oregonians would take an outsized hit. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/04/r...

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Another dumb gross irony here is Harvey Milk served in the Navy and Donald Trump's Navy secretary didn't www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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NOAA’s new hurricane prediction model is up and running…

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Last night, Democrats won a special election in South Carolina by 40 POINTS. Democrats carried that same district by 5 last year. Something’s happening in South Carolina. Lindsey Graham’s “safe seat” is in danger.

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DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

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