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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

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Scanlon: They're flat out lying when they say they're just kicking undocumented immigrants off Medicaid because those folks were never eligible for Medicaid in the first place. The truth is Republicans know that kicking millions of Americans off of health insurance is unpopular.

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Reminder: Trump plans on using these Medicaid cuts to fund his Border Wall.

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"Answer the question, Mr. Vought ... I don't want to hear about the Biden administration. You're here on behalf of the Trump administration" -- Jon Ossoff was not putting up with Russ Vought's bullshit

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Padilla: "How many of the prosecutors assigned to the Capitol siege section were fired?" Bove: "I don't recall." Padilla: "Ballpark?" Bove: "I don't recall." Padilla: "Can you tell me how many J6 rioters Trump pardoned?" Bove: "No, I don't recall." Padilla: "1,500 people."

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Sen. Alex Padilla: "Trump clearly has one litmus test when selecting people to appoint. It's not experience. It's not dedication to our country or the rule of law. It's whether or not a potential nominee is willing to bend or ignore the law to satisfy the president."

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Reporter: “You once said you would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours… You’ve now been in office for five months and five days. Why have you not been able to end the Ukraine war?” Trump: “Because it’s more difficult than people would have any idea.”

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REED: How many Americans weapons are going to Mexico in a year? BONDI: We are arresting people who have illegal firearms in our country REED: No. You're allowing them to be purchased in the United States and driven across the border

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Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

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Phang: Vance Boelter received better treatment when taken into custody than Narciso Barranco—a Mexican immigrant working at IHOP, landscaping in the parking lot under the hot sun on a Saturday—who was beaten by Border Patrol agents.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Lt. Gen. Grynkevich, nominated by the US to lead NATO forces in Europe: "Senator, I think Ukraine can win. I think when your own homeland is threatened, you fight with a stubbornness that is hard for us to understand unless we've been there ourselves."

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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

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‼️🇺🇦 They wanted to kill Zelensky in Poland at Rzeszow airport, - SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk 😮 Several options were considered: one of them was an FPV drone, the other was a sniper complex. ❗️There were two assassination attempts on Zelensky: at the airport in Polish Rzeszow and directly in OP, — Malyuk

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Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

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🤷🏼‍♀️

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“He has always worked hard to put food on the table for us and my mom,” said Alejandro. “He was always careful and always did his taxes on time. He never caused any problems and he is known as a kind and helping person by everyone in our community.” santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

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WATCH: “She keeps looking for her mom and doesn’t want the bottle.” A mom married to a 🇺🇸 citizen with a legal family petition was grabbed by Trump’s Gestapo at her immigration appointment and taken from her husband and baby. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DLONDhV...

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The number of times I've thought about this exchange in the past week.

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🤬 The death toll in the Shevchenko district of Kyiv has risen to 5. Another 19 were injured, 8 of whom were hospitalized.

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🇮🇷‼️🇺🇸 Iran sent a message to Trump days before the strikes, warning it would activate sleeper-cell terror inside the U.S. if attacked, - NBC News

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Father, grandfather Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado dies in ICE custody. They murdered him through denial of proper food and medical care.

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L - BEFORE Trump’s Make Iran Great Again post calling for regime change. R - AFTER Trump’s Make Iran Great Again post calling for regime change.

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Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.

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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

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RUBIO: “we have nothing to do with this” TRUMP: “we did this” GABBARD: “Iran not pursuing a weapon” TRUMP: “I don’t care what she says” VANCE: “peace through strength” TRUMP: “actually nah, regime change” Leadership! 🫡

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He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

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VANCE: "Our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change." HEGSETH: "This mission was not and has not been about regime change." RUBIO: Regime change is "certainly not the goal of what we're working on here." TRUMP:

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Starting to think these folks aren’t the “free thinkers” they think they are

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Worth remembering: Though Medicare is the primary health insurance provider for senior adults, it’s Medicaid that pays for nursing home coverage and other long-term care.

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🇨🇦🇺🇦 Canada is helping Ukraine modernize helicopters to intercept "Shaheds", - Militarnyi ❗️First of all, we are talking about the installation of Canadian-made detection and targeting stations.

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Senator Ted Cruz 2013 on Obama attacking Syria: "The residual presidential authority to act militarily in the absence of a declaration of war is based on an imminent, direct threat to the United States." "[Acting] would be contrary to the Constitution" Senator Cruz 2025 on Trump attacking Iran:

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BBC Verify fact-checks Clay Travis

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Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.

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Hmmmmmmm

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Q: The DNI concluded in March that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. What new intel does the US have that Iran changed its position? HEGSETH: The president has made it very clear that he's looked at all the intelligence and come to the conclusion that the Iranian nuclear program is a threat

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Q: "The ODNI's threat assessment concluded Iran is not building a nuclear weapon...What new intelligence does the U.S. have?" Hegseth: "The president...looked at all of this, all of the intelligence, all of the information, and came to the conclusion that the Iranian nuclear program is a threat."

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Seems important.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency said that there has been “no increase in off-site radiation levels” after U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Follow AP's live updates.

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"I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today. This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security," says UN Secretary General António Guterres.

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Our current Director of National Intelligence:

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🧑‍🌾 Farms are shuttering without workers thanks to Trump’s Gestapo raids. www.valleycentral.com/news/local-n...

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Trump in 2013: “Remember what I previously said--Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is.”

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Trump in 2013: “I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!”

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Trump in 2013: “Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!”

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