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This is my hands down favorite long form investigative journalism podcast. I’ll say as documentary film maker that they are on the audio versions of a Ken Burns doc. Keep up the good work @vermontgmg.bsky.social

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Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

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🚨Stephen Miller gets his way. Just a few days after Ag. Sec. Rollins convinced Trump to briefly back down, quotas and indiscriminate raids are back. Farms, restaurants, and hotels are now subject to ICE raids again, with intense pressure on ICE to hit 3,000 arrests a day. Miller remains in charge.

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June 14, 2025

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This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments

I told my wife about the accommodations national guardsmen are getting in LA and she said it’s like the Fyre Festival of troop deployments

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The contrast and absurdity is so brazen. They're literally raiding Home Depots to find whatever guys are there to get work as day laborers. People eager for work. And the ICE agents has zero idea who they are or any criminal background.

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The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

We really are sinking to new lows in this country on a daily basis. An official account of the US Dept of Defense is making political statements like this. Twitter Trolls speaking for the US military, & not one Republican in Congress will say a word because they are all cowards.

submitted 7 days ago • 159 comments

Wow. Just Wow.

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Stunning how badly Trump and the Rs have lost the debate on what their reconciliation bill will do. From new CBS/YouGov polling:

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Worth emphasizing that Tom Homan has literally no official powers. "Border Czar" is a made up position that amounts to, at best, a senior White House advisor.

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I truly believe part of the reason this is happening in LA right now is because they want to scare us into not protesting for no Kings day. DT is actually worried he’s gonna lose the news cycle so he wants to make sure everyone is too scared. 1/2

submitted 9 days ago • 382 comments

What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.

submitted 9 days ago • 388 comments

LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…”

submitted 9 days ago • 110 comments

Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America and fascism is in full bloom.

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

This is patently unlawful, if the Marines are being used for regular civilian law enforcement on the whim of the SecDef.

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

“Don’t be afraid” could be considered a central theme from @hcrichardson.bsky.social letters. Speak up, stand up for what is right, talk about choices both individually and collectively for education, governance and healthcare. There’s great power in our voice. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

When is a millionaire not a millionaire? When they're a "small business owner"

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get married to the same sex. Don’t like gender-affirming care? Don’t have any. Don’t like Planned Parenthood? Don’t go there. Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean others shouldn’t be able to it.

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https://www.wcax.com/2025/05/31/ground-breaking-ceremony-new-hospice-house-derby/

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Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

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It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gaza’s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues:

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE-bros have decimated our nation’s weather warning system and are putting lives at risk. It’s irresponsible, and it will cause devastation. We need to elect a Democratic Congress and stop them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social @reallyamerican.bsky.social @hakeemjeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @democrats.org @nytimes.com @latimes.com @chicagotribune.com @pbsnews.bsky.social @msnbc.com

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House Republicans just approved a bill to take Medicaid away from 13 million people and Meet the Press is (not) on it

submitted 23 days ago • 227 comments

“Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump said in an excoriating post aimed at the Russian president.

submitted 22 days ago • 43 comments

Trump: The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun…

submitted 23 days ago • 1253 comments

The most important attribute of any commencement speech is that it be SHORT. Eg: George Marshall's at Harvard in 1947, laying out what became Marshall Plan plus groundwork for his Nobel prize, was 10 minutes long. Also: Never WEAR A HAT. Unless it's one of those academic weird ones. Not MAGA cap.

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“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

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"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Ya gotta read this one But we ALL should always read @hccmal.bsky.social The mad king is deteriorating right in front of our eyes The GOP is doing all it can to hide the facts heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-202...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

They’ll be reduced to emojis or hydrographic before long to preserve the illusion of semiotic sentience

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

We astoundingly elected the one single person in the entire world who is not interested in reading the intelligence in the President’s Daily Brief.

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

Who’s doing the book on Trump’s cognitive decline?

submitted 26 days ago • 467 comments

🚨 This bill gets more egregious by the minute. Rules just dropped an amended “Big Beautiful Bill” that includes a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother, even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.

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For over half a century, the National Weather Service has operated 24/7. But after the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency pushed to shrink the federal workforce, that’s no longer possible in parts of the country.

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top adviser to director of national intelligence ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government & a gang after intelligence findings undercut the White House’s justification for deporting migrants www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 45 comments

Hello, Bill Maher?

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I’m sensing a theme…

submitted 37 days ago • 24 comments

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

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In a speech to the cardinals today, Pope Leo XIV confirms he chose his name with Pope Leo XIII's contribution to social teaching in mind, noting that we are in another economic transformation not unlike the industrial revolution that prompted Rerum Novarum. press.vatican.va/content/sala...

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