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🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Republican National Committee petition to hear case to overturn voting rights victory in Pennsylvania. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

The Supreme Court mistakenly sent emails about which cases would be granted or denied this afternoon. It's the second major technical error in a year.

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

This has confirmed what we always knew: The government can bring back people they illegally deported. Every single person has a right to their day in court. It's past time for President Trump to bring back everyone who was unlawfully deported and guarantee their rights to due process.

Reminder that California subsidizes red states.

Trump threatens to take away Elon’s government contracts

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

Holy shit! An NYPD detective on Mayor Adams' personal detail was also working for the alleged crypto torture guy and reportedly brought the Italian vic from the airport to the luxury Manhattan townhouse where he was tortured for 17 days to give up his bitcoin password.

RFK Jr’s Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

Also disillusioned: all the people who are dead as a result of Musk’s government work.

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ā€œā€¦somewhere in Cuba or Venezuela tonight, there are cells waiting. In some field, a backhoe is cutting a long, shallow trench, six feet wide. Soon, those cell doors will close with a final, ugly clang. Soon, those trenches will be filled with bodies, covered in quicklime.ā€œ bit.ly/3H7Tjdv

My latest piece is unsparing: Elon’s Humiliating Exile: ETTD Always Strikes. Always. Oh, and Elon…you’re in phase where Trump will publicly humiliate you. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND STORY: French caretakers take the sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy and scrub it into the letters to give them the brown/gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Schumer better not kick the fight can down the road. Now is time to put the "fight" in "smart" and kill this bill.

The news cycle has moved on from this corrupt president and administration kidnapping US citizens to the El Salvador prison?

A popular San Francisco doughnut shop is facing online backlash related to its co-owner, Andrew Dudum, the CEO and co-founder of the online health company Hims & Hers, which recently donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s presidential inaugural committee.

1/ Tonight at 1am ET/12pm CT/10pm PT, cowardly Republics go into a middle-of-the-night session to take up Trump's "Big, Beautiful" budget (also, ironically called the skinny budget) in hopes no one will pay attention. I'm up, making popcorn, & will let you know if anything interesting happens.

McGovern: "What the hell are Republicans so afraid of? What the hell are so scared of that you guys are holding this hearing at 1 in the morning ... if Republicans are so proud of what's in this bill, why are you trying to ram it through in dead of night?"

🚨🚨🚨 The House GOP just passed the #MedicaidMassacre bill out of the Budget Committee. #CA22 Rep. David Valadao (R) won by just 6.8% (Dems have overperformed by 12% so far this year)... ...while up to 198,000 of his constituents (21.3%) would lose healthcare coverage if this bill goes into effect.

We, the citizens of The United States Of America, hereby request that the court hold President Donald J. Trump accountable to carry out the action(s) - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/am...

My Saturday PSA: Joe Biden isn’t the president anymore. Instead, we’ve got a mentally deranged and ethically compromised old man with the nuclear codes trespassing in the Oval Office. Stop talking about Joe Biden. Start talking about the Convicted Felon, Donald Trump.

Damn… Biden has prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone.

Heartbreaking to hear about President Biden’s diagnosis. This is a good and decent man that has done extraordinary work for our nation. Keep him in your prayers for healing and recovery.

Despite swearing otherwise just months ago, Republicans have now revealed their plan to take Medicaid away from millions of Americans. There has to be accountability - for the harm and for the lies.

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

How about fixing the air traffic control system?

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Insane corruption.

This slippery slope is steep as hell. Justice Sotomayor called it: if the government can strip birthright citizenship from kids born here, what stops them from stripping gun rights too? Remember this later; Trump and Republicans opened the door. Watch til the end…

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JFC!

Deranged. And the corrupt news media continues to give him a pass.

laying the groundwork for open defiance of judges

This is the Republican Party. This is MAGAts. All the rest — egg prices, tariffs — is bullshit. They support Trump b/c they’re hateful crazy horrible people. There’s a degree of hardship white people are always willing to accept in exchange for racist privilege + seeing people they hate get hurt.

Moldy food, used underwear: inside the US prisons where Trump is jailing immigrants

Former VP Kamala Harris says Trump has created the "greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history." "Instead of an administration working to advance America's highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:

Trump has no idea whatsoever what Musk is actually doing even though he also signed the executive order giving DOGE ā€œfull and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems."

Why isn’t everyone outraged that tariffs are tanking the economy and jacking up our costs??This is hitting all of us, and I’m seriously pissed off. #TrumpSlump

this mf is out here delivering his standard rally speech to a bunch of graduating college students