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I’m a former high school drop out who was rescued by federal social sevice programs (Upward Bound). Ultimately completed MBA in finance and retired in 2021 after years in retail, energy, and state regulatory positions.
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Is Musk vs Trump for Real? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-mu...

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Several companies are moving their business away from the law firms that caved & capitulated to Donald Trump, saying if those law firms can't fight for themselves, how can they be expected to fight for their clients. One corporate executive said, "we like law firms that don't run from a fight."

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“The Trump administration is taking hundreds of migrant children already residing in the United States out of their homes and into government custody.” www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/p...

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Ron Johnson on his desire to cut federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars: "Nobody would even notice, except the grifters who are sucking down the waste and the pork."

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Tony Soprano set his guys up with no-show jobs too Internal Docs Raise Questions About Trump IRS Pick Billy Long’s ‘No-Show Jobs’ And ‘Strange’ Schedule Inside A Powerful Agency talkingpointsmemo.com/news/billy-l...

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Trump to Fed Chair: Please bail my dumb ass out like my daddy bailed out my failing casinos!

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centrist: we need to focus on popular policy me: holy shit! you mean we’re finally going to support universal healthcare? centrist: no haha not that policy me: ok so…gun control? centrist: no lol not that policy either me: ok which policy? centrist: oh you know the ones

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Cinderella’s wicked stepmother called and she wants her eye shadow palette back

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Congratulations Keishan Scott!

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When are we getting those $5,000 checks they talked about from all the waste, fraud and abuse that DOGE was going to find?

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On CNBC, Ron Johnson insists that a critical mass of GOP senators are serious about opposing the reconciliation bill as it stands and pleads with Trump not to insult them

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Marjorie Taylor Greene now says she would’ve voted against Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill—if she had read it. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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one would think that our Military has bigger issues to address... Fournier..."It's just so petty. So small. So transparently anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-Black, and anti-Hispanic.

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“…Amy, John, Brett … THINK OF YOUR LOVELY STOCK PORTFOLIOS!”

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Mahmoud Khalil’s wife gave birth alone. Her son has yet to meet his father. Why? The Trump administration refuses to explain to the courts. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Man Who Tried To Lawlessly Do Congress’ Job For It Criticizes ‘Pork-Filled’ Bill talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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Some Dems Warn Colleagues: Crypto Bill Could Inject Some 19th Century Chaos Into US Economy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-de...

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"Every day or so, Trump says Russia wouldn’t have attacked Ukraine if he were president. And every time he says it, Russia attacks Ukraine." "Russia's continuing onslaught makes a mockery of his boasts." But he keeps repeating his story. Putin respects this guy? What a joke. It's another Big Lie.

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Turns out the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants that the administration deported to high security Salvadoran prison—whom Trump characterized as “the worst of the worst”—had not been convicted of any crimes here, and they knew it. The whole Administration is one huge bitcoin swindle.

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Total mentions on Fox & Friends this morning: Medicaid: 2 Biden: 27

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Total mentions on Maria Bartiromo's show this morning: Medicaid: 5 Biden: 69

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Trump’s latest move? Letting ERs deny abortion care, even in emergencies. Outrageous, dangerous, and cruel.

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Fox viewers think robo-clone Biden is in deep trouble in his second term in office

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You can make a meaningful donation to Ukraine yourself, right here. u24.gov.ua

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine will be longer and bloodier because this US administration refuses to react to aggression. But Americans (and all others) can make sure the war and its crimes are chronicled. www.iwm.at/documenting-...

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Action items you can do to fight back the trump regime and save our freedoms, including attending the June 14th No Kings Day protest and stand against the cruelty and corruption of the trump regime! Invite friends bc they may go if you ask them.

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So after promising $1-2 trillion in spending cuts by DOGE, the Trump admin sends a list of DOGE cuts to Congress totaling a whopping $9.4 billion.

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Vinay Prasad didn’t know that all federally-funded research has to be open access. This has been a legal requirement for years.

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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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Good Morning

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“As long as Trump and MAGA Republicans peddle an out-of-touch agenda that puts billionaires’ interests first and takes away health care from millions of Americans, they will continue to sink and lose,”

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I guess we know know what DOGE was downloading, and why…. Assholes!

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Yeah, this isn't going anywhere. The DOJ stated in 2005 that it was legal for the president to sign orders and bills in this fashion, as long as he directed a subordinate to affix his signature to the document via an autopen. www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

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www.newsweek.com/donald-trump... Trump has contracted Colorado-based data analytics and technology firm Palantir, co-founded by longtime Trump backer Peter Thiel, for assistance in compiling a database of personal information on all American citizens.

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Great explainer of the tariff mess: Will courts let TACO steal tariff power from Congress? from @lizdye.bsky.social for Aaron Rupar's @atrupar.com Public Notice >>> "Does he think we all remember the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act because it was such a rousing success?" www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tari...

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www.commondreams.org/news/project... Of course they’re all tied to #Project2025!

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Blocking Dr. Santa Ono because he dared support diversity policies in higher education is a grotesque decision that will cause long term harm the University of Florida. UF’s status as one of the nation’s preeminent public institutions is in dire jeopardy. www.gainesville.com/story/news/e...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Basically it was a time when your ability to get places was at times dependent on people who had the sense of direction of a blind alcoholic housefly.

submitted 10 hours ago • 39 comments

President Trump’s trade war is expected to slow growth in the world’s leading economies, including the U.S., this year and in the years to come. Global economic growth is expected to slow from 3.3% in 2025 to 2.9% in 2025.

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Ownership and top management on the publishing side have conducted a clinic in how to alienate readership. The sell of the Post, even in an age of declining subs, has always been credibility. Now this initiative.

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A Murdoch publication.

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Dear MAGA & DOGE fans—National Weather Service is now so understaffed by 20-40% in Florida & Southern US, that meterologist urgently warn they cannot confidently predict hurricane 🌀 paths anymore. These senseless cuts will endanger your life.

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

Beyond frustrating and disappointing that CBS got a rare exclusive sitdown interview with Musk and didn’t ask him a single question about his reckless and ignorant cuts to USAID and all the lives that are being lost across the world as a result of it:

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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.

submitted 11 hours ago • 370 comments

Imagine being Elon and waking up to find Mike Johnson is your new arch-nemesis. That’s like losing a rap battle to a Sunday school teacher.

submitted 10 hours ago • 32 comments

Lawrence: That is the budgetary cycle we've been in since the 1980s. Republican presidents increased the deficits. Democratic presidents from Bill Clinton forward come into office and reduce the deficits created by the Republican presidents.

submitted 11 hours ago • 80 comments

They are straight up speed-running the resegregation of the federal government and the erasure of all non-white male history

submitted 17 hours ago • 31 comments