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Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

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They’re too busy lobbying Congress for more tax cuts. 🫤

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FDT FKMAGA

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Somehow suspect Biden setting up a "Truth Social" and then a cryptoscam biz would never have been normalized.

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Looks legit

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Why does Trump keep pardoning Americans who are the kind of people he claims he's deporting, while he continues to try to deport students & people facing persecution if they're removed? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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First review in @washingtonpost.com and it’s a rave ? www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Robert Frost would approve.

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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US administration openly intervened on behalf of the authoritarian populist candidate in the Polish presidential election

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Even before Howard Lutnick became Commerce secretary, he was lying for Trump. He flat-out denied that RFK Jr. would head Health and Human Services. “He’s not going to be the secretary! No!” Now RFK Jr. is wrecking our public health system, and Lutnick is still lying. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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“.. He has a long-held fascination with ostentatious military displays.” - @thehill.com 🤡 thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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KOH on the Trump Pardon: "This guy was supposed to be paying Social Security and Medicare taxes for his employees and instead bought a $2 million yacht."

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Genuinely glad Russell Vought’s daughter got the NIH-backed medicine she needed. ❤️‍🩹 Now he’s trying to defund the very programs that made it possible—for everyone else. 🙃💉 Life-saving science for me, austerity for thee. Cool plan, Volde-Vought.

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The Trump administration has filed an anti-voting lawsuit challenging incomplete voter registrations in North Carolina. This is a case we all must watch. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

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Once again: RFK Jr is wrong about his job. He is not Lord High Scientist. It is not his place to make scientific determinations. Scientific knowledge is the product of a large community conducting many studies and debating results. When one lone individual claims to know best, we call him a crank.

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ICYMI: Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & I wrote a piece in The Atlantic about how the Trump admin uses the language of the law as cover to claim it is complying with court orders - when in fact it's not. And how courts respond. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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I’m having @aselrod.bsky.social on fast politics Saturday podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

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Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Days Before Trump Announced a Plan for Reciprocal Tariffs www.propublica.org/article/sean...

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📌 This thread is so important that @hcrichardson.bsky.social dedicated much of her ‘Letters To An American’ substack post to it today. Please read and share! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Thou shalt not call yourself “the law and order party” when your leader is a convicted felon who constantly pardons criminals in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes.

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Big Tech billionaires dominate our media landscape — and now they want to take over our financial system. Thanks to Senate Republicans' crypto bill, these billionaires may be allowed to issue their own private currencies that wouldn't be subject to government oversight. This is oligarchy.

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Not a coincidence.

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Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

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When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it. -- Timothy Snyder

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"Paul Weiss, right now, looks completely neutered and ineffectual – and who the hell wants to hire a law firm that is neutered and ineffectual?" Marc Elias

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CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

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What an embarrassment of a President.

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As Tommy Tuberville launches a Republican gubernatorial campaign in Alabama, remember: If he wins — as seems likely — it’ll be a classic example of a politician failing up. The coach-turned-senator’s tenure on the Hill can charitably be described as an embarrassment. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Our current president is severely mentally unwell, and the media needs to cover it now.

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Nothing sadder than a tough guy who needs to remind you he's tough, right after admitting to shielding Russia.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs, the government’s second-largest agency, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83,000 employees under the Trump administration’s cutbacks.

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