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One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in February when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”

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European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

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everybody at this gay warehouse rave has a stronger commitment to free and open society than people who want to regulate our behavior

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Hillary’s email server was more secure than this crap.

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With Palantir finally receiving the attention it deserves, we wrote an article documenting Thiel’s history with Zuckerberg, his influence over JD Vance, and the connection between his neoreactionary ideology and Russell Vought’s Project 2025. It has always been Thiel’s plan to destroy democracy.

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After growing rapidly for 20 years, the number of secular Americans has plateaued. I talked to @ryanburge.bsky.social about that trend & others as eyes turn toward the most high profile religious election in the world. Check it out on GDPolitics.com & wherever you listen to podcasts!

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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Pope Leo at his weekly audience now: "In the Gaza Strip, the intense cries are reaching Heaven more and more from mothers and fathers who hold tightly to the bodies of their dead children."

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Speech frightens them. New student visas paused as State Dept. plans tougher social media review www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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The Trump administration has effectively ended white-collar crime enforcement. All this week, we're going to look at what ripoffs, deceptions, and cons will rise as a result to part the public from their money. This intro sets the stage: it's the Golden Age of Scams. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Trump corruption story so bad it gets the rare straightforward NYT headline www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

if you still don't know who you're ranking in the june primary, this will help:

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A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts the FDA's own publication from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

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RFK Jr. says he met with Argentina’s president Javier Milei and it sounds like they want to make a fascist alternative to the World Health Organization.

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Former @latimes.com reporter Maya Lau is SUING ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva, ex-detective Mark Lillienfeld and the county, saying they violated her 1A rights when they criminally investigating her for reporting on a list of problem deputies: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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This cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" is art.

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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I can’t even keep track any more. He’s pardoning 2-3 major fraudsters a day. With due respect to Marc Rich; this isn’t how we used to do things.

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Missouri Supreme Court order reinstates ‘de facto abortion ban’ across the state missouriindependent.com/2025/05/27/m...

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"Our product creates such little value that it is simply not viable in the marketplace, not even as a niche product. Therefore, we must be allowed to unilaterally extract value from the work of others and convert that value into our profits."

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People work so hard in life only to discover that they fucked up by not being white people who commit fraud

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Narrator: they were not considering the offer

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I wonder if any social media companies that have recently gotten back to their roots around free expression will have anything to say about the threat of denying student visas based on their protected speech

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That actually kind of raises more concerns, in my book.

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“We are doing this...as a result of a policy dictated by the government, knowingly, intentionally, viciously, maliciously, recklessly,” Olmert’s op-ed continued. “Yes, we are committing war crimes.”

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What I find interesting about these two shows is that both were made to appeal to the broadest most general audience imaginable. These were not renegade shows by any means! And yet by today's standards they ARE renegade: Every episode is an exercise in how police and the prosecution get it wrong

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@propublica.org did a series of investigations on this "911 call analysis" junk science a few years back. Read, if you want to feel angry: www.propublica.org/article/911-...

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Trump says he’s pardoned Scott Jenkins, the Virginia sheriff sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking cash bribes from eight people, including two undercover FBI agents.

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Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes

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having lived on a Dairy Farm for a couple years, I can tell you one thing we never did .. was drink unpasteurized cow milk.

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