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RIP, Brian Wilson. youtu.be/XqLTe8h0-jo?...

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Dystopian.

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Double.

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🚨"I’ve seen up close what happens when politicians use the military to score political points. The military loses. America loses. All of us lose." – U.S. Navy Veteran Josh Fryday Trump’s deployment isn’t about safety. It’s about chaos, distraction, and control.

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“Southern California became the mythologized center of the new American dream, and Brian Wilson's music was its soundtrack.”

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Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. He transformed pop music into high art, and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

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open.substack.com/pub/joelrubi...

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I feel a bit embarrassed sharing this, but I will anyway. Thank you, Greg. My approach has a name: pragmatism. (The philosophy, not the synonym for "centrist.") In pragmatism we set out to change what's gone awry. We run into problems. In treating those problems, our ideas get better, more useful.

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We believe in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, separation of powers, and checks and balances. The U.S. was founded in opposition to monarchy. We fought for democracy over dictatorship. What the Trump regime is doing is the antithesis of the values this nation was founded upon.

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The Trump White House is struggling to hire senior advisers for Pete Hegseth. At least three people have turned down potential roles. Top Defense Department jobs are normally considered prestigious and typically attract multiple qualified candidates.

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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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Military parades are about honoring those who have served, not praising a president who only thinks about himself. Donald Trump doesn’t deserve a parade, but let me tell you about the kind of person who does.

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Are we normalizing insanity and brutality again, @npr.org ?

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Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.

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“Carney didn’t pull punches when calling out what he called the “monetization of American hegemony.” In other words, Trump’s America First foreign policy has become America For Sale. The U.S. no longer underwrites collective defense …it now demands payment, …That’s not an ally. That’s a racket.”

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🇨🇦 Canada’s Stand Begins Now: Mark Carney Slams Trump’s Empire Games in a Warning to the World #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #Canada #USpol open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

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Step by Step, MAGA Is normalizing repression and setting America up for tyranny. Will we wait, like so many before us, until the knock comes to our own door? hartmannreport.com/p/germans-hu...

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Federal law grants students experiencing homelessness a right to extra support and protections. Advocates say President Trump's proposed budget would strip that law of its power.

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When we cancel a contract to develop new medications or vaccines, the world doesn’t sit still anymore. The EU, China, India and others are now capable of taking our place. We will simply pay more to get less.

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Repost if you think we shouldn’t -kick families off their health care, -push seniors out of nursing homes, -force children to go hungry, -and blow up the national debt... ...to pass massive tax giveaways for huge corporations & multi-billionaires who are doing just fine.

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The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.

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A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

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Argentina can do it. South Korea can do it. Peru can do it. America cannot. Who's third world? A Political Titan in Argentina Is Sentenced to Prison www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

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Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

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Between the $45M parade, the Qatari plane, and $134M to flood LA with Troops—this isn’t national defense. It’s Trump playing dictator with your money. He calls it patriotism while firing Veterans and slashing their care. We see it for what it is. MORE: www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Terry Moran was the one journalist who had the journalistic integrity to challenge Donald Trump's lies to his face. ABC has now twice bent its knee before the fascist leader. Disney, its networks, studios, and parks do not deserve our patronage or respect. CBS the same. Old mass media is dead.

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While Trump blusters about "law & order," a reminder that his administration has dropped or halted nearly 150 corporate enforcement actions. And Trump himself has pardoned dozens of his supporters convicted of crimes like money laundering and bribery. The hypocrisy is staggering.

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Great use of taxpayer funds.

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ICE started raiding the hotel they were staying in - interrogating cleaning ladies Good luck housing ICE agents in Los Angeles now

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My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

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On May 30, a team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health got the word: Funding for their vaccine development program will end next year.

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BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has filed an emergency motion in federal court to block Trump's deployment of National Guard and Marines troops in Los Angeles.

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Land of the free.

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“When I joined the Marine Corps I took an oath to the Constitution, not to a person, not to a party.” — Janessa Goldbeck “The last thing the U.S. military wants is the image of a young man or woman with a rifle imposing the will of executive power.” — MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton

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“Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward. Humiliated by China, Harvard, the Supreme Court, Elon Musk, and the federal courts, Trump has launched a war inside America on vulnerable people inside America, in a place — California — most of whose inhabitants loathe him.”

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A civil society doesn't allow the strong to brutalize the weak. It moves as far as possible away from brutality. It's the exact opposite of what Trump seeks. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-dictators-revenge

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“We keep our honor clean.”

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“This is intimidation. It’s authoritarianism. And it’s a betrayal of our Constitution.” — USMC Veteran Keegan Evans He served in Iraq. He helped fight wildfires in California. Now he’s sounding the alarm as Troops are deployed into U.S. cities over the will of local officials.

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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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