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I joined Nicole Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss Bruce Springsteen's rebuke of the Trump administration, Vice President JD Vance's criticisms of Chief Justice John Roberts. I offer my analysis and additional thoughts. youtu.be/zwTWXJ_wdW8

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Is Paramount engaging in bribery with the Trump administration in order to get official approval for a megamerger? We need answers, and I’m working to get them. www.thewrap.com/democratic-s...

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The White House newsletter that you pay for is targeting a responsible journalist because she fact-checked the Trump regime’s lies. Every day the White House bears more resemblance to the world’s dictatorships of the past and present.

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Enormous Abe Simpson energy here.

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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

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Really good overview of the basic tenets for liberal socialism, and why it's an answer to the MAGA moment, from @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com. Recommend: www.liberalcurrents.com/inheritance-...

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Trump: “Medicare, Medicaid — none of that stuff is going to be touched.” House passes a bill that will kick millions off Medicaid. Trump: Great job, everyone.

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Trump's West Point commencement audience is totally silent as he rants about trophy wives and yachts

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ok grandpa let's get you to bed

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Medicare for All isn't radical. What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Don’t believe me? Listen to what these nurses have say:

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Funny, but when I was a federal prosecutor, people, including folks I know to be conservative Republicans, were absolutely adamant about prosecuting pay-to-play schemes that were much less bold and audacious than this one. Those folks all seem to have gone into hiding now.

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So Trump gave the Florida Gators basketball players a coin with his name and face on it as a souvenir for their White Houston visit. What a mother fucking psychopath.

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Too many groups and influencers have reacted to the deadly attack outside the Capitol Jewish Museum with celebration, glee, and justification. This celebration of targeted violence fuels the environment that makes such attacks more likely. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Get ready for some wandering fascist drivel

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Imagine being Trump and dumb enough to think Putin respects you

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If you are not paying attention to what is happening in court, you are not paying attention to what is happening to democracy. Sign up now to receive Democracy Docket's free daily and weekly pro-democracy newsletters straight to your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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Most voters are emotional, not intellectual. Trump’s base of white men voted for him because he makes them feel superior to women and people of color. If you asked them if they want poor kids to go without dinner, they’d say no, because they think they’re good people. But that's what they voted for.

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Trump used a pic of war deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo to push lie of South African white "genocide." But it gets worse. He's slashed refugee resettlement from DRC while using corpses from that war as "evidence" of fake atrocities against whites! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1956...

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Yes, we got a tip when the $TRUMP whales (biggest buyers of his crypto) were going to show up Friday at the White House for their VIP tour and The NYT was there. We had a list with their names. So we knew who they were. But they did not want to chat. I still tried...

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I can’t believe how stupid trumps tariffs obsession is

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In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.

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So Trump gave the Florida Gators basketball players a coin with his name and face on it as a souvenir for their White Houston visit. What a mother fucking psychopath.

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Resharing this for all the criminal defense lawyers who will be making selective/vindictive prosecution arguments in the coming months

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College degrees can be revoked. Your move harvard

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“Those who mourn Sarah should reflect on her ideals, learn from her life’s work and aim as she did on creating the fragile groundwork for Middle East peace.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

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“Contrast our president’s concern for South Africa with his indifference—at best—to the fate of the Ukrainians. Has he ever expressed a word of sympathy for the Ukrainians—or the Uyghurs and others—who are under annihilationist assault day after day?” www.jaynordlinger.com/p/eternal-vi...

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What?

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Reminder about the huge Medicaid cuts in the bill that House Republicans just passed: In 2017, JD Vance criticized Medicaid cuts just like these as a massive betrayal of Trump voters and a selling out of Trumpism's promises to the working class. newrepublic.com/article/1954...

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Republicans don’t cut deficits. They add to them. They complain about “runaway government spending” and stick it to the poor while slipping millions of $$ to their super-rich donors.

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I wrote about the risks of a "sudden stop" if investors lose faith in America. The bond market is amplifying those risks minute by minute as yields shoot higher after the budget monstrosity paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out...

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Crucial from @mikepod.bsky.social:Trump's vile displays w/South African prez are an authoritarian tactic. "The more your supporters have to go along with your obviously horrible or untrue things, the more loyal to you they become." On the pod Mike is so illuminating newrepublic.com/article/1955...

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This is so incredibly infuriating! Why are we talking about anything that isn’t Republican cutting food stamps for CHILDREN!!!!!!

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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."

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@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."

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@warren.senate.gov: "Republicans wanna do a bomb with a long fuse. They wanna say, 'We're gonna cut healthcare & food help for millions of Americans. We're gonna pass the law now, light the fuse, and it's not gonna explode until right after the 2026 election. That way Republicans can deny reality.'"

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I can't help but think that the persistent demonization of Israelis and Jews, along with the constant veneration of terrorist groups, created an environment that made this tragedy more likely. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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McGovern: “Boy, that was weird.”

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It should be noted that the claims JD Vance makes in this interview about the Abrego Garcia case are absolutely ludicrous on every level. It's easy for Vance to get away with this because the case is complicated, and Vance is exploiting that quite cynically. 1/

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“A growing backlog of hundreds of unsigned NOAA contracts has slowed agency operations to a crawl — so much so that even Sen. Ted Cruz, a staunch ally of the Trump administration, has raised concerns about the gridlock.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Spoiler alert: it's not a thing.

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Striking point from PEN's Jon Friedman on the pod: A few years ago, universities were on defense due to protests and other problems. But Trump/Rufo Maoist cultural revolution BS is turning that around, reminding people why we value universities in the first place: newrepublic.com/article/1956...

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I think often about New York Times editor Joe Kahn’s comment a year ago: “It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top.” Is it the top now, Joe? Why did you choose to downplay the threat instead of warning the public?

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NEW VIDEO: California Senator Alex Padilla foiled Republicans’ attempt to pass the SAVE Act this week. Sen. Padilla joins me to discuss protecting voters’ information from DOGE and the work Senate Democrats are doing to fight voter suppression. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccIW...

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