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Humanist, Dogist, Lifelong Liberal. I’m really just here for the news.
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Warren’s Senate report on Musk is getting some pickup. $TSLA @cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Here's a wild idea: actually reading the bills before you vote on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

New #FactChecker --> The White House’s disingenuous claim about CBO’s political leanings wapo.st/441mRT2

APOLLO: “.. Foreign arrivals at the top 10 busiest US airports continue to decline ..”

On Inauguration Day, my Stop the Presses newsletter listed 12 signs to look for if you wanted to determine whether a dictatorship had arrived. One of those was: “Fictional government statistics.” And here we have the Trump regime messing with a farm trade report. 1/

As with Noem, Duffy, Hegseth, Musk, & McMahon, Trumpism rewards officials who evince a complete lack of interest in, and even a hostility to, governing, & convey a boastful and belligerent ignorance about the most basic functions of their duties.

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.

This terrible accusation is a hard Schlapp in the face to the GOP

This is not how leadership works. In fact, it is dereliction of responsibility to base your entire agenda on polling rather than principles. Polling can change quite a bit.

This seems like it was focused-grouped specifically to irritate me. The thing about doing whatever is popular is that it is cowardly as well as unlikely to be popular because people do not like cowards

The Justice Department is dropping a lawsuit that it filed against White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, according to a court filing.

Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” comment wasn’t a gaffe — which is why she is refusing to apologize. It’s part of the larger Christian right war on empathy. www.salon.com/2025/06/04/j...

It'd be pretty funny if the Spiderweb drones didn't really come on trucks, and Ukraine just said they did to cause this additional chaos.

US defense secretary skips Ukraine military aid meeting attended by more than 50 other allies – Europe live

Everything Trump touches dies. Since Trump took over the Kennedy Center, ticket sales have plunged 50%, and membership subscriptions have declined by 36%.

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

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

Hypocrisy is a virtue to a fascist.

“.. Trump was irked by Musk's social media sabotage, according to two insiders in frequent communication with both. “.. ‘Elon was butthurt,’ a source said ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

Reporter: “What do you think the future of DOGE will be and who is exactly in charge?” Former DOGE staffer: “I have no idea…To be honest, even when I was there, it was unclear who was in charge.” #WITAOD

"Elon was butthurt."

There’s a special election tonight for a South Carolina House seat that Harris carried by single-digits last fall. The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.

Elected Republicans are coalescing around the talking point that CBO's tax cut estimates are complete fiction and that tax cuts pay for themselves. Well, CBO's 2018 and 2019 revenue estimates - which included the previous year's TCJA - were ... 99.5% accurate. 🧵

Does he think everyone's going to rush out to buy a Tesla now that he's turning on Republicans? Because I have some news for him.

It’s a dictatorship cult. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

So we have a head of FEMA who doesn’t know about hurricanes, a head of EPA who walked back his views on climate change, a head of HHS who says he can’t give medical advice, & a president who doesn’t know corruption is wrong. Are you feeling great again yet, America?

Here it is. Step one to ban abortion nationwide. We FUCKING told you this would happen. FDA To Review Safety Of Abortion Pill After Junk Science Report Paved The Way www.huffpost.com/entry/fda-to...

I haven't laughed this hard in a minute. The "no" at the end is an absolute chef's kiss.

Now even someone on ketamine, mushrooms and Ecstasy can see it.

CBO is a nonpartisan, neutral org. Its director, Phill Swagel, worked in the GWBush administration and was appointed by Republican lawmakers to his current post. For many reasons, it's laughable that he or his professional colleagues would be cooking the books to help Democrats.

This is the kind of thing that would happen if the Secretary of Defense was a neo-Nazi (the secretary of defense is a neo-Nazi).

Jesus. This is eerily reminiscent of Alec Smith’s story in Minnesota (his death spearheaded the nationwide push for a $35/mo insulin cap).

Here's the state of play: -Elon Musk calls Trump's megabill a "disgusting abomination" -Some GOP Senators want steeper cuts, others think Medicaid cuts go too far -Thune and Johnson defend the bill -CBO is releasing new estimates this week, which will likely be worse GOP in disarray.

“Dr. al-Farra said that most of the victims were children aged between 10 and 13, many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest.” The @nytimes.com edited out this quote from its reporting on the mass killing of people at a food aid distribution site in Gaza—here’s the original: archive.ph/oeRCf

“Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years." https://trib.al/1JD9y5D

Trump trashed Thomas Massie on Truth Social after he opposed his budget bill. Trump trashed Rand Paul on Truth Social after he opposed his budget bill. Elon Musk just opposed his budget bill.

wapo.st/4mFo2Pz

We need to bring constant attention to this fissure. Musk finding The Big Beautiful Lie repugnant will peel support from MAGA’s tech bros.

I’ve always believed that the way to overcome conservative resistance to gun reform is for liberals to start arming themselves.