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President Obama warns Republicans are quietly coming after the ACA again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Donald has spent the last week pardoning his friends who defrauded Medicare, union pensions, banks, and more. This is what “fraud and abuse” actually looks like. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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Louis DeJoy may be gone, but the Post Office is still under attack by corporate interests and privatizers. Millions of Americans rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service. We must protect our public Postal Service.

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#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres. Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

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JUST IN: A Trump-appointed judge in California blocks the administration from deporting a Venezuelan national under the Alien Enemies Act, saying the administration hasn't provided adequate notice/due process.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Greg Sargent interviews a woman who’s lived in Kennett, Mo., for 20 years but has been jailed and targeted for deportation. Residents in the Trump-supporting area have offered their support, but apparently too late. “We don’t ask for food stamps,” she said. “We work. … We are not criminals.”

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stop trying to make curtis yarvin happen

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i cannot understand the lawyerbrained thinking that led these firms to believe clients would hire them to fight the administration that they're capitulating too. and i'm not talking about lefty clients: business interests don't want to hire cowards either

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Sen. Murphy: “Trump wants Vladimir Putin to win this war. He has delivered absolutely no consequences to Putin…And Putin has no reason to sit down at the negotiating table, so long as Donald Trump is saying, ‘I’m not going to help Ukraine any longer.’”

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NEW: The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers. By @maxblau.bsky.social

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Matt Miller says Israel has 'without doubt' committed war crimes in Gaza. But last year, @premthakker.bsky.social asked the State Dept why it wouldn’t enforce its own laws in response to Israeli war crimes. Miller responded by personally attacking him, suggesting he had ulterior motives.

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ICYMI: I grilled Marco Rubio on the administration’s kidnapping and attempted visa revocation of Rümeysa Öztürk over an op-ed she wrote. There’s no footnote in the Constitution that says Secretary Rubio gets to override the First Amendment — I checked.

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“The children — who appeared to be between the ages of 9 and 12 years old — were detained and zip-tied, along with adults who appeared to be relatives, after an immigration judge had dismissed their case… That dismissal should have meant they were no longer subject to removal proceedings…”

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It continues … 🌎 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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This is a version of "stop hitting yourself" politics, and it's wrong and ugly. Glad to see @rollingstone.com pushing back; other major media orgs need to do a much better job on this

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Tens of thousands of Virginia jobs could be on the chopping block because of this dumb Republican tax bill.

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“Sleazebag” on “Sleazebag” street war! My latest Katie Phang News video on how Trump is panicking now that the Federalist Society is breaking ranks and not kowtowing to him anymore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etbe...

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The Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses are a key safeguard against corruption, among the few provisions that apply to the president himself. Now more than ever, it is critical that Congress take action to give them real effect.

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The Andrew Cuomo that lives in these people’s heads has no relation to the actual Andrew Cuomo who was governor for 10 years. bsky.app/profile/mars...

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I think as many people as possible should have to see this picture

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The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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Matthew Miller was an active part of the genocide in Gaza. This is not an exaggeration. He stood there day in and day out telling journalists citing journalists and human rights reports about Israeli war crimes and he denied them time after time after time. news.sky.com/story/former...

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I hope state prosecutors are looking into this

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One of the things I got wrong when I wrote this back in February was the extent to which Andrew Cuomo is running to be able to punish his enemies, which is very, very Trump-like. Don't rank the guy. cooperlund.medium.com/who-is-this-...

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‘A funeral for our careers’: Trump’s science cuts spill onto Canadian turf 🧪 Researchers in Canada prepare for turbulence in the wake of US funding changes — but there’s a silver lining. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Borowitz!

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Oral arguments in 5th Circuit Appellate Court case on Alien Enemies Act deportations will be on June 30 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u...

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Trump just turned on the architect of his biggest first-term victories. He attacked the Federalist Society and its co-founder Leonard Leo, a key adviser to Trump on judicial nominations during his first term.

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Of course #TacoTrump wasn’t informed about Ukraine attack to destroy Russian planes. He would have run to Putin and gleefully shared the details. www.independent.co.uk/world/trump-...

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Nature reports on how researchers are mobilizing against an executive order from President Donald Trump mandating the promotion of “gold standard science.” Researchers fear that the order will put US scientists and science under the thumb of political appointees. #academicsky 🧪

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BREAKING: SB 1797 and SB 2319 passed — Illinois will be the first in the Midwest to protect consumers and businesses transacting in cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Grateful for Sen. Walker, Sen. Ellman, Rep. Gonzalez, and Rep. Tarver in getting these bills to my desk.

submitted 25 days ago • 31 comments

Incidentally, the Pioneer Fund gave the Tanton network (which I consider Pinker to be a part of) seed money to get it started

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

Okay fine but that tariff thing is a curious assumption to make, given…everything.

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