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Excellent reporting by @anna-writes.bsky.social about conditions at a Leavenworth prison and how immigrants are being treated. kansasreflector.com/2025/06/06/i...

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Edmund White, acclaimed novelist of gay life, dies at 85 🏳️‍🌈 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

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Happy #PrideMonth! ❤💛💚💙💜 #NOH8

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Several promising Moderna mRNA HIV-vaccine candidates have slammed up against a roadblock due to a side effect. In today’s political environment, these setbacks could upend potentially lifesaving research, @katherinejwu.com reports:

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“The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

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Just so we’re clear, a Sieg Heil is not a side effect of ketamine.

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Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

submitted 8 days ago • 140 comments

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

submitted 8 days ago • 3787 comments

Every time I hear people argue that democrats need better messaging I come to the realization that one party is playing by old rules where facts matter and the other has gone all-in on flat out lies, and it works because the media writes more about how the facts aren't messaged well than the lies 🤷‍♂️

submitted 8 days ago • 80 comments

Cry me a river

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

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

❤️

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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie 3968

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For those of you who knew Victoria Brownworth on Twitter, she passed away from cancer yesterday. She was a fearless journalist who reported on AIDS in the 80s (when Reagan was ignoring it), lifted up the LGBTQ community, & rooted out corruption. Her wife, Maddy Gold, died of cancer in 2022.

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This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 13 days ago • 126 comments

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

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Never in the history of taxes and or tax cuts has there been a tax cut that has paid for itself. And yet the GOP keeps saying it and people keep believing it.

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The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Missouri Republican lawmakers are defying voters on abortion and sick leave. Voters deserve what they voted for. Get loud Missouri. 📣 www.kcur.org/podcast/kans...

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Van Hollen: "Trump's visit to the Middle East- my view is the narrative here was selling out US national interests for the private gain of his business. He essentially gave away the crown jewels of US AI and semiconductor tech to the gulf in exchange for a $2b investment in his stablecoin venture"

submitted 20 days ago • 190 comments

Hell freezing over, news at 11

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I'm blocking people who sneer at Pence doing this. Yes, I have problems with Pence too, but why sneer at someone for doing & saying the right things, even if they haven't always said & done the right things? Doing this right now takes balls, probably more than you have, anonymous internet jockey

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Every time Bessent appears on TV, I become more convinced the Trump Administration has no idea what happens next.

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What an idiot

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Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 162 comments

every 50 years we should subscribe to monarchy for a month (free trial) so we remember why it sucks

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First good news I've heard all day

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If you want to see Kansas have a HUGE SHOWING JUNE 14TH, we NEED YOUR HELP!!!! 🚨SHARE THE MESSAGE ACROSS KANSAS🚨🗣🗣🗣 These can be printed and posted to info boards, taped to public areas - get CREATIVE! People can't come if they don't KNOW 🌻 Tell all your friends now!

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Just six years after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, at MBS’s direction, Jeff Bezos is going into business—and, thus, helping to enrich—the man who orchestrated it. My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

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Missouri voters showed up today at the Respect the Will of the People Rally in Kansas City: @piperformissouri.bsky.social , @kcwac.bsky.social , and @dosomething-mo.bsky.social rallied with the community to defend the vote—and the will of the people.

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Trump’s actions are pushing thousands of experts to flee government. NIH. FAA. Treasury. First round saw 75k fed workers leave. Second round could potentially hit hundreds of thousands, reports hannahnatanson.bsky.social and colleagues. wapo.st/43fc1aw

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Democrats want to keep the 2017 tax cuts for people making <$500,000/yr, and to let taxes on people making >$500,000/yr revert to 2017 levels. This doesn't seem so radical. Indeed, it seems to be what enlightened defenders of democratic capitalism would support.

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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

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but seashells!

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New cities & dates announced! 📣 Be a part of the #NOH8 movement by joining us at one of our upcoming events 📷🌈 Share to help spread the word! For event info visit: NOH8CAMPAIGN.com/EVENTS

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For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's very significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on all attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:

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We’re big @booker.senate.gov fans here in Kansas 💙🌻 #goodtrouble

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The Trump administration has settled on One Weird Trick to avoid judicial review: Kill nationwide injunctions, refuse to respect lower court rulings, and keep cases away from the Supreme Court indefinitely. Oddly, it was Kagan and BARRETT who hammered this yesterday. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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🇺🇲🌻

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Putting the dubious timing aside for a second ... what is the Attorney General of the U.S. doing with a multi-million dollar investment in the President's private business? Isn't this in itself a massive conflict of interest?

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

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Over on X, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is glitching out and inserting information about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to hundreds of completely unrelated user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts.

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NEW: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org

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RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views

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