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Scoop: Nancy Mace's fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online. “We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," one said. 1/ www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

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Threats against federal judges have risen drastically since President Trump took office, according to internal data compiled by the U.S. Marshals Service.

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Trump is slowly firing the National Security Council staff. The goal is to destroy it as it currently exists so it cannot act as a barrier to Trump. This is real. This is happening. Honor our vets by fighting modern fascism here at home. apple.news/ARG1xSG2AQOu...

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

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Said it before, I’ll say it again. We shouldn’t privatize NASA. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

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For many years, ICE has agreed not to deport certain people for humanitarian reasons, including this mother of three with no criminal record who has strong ties to her community. Now the Trump admin needs "easy" deportations; so they're revoking stays of removal without any warning at all.

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When she says electricians and plumbers what she means is peasants

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Given this reporting, it is useful to recall that the longstanding US government view has been that Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank violates Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Scott Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, was to report to jail today to serve a 10-year sentence for bribery. He raked in over $75,000 in a cash-for-badges scheme, appointing businessmen as deputies in exchange for bribes. Trump just gave him a full presidential pardon.

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Judge Leon said that despite his decisive ruling, the firm had already suffered because of Mr. Trump’s actions…[E]xisting clients had already started “curtailing their relationships with WilmerHale, and new clients are taking their business elsewhere.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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So... Israel is creating concentration camps?

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Trump uses pardon power to build army of devoted MAGA vigilantes: analyst

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A GOP lawmaker's town hall in Seward, Nebraska, went sideways on Tuesday night after Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) admitted he didn't read everything that was contained in the "big, beautiful" budget bill the House narrowly approved.

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Today, the President of the United States is going to wake up, paint his face a weird orange, steal a bunch of money from US, and Make China Great Again. Same as he does every day.

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This post from Marcy is genius. I've been waiting for one (1) Dem rep to demand the defunding of SpaceX et al based on Trump's antisemitism executive order. The explosion of Ye's "Heil Hitler" on X, while the other big platforms did the right thing and pulled it down, provides the perfect hook.

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Awful: Trump just blamed foreign students for taking the slots of American kids. But the cuts in the House GOP bill he's pushing could cost hundreds of thousands of working class kids their route to college. Those two things are connected. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1957...

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Louis Brandeis said that we can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both. In 1933. He said it in 1933.

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President Donald Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Looks like Trump sold a pardon for a million bucks. His corrupt pardons have mostly been ignored by the legacy media. The 3rd chapter of #RoughBeast covers this extensively & should make anyone with even a scintilla of belief in the rule of law nauseous. Time was, this was a bipartisan belief:

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Trump wants 1 million deported, but despite his lies there aren't many murderers and rapists. Instead, they arrest teens for Driving While Brown, or use a ploy to disappear refugees who come to immigration court The pathetic truth behind ICE's masks. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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“Conservatives” are going to replace the most established and prestigious journals with government-backed propaganda. He’s obviously also doing this because these journals won’t publish the crooked science he intends to perform to promote his crazy ideas.

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TODAY: A hearing will be held in Alabama to discuss next steps for the state’s congressional map and whether Alabama should be put into special federal oversight after a court found the state intentionally discriminated against Black voters. Background: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities. But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social

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They are purging all the transcripts.

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Biden's CFPB finalized a rule banning medical debt from credit reports, which would help 15 million people. Trump's CFPB not only wants to scrap it, but has even joined forces with corporate groups suing to block it. Government for the people vs government for the powerful.

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By changing CDC guidelines on who can get the COVID vaccine It will likely not be covered by insurance and Medicare/Medicaid So if people want it, they’re going to have to pay for it Meaning that those who can’t afford it are out of luck

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Because free speech.

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It is completely obvious that RFK Jr., Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya plan to take away as many vaccines as possible from Americans. Republicans approve of this. You may be tempted to ask why, but if you don’t understand it, it’s probably because you are not an egomaniacal sociopath.

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It doesn’t get more corrupt than this. Trump pardoned a tax cheat after his mom attended a $1 million dinner and helped push a smear campaign against Biden. This is pay-to-play at its dirtiest.

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NEW: Trump's court pick Josh Divine once called for bringing back literacy tests in elections Literacy tests were banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory, but such tests “are not a bad thing,” Divine argued in a 2010 college op/ed. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Ground beef hit a record $5.80 per pound in April, up nearly 50% from five years ago. And the USDA says prices will keep climbing throughout 2025. Not great

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Children and pregnant women are going to die, but that's the point.

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Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

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The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

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Many people are saying: Trump is a terrible dealmaker.

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President Trump cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call last week not to take any action that could jeopardize negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on a new nuclear deal. Via Barak Ravid

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Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity. The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.

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the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

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We sued HHS and its administrator RFK Jr. for illegally shuttering the CDC office that turns over records to the public. We're going to keep pursuing public transparency for as long as it takes.

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Good lord. Everyone go to your local No Kings rally instead.

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I had a really hard time understanding this story but the bottom line seems to be that the Pentagon and White House are full of incompetent bozos who may or may not be using illegal NSA wiretaps on each other and may or may not be lying about it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

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But I was told Trump wasn’t old and tired.

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One kid. One.

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Morale is sinking in the VA as workers fear looming cuts. “The veterans now check in and ask us how we are doing” “There’s some cracks starting to show” “Fearful, paranoid, demoralized” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

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