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Imagine seeing 10s of thousands of people picketing Tesla for MONTHS and thinking... "we should def court the white supremacist Nazi that those people are protesting."

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PRIDE MONTH DOUBLE RAINBOW IN CHICAGO HOLY SHIT

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Johnson did the same song-and-dance about the last Trump tax bill, and then voted for it when he secured a massive tax loophole for his campaign funders. He will vote for this bill, and any concession he picks up along the way will only make it worse. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-best-d...

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A Guatemalan national who says he was wrongfully deported to Mexico is back in the United States, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has brought back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration to facilitate their return.

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I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

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Resistance takes many forms ✊️

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🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart “Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.” piers: “Wow.”

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Columbia completely caved and are getting their accreditation pulled anyways. Anybody that doesn't go nuclear on these people when they even sniff at you is nuts. *COLUMBIA NO LONGER MEETS ACCREDITATION STANDARDS, US SAYS

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In the sad position where I tried to tell people many, many times that "Democratic sheriffs" were not going to "resist ICE cooperation." Turns out sheriff elections are not a viable strategy. www.kut.org/politics/202...

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The US Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, seemingly does not know about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or Ruby Bridges: “I will look into it and get back to you.”

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Bernie: "What that is all about is that if you're rich in America, you can make campaign contributions, you are entitled to massive tax breaks because you're superhuman beings. But if you're a poor working stiff, working at McDonald's, struggling to put food on the table, you're entitled to nothing"

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REPORT: “Legal cannabis generated $4.4 billion for states in 2024” www.mpp.org/issues/legal... (But not in Tennessee, where despite the overwhelming popularity of legalization the Republican supermajority is set to decimate our hemp industry: www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/us-states/te...)

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No cops at Pride includes the cop in your head who tells you to police other queer people. Learn the difference between being uncomfortable and being harmed. Deal with your discomfort on your own time. Pride is for the community, not just you.

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this was a great read that i got in the mail yesterday americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/trum...

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Hey now they also invented getting around financial regulations by setting up banks that said they weren’t a bank because they used an app

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I got'chu: 1. A lot of these guys refuse to do anything to make themselves appealing to anyone and insist on their right to do so. 2. For the last 40 years pop culture has told stories of nerds getting the prom queen and inculcated a grotesque entitlement in geeks that takes us back to point 1.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

It’s interesting to watch Kennedy — educated at Univ of Virginia and Oxford — when he drops his Foghorn Leghorn good ol’ boy shtick and asks the kinds of questions you’d expect from a lawyer with his training

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Trump-backed giant tax and spending bill bloats deficit by $2.4T, nonpartisan CBO says minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/04/r...

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Indah stared at me in a challenging “let’s see what all you’ve got” way. Indah did not actually want to see what all I got so I just asked Tural, “Have you done a forensic sweep?”

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In the Corporation Rim, everything has to be owned by someone.

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(I don’t have any gender or sex-related parts (if a construct has those you’re a sexbot in a brothel, not a murderbot) so maybe that’s why I find sex scenes boring. Though I think that even if I did have sex-related parts I would find them boring.)

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I wanna do this, but a TikTok channel, and for Spy.

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I'm increasingly plugging "here is how a piece of tech that you've used a zillion times actually works" stuff into my history classes, because I feel like the accelerating decay in the intimacy of our relationship with the physical world is killing us.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

This shit ain't nothin to me man. I'm in the White House snorting Special K and pitching continental missile defense. My self-driving scam long like the Trojan War. Shorty wanna invest in magical thinking, that sound like her problem. My chatbot so racist it says the pyramids built by Andrew Jackson

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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

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McBATH: On Feb 10, you canceled a program that served over 1,600 disabled students. Do you stand by your decision to do that in middle of the school year without warning? McMAHON: I would like to explore that more McBATH: This is a yes or no McMAHON: Well, I'm not going to give you a yes or no

submitted 17 hours ago • 159 comments

This article has a lot of detail on the world building the awesome sfx crew did in Murderbot. www.vfxvoice.com/following-th...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Here’s a free idea: run a leftist platform that people like.

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Trump’s budget bill increases deficits more than any other recent major legislation.

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NEW: Judge Xinis allows Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers to seek sanctions relating to discovery that had been ordered. On Tuesday, the parties filed a sealed motion (177) that included copies of what was turned over and the sanctions request. This was explained in a side-filing (178, posted here).

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#OtD 4 Jun 2020 75-year-old Martin Gugino was attacked by police in Buffalo, NY, during a Black Lives Matter protest. His skull was fractured, he had a brain haemorrhage suffered long-term memory, mobility impairments and hearing loss. More info: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1045...

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We had a party/protest to drown out the hateful bigots protesting my local library's drag story hour, it was dope. Shoutout to the Beverly branch and Chicago Public Libraries for supporting Pride in our community.

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SCOTUS will hear an Illinois lawsuit that could impact federal candidates’ ability to challenge state election laws. The case has been backed by anti-voting activists who aim to take advantage of SCOTUS’s conservative majority to restrict voting rights. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Meshell Ndegeocello released 'Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape' 23 years ago on June 4, 2002 | Discover where it ranks in our readers' poll here: album.ink/MNpoll

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Always interesting when those deep in Trump's thrall turn on him.

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his greed consumes him

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NEWS: The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill increases the US deficit by $2.4 trillion over a decade, per new estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. This factors in last-minute revisions made by GOP leaders. Up from the $2.3 trillion cost before these changes.

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CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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How many historical mistakes can one supposed intellectual make in a single tweet? No one claims the firebombing of Dresden was "revenge" for the Holocaust, which was a term no one was using. It was, rightly or wrongly, a strategy of total warfare designed to defeat Germany as quickly as possible.

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