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While we're talking about Whiskey Pete Hegseth...He had three days of hearings this week, each day worse than the day before. The full HASC Republicans got bored, so it was almost as if Dems had the majority, bc they sure as FUCK weren't bored flogging Whiskey Pete. There were so many highlights--

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BREAKING: US Marines deployed to Los Angeles have carried out the first known detention of a civilian, the US military confirms. It was confirmed to Reuters after they shared this image with the US military.

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I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

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Kilmar Prosecutor: “Frankly, I’m not even supposed to be here. I’m just the last man standing… I didn’t whip up witnesses and tell them to commit perjury. I feel confident this federal agent didn’t forsake his oath for a good time.”

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SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:

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“I would commend the major, the aviator, and the instructor for their service,” Hegseth said, before Congresswoman Sara Jacobs told him they’re transgender. www.advocate.com/politics/heg...

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USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.

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A bit of good news. Can’t overstate how difficult it is to get most schools to actually implement disability law. I can’t think of a single year where the school actually abided by my daughter’s IEP. And we’ve been in relatively good schools for kids w/disabilities www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...

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He broke his blithe promises to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and come to terms with Iran. "The results undermine Mr. Trump’s argument that he can solve intractable problems with common sense and hard-nosed savvy while ignoring protocol, shunning experts and dispatching inexperienced envoys." 🎁

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The logical thing for the US to do was deny any involvement in the attack on Iran, which makes it harder for Iran to build a case for retaliating against the US. It looks like that was the direction they were heading until president dipshit decided to personally taunt Iran on social media.

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ICYMI — “LIE!!” Dems heckled Speaker Johnson as he tried to put all the blame on Senator Padilla

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The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...

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#SaveMedicaidKillTheBill Medicaid cuts will strangle and close rural hospitals. People will die.

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The JCPOA was very good, actually.

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I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property." DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

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OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!

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It was true during the BLM protests, and it’s true now: cops do bad shit for sport and we need to end qualified immunity.

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William Guild, whose three-decade career included nine years on SEAL Team Six, was being treated for an aggressive brain cancer. Then Donald Trump took office for a second time. Guild’s wife is convinced his care has deteriorated since.

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One of the things @kerryhowley.bsky.social describes people at DOD close to tears about is the possibility that Whiskey Pete will be in charge if, say, Israel were to attack Iran. Just some exceptional timing for publication of this, I guess.

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Sen. BOOKER: It is a clear violation of statute to send the National Guard into Los Angeles around the governor’s office, right? Constitutional law expert: The statute requires the orders to be through the governor. He was bypassed.

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"Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that" - Donald Rumsfeld predicting the length of the Iraq War in 2002. the war lasted more than 8 years

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An anti-free speech death threat is not the same thing as a "stern warning" holy shit get your mouths off the boots

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Many Virginia sheriffs have rushed into partnerships with federal immigration authorities. Just since January, 17 of 123 sheriffs have joined or applied to ICE’s 287(g) program, up from zero earlier this year. boltsmag.org/sheriff...

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Execs from the company that helped foment a genocide are now taking their expertise to the US Army.

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only a society that has spent years finding ways to drive people further apart would have people saying fool things like"it is cringe to be in a large group of people who support you"

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Every time I read about this man being awarded this position I fight the urge to scream about the fact that the only postsecondary education he actually completed was auctioneer school. Merit-based hiring my bum

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And just like that, U.S. forces are involved.

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I don’t think all the people sliming around this website whining about how protests are useless and don’t do anything are actually MAGA feds, but they are doing the same thing a MAGA fed would do and are thus functionally indistinguishable

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Rep. Crow: "At Fort Bragg in front of our beloved 82nd Airborne Division, sitting there while we politicize the military and pull our paratroopers into politics, booing elected officials, booing politicians with whom you disagree — it's antithetical to our values."

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Elon folded. The richest man in the world realized if his federal contracts went away, so would most of his wealth & influence. So he came crawling back. Guy with more F-U money than anyone in the world folded to Trump…while heroes like the Capitol Police, Alex Vindman, Gavin Newsome etc did not.

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The joke of the weekend is going to be a man who was so scared that he had his daddy keep him from having to fight in a war...and is now having a military parade to try and convince people that he is brave. #BoneSpurs

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This is so important it hurts. This is the tiny area of a massive sprawling city that Trump is attacking and the entire propaganda machine is churning to make us believe more is happening. Don’t fall for the lies.

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I feel like we should question RFK, Jr’s commitment to sort of a clean, naturalist notion of health

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overheard in a discussion with other faculty: "since Roe v Wade was overturned, 80% of the faculty Texas A&M has hired have been male."

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New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

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This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all." He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota. www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...

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