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"These children—lives that should never be reduced to numbers—are now part of a long ... list of unimaginable horrors: the grave violations against children, the blockade of aid, the starvation, the constant forced displacement, and the destruction of hospitals, water systems, schools, and homes."

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Telling working people who are fighting to save health care and food assistance for MILLIONS that everyone is going to die anyway is mind boggling. Congress should be working to expand essential services like Medicaid and SNAP, not gut them like the House’s budget would do.

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Republican corruption.

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I did this, you can too.

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Musk is trying to signal that he's back at his businesses. But at Tesla, he was so checked out that a board member had to prep him for meetings, and he didn't ask to be briefed on tariffs until a few days before the earnings call. with @rmac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

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NEW: At least 14 cases of Venezuelans sent to a Salvadoran mega prison have been dismissed by US immigration judges. The men have not only been disappeared to a foreign gulag with no clear chance to be released, but also been erased by the courts. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reports:

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Weather Service offices in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston “lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required... “The Nat’l Hurricane Center is short 5 specialists, despite assurances from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that imposing prison conditions motivated by retribution amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. Now a lawsuit is challenging the administration’s plans to do just that.

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🇷🇺 Russia didn’t want the US at the Istanbul talks. “Back in May, they insisted Americans weren’t allowed in the room. We don’t get why it matters so much to them. We think the US should be there. What are they hiding? That’s the real question,” said Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s Heorhii Tykhy.

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

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I wouldn't trust the Trump administration.

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Since when do you care about geopolitical norms and etiquette? This administration has treated Ukraine like an enemy and Putin like a buddy. Now you're shocked that a real ally didn’t give the U.S. a heads-up? Get used to being sidelined by the world.

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A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Does that sound fair to you?

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One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in February when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

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ICE briefly detained an aide to Rep. Jerry Nadler after entering his district office and claiming his staff was “harboring rioters.” Comes after ICE threatened to arrest 2 people observing ICE activity at 26 Federal Plaza, a building open to the public, for observing. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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When hundred year floods are happening every 5 or 10 years, you either enhance your flood protection, or your city drowns. Facts don't care about the Republican game of pretend.

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For Handmaid’s Tale fans.

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Republican bigotry is ascendant. The worst thing we can do is surrender to it. Most Americans support LGBQ+ people, which is why Republicans are attacking Trans people. We must stand against all bigotry.

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Everything Republicans do is short sighted and destructive (some of it irreparable). Republicans are destroying America.

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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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Billionaires are obscene

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Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

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"So, after slashing the foreign aid that helps ensure that children around the world aren’t born with HIV and firing thousands of federal workers—and destroying his own public image, likely permanently—Musk had come to the end of the road. He could only do so much, after all."

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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

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Republicans lie about everything, especially this guy.

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Video shows two unknown men, without uniforms or identifying insignias, attacking and kidnapping a man from a Nashua, NH courthouse back in February. During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.

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Trump’s tough talk on war with China feels less like defense, more like desperation. A bluff to pressure Beijing, or distract from a losing hand. This admin is willing to escalate its own trade war into a hot war, against a nuclear armed nation, just to save face.

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Republicans don't care if they kill children.

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A trans woman graciously marks her last day in the Air Force after Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers serving in the United States military. Americans are not any safer with this hateful ban. Trans soldiers are real soldiers. They are HEROES and SHEROS!

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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

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🇺🇦 Security Service managed to hit more than 40 Russia’s strategic bombers in a highly sophisticated drone attack. Once again, Ukrainians show not only to Putin how powerful and inventive they are, but also remind Europeans how much we can learn from them. Slava Ukraini!

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And if that bastard Trump was of the honest opinion that Russia held any cards, it was our responsibility to see through that we identify these cards and burn them down to ashes.

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Trump to Zelenskyy: “You don’t have the cards.” Meanwhile Zelenskyy:

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The Royal Navy could see its destroyer and frigate fleet grow from 14 to 25 vessels, marking the most significant expansion of Britain’s surface escort force in a generation. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/royal-navy-e...

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Musk’s time running the Department of Government Efficiency ended this week. A short tenure with long consequences. He didn’t save trillions. Instead, he slashed science, hollowed out public services, and helped the ultra-wealthy dodge accountability. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-mu...

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Symbolically, on this day 29 years ago — 1 June 1996 — Ukraine handed over its last nuclear weapon to russia under the Budapest Memorandum. In return, russia pledged to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders. Russia got the nukes. Ukraine got “security guarantees." Remember?

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Republicans lie about everything.

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JUNE 14 CALL TO ACTION www.FAFOPac.org is part of a coalition with Indivisible & www.nokings.org for THE LARGEST MARCH IN US HISTORY. 76 MILLION VOTED AGAINST HIM. LETS GET AT LEAST 35 MILLION! youtu.be/33tTveCKATM?...

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headline construction masterclass

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If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

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Trump is dangerously demented, and is probably encouraged by his own staff, who want to profit from the destruction of America.

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