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Engineer by training, electrical and computer science. Technology, politics, research, social engineering, news, and finance. How to mitigate gullibility?
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The Trump administration will shut down the national LGBTQ youth suicide lifeline, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, in 30 days.

This is 100% fixable without cutting a single dollar from seniors’ benefits. Pass my bill to require ultra-high earners to pay their fair share into the system. Problem solved. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Republicans are attempting to ram through a provision to sell millions in acres in CA, including land around Yosemite, Mt. Shasta, Lake Tahoe & Big Sur, as part of their big ugly bill. Our federal public treasures shouldn't be sold off to the highest bidder. I will fight this, tooth & nail.

Trans kids suffer when they don't get medically-necessary care. This is a brazen political decision by the Supreme Court. My heart is with trans kids and their loved ones. I won’t stop fighting to make sure they can be exactly who they are.

U.S. involvement in this Iran-Israel conflict feels painfully reminiscent of the 2003 Iraq War — questionable authorization, weapons of mass destruction misinformation, and goals of regime change. Demand your representatives support a war powers resolution! 🔥📞🔥 --> 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

Trump’s pardons of white-collar fraudsters, GOP ripoff artists & unrepentant cop-beaters cheated the victims & taxpayers out of $1.3 BILLION in restitution & fines. Not content to steal from the poor to give to the rich, Trump’s now stealing from victims to give to criminals.

Standing up for human rights and due process is not a crime. Asking to see a warrant is not a crime. ICE's unjustified arrest of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was an abuse of power and unnecessary escalation of force. People can see through the Trump Administration's lies.

This isn't just about California. It’s about how we treat our fellow human beings. It’s about how we treat families. It’s about who we are. I stand with @padilla.senate.gov

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST STAND FIRM. We must not be dragged into Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran.

Early Fed chair nomination could rattle markets reut.rs/4kMx3ov

Iran's Supreme Leader says any US strikes on Iran will have serious consequences reut.rs/3HKC2ra

After hours in the Situation Room, Trump has yet to announce a decision on Iran. “I think the odds are pretty good that the president will decide to join Israel in its fight against Iran,” @nahaltoosi.bsky.social says. She explains why on #playbookpod: ow.ly/lkAk50WbqAy

Trump was reportedly livid after Tulsi Gabbard posted an unauthorized video on social media warning that “warmongers” had brought the world “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.”

🔊 Today on Reuters World News: - Israeli, Iranian aerial attacks continue as conflict shows no signs of abating - Trump considers joining Israel in attacking Iranian nuclear sites - Thousands flee Tehran as Trump calls for 'unconditional surrender' reut.rs/40dKhlN

Trump thinks that becoming a war president will boost his sagging popularity and allow him to crush the opposition with more outrageous tactics. But there’s a problem for him that his base don’t want wars. They were convinced by him that he wouldn’t get the USA into a war.

The papers that Trump dropped next to Keir Starmer appeared to be blank.

Not our war but Trump needs it to be his war. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bass lifts downtown L.A. curfew as protests over immigration raids ebb

Israeli warplanes pounded Tehran overnight and into Wednesday. Meanwhile, Iran warned that any U.S. intervention in the conflict would risk “all-out war in the region.” Follow AP's live updates.

Major US brands like Bud Light have shifted advertising strategies away from DEI themes, sources say due to fears of a Trump administration backlash (Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

A report by House Judiciary Committee Democrats cited several instances of the president freeing Jan. 6 rioters and white collar criminals from their financial obligations.

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

Trump’s Big Bad Bill yanks health coverage from Americans who rely on Medicaid and the ACA market places for affordable health coverage. For more on all the ways Trump’s trashing our health care go to AnotherTrumpDisaster.com

Thank you for this, @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

I shit you not, people

TRUMP IS ATTACKING NYC - and we need a mayor who will stand up and defend us. Andrew Cuomo is taking Super PAC $ from Trump donors while being investigated by Trump's DOJ - just like Eric Adams. We already have one mayor colluding with Trump. We don't need another.

Would you look at that.

“The FASCISTS see BLUE CITIES and BLUE STATES as…ENEMY TERRITORY… …to be OCCUPIED” 🤨 🚦 THEY MUST BE STOPPED 🚦

SCOOP: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response organization, according to a copy of the document reviewed by Bloomberg News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a CIRCUS 🎪 full of CLOWNS 🤡 Trump’s VETTER hasn’t been VETTED. 🚫 SERGIO GOR, Director of PERSONNEL, hasn’t SUBMITTED his own BACKGROUND INFORMATION necessary for a SECURITY CLEARANCE. 😳 His friends say he was born in RUSSIA, and enrolled in college with the surname GOROKHOVSKY. 🚩

So this “ICE” is basically just the old southern nativist KKK deputized to go after immigrants from certain nations and regions, if not yet to go after all groups they hate and would like to victimize? Is that about it?

If the Courts bow to Trump If Trump is allowed to overrule state sovereignty It's a dictatorship

🚦 LANDER DID NOT ASSAULT ICE 🚦 We all saw the VIDEO. This DID NOT HAPPEN. This is a LIE. 😳 🚩 #LiesFascistsTell 👨‍✈️ ☠️ 🚔

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

It’s not “efficient” for a 21-year-old Elon Musk crony to have access to the sensitive personal data of every single American paying into Social Security. This reeks of corruption to benefit Trump-friendly Palantir while risking Social Security info for millions.

Saudi Arabia has executed another journalist, Turki Al-Jasser, after 7 years of detention for reporting on corruption. The failure to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi only encourages further acts of deadly violence against journalists in the Persian Gulf & elsewhere.

It’d be a slap in the face for Congress to expand tax loopholes for Big Pharma companies that are making billions while overcharging Americans. These companies should be held accountable for prioritizing profits over people.

How many warnings do Republicans need before they tell their fossil fuel donors that enough is enough?

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is VERY unpopular. No surprise when it kicks MILLIONS off of health care and food assistance to pay for tax giveaways for billionaires. Republicans are trying to ram it through by July 4th. NOW is the moment to fight back. Call your senator.

TLDR: It sounds to me like this panel could rule unanimously for Trump on the grounds that while the decision to federalize the NG is narrowly reviewable, the pres has broad authority, and conditions were minimally met. (But I may well be wrong!)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Doing the rounds: Israel's Channel 12 reporting the US will join the war against Iran tonight.

*NYC COMPTROLLER BRAD LANDER RELEASED FROM CUSTODY: ABC