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“American leadership isn’t inevitable,” Jeff Flake writes. “It’s a choice—one we must make again and again, not just for the sake of our standing in the world, but for the practical, everyday interests of American citizens.”

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Brevard County’s top cop has delivered an ominous threat ahead of nationwide ‘No Kings’ rallies.

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#NoKings #Obama #POTUS #RealMan Happy Barack Obama Day!!

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Hey all. I have a favor to ask, if you have the means. I have a neighbor whose father was snatched up by immigration. She is left trying to care for her younger siblings. She also just lost her car and has to for the lawyer. She's just 20. www.gofundme.com/f/the-vazque...

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NPR Budget Cuts Spawn ‘Some Things Considered’ Program: tinyurl.com/hnuwzbpm

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The number of people booked into immigration detention who have not previously been convicted of a crime has jumped eight-fold since President Donald Trump took office, government data shows, undercutting his anti-crime message. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Wash Post treated #HandsOff as local, not nat'l news. As did more media, see ➡️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... by @sulliview.bsky.social Most people can name Moms for Liberty but not groups defending freedom to learn, even though they're bigger. That's b/c mainstream press gives MfL free PR.

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U.S. Marines have detained a civilian for the first time on the streets of Los Angeles, where President Trump ordered them to guard a federal building. The civilian, an Army veteran, said he was on his way to a VA office inside the building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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This hits hard! An L.A. protest in the 1930s, pushing back against illegal immigration raids. During the Great Depression, thousands of Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born kids were deported. Racism and economic fear drove it then, just like now.

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Interesting argument that US’s (kinda) energy independence due to shale boom is a big factor in it withdrawing from multilateralism www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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“Voice of America told more than 50 employees to come back to work immediately Friday amid escalating military action between Iran and Israel. Employees told The Washington Post that most of the Persia team was restored to assist with the news out of the Middle East.” 😒

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Commentary www.politicususa.com/p/trump-look... Netanyahu has been planning to use the Israeli military to strike Iran’s nuclear program for several US presidential administrations. When Netanyahu told his friend trump that he planned to attack Iran, trump asked him not to do so...

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Kanye West (who also goes by Ye Ye) made a surprise appearance at the Diddy trial on Friday June 13 to support Sean Combs who has been accused of assault, racketeering, and abuse.

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Terry Moran, unshackled, says what should be said. Standing up for the truth and democracy in an era where the truth and democracy are polarized means you risk being labeled a partisan and losing audience share. So be it. That’s what it means to have values. open.substack.com/pub/terrymor...

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Today on Volts: Senator @martinheinrich.bsky.social is the ranking Democrat on the energy committee, so he will be pivotal in negotiating the Senate's version of the GOP spending bill. I talk with him about whether & how the bill might improve & why Republicans have fallen in line for Trump.

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To understand this weekend, you need to understand who the audiences for both the parade and the protests are. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

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A reflection on my years as a feminist writer on the internet katemanne.substack.com/p/dumb-cunt-...

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Germany’s massive infrastructure spending surge will focus on reviving the country’s now-decrepit rail system.

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Judge Breyer found not only that Trump Admin failed to follow lawful procedure in activating National Guard in LA, but also failed to show a “rebellion” or inability to execute federal law. In other words, as I read it, order was based on a pretext. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mainstream media snubs massive anti-Trump protests like 'Hands Off' and 'No Kings,' while Trump and Musk bulldoze democracy. Fear of right-wing backlash mutes the press. Silence stifles change; voices in the streets must roar louder. #3E

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Senate Republicans rushing to bridge differences in the massive tax and spending package must also deal with lesser known but potentially explosive provisions tucked into the bill including those related to gun control, abortion and court orders.

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In a statement, Marco Rubio said Israel acted alone when it launched strikes on Iran. But on #playbookpod, Jake Traylor says the question on every White House reporter’s mind is still: “How much involvement did Donald Trump have in this decision?” Listen: pod.link/1169056746/e...

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By now, you have most likely heard of the disgraceful appearance by Donald Trump at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Tuesday.

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The con continues. “The official said there will be “no change” in the current approach to deportations, adding that no carveout exists currently for farm, hotel or other migrant workers”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/13/trump-immigrant-farm-workers-hospitality/

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Get yourself to a protest this Saturday. Spread the word. Shit has escalated significantly in just a handful of days and we need to get out there and show big, collective anger about it. Don't break shit or start fights, just show up in numbers. www.nokings.org#map

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“The war is pushing everyone to question who they can trust.” The conflict in Ukraine has united Estonians but divided the many Russians who live there https://econ.trib.al/Dh7TYem

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NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: The physical assault on Senator Padilla at the Kristi Noem Propaganda Conference proves once again: Trump and his gang are domestic terrorists PLUS Hegseth won't confirm he'll abide by civil courts New Countdown podcast here: tinyurl.com/mt3wda77

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It comes four months into his tenure at HHS, during which time he’s made a number of changes.

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There are several stark clues in how they are proceeding with the case that show the case is mainly political, writes legal columnist Elie Honig.

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To mark “Loving Day,” Yvonne Durant goes deep on colorism, over at AudibleBlog. Glad to learn she’s thinking with THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, alongside Toni Morrison’s classics. www.audible.com/blog/coloris...

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A terrible loss for analytic philosophy is that it began as a form of antifascist resistance in the Vienna Circle—both highly theoretical and in the material efforts of its members to combat fascism—but today many analytic philosophers either support the status quo or are fascists

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Enten: How many people watched Gavin Newsom's speech on just YouTube alone? Over 3 million folks. Joe Rogan, his average podcast episode over the last month has averaged only 1.6 million YouTube views, so Newsom's speech.. very, very popular.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Israel will face "severe punishment" after it launched strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and left the leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard dead.

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This is the central dynamic to most of the Trump Administration’s legal strategies, including, most notably til now, the deportations to El Salvador. A law says: Under condition X, the President can do Y. Trump: I declare X is happening! So I can do Y.

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1/ We're on the Zoom call for the TRO hearing in Newsom v. Trump and Judge Breyer has laid out the issue clearly: did Trump comply with 10 USC 12406? First question to DOJ atty Brett Shumate: "If Trump didn't comply with the statute, you'd agree there's no authority for what he did, right?"

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Imagine being in a country where Black, Brown and Asian folks are being targeted for kidnapping and deportation and people of all shades are in the streets getting beaten for opposing it and thinking that now is the time to be like "but those Latine people did kind of displace Black people"

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NEW: The latest analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is that the House GOP tax bill, in short, is better for the wealthy than the poor, whose finances may worsen if it is adopted. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

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Democrats finally figuring out something Republicans knew years ago. This is the present and future, and campaigns who continue to rely on pouring tens of millions in network ad buys are just setting donor money on fire and making consultants rich.

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Newsom is one of the few D pols who is good at this. He knows how to play the virality & attention game. I use his low res “lies vs facts” website from the LA wildfires as an example of how to correct the record in a way that made ppl share. Leverage mockery. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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I think the negative media obsession around Bluesky is a direct evolution of the media obsession with Twitter—which, you could argue, was an actual consequential echo chamber for years that disconnected some media people from what was happening offline and in more popular online spaces.

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"Hope you’re insured." That was the county attorney’s warning when Jefferson County (Illinois) officials pushed a blatantly illegal Ten Commandments monument onto public property. Now they’re being sued. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/thou-shalt...

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Being uninvited from the White House caused Rand Paul to lose a lot of the respect he had for Donald Trump that Trump’s two impeachments, insurrection, four criminal indictments, criminal conviction, and sexual abuse damages verdict did not cause him to lose. Got it.

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