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Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no hostage and ceasefire deal is reached by the end of President Trump's trip to the Middle East two weeks from now. My story on @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

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NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website www.404media.co/globalx-airl...

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A majority of Americans (55%) now say the United States should pursue a policy of global free trade, up from 35% in June 2024. More new data on trade from @global-affairs.bsky.social / @ipsosus.bsky.social : : brnw.ch/21wSqeN

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The modified Signal app used by Mike Waltz was reportedly hacked

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What is the absolute high-water-number that Hunter Biden pocketed from (allegedly, probably) clumsily trading on the family name, in total? Like… $2 million dollars? $10 million? Trump kids are raking that in daily.

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Incredible note from Justin Kubatko at Statitudes: Buddy Hield is just the second NBA player ever to score 30-plus on 80% shooting in a Game 7. "He joins Wilt Chamberlain, who accomplished the feat in Game 7 of the 1965 Eastern Division Finals." www.statitudes.com/p/nba-game-n...

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It was nearly impossible to get anyone on camera for this story because of the fear now running through our system of justice. https://cbsn.ws/4lWzcPz

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not saying anyone should, but I bet you could convince Trump to re-open Alcatraz in under 20 minutes

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In Peter Navarro's defense, he never specified that America would be party to any of the deals.

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According to Yahoo's Dan Titus on the Kevin O'Connor Show: The Rockets were 3/22 shooting when defended by Draymond in game 7 🤯🤯🤯

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Episode 3 of The Rehearsal is an ALL-TIMER

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Marvel having a great opening weekend for a movie being reviewed as their best in years just for the president to immediately announce he’s doing movie tariffs when they’re like three days into filming the next two Avengers movies in London is pretty funny

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BIG moment in the Flack household.

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Speaking of: it's been 20 years since Salon and Rolling Stone co-published "Deadly Immutinity," Kennedy's story about vaccines being the cause of autism.

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I hadn't realized THIS was the sweatshirt that a PG County Police detective claimed was evidence Mr. Abrego Garcia was in MS-13.

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This guy outside the Capitol seems to really be enjoying his weekend. What a vibe.

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Nico Harrison raised the profile of Luka Dončić.

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James Harden has raised the profile of clutch playoff games

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President Trump to NBC's 'Meet the Press' about trade with Canada: "We do very little business with Canada...We don’t need them." (Canada is the top destination for US exports so far in 2025 and is our second biggest trading partner) Source: www.census.gov/foreign-trad...

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I wonder if “Trump thinks exchanging money for goods and services means you’re losing” stems directly from Trump’s career of taking people’s money for nothing in return. Running casinos, licensing his name for products he didn’t make, Trump U., fake charities, whatever crypto thing he’s running now

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Probably the purest distillation of Trump’s neomercantilist ideology that any time you import something you’re automatically losing. He can’t even grasp the concept of a mutually beneficial transaction.

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This administration is basically doing Hunter Biden corruption at an industrial scale. And whereas there was no evidence Joe Biden in any way benefitted from Hunter's shenanigans, the current President's family business is raking in the payoffs. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Wow this story www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Trump is the president of people who voted for him, flatter him, and/or give him money. And apparently no one else. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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They probably should’ve made him swear an oath or something

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This comment on r/army about Pete Hegseth is maybe the most brutal one I've seen so far from A Troop™️ www.reddit.com/r/army/comme...

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www.propublica.org/article/utah...

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In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months. “I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.” With @sltrib.com

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A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.

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It really tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party that they can't go after Trump for the most blatant corruption scandal in the history of the presidency because some of them are in bed with the same corruption coin guys.

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The Constitution forbids bribery 3 separate times. So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason. The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.

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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

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1/ People sometimes need a jarring reminder of how far down the path Trump administration is going toward authoritarian assertions of power A sign: John Yoo, architect of torture memos and maximal presidential powers, sharply rebukes President Trump and DOJ actions on 4 grounds @npr.org interview

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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the Perkins Coie law firm — the first of several such orders — is unconstitutional and, accordingly, "null and void." Background at Law Dork on the original TRO in the case: www.lawdork.com/p/perkins-co...

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So we are back to where we were three months ago: the war will be over when the Russians stop fighting www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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This is ludicrous. It would render all the strict constraints Congress placed on the exercise of this extraordinary statutory power meaningless if no court can decide whether they're satisfied. If the president says the ACLU and the Democratic Party are foreign armies, then I guess they are.

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I’m sorry but you should be embarrassed to be a high schooler who thinks Andrew Tate his cool, his pitch is aimed at 12-year-olds tops. He talks about cars like he can’t wait to be old enough to drive.

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at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?

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aside from Kerr and Spo, every current NBA coach has less than five years on the job. a matrix of days on the job vs. win percentage for that group, relative to each other:

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Notice how this works. A year ago, the subhead here would have said “which is expressly forbidden by the constitution.” But Trump floats a crazy assertion and then WaPo retreats to saying “which most legal scholars say..” Stop he said/she saiding truth. It is expressly forbidden. Period.

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North America in three quotes by heads of state.

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having to put a “don’t worry, i’m a dumbass” placard on the worst car of all time in order to drive it is insane

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Israel's military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics in Gaza. But a new @nytimes.com visual investigation shows that multiple soldiers fired over the course of 6 minutes at unarmed rescue workers who never posed a threat. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

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Fox News' Jesse Watters met with "the DOGE boys" for their "nightly meeting," including... Big Balls. The meeting was led by Elon Musk, who the DOJ has insisted in court does not lead DOGE. I did not see Amy Gleason at the meeting. cc: @annabower.bsky.social

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The savvy will scoff, but I am completely serious about this. Congressional Dems should introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the pardon power and force votes on it whenever they can. Dem presidential wannabes should endorse the idea. Blue states should signal support.

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