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Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

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Warnock: Don’t lecture to me about meritocracy while I witness you nominate the most unfit unqualified people we’ve ever seen. You cannot lecture me about merit while nominating Pete Hegseth…

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No surprise that Trump’s proposed NASA budget aligns perfectly with Musk’s interests, not the public good. We would never have gotten to the moon or be talking about Mars without NASA’s science mission — and should not let Trump/Musk jeopardize America’s future leadership.

submitted 5 hours ago • 36 comments

Very very important follow up on the Signal story . The clone version of Signal White House officials are using is so insecure it’s already been hacked. www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

“baking sheet on wheels for dysfunctional men” is going to stay with me

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Pretty big news out of North Texas, an epicenter for far-right schoolboard takeovers: Yesterday, the GOP in Tarrant County - a bellwether for the state - went 0-11 in the three largest towns; and seven school board candidates backed by the Christian nationalist Patriot Mobile PAC also lost.

submitted 11 hours ago • 57 comments

It's good to meet your heroes like @raskin.house.gov

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This article is so well written and gutting. Trump and his billionaire cronies are just flattening these people. The cascade effects are awful. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 27 comments

These are the same people Trump gave unrestricted access to all of the federal government's systems.

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 14 hours ago • 310 comments

This is an important thread.

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I do think it’s a tough time for young men, but not for the reasons people think. It’s a tough time because masculinity influencers try to bully young men into thinking that there is only one way be in the world. And then when they buy into it, they have a very hard time functioning in reality.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Democracy all-star lineup! Relevant to #teslatakedown #nokings #handsoff and so many others.

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An alternate version of this graph sorted by total funding changes rather than percentages is revealing

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“Airplanes can’t fly without weather observations and forecasts; ships crossing the oceans rely on storm forecasts to avoid the high seas; farmers rely on seasonal forecasts to plant and harvest their crops which feed us.”

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Trump’s youngest son just sealed a $2 BILLION crypto deal with a firm tied to the UAE royal family that'll enrich the Trump family. This is what state-sanctioned corruption looks like and every Republican in Congress who stays silent about it is betraying their constituents.

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Listen to Black women… “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity” “The threats & harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution & the rule of law” - KBJ

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Prices will go up. There will be shortages. National parks will be a mess. Air travel, based on what we're seeing in Newark, could go sideways. Measles will spread and fall COVID shots could get delayed. And the president might throw himself a big birthday parade! Widespread anger is coming.

submitted 2 days ago • 403 comments

When Germany tells you that "rightwing extremism needs to be stopped," you should listen.

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TRUMPISM REJECTED IN AUSTRALIA Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected as his Labor Party surged to victory and is projected to form a majority government. In a historic first, opposition leader Peter Dutton—often likened to Donald Trump—lost his own seat of Dickson.

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NEWS: Law firms that made deals w/Trump worried abt losing clients if they didn't. But it looks like there is risk in the opposite direction: A major client, Microsoft, has pulled business from a firm that made a deal and gave it to a firm fighting Trump's exec order www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Just a reminder that these assholes have a glass jaw and that authoritarians act out of weakness rather than strength. We need to take this fight to them and not let up until we never see them again.

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Yeah, we see how this works.

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IDSA urges Congress to reject President Trump's proposed cuts and instead safeguard the well-being of the American people. Our statement: bit.ly/44PljMH

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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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102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Best sign from yesterday.

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"I don’t mean a hypothetical collapse a few years down the road, but the destruction of large parts of the American scientific enterprise — the envy of the world just a few months ago — this year." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-war-...

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A photo taken this week showed Mike Waltz using an app that looks like—but is not—Signal to communicate with top officials. "I don't even know where to start with this," says one expert. www.wired.com/story/mike-w...

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Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old DOGE aide who is helping the Trump administration carry out the drastic downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, owns stock in companies that could benefit from the agency’s dismantling.

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The Trump administration claims the Louisiana moms who were deported wanted to bring their U.S. citizen children with them. Their lawyers tell me that's a lie, they were forced: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

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NEW: A DOGE recruiter told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. He was met with 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 and custom emojis of a man licking a boot.

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A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign policy for sale,” critics claim. www.wired.com/story/as-tru...

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A cool thing for Dems to do would be to list conservative organizations they would revoke tax-exempt status for (on the entirely reasonable line that many are not real social welfare orgs and are not nonpartisan). Might concentrate the minds of some Federalist Society (501c3) members.

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POTUS released a skinny FY 2026 budget, proposing to drastically cut funding for federal R&D across several agencies. AAAS urges Congress to reject the budget and to reaffirm their long-standing bipartisan support for S&T investments. Read the full statement: www.aaas.org/news/preside...

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Trump budget proposes drastic cuts for US scientific research reut.rs/4lYQjzW

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Elon Musk’s embrace of Trump and right-wing politics has turned off many Democrats and independents, hurting his car company and his personal brand.

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SURPRISE>>>>Elon Musk SpaceX (and other commercial space companies, but particularly SpaceX) are the big winners in Trump's new federal budget plan. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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it almost seems like real story here is that Elon Musk's car company, which is the only halfway-consistently profitable company he's ever run and worth the rest of the auto industry combined, somehow isn't his most important venture at the moment like, why is that exactly?

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