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Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations The Trump administration is seeking deals with more and more nations -- one third of the countries on the planet -- to hold deportees — now with the blessing of the Supreme Court. theintercept.com/2025/06/25/t...

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1. Trump has nominated his former personal attorney, Emil Bove, to a powerful seat on a federal appellate court Bove has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to ignore federal law to give Trump what he wants. Is he the most unethical judicial nominee in modern history? Let's review the facts.

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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 23 hours ago • 309 comments

Clinton, Clyburn, Summers, Palantir, Bloomberg, NYT, Wall St, AIPAC...all tried their best. The entire establishment went full racist and Islamophobic in the end. Still Mamdani won. Biggest F U to the Democratic Establishment and 1% since AOC win. Wow.

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WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy on the intel report showing the U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear program were not as effective as Trump claimed: "We were supposed to get a briefing today. It got canceled. I think it got canceled because they are trying to figure out how to lie their way out of this mess."

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Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

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1. On March 20, 2003, President George W. Bush began the bombing campaign in Iraq, justifying the attack with manipulated and bogus intelligence. Twenty-two years later, history is repeating itself. Let's review the facts.

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Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” President Drags U.S. Into Another War Heeding the request of Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump bombed Iran. Former Pentagon official predicts the U.S. may be entering into a new round of the Forever Wars. theintercept.com/2025/06/21/i...

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Trump started a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak, he’s ineffective, he’s a criminal. His attack is an impeachable crime under the Constitution and a crime of aggression under the UN Charter. Bombing nuclear plants is also a war crime.

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Citizens United (2010) was the billionaires’ Magna Carta. newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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Some Democrats are fighting to stop war with Iran, but party leaders are silently acquiescing or, worse, supporting an attack.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 6 days ago • 141 comments

These 18 corrupt Senate Democrats joined Republicans to sell out their country for crypto cash: Alsobrooks Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kim Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner Warnock They represent their wealthy donors, not voters.

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Nearly half of 140 senior SSA administrators have been forced out or left the agency. A decimation of hundreds of years of administrative expertise at the insitence of the ignorant. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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Russians laugh at Trump’s birthday parade: “Nobody bothered to lift their legs all that much.”

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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 10 days ago • 435 comments

Almost no one showed up to the cringe military parade on Trump’s birthday, and even paid sycophant Little Marco Rubio couldn’t resist yawning. Sad!

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By law and democratic tradition, active duty soldiers are prohibited from engaging in partisan activities. In his disgraceful speech at Fort Bragg, Trump trampled on this vital norm, showing “no compunction about turning every American soldier into a hooting partisan.”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

1. When Trump ran for office, he pledged to "restore free speech." Then, as president, he deployed the military against people protesting his immigration policies. This wasn't an isolated incident It is part of an attack on freedom of speech, targeting anyone who does not share Trump’s ideology

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

Read David Pepper’s list of Trump grifts open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

1. Trump has publicly and privately fantasized about deploying the military on US soil against protesters for years. In LA, with little justification, he has made those dreams a reality, violating longstanding democratic norms. He has manufactured a crisis. Let's review the history. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 18 days ago • 630 comments

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel. History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away. Please help share this widely. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

submitted 22 days ago • 63 comments

1. Trump and his Republican allies say their budget cuts are targeted at waste, fraud, and abuse But Trump's new 1,223-page budget proposal, quietly released on Friday afternoon, reveals the real target: Poor children

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At her town hall yesterday Senator Joni Ernst defended cuts to Medicaid that will kill Americans, saying “We’re all going to die.” Today she said those who want to live should embrace Christ. She belongs in the Eighth Circle of Dante’s Hell, which houses hypocrites and corrupt politicians.

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The U.S.-backed aid distribution in southern Gaza has been a deadly disaster. The humanitarian community warned this would happen. Officials in Gaza report at least 9 Palestinians killed, 50+ wounded, so far at sites in southern Gaza. ✍🏽 @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/28/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Excellent article by Adam Serwer THE NEW DARK AGE: The Trump Administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself. "Trump and his allies see highly educated people, in the aggregate, as a kind of class enemy of the MAGA project.”

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Top $TRUMP holders head to crypto dinner with president that Democrats call ‘orgy of corruption’ www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/t...

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1. Major corporations — including AT&T, T-Mobile, United, Uber, and Comcast — have spent years touting their commitment to combating hunger in America. Now these same corporations are publicly supporting a $300 BILLION CUT TO FOOD AID.

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The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up "a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

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🔥🔥Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov thrashes Little Marco Rubio for his betrayal of democracy, human rights and the Constitution. Rubio cut food to starving 🇸🇩 victims of actual genocide and threw 🇺🇦 and 🇵🇸 under the bus, but fast-tracked Afrikaners for refugee status for a fake genocide.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

An absolutely outrageous level of ignorance for the SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

submitted 36 days ago • 125 comments

Shame on these 16 corrupt Democratic Senators for their collaboration with the Trump regime. They have sold out their constituents and their country to advance their own political power and the moneyed interests that back them.

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The US is now almost alone in climate change denial. Worse, the Trump administration is destroying even our capacity to understand it www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...

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“Putin is tired of this whole thing,” Trump said on Fox News. “He’s not looking good. And he wants to look good.” In reality, it is Trump who is tired of “this whole thing,” Trump who’s not looking good, and Trump who wants to look good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 37 days ago • 107 comments

If Trump successfully installs his heinously corrupt henchman on the 3rd Circuit, it will be because SENATE DEMOCRATS refused to confirm Biden's nominee to this very seat—based on their own Islamophobia and credulous embrace of bigoted GOP smears. Just a total nightmare top to bottom.

submitted 37 days ago • 51 comments

1. The "big beautiful bill" that Republicans advanced late last night is a massive transfer of wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest. The bottom 20% of earners will see their income DECLINE BY 10%. The top 0.1% will get a GIGANTIC WINDFALL.

submitted 37 days ago • 52 comments

@judgeluttig.bsky.social : “[I]n the first few months of his second administration, Trump has proved himself an existential threat to the rule of law in America.”

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This was a dark day for Corporate America. Top CEOs traveled to Saudi Arabia to ingratiate themselves with: 1. Trump, who is taking a blowtorch to the Constitution, and 2. MBS, who ordered the execution of a U.S.-based journalist

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🤑 BRIBERY IS LEGAL NOW 🤑 Attorney General Pam Bondi, who earned $115,000 a month as a lobbyist for Qatar, has ruled that the Qatari monarchy’s gift of a $400,000,000 aircraft to Trump does not violate the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.

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TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

submitted 45 days ago • 517 comments

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

submitted 47 days ago • 701 comments

The Suspension Clause: 1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session; 2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and 3) Even then, applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)

submitted 47 days ago • 260 comments

Scathing review of DOGE from Jessica Riedl of the conservative Manhattan Institute. Elon Musk has done enormous damage, but he has utterly failed in his self-proclaimed mission to cut costs and root out fraud.

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"a total Marxist" - a "woke pope" - "a globalist" - "a shitlib" - might be "a demon" MAGA is having a totally normal, not at all deranged reaction to today's big news. Not that more evidence was needed, but it's a reminder of how this movement sees the world and anyone they consider their enemy.

submitted 48 days ago • 82 comments

Elon Musk Set to Benefit from Big Boondoggle Budget theintercept.com/2025/05/07/e...

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NEW: Data reveals Musk has delivered 0.25% of promised federal spending cuts Musk initially promised $2 TRILLION in annual spending cuts. He's on track to deliver $5 billion. And that's being generous. Here are the receipts

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1. Trump says imposing tariffs on nearly every nation on earth is essential to force companies to make investments in the US instead of abroad But since taking office, the Trump Organization has announced new multi-billion $ development deals in the UAE, Qatar, India and Vietnam And NONE in the US

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