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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

submitted 18 hours ago • 358 comments

Historians and political scientists spend decades trying to determine the influence of money in politics and Musk just tweets out "I bought the election"

submitted 16 hours ago • 27 comments

This article is bone chilling. Mothers asked to bring their children. Family members being disappeared. “Agents declined to identify themselves when asked during the course of the afternoon, though one person directed THE CITY to ICE 4 comment. The agency didn’t respond to a request for comment.”

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Pleading with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask Josh Divine at his confirmation hearing tomorrow if he still believes homosexuality is morally equivalent to bestiality, or that Christians are "obligated ethically to impose their beliefs on others." I do not ask for much.

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🚨 Trump’s Bedminster golf club flagged for 18 health violations in latest inspection—earned lowest grade in county (32/100) Among the violations: 🤢 Expired milk 🤢 Raw meat stored above cheese 🤢 A hand-washing station without soap me, for @forbes.com

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President Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back the $1.1 billion in federal subsidies for public broadcasting that Congress approved earlier this year. His request also includes cuts to foreign aid.

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The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means everything from emails to video calls can’t be trusted. www.wired.com/story/youre-...

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Is New York going to protect the safety and human rights of women? @aoc.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov

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If this doesn’t become illegal asap, it is an admission that America is now a lawless autocratic country. This is domestic terrorism conducted by the state. @schumer.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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Breaking down 4 reasons why this presidency will likely go down as the most corrupt presidency in American history. 🧵🎥👇🏻

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The “Parks and Recreation” YouTube channel has posted a tribute to Jonathan Joss. youtu.be/NFyYGV3MRoE?...

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And let’s not forget that many of those children with caries will not have treatment because of the cost. Dental insurance is even less available to the general population than medical insurance.

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Mayor Adams is trying to bulldoze the West Village's Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, a landmarked building that shut down during Covid and never reopened. I live close by and know how vibrant and necessary this place was—on hot summer days, kids would swim for free under the Keith Haring mural. /

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She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. The current setup of the Flock ALPR system is incompatible with a free society.

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To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams & debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today's information society. That's why curriculum of students in Finland includes media literacy lessons, aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth.

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

“This doesn’t sound like a group that is going away, it sounds like one that’s digging in like a parasite,” an IT specialist at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) tells @wired.com

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“The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

A drug addict usurped congressional power, and unilaterally gutted US soft power. Members of the administration knew about, and were disturbed by, his drug use (WSJ). Isn’t this a cover-up?

submitted 6 days ago • 346 comments

It’s actually surprising that Donald Trump isn’t hawking some sort of gaudy gold trinket today to commemorate the one-year anniversary of his being a convicted felon.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Another cannot miss piece by @katherineeban.bsky.social This is what real journalism is. I still think about her investigative work on Jared Kushner’s Covid response initiative all the time. Her reporting on that incompetent, dilettante, poser should be household knowledge throughout America. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

They let this man ravage our govt & make decisions that resulted in suffering worldwide, & loss of jobs, livelihood & security at home. The irresponsibility & negligence ….. DO NOT LET SPEAKER JOHNSON NEAR A MIC OR CAMERA W/O DEMANDING HE ACCOUNT FOR THIS. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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Elon Musk’s lethal assault on foreign aid has already killed 300,000 people, mostly children, and will kill many more in the coming years. An unfathomable loss of life. How many other individuals have been personally responsible for so much mass death? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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“Taking DNA from a 4-year old and adding it into CODIS flies in the face of any immigration purpose. That’s not immigration enforcement. That’s genetic surveillance.”

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

ProPublica's Brett Murphy just appeared on @msnbc.com to to discuss his reporting with @annamaria.bsky.social on the fallout of the Trump administration's abandonment of its humanitarian commitments around the world. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

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Breaking News: A woman sued oil and gas companies over her mother’s death in a heat wave. It's the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming, experts said.

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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

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Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Jared Kushner’s pal and benefactor. Jeff Bezos’s chosen business collaborator.

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RFK Jr. is "gunning for America's vaccines." He's canceling advisory meetings, claiming vaccines haven't been "safety tested", and stripping shots from the schedule. Read more from @eggerdc.bsky.social in Morning Shots: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jrs-wa...

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments