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There’s a special election tonight for a South Carolina House seat that Harris carried by single-digits last fall. The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.

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SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets. www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

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Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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They don’t know what they’re doing. The market-tanking tariffs, the oops-we-screwed-up cuts to nuclear security and infectious disease control, the whoops-did-we-give-the-editor-of-the-Atlantic-our-war-plans episode … and now this. They’re idiots. They don’t know what they’re doing.

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This conversation is definitely worth the watch.

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Arizonans aren't buying what David Schweikert is selling. Either he's so incompetent that he slept through the most important vote of the year, or he didn't want to be on the record supporting Medicaid and food assistance cuts. #AZ01

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(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

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Trump is handing a massive contract to Palantir, Peter Thiel’s AI-powered spy firm to build a centralized database on all Americans, combining facial recognition, license plate tracking, ICE targeting, biometric data, and whatever else they damn well want. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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Tyrese Halliburton (24 PTS, 13 AST in Game 6) joins, Scottie Pippen and Magic Johnson as the only players to total 20+ PTS, 10+ AST AND 3+ STL in a clinching win to go to the Finals.

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the president accusing joe biden of being a clone decanted in 2020 to assume the presidency is not going to make the news tomorrow

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He posted it. This brings to mind the 25th amendment.

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not trying to entirely absolve voters of their culpability here but at some point people in the media also need to reckon with why so many voters didn’t know that donald trump was planning to deport moms.

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This Vegas party pad has a wild 125,000-gallon pool playground, complete with lazy river, beach, in-pool gazebo, jacuzzis, cabanas, Swedish sauna, grotto and even mini-golf. I thought the West had a water shortage? $5.75M #FridayNightZillow www.zillow.com/homedetails/...?

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Buckeye-headquartered Hickman’s Family Farms calls itself the largest egg company in the Southwest. At a press conference today Friday, the president and CEO said 95% of his birds in Arizona have been lost to a recent outbreak of bird flu.

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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Over a million Minnesotans rely on Medicaid, including seniors, children, and people with disabilities. We need to strengthen it, not cut it to pay for $250,000 tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.

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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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He was attempting to catheterize himself but he relied on ChatGPT for instructions and the resulting pain caused him to pass out and fall facefirst into his voice-activated urinal

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EXCLUSIVE: We have the documents 😎

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As I note here, really zero reason to believe Elon is stepping away from anything. This is all a crisis comms campaign. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

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After the WSJ correctly reported that Musk was about to spend a ton of money on Trump, he denied it. You can get a lot of helpful stories written if you just lie!

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SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE. In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”

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This is MAGA's one, big, beautiful healthcare plan.

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The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)

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YOU CAN FOLLOW: @nba.com @wnba.com

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The @nytimes.com picking up on my reporting that broke this story earlier today. azmirror.com/2025/05/29/j...

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I suggest you read Hannah Arendt or Erich Fromme if you want to understand today. #USDemocracy

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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Growing Scandal of $Trump The investigative reporter @zekefaux.bsky.social traces the crypto ventures of President Trump and his family. open.spotify.com/episode/631U... youtu.be/JNJD-vKtrPc?...

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The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

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Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

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By firing IRS auditors who went after wealthy tax cheats, Elon Musk's DOGE could cost up to $323 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years. It was never about being efficient or effective. www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-dog...

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When do we start all the winning? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

submitted 6 days ago • 721 comments

Poor sad Elon Musk. He's packing up all the stolen data, his government contracts, the cancelled investigations into his companies, Stephen Miller's wife and he's out of here.

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