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The Republican Party is the verminous, bigoted party of ignorance and anti-Americanism, striving to turn this into a totalitarian blood-and-soil shithole.

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This is a wonky process but BIG news regarding the Republican budget bill: My staff successfully got multiple provisions removed from the bill. Two key wins: 1) Medicaid provider tax. Striking this means Republicans have to backtrack on hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts.

submitted 17 hours ago • 87 comments

Walmart fired Adrian Andrew Martinez ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

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Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill! Huge news!

submitted 20 hours ago • 89 comments

tracreports.org/immigration/... 40,433 out of 56,397—or 71.7%—held in ICE detention have no criminal record, according to data current as of June 15, 2025. Many more have only minor offenses, including traffic violations.

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Trump’s America. Where the wheelchair-bound are zip tied by police for going to Congress to protest their healthcare being removed.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Mike Lee's insane quest to privatize public lands isn't dead. I spoke to Sen. Ron Wyden about Lee's assault on our shared treasures to create a boon for the vacation-home class

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25+ million dollars. A former president. Some of the richest people in the US. The entire liberal and conservative political establishment. And Zohran Mamdani — and all the people behind him — beat it all.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Huge news today: Big Balls Out. Also, Big Balls Out.

submitted 2 days ago • 212 comments

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, sought to expand the model, passing the CAHOOTS Act in Congress in 2021 to provide federal funding through Medicaid. Now, there are at least 130 911-dispatched police alternatives in the United States, the vast majority created in the last five years.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This administration truly is cartoonishly evil.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This isn't an old story. The IDF is killing starving people every day!

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Allen Larand Fisher, 13 and Rachael Leray Fischer, 15, may be traveling in a gray Honda or Hyundai sedan with Utah license plates, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. www.eastidahonews.com/2025/06/ambe...

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This is how the prison industrial complex fuels trafficking. Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...

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Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

submitted 3 days ago • 759 comments

IAEA Director Rafael Grossi said that the damage dealt by America’s weekend airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was expected to be “very significant.”

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This is wild: Per NYT, the US military was so worried Trump would give away a looming attack that it created its own diversion: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Portland, Oregon burn ban effective 6.23.25: The burn ban includes recreational campfires, fire pits, yard debris, agricultural burning and permits issued for open burning until further notice. www.portland.gov/fire/burn-ba...

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This is the weakest response Wyden could possibly give. It will have severe consequences.

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Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 126 comments

Anyone else need a cute puppy pic?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Don't let anyone forget that a genocide is still happening in Gaza

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Vance is an arrogant clown.

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At least 2 rental homes in University Park have not rented in 6 to 12+ months, and are now for sale. A couple of other rentals are not renting to families vs the usual student occupants. I certainly don't mind this change, but that really says something about the continuing drop in students at UP.

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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released on bail on Friday from a Louisiana ICE detention center, more than three months after he was arrested outside his apartment on Columbia University's campus. Read more: cnn.it/4n6Z3Vj

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Great news 👏

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“Early work experience should not come at the expense of a child’s well-being and educational opportunities,” said Wage and Hour Division District Director Katherine Walum #childlabor www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

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“He’s never done anything to anybody, he hasn’t committed any type of crime and he’s always done things the right way,” his mother, Ada Bell Baquedano-Amador, told the outlet. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This Op-Ed is less than a year old. Timely, as there is an effort underway to dismantle Preschool for All fueled by tax myths. Must read.

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I spoke to four trans service members are being forced out of the military due to Trump’s ban “Nobody feels like this is voluntary. This is coercion. This is under duress.” For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

How did they elect someone worse than Bondi? www.koin.com/news/florida...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

That Clyburn thinks Andrew Cuomo is part of the future of the Democratic Party - and points to his character!!! — is the problem with the current Democratic Party leadership in a nutshell. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 340 comments

Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.

submitted 8 days ago • 167 comments

The question will be whether any Member wants to sue over this.

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

"Throughout the report, examples of better practice by brands when it comes to centering workers are highlighted, alongside guidance & recommendations for companies ready to build partnerships w workers and their trade unions to tackle climate change..." www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

the damage is incalculable. in the future, no one will trust our visas. no one will trust our grants. tax credits/incentives for infrastructure won't be trusted. The US is establishing itself as an unreliable partner.

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

Why is today important? US History of Slavery→Jim Crow Laws→Separate but Equal→Racist Housing Policy→ War on Drugs→MMs→School-to-Prison-Pipeline→MassIncarceration/PIC

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I know someone folks on here will fondly remember watching Scandal and Tweeting about it on Thursday nights. Guess what? The series is now on Netflix!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

From 2020, by Jason Adam Katzenstein.

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