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Musk: I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, which increases the budget deficit, not decrease it, and undermines the work the DOGE team is doing… I think a bill can be big, or it can be beautiful. But I don’t know if it could be both.

Our task: To stop Trump from making the United States of America his ultimate bankruptcy, his ultimate failure.

NEW—An exclusive look at a new poll: "36 percent of Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024" now say Trump's deportation actions "are going too far and targeting the types of immigrants who strengthen our nation." www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.

In an escalation of the war between the courts and and the Trump administration, the FBI arrested a sitting Wisconsin judge, sending shockwaves through Milwaukee and beyond, writes @nicholsuprising.bsky.social. bit.ly/3S4HW8m

People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

Two more Democrats have been escorted out of the chamber as President Trump addresses Congress.

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

US consumer sentiment plunges over tariff and inflation fears:

The top diplomat reiterated the importance of standing up to Moscow, calling the war in Ukraine a “major challenge to the rule of law.'

'Democracy is panicKing."

60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history

A federal judge ordered the nation’s premier health agencies to restore online access to several websites that monitor HIV, health risks for youths and assisted reproductive technologies, which were abruptly taken offline to ensure they complied with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order.

NEW: Paula White-Cain backed Trump's claims of election fraud—even after Jan. 6th—and framed his first presidency as a battle between God and Satan. She "seems to see her service to Donald Trump as an act of faithfulness to God. And for her service she has now once again been rewarded."

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What’s doubly stupid about this is how Twitter’s *own lawyers* contradicted Musk’s cherry-picked narrative from “the Twitter Files” that Trump had used to try to revive the Twitter suit, as I wrote at the time edition.cnn.com/2023/06/06/t...

Breaking News: An Idaho House committee passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to undo the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage.

They never thought Roe v. Wade was on the chopping block. It was. They never thought Obergefell v. Hodges was on the chopping block. It is. To elect Christian Nationalists because you're pissed about the price of eggs is to put your freedoms on the line in the hopes of saving $25/mo on groceries

Being scammed may be more than just bad luck. A study found that older adults with thinning of the brain’s entorhinal cortex were more vulnerable to financial exploitation, potentially signaling early #Alzheimer's changes https://buff.ly/3CGwUlo (Laura Fenton and Duke Han @uscdornsife.bsky.social)

OPINION: "Trump appears to be following the Putin/Orbán strategy of bankrupting media outlets and reporters (rather than using cops and billy-clubs), presumably both to cow others into submission."