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Unapologetic Liberal. I care about equality, fairness, honesty, opportunity, the environment & our Democracy. Univ of Michigan Electrical Engineer & Zoologist.
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Los Angeles takes a huge step toward linking airplanes to trains, as the nation's fifth busiest hub joins the modern travel world and offers Southern Californians an off-ramp from traffic-clogged freeways.

Trump and the disgraced financier were the “best of friends” for 15 years, according to Wolff, who claims to have more than 100 hours of recorded interviews with Epstein: “They shared girlfriends, they shared airplanes ... business strategy." www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

Russell Vought, Trump’s budget hawk and one of the chief architects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, is stepping in to become DOGE’s new power broker. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Q: Congressman, are cuts to Medicare now on the table? REP. JOHN McGUIRE: We just want to right size it. Make sure the right people get it. Not illegal aliens.

Goldman: So I wonder: what’s in the Epstein files that would make Donald Trump so intent on keeping them covered up? What’s different from what’s already public

The Trump Administration always had the power to bring Kilmar Abrego back. They were always lying about this, all of it was lies. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl... They chose to disobey court orders because they are authoritarians who regard the Constitution as an inconvenience.

It is *1000%* Kash Patel’s “lane”—in fact, it’s his lane *more than anyone in America*—so why does he sound so terrified? Huh. HUH. 🤔

These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

Does anyone have any updates on Katie Miller?

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to destroy each other today – and it’s a sight to see https://twp.ai/4inCrk

9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies. They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.

Within the next 3 years, there will be so much AI, in particular AI video, people won’t know if what they see or hear is real. Which will lead to an explosion of f2f engagement, events and jobs. Those that were in the office will be in the field. Call it the Milli Vanilli effect

Watching the Musk-Trump brawl play out in public

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The boys are fighting… so WIRED spoke to insiders about what's *actually happening* between Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and that Big Beautiful Bill. “If [Musk] actually successfully gets any votes switched to tank this bill and kills it, then I think at that point [Trump] is fucked.”

In a series of videos, Warren highlights “dangerous” provisions tucked into the bill that have nothing to do with the budget.

We have a winner…..

By relying chiefly on information technology experts, Elon Musk ended up stumbling through Washington and sometimes cutting employees vital to President Donald Trump’s own agenda. In many cases, fired employees were rehired, adding administrative costs to an effort aimed at cutting expenditures.

German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary." Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day." German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

Trump: "Eggs have come down 400 percent. Everybody has eggs now. They have eggs for breakfast again."

Checks and balances are just words on paper if the people in power aren’t willing to act. Instead of letting President Trump get away with defying the law, Republicans in Congress should be putting our country first.

President Trump on Wednesday ordered his administration to investigate former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign pardons and other documents, increasing the pressure on his predecessor.

Jen Psaki: Some Republicans who will vote to pass the budget bill "have mastered the art of clutching their pearls and complaining in public, while then ultimately voting for things they expressed concern about."

Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov mocked America and threatened the West with Russia's alleged superior military might. Solovyov described the U.S. as a woolly mammoth that is already extinct, but doesn't know it yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbd1...

mike lindell is going through some things 😭🤭

Nice job!

DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

Republicans could pass stand alone tax cuts for poor and middle class people if they wanted to without all the rest of their big ugly bill

Veterans make up 6.1% of the US population but 24% of federal workers. Proposed government cuts disproportionately affect those who served our country. Here's a brief history of #veterans protests against Washington, Coolidge, and Trump buff.ly/YPFWrU9

BREAKING: ICE agents have deployed flash-bang grenades against Americans in San Diego as they continue their racist, haphazard roundup of non-whites. This will only get worse. And it will get worse because Trump wants violence. He knows violence begets violence, and that he—only he—has a military.

A massive Ukrainian UAV attack is underway. Lots of drones are reported on Russian territory already. In Melitopol, there are power outages reported. In Rostov, explosions are heard as air defense is engaging drones.

I will not be arrested, I’m here as a citizen and I’m videotaping this”

The DHS/ICE is having a hiring expo in Chantilly, VA June 5-6th and based on the requirements/waivers they seem really desperate. There are planned protest happening outside of the Dulles Expo Center | 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center, Chantilly, VA 20151

➡️Trump is silencing VA scientists—blocking them from publishing research that exposes how his cuts are hurting Veterans. This isn’t about policy. It’s about power, control, and hiding the damage he’s doing. MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

NEWS: DOJ is appealing the injunction blocking enforcement of the Trump administration's anti-trans prison policies as to specific plaintiffs in one case. (There is not, yet, a notice of appeal in the class action lawsuit PI that I covered on Tuesday here: www.lawdork.com/p/class-inju...)

NEW: Though Elon Musk is gone, DOGE is here to stay. Russell Vought, a Christian nationalist and Project 2025 architect, appears to be at the helm of the faux-agency — and the slash-and-burn effort against the federal government may be on the cusp of an even darker turn. by: @jaknutson.bsky.social

NEW: Texas midwife Maria Rojas was arrested in March for allegedly performing an illegal abortion. Nearly three months later, Rojas has not been indicted for any crime -- putting her in excruciating limbo by the state.

Detroit suburb revolts as Tesla illegally dumps Cybertrucks in mall parking lot https://twp.ai/4inFfc

it's sad that Biden stuck with Karine Jean-Pierre for all those years despite the fact she was not that great at her job, only for her to turn around and write a book about why she left the Democratic Party and is now an independent.