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SCOOP: A deputy U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson's immigration court, U.S. Marshals Service officials confirmed on Thursday. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

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NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

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This Michigan republican regurgitating right-wing think tank talking points about education went to a private school where the student to teacher ratio is 9:1.

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Jonathan Joss was the victim of a violent, homophobic hate crime. This is why we have Pride Month and why we’ll only get louder and prouder. RIP Jonathan Joss

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As expected, the Trump administration has asked Congress to claw back the funding already allocated for public media for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. If enacted, it would remove $770 million for TV and radio stations across the country. DETAILS: loom.ly/hSUIHGk

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American Gestapo 2025

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The entire Federal Reserve Board should be embarrassed by this outrageous giveaway to one of Wall Street’s most derelict banks. The Fed must release Wells Fargo’s exam reports for the last five years to the Senate Banking Committee so that Congress can review them.

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The vast majority of studies show 70%-80% of social media users don't read past the headline. MOREOVER, the vast majority also share articles without even reading them. So, yeah, headlines matter. Studies also show that people prefer shorter headlines (and will ignore longer ones). We're so cooked.

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Milk was a Navy veteran. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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They're literally doing the meme

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the news is saying that trump plans to increase military spending, give tax cuts for the rich, and slash spending for the poor. is this true? i've never heard of a republican doing this before

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wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine

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This is a real bill

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Live on 93-North. 📹: @haileyjade617

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Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

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Trump has picked 2022 law school grad Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate (such “physical prowess”) who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK. 1/

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Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options for browsers, search engines, and email providers to get you started.

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Video shows two unknown men, without uniforms or identifying insignias, attacking and kidnapping a man from a Nashua, NH courthouse back in February. During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.

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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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🗣️President Trump’s proposed FY26 budget would roll back WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits to pre-2021 levels, before USDA’s science-based increase. Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13 Young kids: $27 → $10 These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:

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So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

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When a homeless man questioned the Phoenix police’s authority to stop him in Feb. 2020, an officer knelt on his neck while another shocked him with a Taser. Another unhoused man said officers threw away his things, telling him, “You guys are trash and this is trash.”

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RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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A really timely take as Trump is on a pay to play pardon spree.

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Trump and Betsy DeVos want to force school vouchers into all states—including in Michigan. That’s not an education plan. I said on @npr.org these schemes send middle class kids into subprime pop-up schools—while giving new tuition subsidies to the rich. www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n...

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Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

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Google knows Gemini sucks, which is why they don't give users a way to opt out. They need the inflated numbers to bullshit Wall Street.

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"Dave's not here, man!"

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MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

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Great reporting from @josephcox.bsky.social and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social here. And it confirms @thorbenson.bsky.social's prediction from nearly 3 years ago: www.wired.com/story/licens...

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New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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Scoop: Nancy Mace's fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online. “We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," one said. 1/ www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

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