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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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Shameful. Disgraceful.👇

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Trump reverses himself on ICE raids against agricultural and hospitality industry workers for the fourth time in five days. wapo.st/43PPwus

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Watch: @jaredb-econ.bsky.social discusses the Big "Beautiful" Bill & how it hurts ordinary Americans to help the rich. @dgibber123.bsky.social & @colin-seeberger.bsky.social discuss Trump’s politicization of the military & speak w/ @andreaducas.bsky.social about how RFK Jr is endangering Americans.

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THIS!!!

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Hard to say it was a pleasure since our conversation about RFK Jr was so bleak, but always love talking with @colin-seeberger.bsky.social and @dgibber123.bsky.social!

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President Trump is celebrating his birthday this weekend while veterans suffer under his DOGE cuts. Learn more: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

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New Pod @jaredb-econ.bsky.social discusses the Big "Beautiful" Bill & how it hurts ordinary Americans to help the rich @dgibber123.bsky.social & @colin-seeberger.bsky.social discuss Trump’s politicization of the military & speak w/ @andreaducas.bsky.social about how RFK Jr is endangering Americans

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NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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Last night at dinner my Hawaiian friend told me how children on her island learn to fish catching Acanthurus triostegus (she recently started spear fishing) (manini in Hawaiian, kiyu in Chamorro) Coincidentally, I wrote about how we also do that on Saipan news.mongabay.com/2025/06/star...

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it goes without saying that this is highly fucked up and inappropriate. also a southern politician saying anyone should be tarred and feathered is a CHOICE.

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New Pod @repmarktakano.bsky.social discusses how the Trump administration's attacks on LGBTQ+ people's rights threaten the wellbeing of all Americans @dgibber123.bsky.social & @colin-seeberger.bsky.social also discuss the mounting blowback to Congressional Republicans' One Big "Beautiful" Bill

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Republicans are responsible for nearly all the deficit and tens of trillions of debt yet adult brains have only just begun to accept that their entire plan is to bury us in debt.

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America’s debt is at a breaking point — and Trump’s tax bill might just push it over the edge

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This is monstrous.

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A drug addict usurped congressional power, and unilaterally gutted US soft power. Members of the administration knew about, and were disturbed by, his drug use (WSJ). Isn’t this a cover-up?

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"Well, we all are going to die."

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For those not familiar, here's the opening paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for the term "remigration," a term which popped up in Europe over a decade ago and until very recently has not been part of the U.S. political discourse. It is NOT a neutral term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigra...

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New Pod @barbmcquade.bsky.social discusses Trump’s assault on the Constitution, upcoming #SCOTUS decisions, & how people can stand up for democracy @dgibber123.bsky.social & @colin-seeberger.bsky.social also address Trump's tariffs & how his lack of foreign policy vision is making America weaker

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I am so confused by all of this

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www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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“I don’t think that those who have gone through West Point expected to have their commander in chief address them and start talking about trophy wives." “It is time for Republicans to start calling him out and start questioning his mental acuity." Watch/Read ⤵️

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Curious how this post omits the words “Russia” and “Putin.”

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screams THIS!!!!

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We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

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Watch: @mcbride.house.gov discusses how House Republicans' budget plan will make healthcare & groceries more expensive for Americans. She also discusses how the public can get more engaged & policies that would make life more affordable for the middle class.

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New Pod @mcbride.house.gov discusses how House Republicans' budget plan will make healthcare & groceries more expensive for Americans. She also discusses how the public can get more engaged & policies that would make life more affordable for the middle class.

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New from CBO: the Republican budget reconciliation plan would hurt the poorest Americans while helping the richest Americans

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In the budget reconciliation bill, House Republicans are trying to cut SNAP by $295 billion. This would cut it in third in what would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history. This would rip food assistance away from millions of people, including households with children as young as 7 years old.

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Watch: @guthriegf.bsky.social discusses Pope Leo XIV & the role religion plays in the current political environment. @dgibber123.bsky.social & @colin-seeberger.bsky.social also discuss Trump’s trade wars & how Republican budget plans could result in millions losing health care coverage.

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New Pod @guthriegf.bsky.social discusses Pope Leo XIV & the role religion plays in the current political environment @dgibber123.bsky.social & @colin-seeberger.bsky.social also discuss Trump’s trade wars & how Republican budget plans could result in millions losing health care coverage

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Ready for your gas prices to go up? House Republicans are proposing to end almost all federal clean energy investments, which will drive up the cost of gas and line the pockets of Big Oil execs.

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Wow, the House Republican tax bill would increase gas prices. By a lot. Up to 37¢ per gallon! New numbers published by CAP show how ending clean energy investment props up demand for fossil fuels, raises prices, and makes households pay an extra $400b over the next decade to Big Oil and Gas.

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what the FUCK!!!

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THIS: “If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history.” Gift link: wapo.st/43gCGDT

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The House Republicans spending bill is Robin Hood in reverse. It smashes provisions like Medicaid and food assistance for poor Americans to give tax cuts to the already wealthy and big corporations.

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Medicaid saves lives. House Republicans’ proposals to require states to implement work requirements will do the opposite: 📊 6.9 million could lose coverage. ⚰️ 21,600 could die every year. Learn more: www.americanprogress.org/article/hous...

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It’s an example, according to whistleblowers, of the type of work that is now paused after the department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was dissolved in late March.

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Sec. Kennedy says he fought for Head Start to get its funding next year. @baldwin.senate.gov wants to know about programs who can't get funding NOW. Sec. Kennedy claims programs aren't experiencing delays - this is NOT true. www.americanprogress.org/article/clos...

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More than 1/2 billion doses of the MMR vaccine have been administered globally. It's one of the safest, most effective vaccines on the market (like, 97% after both doses - really effective). Yet, RFK Jr. would have you think it's this untested, experimental product.

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When someone talks to you about Medicaid work requirements, make them read this.

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It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

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"These are not just numbers, these are real people that will suffer." @robinkelly.house.gov defends Illinoians from the Republican Medicaid cuts. #NoMedicaidCuts

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Medicaid "work requirements" don't work. The current proposal from Republicans could cause 2.7 million workers to lose their health insurance. More in @neeratanden.bsky.social's conversation with @jenrubin.bsky.social. contrarian.substack.com/p/republican...

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NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social

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