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Friday afternoon litigation good news dump is here.

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Coal miners are developing devastating lung disease at rates never before seen. The Trump response? “Pause” rules intended to protect miners from dangerous levels of Silica and Coal Dust. They first gut our clean air efforts. Now they do this to the most vulnerable amongst us.

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the magnitude of this is genuinely hard to imagine

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THIS is the MAGA Republican Party at work

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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil released from detention, per @eorden.bsky.social

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Yeah, I’m sure what Mike has in mind is to build affordable housing at those scenic vistas on federal land he wants to open up for development. That’s how he’s selling it, but we all know that they have different plans.

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If you think a retrograde bully and serial sex pest like Andrew Fuckup Cuomo is the best hope for the future of the Democratic Party, go ahead and load your pockets with stones and walk into the Hudson River.

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Do I really have to say anything more than this? We promised those people safety. He’s sending them home to die. @democrats.senate.gov get off your asses and do something. Use their tricks against them. Grow a pair.

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Hours after @pbump.com posted this today, ICE updated its figure to 500%.

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Dear Democrats: Someone signing up for an event DOES NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO CONSTANTLY HARASS THEM FOR DONATIONS. STOP.

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Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM REQUIRING 20 DEMOCRATIC-LED STATES TO COOPERATE WITH IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT TO OBTAIN TRANSPORTATION GRANT FUNDING

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Break it, un-break it, take credit for it. Every time.

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I have no words. Anti-worker, anti-union, pro-child labor, anti-sick leave, anti-medical leave, anti-maternity/paternity leave, anti-livable wage… no wonder republicans refer to us as human capital stock. Fuck the oligarchs.

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It seems we’ve reached the “Iranian sleeper cell” stage of manufacturing consent for another war www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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So just to be clear: we are potentially entering/starting world war three, and the president is not currently speaking to the secretary of defense or the director of intelligence

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Make America Fuck Over Red Districts Again

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Only 85 days ago.

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Two weeks. Beyond parody.

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"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..." www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

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When it’s gone, it’s gone. We’ll never get it back. We don’t need this money this way. We can’t undo the environmental damage that will follow. This is a bad idea.

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Thank god we fired all of those pesky Federal employees to save…right about what Elon just blew up…again.

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I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

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Great to see @techpolicypress.bsky.social fellow @laismartins.com join @parismarx.com to discuss Brazil- more to come from Laís today.

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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

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We really need to stop talking about this as some kind of looming threat rather than a process well underway. It’s not “close.” You have arrived at your destination. The order has been delivered.

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The so-called pro-life lobby, back to litigating in their favorite one-judge division in the Northern District of Texas to get guaranteed results.

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"Construction on the White House Rose Garden is underway, and the historic garden’s green grass is now completely torn up... Trump told Fox News he planned to remodel the space with pavers, saying the grass 'doesn’t work'...” www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/p...

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Hard to argue with that.

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What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

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Kaz Daughtry, a freewheeling deputy mayor to Eric Adams, has emerged as a crucial ally for the Trump administration and its border czar to meet the goals of their deportation program in New York City. So has Dr. Phil.

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This is how it's done.

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Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter in Atlanta originally from El Salvador, was arrested while reporting on a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies over the weekend, his lawyers said.

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the stupid google ai cant even seem to scrape wikipedia properly

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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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Jack Reed asks Whiskey Pete abt firing all his top aides and he claims that's just sensational headlines. He blames firing HIS OWN HAND-PICKED AIDES, in part, on Biden.

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Very interesting. 🤔

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Just a reminder that Trump was going to announce his sanctions on Russia for not negotiating “in two weeks” about 3.5 weeks ago. Taco

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💰 Trump signs an ICE deal with @CoreCivic — the private prison company with high death rates that fails every audit here in Tennessee. A reminder what they’re doing to immigrants isn’t just cruel, it’s also big business. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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this report from media matters is fucking wild. fox news has aired 424 segments about trans athletes since feb 5. the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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Thoughts and things

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NEWS: Federal judge finds Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt for telling law enforcement they could enforce Florida's criminal immigration law despite the court's TRO barring its enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Lol

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Maybe it will kill their brain worms.

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Another fucking idiot! Every head of every agency nominated by Dump is a fucking lying moron.

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ICE agents have been told to continue conducting workforce enforcement operations at agricultural businesses despite concerns about negative effects on the food industry. wapo.st/43PPwus

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