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“As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants and asylum seekers brings tear gas, protests & raids to the streets of the United States, Spain is positioning itself as a counterpoint: a new land of opportunity.” - The Washington Post

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“Holmes Norton dismissed concerns about her age & … said that she was planning to run for another term. “I don’t know why anybody would even ask me,” the Democrat added, to which anyone outside of American politics would surely respond: because you’re older than nylon stockings & the ballpoint pen!”

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Up to 120 million acres of national land could go up for sale if the Republican Death Budget passes. www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/senate-....

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There will be no consequences for fascists if this guy is in charge.

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@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social PLEASE RETIRE. New leaders DESPERATELY NEEDED. Irrelevance is a bad look. New Leadership necessary. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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“Every U.S. citizen has the right to question public officials about government actions, but U.S. Senators even more so. Their job, like all members of Congress, is literally to oversee & question the executive branch on behalf of the particular interests of their state or district.” -Miami Herald

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Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.

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"You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep. Here they are — being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another. If anyone is treating our troops disrespectfully, it is you @realDonaldTrump," Newsom said on X -NBC News

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Just days after setting off a revolt in Los Angeles, with other cities joining in, Donald Trump will attend a performance of "Les Miserables" about the French Revolution at the John F. Kennedy Center Opera House on Wednesday night.

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Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street. All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants. wapo.st/4kIGFke

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ABC News is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller The road to fascism is paved with "objectivity" and "civility."

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Suspended ABC News correspondent Terry Moran will not return to network - The Washington Post What ever happened to the ideas of “Free speech” without threat? Personal opinions not allowed at ABC?

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“ “Calley Means is not a whistleblower. He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions,” says his former boss and mentor Steve Schmidt.” - VanityFair

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The Obama administration deported over 3.16 million people. 4.44 million under Biden. Guess how many times either of them deployed the National Guard or Marines. PRECISELY ZERO.

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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

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“As Biden’s press secretary, Jean-Pierre’s halting, ineffectual briefings exasperated reporters and routinely offered material for the Republican Party’s main account on X.” - POLITICO

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I didn’t get everyone on here that I wanted to, so there will be a third one! Let me know if you would like to be in it or if you prefer to not be in starter packs in the future. In the meantime, thank you all for making this such a great place!🙏 go.bsky.app/Jsf2ZXk

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

Donald Trump sued me for racketeering, I won and did not back down. Donald Trump tried to have me investigated, I did not back down. Donald Trump named me in executive orders, I did not back down. If your lawyers are so afraid that they are cutting deals with Trump, you have the wrong lawyers.

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Idle threats define Jeffries: “Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested possible repercussions for the administration if it crosses certain red lines defining the separation of powers. But he didn’t name them after the McIver incident, & he was similarly vague after the Nadler episode in New York”

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North Carolina has the least affordable health care in the country. That’s unacceptable. In the Senate, I’ll fight to invest in rural hospitals, protect Medicare, Medicaid, and expand Medicare to cover vision and dental. We deserve better.

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“Federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments. Both new and familiar DOGE faces have also been recently detailed to new agencies, according to sources.” Elon Musk Is 'Really Not Leaving' - WIRED apple.news/Ai_MrqdknRUe...

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Dean Phillips was right. This “news” does not get any better. How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump - apple.news/AyNvfaP1uRF-... The New Yorker

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'TACO’: “It's not exactly live by the taco, die by the taco.” “a four-letter term, however, that best sums up Trump’s shambolic presidency, one no one would’ve ever associated with him when he announced his first successful presidential campaign a decade ago.” - Los Angeles Times

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Musk: “a man caught in an erratic cycle of substance abuse & family drama. While Musk has previously spoken of using ketamine as a scheduled prescription treatment for depression, sources… say his use of the anesthetic was frequent -- almost daily” - Rolling Stone apple.news/AIOZ_v2lZSN-...

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Public Notice newsletter: “The Trump administration would be getting slapped down in court even if the president and his minions didn’t constantly announce their intent to violate the law. But their incessant chest thumping does make things go a lot faster.” - NJ.com

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“Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.” apple.news/A11WclztGSmm... - NPR

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Be there!!! I will in CT!!

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Joe Biden’s Decline: The Coverup and the Story Behind It “What we found by writing this book is that everything that we saw going on in front of the camera was much worse behind the scenes.” - The New Yorker

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“Democratic Party still sifting through the wreckage. Its standing has plunged to startling new lows — 27% approval in a recent NBC News poll, the weakest in surveys dating to 1990 — after a defeat that felt like both a political & cultural rejection” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

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Repost if you stand with dogs against Kristi Noem!

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@zanep.bsky.social Thank you for your Service to the nation. Appreciated, as is the follow. We’re all in this together.

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“Trump is going to war with Springsteen. Picking fights with Bruce Springsteen is pretty ambitious for a guy who hangs out with Kid Rock. Tweeting catty comments at Katy Perry & Alec Baldwin is one thing, but going after the Boss? That’s big-game hunting” - NJ.com

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"Setting aside that this 'juicy new listen' on democrats has exactly one RT - from the NRCC... Can anyone tell me how grandstanding like this is anything other than a gift to Republicans?" -Andrew Stanton, Newsweek

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About Jeffries: “at one of his first early press conferences (said) that we're not in control, we're not in power, so we have no power as Democrats,"... "Why that disappointed me is because it said to me that he's not seeking out the answers to that actual question." - Newsweek

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“Are you ever going to stop masking?” People ask this with disdain, as though they can’t comprehend how someone could still be masking in 2025 I like not being sick. If I had known how effective N95s were, I would have worn them before! As long as society stays in denial, masking is necessary

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“now my brain grapples with what is too big to understand. But that’s okay. Too often we think of feeling overwhelmed as negative, but under a night sky I welcome the feeling and the appreciation that we exist in a Universe where this exists too.” - BBC Sky at Night apple.news/AwczeNC8hTDO...

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“Prasad & Makary—neither of whom has formal training in infectious disease or vaccinology—focused primarily on the implications for COVID boosters for young, healthy adults” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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