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it is absolutely true that lincoln tried not to get too far afield of public opinion on slavery, calibrating his positions and actions according to what he thought was the mainstream. but it is important to note that at no point did lincoln ever disavow or deny his sincerely held antislavery views

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"After eight months at sea, all I wanna do is just look at you for a long, long time." Smooth sailor Joe Brady (Gene Kelly) shows everyone — including shipmate Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) — how it's done in Anchors Aweigh (1945)

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Trump is trying to convince us that it’s all in the name of cost-cutting but in reality there is a larger plan to control news coverage and culture to undermine democracy anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-look...

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So shines bravery in the land of cowards.

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In defiance of President Trump’s announcement last Friday that he was firing her, Kim Sajet — the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery — has continued to report for work.

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that's right

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My latest: Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right. 3,421 words. Please consider reading and passing this along!

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We really need to start caring about lying, as a society

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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 🚨🚨🚨

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Hey look! MAD let me draw a cover! I've got stuff on the inside too! Available at finer comic shops June 11!

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Moskowitz: "Nothing has been made more efficient. Here are the wins for congressional Rs. You ready? They're gonna do a $9b recession bill. They're gonna get rid of Elmo, which the American people were clamoring for, but they're gonna add $2.4t for the debt. And then they want us to cheer for them."

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It’s called taxing the rich, buddy.

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i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it

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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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Grandma Reactions BSKY debut? For those that don’t know I’ve been this queen’s primary caregiver for the last 20 years. Wouldn’t change a thing.

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Disney Opens New Immersive ‘Star Wars’-Themed Gay Conversion Camp theonion.com/disney-...

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WATCH: “You stand in my church. You promised me.” A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE

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here's today's post: "no gay boat for the Navy, because what if it turns all the other boats gay" — we’re trapped in the dumbest possible timeline. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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Would you guys watch this

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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Before landing at DHS, 22-year-old Fugate worked on the Trump campaign and interned at The Heritage Foundation. According to his LinkedIn, the bulk of his leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model UN club. New: @hannahallam.bsky.social @propublica.org

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Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

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“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

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My county’s GOP is only on FB but the former Chairwoman had a great time trying to overthrow our government. These shots have to be posted once in a while. You know why.

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has been said a million times already but polling universally shows that trump has negative approval on immigration now and abrego garcia has a lot to do with it

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Four Democratic members of the SJC - Blumenthal, Hirono, Padilla, and Booker - didn't even bother to show up. Booker! Trump is shoving Emil Bove down Booker's throat, and he can't show up? Is he too busy hawking his new book? What a complete failure to meet the moment.

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

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Emergency rally at the courthouse this Friday. Release OJM!

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KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal? LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?

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This exchange is revealing, terrifying, and intellectually bankrupt. No world leader would ever want to enter a room to deal with this guy because he's a crank.

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STORY —> GOP bill for Trump's agenda would add $2.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says The nonpartisan CBO also found that the House-passed legislation would increase the number of people without health insurance by 10.9 million by 2034. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Trump once attacked crypto as a danger. Now he’s made billions from it. His meme coin allows any foreign state, King, pardon seeker or criminal org to secretly put money directly in his pocket. And Trump’s SEC mysteriously dropped 13 investigations against crypto fraudsters.

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wrote about the GOP house members who claim they didn't know what was in trump's MAGA murder budget, and how fascism weaponizes ignorance and disavowal. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/they-did-v...

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This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

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White House is already making up data and analysis, saying repeatedly that the budget bill will - not increase the deficit (lie) - not cut Medicaid (lie) We are already there.

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