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BIG doc score by @danahull.bsky.social @bloomberg.com is publishing photos & partial footage of a fatal Tesla crash, which was recorded by the Model Y and downloaded by police, for the 1st time after obtaining the images & video through a public records request www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Elon Musk and his DOGE cronies said they’d make government more efficient. Instead, they broke it — creating a bureaucratic mess & bulldozing services Americans rely on. This was never about efficiency. It was about rigging government for billionaires at everyone else’s expense.

In April, we took to the streets for the biggest day of civic protest in years. No Kings Day on June 14 is going to be even bigger, with more events in more places to reject Trump’s authoritarianism. Please join us at your local No Kings Day event in two weeks: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

This. This is the point. Protesting against authoritarianism shouldn't be partisan. It's American. It's pro-democracy. It's pro-We The People. Democracy requires effort. Now is the time.

Yep.

“What Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine, that’s an invasion,” Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, explained. “On the other hand, illegal migration, or drug smuggling, or ordinary crime — that’s not an invasion.”

Trump Republicanism in action. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

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Understand this about Trump’s trip to the Gulf: He sold out our national interest for his family's business interest — giving away key U.S. tech innovations to Gulf countries while they cut deals with his advance man, Eric Trump. This isn't America First. It’s Trump Profits First.

Seems counterintuitive (AI ISN’T democratizing??) but spot on.

In today’s “Wait A Damn Minute” we expose the truth about Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: Trump is pulling a reverse Robin Hood - he’s taking from the poor to give to the ultra-rich. I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts. @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social #WADM

Wow. Imagine the White House covering up evidence of an old man losing his shit. I wonder if there are any journalists interested in such a topic? 🤪

Dereliction of duty.

"Unprecedented" in U.S. History: Trump & Family Rake In Money from Gulf States, Crypto & Real Estate

Please watch. Please.

"The President is selling access and influence to the highest bidder. Qatar isn't giving a $400 million jet out of the goodness of their hearts – they expect something in return. That's how transactional relationships work, and nobody understands transactional relationships better than Trump."

“Palestinians are being starved in Gaza by the Israelis, and according to one study, not a single Sunday show in this country has mentioned it,” says @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.

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