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Does anyone else miss White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre? Smart, factual and tough. (Unlike the whiny, dismissive liar who now holds that position.)

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Today is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day! 🐾 Whether it’s a dog, a cat, a bird, a bunny, if you can adopt, I promise it’ll be one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever done. In honor of shelter pet adoptions, here’s Lucky on his very first day with us after he came to his furever home.

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REPORT: Tennessee ranks 47th in 🇺🇸 for K-12 student spending Under #TNGOP control, Tennessee now ranks dead last in student funding among our neighboring states, according to the NEA. Sen. London Lamar: “This report is yet another wake-up call.” tnsenatedems.medium.com/tennessee-ra...

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Over the past 24 hours, a judge in New Jersey held that he has jurisdiction to consider Mahmoud Khalil's First Amendment challenge; a judge in Vermont ordered ICE to free Mohsin Mahdawi; and a judge in Boston green-lighted AAUP and MESA's challenge to the broader ideological deportation policy.

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NEW: The Trump admin is moving to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants, which were created with bipartisan support to hire psychologists and counselors. These resources were proven to reduce gun violence, but Trump wants them gone. He’s endangering our kids.

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It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it. bsky.app/profile/digi...

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Watched Kamala Harris's speech. I am overjoyed and immensely sad simultaneously. Weep for what we have lost. FIGHT like hell to regain our nation.

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100 days in, and the Trump Administration continues to violate the law—issuing executive orders under false promises of job creation and more. Our Department has been fighting back every step of the way. Track our 12+ legal actions on behalf of Michigan ➡️ mi.gov/agfederalactions

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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See you tomorrow! #MayDay

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Republicans voted to send U.S. taxpayer dollars to foreign countries to imprison American citizens.

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Today, as @schiff.senate.gov and @mcbath.house.gov introduce bills in Congress to regulate assault weapons, lawmakers in Hawai’i are gearing up for a final vote on their own assault weapons ban and Rhode Island lawmakers are advancing one as well.

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I'm proud today to join co-chair Rep. Bice to introduce bipartisan paid family leave legislation designed to provide additional access to leave by providing states with scalable support and tools to coordinate across state lines. houlahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4501

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Seattle May Day National Day of Action tomorrow, May 1, starting at noon in Cal Anderson Park, Seattle. If you don't like what's been going on the last 100 days, please show up to support Workers, Immigrants and the Educational System! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

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NEW: Workers generate a class culture within their unions. That's how they come understand themselves as belonging to a class institution of their own. I tried to touch on that in this profile of Teamsters organizer Antonio Rosario. Give it a read! inthesetimes.com/article/anto...

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@FT: "About 44 per cent of Washington’s full-service casual dining spots say they are likely to close this year, partly because of the economic effects of federal lay-offs, according to the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington."

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The 7% drop in the S&P 500 since Trump was inaugurated is the worst start to a presidential term since Ford took over from Nixon in August 1974 after the Watergate scandal. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

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WTF. 👇👇👇👇

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Congratulations to The NPR Network for winning several Headliner Awards! www.headlinerawards.org/2025-tv-radio/

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🚨 JUDICIARY REPUBLICANS JUST VOTED TO ALLOW IMMIGRATION AGENTS TO USE BILLIONS OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO ARREST, DETAIN, AND DEPORT US CITIZENS.

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“The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, four former U.S. ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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🎯🎯🎯

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Hands off immigrants, nonprofits, our schools, our bodies, our kids - and hands off free speech!

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Trump's firing spree has hit the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that disperses federal funds to public TV and radio stations across the country. There's only one problem: Under the 1967 law that created the private corporation, Trump does not have the authority to fire them.

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Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. @jessicamiller.bsky.social @sltrib.com

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A Mother Jones investigation based on firsthand accounts from ICE detainees in Texas reveals how Venezuelans were nearly removed from the country under the Alien Enemies Act without a chance to contest the allegations against them.

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Good question, journalists should be asking the CEO’s of every retailer. In the meantime, small business owners are gonna go under.

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I'll be honest - I don't want to do my own research. I want to have trusted doctors and scientists who can produce peer reviewed data and best practices and tell me how best to keep my kids safe.

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I hope this administration gets tried at The Hague. They deserve it.

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Opinion | I was addicted to heroin for 20 years. Here's why I am eliminating federal funding for Narcan so that an extra 10,000 people can die each year from opiate overdoses. by RFK Jr.

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It's been a hundred days, and there have already been seven articles of impeachment.

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Via @alander.bsky.social: Among other points, the bill would ban "using images that are sexually explicit” in sex education courses, as well as “providing a referral to or information about how to acquire an abortion” and “misrepresenting the efficacy of or demonstrating the use of contraceptives.”

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A tourist on a zip line ride in Kashmir inadvertently filmed militants opening fire below him, killing at least two dozen people — an attack that has pushed India-Pakistan tensions to the brink of military confrontation.

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Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

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It’s heartbreaking that Kamala Harris is not our president. Only 2 million votes kept us from living in that America.

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Today I introduced an amendment to protect federal workers' retirement benefits during @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. Not only is it unfair to cut federal worker benefits, but it will also make it harder to recruit and retain the best and brightest to serve our country, hurting every American.

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Fascinating, yet a real disgrace you have to go to a British news outlet to get real journalism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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BREAKING: U.S. Jews shut down the DC morning commute outside of ICE HQ This morning, dozens of U.S. Jews joined the DC-wide Courage Not Compliance Protest in order to protest the Trump regime.

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I am terrible at math but boy does this administration have a math problem www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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As you can tell, I am flabbergasted, y’all. Where are you going to deport US CITIZENS to, House Republicans??

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NEW: Judge Xinis DENIES an additional request by the government to further stay discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.

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As a longtime supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, I’m proud to stand with my @equality.house.gov colleagues in reintroducing the #EqualityAct. It’s far past time these vital protections for LGBTQ+ Americans are enshrined into federal law!

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, a move that medical experts fear could limit access to vaccines and undermine the public’s trust in immunization depending on its implementation.

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UPS announced it will cut 20,000 jobs this year and close 73 buildings. This is on top of 12,000 jobs cut last year. The company said the layoffs and closures are “in connection with our anticipation of lower volumes" from its biggest customer, Amazon.

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