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FLASHBACK: “I think everybody in this room admits they don’t understand it.” As NYC elects their mayor, let’s remember now-pardoned Brian Kelsey & Kevin Vaughan got Ranked Choice Voting banned in Tennessee as they admitted they didn’t understand it. Too democracy for Tennessee! 😕

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Mic drop.

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How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION. $793 BILLION. It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage. Just wild.

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The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. https://trib.al/VQXR96o

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That guy on the subway watching YouTube on speaker just endorsed Cuomo.

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New, some sludge from the bottom of the Gowanus Canal has endorsed Cuomo

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the person who left all these pistachio shells on a subway seat endorsed cuomo

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A group of Democratic senators and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller are hosting a Pride celebration at the Kennedy Center Monday evening. But the Kennedy Center has nothing to do with programming it.

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1. Our reporting displeased the world's richest man. 2. He spent $288 million to elect President Trump and other Republicans. 3. Trump's FTC has now launched a meritless investigation targeting us. 4. We're suing to protect the First Amendment. www.mediamatters.org/justice-civi...

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We are the bad guys.

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BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge had previously said people must get at least 15 days to challenge their deportations.

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People in Venice are protesting Jeff Bezos' upcoming gala wedding there, pointing out his history of tax avoidance. As @propublica.org showed in 2021, Bezos has TWICE paid $0 in federal income tax. One year, he claimed & received a $4k tax CREDIT for his kids. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

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I can’t get over the fact that the fascist majority on the Supreme Court did this and couldn’t write down a single word about WHY.

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Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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My friend was arrested for documenting “law enforcement” at a raid yesterday. Please call these offices and demand his immediate release: Mayor Bass office number - (213) 978-0600 Monica Rodriguez office number - (213) 473-7007 Imelda Padilla office number - (213) 473-7006

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First he chopped down Jackie’s trees, now he’s paving over the lawn she put in place. It’s called the Rose “Garden”, not the Rose “patio”, you Hobby Lobby clearance rack reject.

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OMG! OMG! OMG! Could you hear me screaming when I saw the dead mouse?!!!! Um. Turned out it was a GIANT piece of lint, but the original fear was still real. #Lint #Mouse #Screaming

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I’m thinking we need some lizard blep today! You’re welcome! 😛 Pacific or Western whiptail #herps SoCal

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This is SO IMPORTANT and so many people seem not to grasp it. Please grasp.

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My Japanese Iris today 🌿 I share flowers freely here assuming people are here in good faith 🤗 Recently many ppl joined BlueSky in bad faith as trolls but I keep my skyline free of them by having severed seventeen thousand plus of them after seven months of effort. I won’t let them own us, eff em.🤪

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On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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Also heatwave in the Eastern US and I used to live in Las Vegas and this thread is excellent advice. I'd add: synthetics are fine if they are technical fabrics If you must go outside cover your body. Sunshirts and hats work. Also drink some /more/ water. And get some electrolytes in there.

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L.A. TACO has confirmed that Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20yr-old US citizen taken by federal agents while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is being held at the federal building in downtown L.A. ~ Aisha Wallace-Palomares reporting.

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Absolutely incredible that we are still getting mainstream denunciations of "trans activists" when the far-right fringe has far more odious views and sits much closer to power.

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We fight on. Every day. We fight. No Kings!

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If this bill passes, our public lands will fall into the hands of fossil fuel interests.

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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This is it. You only have $15. What are you bringing back?

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Friends, we feel shredded. We’re reeling from the uncertainty of being fired & rehired, struggling with the dismantling of ACIP — decades of trust gone in a tweet. It’s all so wrong. But we’re still here. Good night. We’re looking forward to our show of strength. Together. Tomorrow. Goodnight! 💚✊

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A federal judge in California on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. State Department from implementing an agency-wide reorganization plan that includes 2,000 layoffs.

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It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

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Lincoln Lemington. Old VA Hospital. While conducting a combined police agency training exercise using the interior of the old VA, the K9 officer said they found a "midnight plumber" stealing copper pipes. Currently the dog is chasing the man.

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East Liberty. 6361 Penn Ave - McDonald's. Caller says that a kid is walking around the interior of the restaurant with a super soaker just letting it fly.

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Always an Onion article.

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In honor of Pride, a nice Psychology Today post about gender fluidity & intersexuality in myths around the world, reminding us that gender & sexuality have been understood as spectrums for the entirety of human history. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide...

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