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Illuminating convo b/w @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @gilduran.com on the bonkers & utterly dystopian ideology behind the technofascist policies that Trump & his billionaire cronies are determined to impose on the US. www.theframelab.org/my-talk-with...

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If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, it "would disproportionately harm rural areas and smaller communities, where public media really is a lifeline,” PEN America's @timrichardson.bsky.social tells @sulliview.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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California pays in far more in taxes than they get back from the federal government. They subsidize red state freeloaders.

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WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

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Just a reminder that the entire annual budget of the CFPB—an agency they bulldozed, despite the fact that it brought in well over $20 billion for consumers screwed over by corporations—is hundreds of millions less than what they're spending to make Trump feel good about himself.

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Did Trump really say Elon gave a Nazi salute? If Trump did think that and hired Musk anyway, it really undermines all his attacks on universities for supposedly being antisemitic.

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Can we all agree that the Trump Administration has done things that are 100 times more antisemitic than any US university?

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“Unusual move” is not an adequate description CNN. “Singling out one state for massive cuts would be an unusual move, but President Donald Trump has long made Democratic-led California a target.” www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

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It is impossible to get people to believe that Trump is a walking constitutional crisis when you, one of 47 Democratic senators, can barely be bothered to show up to oppose his judicial nominees. Completely unserious people.

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👇👇👇 And that's esp true for the Congressional leadership

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The messages that test well for ads are not the same as ones that generate conflict and coverage, which people see and share organically in the real world.

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Prediction—Musk will bend the knee and Trump will look stronger than ever and Musk will be back to breaking things and funding Republicans. Democrats should not sit this out, they need to attack both Trump and Musk now.

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Republicans have included 300 MILLION in the budget for......Trump's golf trips. You heard that right. But there is no money to feed hungry kids school lunch. #TrumpsBillWillKill

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This has to be one of the most obliviously disastrous policy proposals since the Iraq War. It’s almost guaranteeing that crypto causes a financial crisis and then taxpayers bail out crypto companies. Crypto is just an elaborate scam—and this is its ultimate heist.

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Republicans are incredibly careless with matters of life and death because they don’t care if people live or die.

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If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

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"The scientific research base of the United States of America is the research university. We made that decision 80 years ago. We don't have a Plan B." — Condoleezza Rice

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When Elizabeth Warren wrote the essay that launched the CFPB in 2007, it was obvious that we'd want a Consumer Product Safety Commission, only for mortgages. Fast forward to today: Trump is gutting the Consumer Product Safety Commission. prospect.org/politics/202...

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Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

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Well #alaskasky I think I’m gonna have to settle in bc this is not an easy one. We aren’t sure if she’s in Anchorage or Eagle River. If you see her, call 911 for case 25-16312 Thank you 🙏🏼 #missing #alaska

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So, let me get this straight: Elon knew that the Orange Pedo is on the Epstein list, but decided that being a pedo is not a deal breaker and supported the pedo with hundreds of millions of dollars anyway. Did I get that right?

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Will TACO Trump back down again?

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Amusing to see the Efficient Market™ reveal TSLA stock had a corruption premium of >$100 billion, additional value untethered to the company's performance or even policy/legislation, but rather solely to a belief Musk had the President's favor, which he no longer does. P.S. Now down 10.5%

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"In their pursuit of statistically bulletproof popularism, the centrists have their head so deep in data that it is impossible for them to have a vision. And that lack of a vision is the very thing that turns off the public." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-ce...

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Breakthrough in HIV research using mRNA. Just the kind of research Trump and RFK Jr have been banning in the US.

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Not a good day for a wannabe Nazi dictator though.

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Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

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Bannon Betrays Big Beautiful Bill

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"Builders nationwide are 'pumping the brakes because elevated interest rates are making many projects prohibitively expensive'" If you're not talking about financing you're not talking about how anything actually works in America. www.axios.com/2025/06/02/a...

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Add in 1.6 million deaths/yr from USAID cuts, deaths due to vaccine cuts, deaths from extreme weather with FEMA/weather service cuts, and thousands of deaths from more air pollution. The Trump regime is indistinguishable from being attacked by a foreign power.

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Health experts came out with a new analysis yesterday concluding the MAGA murder budget will lead to 51,000 preventable deaths from its health care cuts - every single year.

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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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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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"We’ve tried to improve our rockets. Many of our top technicians have been working, day and night, supplying ChatGPT with ever-more-refined queries such as 'Could you make the rocket explode less?' and 'This is a good start, but can you design a rocket that doesn’t go boom?'"

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I was told that we can’t have DEI because someone might get a job they aren’t qualified for.

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I never want to hear the right pretend to care about national security ever again.

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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

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If insurers are getting 16 million fewer premiums, how much will yours go up?

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