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At Krome detention center, reports have poured in about a lack of water and food, unsanitary confinement and medical neglect. With the surge of complaints, the Trump admin shut own 3 DHS oversight offices that investigate such claims. apnews.com/article/immi...

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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Harvard University told a judge it has a trove of internal Trump administration documents that show the White House directed the abrupt freezing of more than $2 billion in federal funds headed to the university’s research programs, in violation of federal law.

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hi, cis folks! it’s pride. you with us? cool. have you called your senators about the budget bill that’s trying to strip trans healthcare from people of all ages on medicaid or ACA plans? that’s like 20% of us & this is the govt we’re up against. find reps here reps.fyi tap the thread for scripts

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Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti Defamation League, seems to be calling for the Trump admin to disappear Hasan Piker and "these speakers at these graduations, it just happened the other day at MIT, spreading blood libels…" "we got to stop it once and for all."

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Note that this is specifically NOT about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is about a DIFFERENT guy, a 19-year-old accused of being part of Tren de Aragua and sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act in violation of a separate court order.

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@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social posted an interesting 🧵 on Trump's offer to Iran over on Twitter. I hope he posts it here too. In any event, you can read it at x.com/ArmsControlW...

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GAO is tasked with and has been investigating whether OMB broke spending law (it did). Trump’s OMB claims it hasn’t done anything illegal (it has) and now says it is going to limit its cooperation with GAO because it claims the requests are “voluminous, burdensome, and inappropriately invasive.”

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The eventual vote from Hawley and Ron Johnson will be there for Trump's policies. Hawley wants to brush up his populist bona fides, and Johnson probably wants another sweetheart tax loophole for donors, but never doubt they will do Trump's bidding.

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Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.

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"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."

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I have a little bit of inside baseball knowledge on this particular thing, and two things are true: a) fraud by Medicaid recipients exists, but is almost entirely limited to people hiding assets in order to gain Medicaid eligibility, not getting money; and b) fraud among providers is RAMPANT.

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THIS:

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DOJ and DHS again at odds over the deporation of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron in violation of a federal appeals court order Left: DOJ says "series of unintentional administrative errors" led to deportation. Right: DHS says "There was no 'error.'" Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

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NEW, from me: It has attracted shockingly little attention, but last week the Supreme Court transformed one of the country’s biggest environmental permitting laws. The ruling could reduce the number of energy and infrastructure projects that face legal challenges: heatmap.news/climate/kava...

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The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

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This is a wild overreach. The feds regulate vehicles, but states regulate drivers, which is what these systems are. Most AV regulation on the books just requires insurance, and maybe some minimal reporting. If anything they tend to be wildly under-enforced. This will end up in court if it passes.

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I would like to think Kavanaugh knows better than to fall in to the false dichotomy of "law-abiding citizens" and "criminals," but it's far from the first time he's disappointed my extremely meager expectations.

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NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

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guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

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Mullin is lying. Sorkin knows he's lying yet instead of fact checking the claim, we gotta get to that next pre-planned question. What @cnbc.com failed to tell it's viewers: the CBO says the GOP bill would impose about $700 BILLION in cuts to Medicaid.

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If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he lost money.

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Centering the voters who “didn’t vote for this” instead of the victims of “this” is the same kind of choice that got us the voters who “didn’t vote for this”.

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Good piece, but what I'm shocked by with this ruling is how it completely reverses the Loper Bright ruling that was imposed just one year ago, which stripped the deference federal agencies are accorded by the courts. This ruling fully re-imposes that deference, but just for NEPA.

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“Trump has pardoned or granted clemency to most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.” John Oliver on Trump’s corrupt pardons, including the Chrisleys here in Nashville

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I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, supernova-levels of angry right now. Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre... 🔭 🧪

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very notable how Fox turns every antisemitic act of violence into a way to push for Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress

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This is heartbreaking. Listen to Ming Li "Carol" Hui, from ICE detention, break down in tears as she contemplates having to leave her family behind. She has no criminal record and had permission from ICE to stay despite a removal order for over a decade — yet Trump's revoking it.

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We are going to see this administration escalate even further on immigration as they fail to hit the outrageous numbers that Miller is demanding.

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Swin asked me for a quote about this but all I had was an extended riff about the twilight zone episode about the guy who had his vocal cords cut out so he could shut up for a year

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The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed at ICE officials: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

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Weather Service offices in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston “lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required... “The Nat’l Hurricane Center is short 5 specialists, despite assurances from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Chekhov's Staffing Crisis

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The fact that the Supreme Court on the shadow docket effectively overruled Humphrey’s Executor despite repeatedly reassuring us in prior opinions that it was doing so such thing tells you everything you need to know about Dobbs’ assurances that Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell are safe.

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Classic Musk. "Bitcoin style encryption" isn't a meaningful term. Does he mean SHA-256 hashing? Elliptic curve cryptography? No one knows. And "whole new architecture" is a garden variety IT security snake oil. It just means it hasn't been exposed to attacks like longstanding programs have been.

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$19.4 million. That’s how much taxpayers have spent so far to defend Andrew Cuomo and his staff in three lawsuits brought by women who allege they were sexually harassed by the ex-governor. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/c...

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