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“the moment when the regime begins to really earn money is also often the moment when they really feel the need to crack down on civil liberties." - @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

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To pay for the mass purging of immigrant contributors, “Congress is proposing deep cuts to social programs—like $880 billion from Medicaid over ten years,” @nilc.org continues. “On the flip side, in the same budget, Congress also plans to hand out tax cuts to billionaires and the ultra-wealthy.”

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BREAKING: In the third-country removal case — D.V.D. v. DHS — plaintiffs have filed an emergency motion for a TRO barring removal to Libya, without certain steps being followed, following reports that such removals could imminently be happening. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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UPDATE: We have just confirmed the jury that delivered this unanimous verdict finding all 3 ex-Memphis cops NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS was an all-white jury from Hamilton county.

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hours after Bessent left the door open to lowering tariffs on China, Trump says he's not open to pulling back tariffs on China

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Dear Gawd. “Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network *** One America News will now provide news and video to government-funded organization” 5/7/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump is profiting from his own crypto currency while overseeing crypto regulation He’s endangering the public interest & taking advantage of his office for profit I discussed on Anderson Cooper 360 @cnn.com

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🚨NEWS: I've obtained a list of the Medicaid cuts in the Republican reconciliation package. The big one is that they're going to raise premiums and co-pays on beneficiaries at or above the federal poverty line ($15,650 for single people, $21,150 for a couple). That's what helps pay for the tax cuts.

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Hearing that this was definitely temporary. Gallego and Warner in particular are in deep negotiations to make a deal with Republicans to move this stablecoin bill forward, while Trump and his family corruptly profit from stablecoins. If you're a constituent, Gallego and Warner need calling.

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North Carolina baptist children’s pastor Aaron Bradley has been arrested for distributing images of children being sexually abused. www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

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📌Diarrhea mouth was it again yesterday. While trying to impress Canada's Mark Carney, he alluded to hockey star Alex Ovechkin: ‘You happen to have a very, very good hockey player right here on the Capitals. He is a big, tough cookie, too. Just broke the record. Great guy!’ 📌Ovechkin is Russian.

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Customs Border “Protection” agent arrested by Yuma Police for having sex with a teenager. www.yahoo.com/news/us-cust...

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🚨BREAKING: Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate in the 2024 North Carolina state Supreme Court election, finally conceded six months after losing the race to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, the Associated Press reported. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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🧵1 1. Find a program that benefits the most vulnerable, 2. call it waste, and 3. cut it. Door-to-door canvassing, one FEMA worker says, “has usually focused on the most impacted and the most vulnerable communities where there may be people who are… www.wired.com/story/fema-e...

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A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers. This is corruption. Always call it out.

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"We are now in a position in which Republican colleagues are not allowed to say whether or not they support or oppose an amendment" -- bizarre scenes at the House Committee on Natural Resources as Republicans refuse to engage with Joe Neguse's questions & instead sit in silence

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NEW: The City of Brighton, Colorado is set to pass a proclamation praising Scientology tonight. The city manager told the local newspaper the request came from the community. Emails show it actually came from a California-based PR rep for Scientologists. #copolitics

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Back on April 21, Tulsi Gabbard accused those who leaked the NIE on Venezuela's ties to Tren de Aragua of lying abt the intel. It took the IC just 10 days to turn around a @laurenleharper.bsky.social FOIA proving that TULSI was the one lying. www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/06/t...

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GOP Oklahoma Senate Candidate Says U.S. Shouldn’t Be a Democracy Bryan Logan backs extreme states’ rights theories and claims Oklahoma can override federal law, raising alarm ahead of the May 13 special election meidasnews.com/news/gop-okl...

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As the world is burning right now with multiple conflicts, this is our Secretary of Defense. "In at least one message, he asked aides to tell foreign countries about military operation" www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Seriously? Fuck these people. This is important information for me as a consumer. Even if I didn't care about the planet, which I do, I'm gonna care about the size of my power bill. This move helps nobody.

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One subcontractor, owned by an African American, is suing the structural engineering firm they hired -- Thornton Tomasetti, which has done LOTS of major work & is apparently led by Italian-Americans. But that news item winds its way through Trump's small brain intestine and farts out as this:

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Message from the kid's daycarein DC. I don't think I can ever forgive the people who support this. cc: @dcmigrantmutualaid.org @marisakabas.bsky.social

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The Trump administration has fired another 16 World Trade Center Health Program staff. This comes after the Trump administration cut 2/3 of staff at NIOSH, the congressionally mandated agency that operates the World Trade Center Health Program, in April.

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One of the scenarios for Trump's removal from power is a collapse of his authority: if Trump orders the military to attack a NATO ally like Denmark (Greenland being part of it), the military refuses since its an illegal order (NATO treaty is US law), & refuses to follow any subsequent illegal orders

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Anonymous has hacked GlobalX airline, due to its collaboration with Trump’s ICE ethnic cleansing campaign. Flight manifest information and flight details have been obtained and the airlines website was defaced. #3E #OpDreadNought #stopICE

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The Energy Star program for consumers have saved Americans $500 billion since 1992. But it’s over. Donad doesn’t give a fuck about consumers or energy consumption. He only cares about billionaires. We do not count. Note: a president lacks the authority to end this www.engadget.com/big-tech/tru...

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Shameful. Those poor families are being traumatized all over again for purely political reasons.

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🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

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New in PN: The Hope Florida scandal, explained "A GOP investigator said he believes DeSantis's former chief of staff engaged in a conspiracy to launder money. We're sure Pam Bondi is on it (sarcasm). But there could still be consequences."

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If you see/hear about any ICE activity in DC today, i'm marisakabas.04 on Signal and [email protected] email

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The Trump regime suspends air quality monitoring at all National Parks.

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From February: "CEO Devin Nunes Made $47 Million While Truth Social Parent Company Reported $401 Million In Losses In 2024"

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Mayor @freddiefornashville O’Connell on @tnhighwaypatrol + ICE terrorizing immigrant communities this weekend: “State & federal officials coordinated without us… their approach is not our understanding of what a NASHVILLE for all of us looks like.”

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Mattel, the toy manufacturing giant and maker of Barbie, announced that it plans to raise prices on American toys due to Trump’s tariffs. #TrumpTariffs

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I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack. I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.

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What?!?!?

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Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?!? Senator Mark Warner calls for probe into report that WH is pressuring countries to use Musk’s Starlink company in exchange for tariff relief. Watch: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

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The United States is kidnapping and disappearing human beings – at least 4,084 to date. These are crimes against humanity. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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NEW: Hegseth had at least a DOZEN signal chats going, set up using an unsecured "dirty" line on his private phone from his Pentagon office. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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