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Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

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Tonight's Radio Flashback song is 1988's "Long Gone (Buddy)" by #TilTuesday.

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Jay and Adam from #pReview'd react to #TheMarvels. #MsMarvel #KamalaKhan

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Jay and Adam from #pReview'd react to #Ironheart episode 3.

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#LGBTQ anime ranking essay.

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Simone and George from #CineBinge react to #StarTrekIV The Voyage Home.

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mike johnson doesn't give a shit

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In celebration of #PrideMonth here is a love acoustic version of "Juliet as Epithet" by the singular #HamishHawk.

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Budapest's streets overflowed with Pride marchers on Saturday, despite the Orban regime's threats of legal consequences. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A nice reminder of the immense power contained in saying “no.” When people refuse to comply, it raises the costs ($$$, political, social, etc) of enforcing authoritarianism. They very well might try anyway, but every person that says “no” is another point of friction. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...

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BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

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The first Pride was a riot: 20 fascinating facts about the forgotten 1995 movie ‘Stonewall’ - buff.ly/KaLUix4

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Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

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Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

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🚨 BREAKING: New CBO score reveals GOP Senate bill slashes $930 BILLION from Medicaid — the largest cut in history. That means 10M+ could lose coverage. 💸 Earlier GOP plan: $700B 📉 New plan: $930B This is a full-scale attack on America’s most vulnerable. #KillTheBill

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Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

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It's Saturday, so you may not realize, but you should know Republicans are RACING to pass the LARGEST cuts to health care and nutrition assistance in our country's HISTORY All to pass TRILLIONS in tax giveaways for billionaires who don't need it. Senators must vote NO.

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UPDATE: Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.

submitted 20 hours ago • 117 comments

Cutting Medicaid means costs are shifted to providers. When patients lose coverage, they turn to ERs for care they can’t afford. Hospitals eat the cost, pass it on to insurers, and your premiums go up. Medicaid cuts mean a worse health care system for EVERYONE.

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There were 71,000 deportations in the first half of June alone, according to U.N. estimates. These Afghan refugees are returning to a country in the throes of a humanitarian crisis.

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A sitting U.S. Congressman is demanding the deportation of a U.S. citizen because he doesn’t like a democratic election result.

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It is deeply disturbing that just two weeks ago, two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota were targeted in an attack in which one lawmaker and her husband were killed, and the much of the mainstream media has moved on.

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Young workers at Starbucks, Amazon, Sesame Workshop, Hearst Magazines, and Action Network talk about how organizing changed their relationship with work.

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It’s possible that I’m missing stuff, but I don’t get the sense that the people complaining about the injunction decision “don’t get it.” As if, once given all the details and walked through them by law professors, they’ll see it’s not so bad. I think they get it and agree with the dissenters.

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‘We are privileged’: liberal Afrikaners reject Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims

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Transgender campaigners call for European rights body to report on UK

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A 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents on Sunday morning while gardening outside her home in New Orleans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I strongly agree with Elie's five-alarm-fire take. And I respectfully but firmly disagree with those who think today's disastrous decision will be fairly easy for lawyers to work around.

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A great personal testimonial from #NathanEmery on the importance of not gaslighting yourself about your #queer identity.

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The secret to negotiating with Trump: don’t, and just do what you want anyway.

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This is an appropriate time to remind folks that the judiciary was never going to save us. They are a useful tool to slow down the march of the fascists and buy us time. But they were never never never going to save us. We, The American People, will save us. Stop waiting for a rescue. Get to work.

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60% of seniors in nursing homes are on Medicaid. Kids across the country rely on their parents' Medicaid for health insurance. The Big Ugly Bill would devastate American families.

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They made Al Franken resign over a joke and then doubled down on sex pest Andrew Cuomo. Then they accuse good people of the worst things possible such as racism, sexism or antisemitism. What’s really going on here? Whenever you dig for 5 seconds you find billionaires who don’t want to be taxed.

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I simply do not understand the “but they’ll pack it back” objections in what world is one where both sides pack it back and forth worse than what we have now, in which we are 6-3 for “laws are only real if they help Republicans”? packing the court is the only viable response if we want rule of law

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Biden tries to forgive student loans SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. Trump revokes part of the constitution SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court protected affordable access to PrEP and other lifesaving preventive care coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act. In addition to PrEP access, this ruling protects affordable access to screenings for breast cancer, depression, Hepatitis B & C and other STIs.

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An L.A. queer organization's next steps after Trump cuts its fundingRainbow Labs says it’s lost its AmeriCorps grant, which amounts to more than 10 percent of its funding. bit.ly/3ZR2mGh

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THIS.

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The idea that your birthright citizenship is only applicable if the birth that gave you that right took place in or before the 19th century has always been bonkers and strictly deployed as a whisper thin veil for abject racism.

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“This is likely the largest child abduction in war since world war two – comparable to the Germanification of Polish children by the Nazis.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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In celebration of #PrideMonth here is 2006's "Servin' It Up" by #MissPeppermint with #JohnnyMcGovern.

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