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Jake Tapper's ratings are at their lowest point in a decade. This is what happens when you betray your audience in hopes you can sell some books to Trump supporters (a bad strategy since they won't read it and hated you to begin with)

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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Might I suggest that the fact that folks are continually surprised when their friends or family get detained by ICE despite this pretty clearly being administration policy is indicative of both a failure to curate information diets, but also a media failure?

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while I knew judges have been getting anonymous 'I know where you live' pizza deliveries, I didn't know til writing this piece on Trump endangering judges that many orders were placed in the name of a judge's son who was murdered by someone posing as a deliveryman ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II

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Former @latimes.com reporter Maya Lau is SUING ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva, ex-detective Mark Lillienfeld and the county, saying they violated her 1A rights when they criminally investigating her for reporting on a list of problem deputies: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

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“FEMA employees want to be ready for hurricane season and meet the needs of the mission, but the staffing cuts and uncertainty have removed or driven away loads of talent and institutional knowledge.”

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Trump adviser David Sacks accidentally admits the truth about Republicans’ tax bill: “This bill cuts $880 billion from Medicaid” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Re-upping: If anyone anywhere in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. . ... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now. Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.

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“.. the most brazen use of government office in American history, perhaps eclipsing even Teapot Dome, Watergate .. “.. ‘I’ve been watching and writing about corruption for 50 years, and my head is still spinning’ ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

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Here’s a perfect project for any journalist in Louisiana — track who actually loses benefits in the state and disprove this cruel nonsense.

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I think this is right 👇

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NEW: 19 year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal who came to America at age 4 has finally been reunited with her family in Dalton, Georgia after ICE detained her for three weeks over a now-dismissed red light traffic ticket and was in the process of trying to deport her (Video: News Channel Nine)

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"We believe it’s important for us, as a news organization, to put humanity first as often as possible—and then contextualize the underlying politics in those terms. We should not treat the lives of people as mere pawns in a partisan game," Ashton Pittman writes. buff.ly/N4pjvag

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Elon Musk’s Fake Retreat From DOGE ino.to/apVgxip

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Air pollution kills millions of people worldwide every year, and without research and air pollution standards, millions more will die.

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Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

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Trump’s so-called “white genocide” in Africa is a lie. Afrikaner commentator Piet Croucamp, an academic at North-West University in South Africa, told CBS News: “This is the land of milk and honey if you’re white.”

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lol mtg is fighting with a computer about god

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Minutes apart 👀

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Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

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Neguse was grilling Jim Jordan so hard this morning over language in the reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce court penalties that Jordan had to consult with his lawyers

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Race animates a lot of ICE/CBP, but I can't stress enough how—as with all law enforcement—a key factor is sheer laziness. They're not tracking down drug gangs, they're going for the easiest targets they can find. Official hearings (citizenship, court, etc) are fish in a barrel to run numbers up.

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I will not stop caring about shit. I will not stop caring about shit. I will not stop caring about shit. I will not stop caring about shit. I will not stop caring about shit. I will not stop caring about shit.

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