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It’s been around since 1983.

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Not surprised. Not at all.

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Megan Cassella of @cnbc.com should drink for free in Washington forever for having more guts than any other media to ask Donny Taco about his new nickname.🍻 And it's not even Tuesday #DonnyTaco #media #Taco

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The Trump administration has deported a 2-year-old American girl. Emanuelly Borges Santos was born in a Florida hospital in 2022. She has an American passport and a Social Security card. Nevertheless, she and her undocumented parents were packed onto a plane with 94 others and shipped to Brazil.

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Clean Energy Just Put China’s CO2 Emissions into Reverse for 1st Time cleantechnica.com/2025/05/25/c...

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Trump just appointed Paul Ingrassia “to head the United States Office of Special Counsel.” Ingrassia has defended the Confederate flag and claimed Black Americans should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners. meidasnews.com/news/trumps-...

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Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

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JUST IN: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has temporarily reinstated Trump’s tariffs, pausing a lower court ruling that had blocked them

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The National Weather Service warned of “dangerously hot conditions” from Friday through Sunday in parts of the Western U.S., with the worst of the heat centered over California before shifting east to Nevada and Utah. nyti.ms/43KNUAW

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If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 21 hours ago • 162 comments

Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is a tax cut for billionaires and a restraining order on the rest of us.

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Charlie Kirk called Martin Luther King Jr. “a bad guy” and called anti-segregation legislation a mistake. Trump hosted him at the White House yesterday.

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WSJ Editorial Board calls Trump on his law firm executive orders: Three judges across the political spectrum have now said the President’s punitive executive orders are unconstitutional. www.wsj.com/opinion/rich...

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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Trump EOs are an abuse of executive power that isn’t justified under any fair reading of the Constitution. “.. he would be wise to cut his losses before he goes zero for nine at the Supreme Court.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/rich...

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The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

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I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much? The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months. Here's how:

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“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told NOTUS .. “We’ve certainly done research on this topic, but did not publish a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on this topic .. or with that title.” @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...

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“I don’t know why any country would want to engage in negotiations to get out of tariffs that have now been declared illegal.” (h/t Kev Gordon)

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The court’s ruling means the government may have to pay back duties it has already collected. “Anybody that has had to pay tariffs so far will be able to get them refunded,” said Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University who argued a case against the tariffs brought by small businesses.

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RASKIN: ".. Publication of this [dinner guest] list will also let the American people know who is putting tens of millions of dollars into our President’s pocket so we can start to figure out what — beyond virtually worthless memecoins — they are getting in exchange .." @washingtonpost.com

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NEW in @prospect.org: Much has been made of Elon Musk stepping back from DOGE. But RDP research finds that at least 46 DOGE staffers have direct financial or professional ties to Musk and his companies—indicating that the billionaire will have lasting power over the group.

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Right now outside Trump International Hotel at Columbus Circle. 🌮 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

submitted 23 hours ago • 73 comments

I can’t stop laughing about the fact that the Pope is now holding a huge event in Chicago on the same day as Trump’s small-in-the-pants birthday parade.

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Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

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Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

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The world needs to be made to know that Trump has a personality disorder that makes him unreliable as president. Trump is in the grip of narcissism. That explains his bizarre choices. He is aggressively vindictive.

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US stocks vs. rest of the world, so far this year. 😞 (via @yardeniresearch.bsky.social)

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AG James statement:

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The daughter of two reality stars says Trump decided to wipe clean her parents’ convictions for a massive fraud and tax evasion scheme because he doesn’t think they look like TV bad guys.

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🚨 ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process. This is not law enforcement. This is authoritarianism. Demand accountability. Stay loud. Stay informed. Stay safe.

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Today's episode of "we are nothing like the Gestapo".

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Never in my lifetime has the Democratic Party been as much as a ghost ship as it is today. Incredible there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Power is just sitting there and the only thing guarding it is fossils like Chuck Schumer

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WAPO: “.. Trump initially said it was Qatar that reached out and offered him the luxury jet free of charge. In fact, it was the Trump administration that first approached Qatar this winter about acquiring the plane ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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“.. guess that $2+ trillion in tariff revenue is looking less plausible now.” - @conorsen.bsky.social @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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NEWS: A federal court just invalidated Trump’s ”Liberation Day" tariffs, ruling he exceeded his authority under IEEPA. The court said Trump can’t bypass Congress to set trade policy and that these tariffs are unconstitutional and void.

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