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Jeffries: "It's not clear to me what the administration is hiding from the Congress and from the American people ... [and] for some reason, House Republicans don't want to have a full and comprehensive and swift debate on the War Powers Act issue, so they changed the rules."

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ICYMI: I wrote about how the modern social safety net has been crafted around ideas of "deservingness," and how that has affected low-income single moms in the past—as well as how poor single moms today could be impacted by cuts to benefits. newrepublic.com/article/1970...

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BREAKING: Iran has fired missiles toward U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq after Donald Trump bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. https://trib.al/j8LX1jK

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DEAN: Isn't it true that on April 2 you sold more than $1m worth of your shares in Trump Media? It fell 13% in the following days. It seems you avoided that loss. Well done. BONDI: I would take in financial literacy if you think I profited from that, because I lost a tremendous amount of money.

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DEAN: Have you ever registered as an agent of a foreign principle under FARA? BONDI: I assume you're talking about when I represented Qatar for a short time D: The answer is ye- B: No! For anti-human trafficking...You're the one who said Biden was competent D: Taking a shot at me? Very strange

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youtu.be/PPEn4QOAqus?...

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Tomorrow is the Dem primary for NYC mayor. It's now a tight race between Andrew Cuomo & Zohran Mamdani. It'll be interesting to see if New Yorkers take into account Cuomo's multiple scandals, including several allegations of sexual harassment substantiated by state & federal investigations.

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

ICE is already $1 billion over budget by one estimate, with 3 months left of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, the Trump admin has illegally stopped publicly disclosing the money it's dispersing, making it hard to know exactly how much ICE is spending.

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#FakeChristians Anyone who supports Trump, and claims to be a Christian, is a liar.

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" - 1984

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Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” lands a $1 billion tax break for Big Oil as EPA staff are told to “pause” oil and gas enforcement. Broadcast networks should give the scandal the attention it deserves.

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It was never America First. It was always Trump First.

submitted 20 hours ago • 167 comments

If only someone would have warned us.🤷🏾‍♂️ Y’all still penciling in protest dates?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Precisely. Grow up.

submitted 20 hours ago • 95 comments

Maybe he forgot.

submitted 20 hours ago • 86 comments

Pro-life, though.

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

Since 2024, voting restrictions have flown under the radar. Smaller red states are quietly passing laws that make it harder to vote, and will affect the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/red...

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

sorry I can't get over how cynical this is. dude just voted for a bill that was pushed by the crypto lobby and left out any protections against Trump's corruption. now he's claiming to address the issue with a bill that will never pass? this is galling even by modern Dem standards

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"In this way, Medicaid isn’t just a safety net for the poor—it’s an invisible subsidy for everyone. When it shrinks, costs don’t disappear. They move to households, employers, local governments, school systems, ERs, jails. Everyone pays." prospect.org/politics/202...

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DHS CONTRACTORS FOR KIDNAPPING: These job adverts confirm that DHS-ICE is hiring people off the streets with as little as 2 years military service. Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike. Straight up Secret Police shit. These were on LinkedIn.

submitted 10 hours ago • 232 comments

This is: - a lie, as an empirical assessment (to distract from the illegality of what Trump is doing) - propaganda, as a political statement (to obscure what’s happening for the base) - a window into how MAGA conceives of foreign policy: “We get to hit you, you simply take it, we declare victory.”

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1. On March 20, 2003, President George W. Bush began the bombing campaign in Iraq, justifying the attack with manipulated and bogus intelligence. Twenty-two years later, history is repeating itself. Let's review the facts.

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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3694 comments

This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.

submitted 21 hours ago • 965 comments

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This week, the Supreme Court is set to issue opinions in the 10 remaining cases it heard this term, including: ⚖️Birthright Citizenship/Nationwide Injunctions. ⚖️Louisiana Redistricting. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 to keep you informed. Sign-up now for free. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse www.wired.com/story/grok-c...

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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

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➡️ WE DO NOT FORGET: a Trump-loving MAGA assassin murdered Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark, and shot others ICE agents are kidnapping and disappearing immigrants off of the streets of America *Trump/the GOP are destroying working American families to benefit the ultra-rich

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“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

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lapublicpress.org/2025/06/fede...

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If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were six months ago. So is your family. So are your friends and neighbors. https://trib.al/nzgEHm8

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Amid the threats of retribution from Iran following the U.S. military strike on three Iranian nuclear sites, critics have ramped up their scrutiny of the 22-year-old who was assigned to a major terrorism-prevention post by President Donald Trump. www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

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Launching the U.S. into what could be yet another unpopular and costly forever war, while simultaneously pushing for an unpopular budget bill at home that will take food and healthcare away from millions of people. The "peace president."

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We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.

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"If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace." -- Donald Trump, 11/1/24

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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

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Trump claimed after the attack, “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” But today, Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine said Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were “severely damaged.” Damaged isn’t obliterated. So which is it?

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Meanwhile, the federal government of the United States of America is hard at work hunting down and arresting random beloved local bagel shop managers. Neighbors and friends respond: pix11.com/news/local-n...

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Republicans will now spend the week telling us why we need to cut funding for Medicaid and SNAP as Trump drops bombs on a country that posed no imminent threat to the United States. The Trump/GOP agenda is immoral and massively unpopular. We need to pummel them on it 24/7.

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Trump wore his campaign hat in the situation room forever associating MAGA with the bombing of Iran

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Yes, this is yet another obvious violation of international law by the US Government. However despicable the regime in Iran, you cannot just attack another country. Bombing civilian nuclear facilities is also illegal under several nuclear treaties to which US is Party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

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So Trump intentionally didn’t tell top congressional Democrats, especially those on Intel, before the strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. But he made sure to let congressional Republicans know beforehand.

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everything about this article is so deeply American. exiling the truth teller, wanting to know the history but not too much, inability to come to terms with its own violent history. fam, this is as American as apple pie.

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