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The conman who was forced to shut down his fake "university" because its operation was consumer fraud, is trying to undermine America's oldest, most prestigious, legitimate university through an abuse of presidential power.

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Why is this not common knowledge? It is obvious knowing where Russia is souring its military and weapons. youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI?...

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“But I had neglected a key part of the Iraqi society: the women.” My latest for ⁦‪@thebulwark.com The values of the Women, Peace, and Security Program. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-commande...

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Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

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AOC: Trump said they were only going to go after the “criminals” however their position is that everyone undocumented is a criminal.… On top of that, they’re not even just going after undocumented people, they are making people undocumented by revoking legal status.

submitted 21 hours ago • 90 comments

Waltz and Hegseth tried to gaslight the American people after putting our troops at risk. They have no business near national security decisions. And Marco Rubio? He’s no Kissinger. With serious global threats, we need serious leaders. Trump’s team is giving us a train wreck.

submitted 19 hours ago • 32 comments

At a time when the medical profession doesn’t have its best at the highest levels of government, it’s rejuvenating to work with some of the best at the bedside. Great reminder of all the talent and goodness out there. Have a great night!

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Auchincloss on Fox News: "What I'm seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his memecoin than he is about people's 401ks. What I'm seeing is a president who along with Howard Lutnick is self-dealing on crypto instead of worrying about the strength of the US dollar."

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GOP Rep Mike Collins is an ignorant Islamophobic bigot. It’s undeniable. Plus Cha Street Food is amazing and everyone in Congress - including the ignorant Islamophobic bigots - should try it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 234 comments

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

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Trump’s exploiting the death of Pope Francis to distract Americans from the horrors he’s ordering and damage he’s inflicting on this country. Trump doesn’t want Americans discussing the economic chaos he’s created, his crashing poll numbers, his trashing of America’s reputation, the mass firings,…

submitted 18 hours ago • 99 comments

Rubio and Vance tweeting in defense of the German far-right party, the AfD. We are in a very, very dark place.

submitted 17 hours ago • 299 comments

Listen to Black women… “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity” “The threats & harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution & the rule of law” - KBJ

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WSJ: After tech to manage air traffic failed several times in recent days, 20% of the FAA controllers at Newark Airport walked out. Now, United has canceled 35 daily RT flights from Newark. FAA staffing at Newark is too low to handle the planes scheduled, United's CEO said. Gift link!

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By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.

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WATCH: “THAT’S FRAUD, ISN’T IT?” MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — SHELBY COUNTY commissioners learn from @keshaunpearson.bsky.social Elon’s XAI is operating 33 gas turbines w/o a permit and ask the @ShelbyTNHealth Dept if they can file an injunction to shut them down. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJKRP0T...

submitted 18 hours ago • 72 comments

Can we bring back DEI now? www.wsj.com/business/air...

submitted 21 hours ago • 228 comments

I serve on the board of the Portland Playhouse and I’ve expected that we’d get hit eventually. Joe Turner's Come and Gone by the great August Wilson is a wonderful piece of American art, but it’s not a surprise why the government would not see it that way.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

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The Trump-Musk Budget is out. It tortures to death every program the average American family benefits from while (1) ensuring that no department that helps Elon Musk’s companies is harmed one iota, and (2) dumping endless wads of cash on a missile-defense scheme Trump was already told won’t work.

submitted 18 hours ago • 79 comments

Chutzpah is lying to dodge the draft and then asking the Army to celebrate your damn birthday.

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Sacrilegious (adj.) : a violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred.

submitted 18 hours ago • 918 comments

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

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@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social DO SOMETHING!!!!

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"What they are trying to do to immigrants already, they are already doing to U.S. citizens." Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg

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I just met with legal counsel for my constituent, Dr. Badar Khan Suri. Dr. Suri is a global conflict scholar at Georgetown who was detained without explanation by masked agents outside his Arlington home, then disappeared without due process to a prison 1,300 miles from his wife and children. 1/

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Yet another nyt story that depicts Trump and his cabal in grandiose, even heroic language. What bullshit: Trump is a liar, a crook, a racist, a predator and business failure. We need real journalism speaking plainly about the destruction of our country and the evils being committed in our name

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Super-PACs can accept unlimited donations from easy to obscure sources. And, rather notably, the funding for Trump’s attack on ActBlue seems to have come from just such a source: a super-PAC bankrolled by Elon Musk.

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The Women, Peace and Security Act was signed into law by President Trump in 2017.

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@elienyc.bsky.social, Justice Correspondent for @thenation.com, wins the 2025 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism for indispensable Supreme Court reporting.

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OMG, incredible!! Congratulations @elienyc.bsky.social!

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100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises. But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up. It's up to us to demand something better.

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Trump is jailing immigrant families again--a legal nonprofit says 100+ families were held at Karnes, TX detention center since Mar. 2025, then were transferred to a bigger, more remote facility in Dilley it asserts isn't adequately retrofitted for children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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HAPPENING NOW: DHS official tells court that agency diverted 10-20 employees to run 1.3 million names of foreign students through database that tracks criminal charges. Took 2-3 weeks. There were ~6,400 hits (0.004%). But thousands were for charges that never led to convictions or were dropped.

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The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

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There it is, in a nutshell.

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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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The House Judiciary's mammoth spending bill for "mass deportation" is now public and will be marked up in committee on Wednesday. Here are all items I see that are $100 million or more. They add up to a staggering $79.52 billion. See bit.ly/2025-04-30-h...

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Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

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Every single day this unqualified trainwreck stays in this job is another day our troops are at greater risk. Hegseth needs to be fired before these security breaches get someone killed. apnews.com/article/hegs...

submitted 7 days ago • 116 comments

Volz: I’m 102 years old. I taught for more than 20 years and have always been a great believer in American independence and good taste. We have a president who has no dignity and no sense of the dignity of a human being, especially one who is old and expects to die any minute.

submitted 7 days ago • 177 comments

Always with the genes, this guy… Ugh.

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Youth turnout in 2024 was only down 3% from 2020. What killed us is that young voters shifted right by double digits, caused by far-right youth groups outspending us nearly 10:1. If we want to avoid that in 2026, left-leaning youth organizations need to be better funded.

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Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

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NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

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