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Not as thrilling as a cage match between billionaire toddlers, but kind of important anyway https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/trump-funding-cuts-npr-pbs-rural-america

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"In a nightmare scenario straight out of dystopian science fiction, a brain-dead woman in Georgia has been forced to serve as a human incubator for over 100 days, in what amounts to the state-sponsored desecration of a deceased person. 1/2 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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There's so much to dunk on in this NYT piece and so little time, but I gotta start here: Some law profs at U Chicago did a study to see if the chatbots could answer questions based on specific materials and found, unsurprisingly, that they make shit up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t... >>

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Florida Department of Children and Families sends cease and desist letter to Orlando Sentinel reporter investigating Hope Florida scandal, in which $10 million of state money wound up in the governor’s wife’s charity. floridapolitics.com/archives/742...

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🚨 After months of defiance of court orders (and the Supreme Court) and claims under oath from cabinet level officials that they would never bring him back, the Trump admin blinks; Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being brought back to the U.S., where he can finally get some due process.

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A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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“Moral leadership and constructive diplomacy” have been systematically dismantled since January 2025, so it’s bound to be hard to craft a proposal on those foundations that doesn’t run afoul of the fascists now in charge.

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Personal bank accounts only. They’re doing it right out in the open for everyone to see🙃

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Republicans are literally as we speak reworking a $42.5 billion infrastructure bill broadband grant program to shower Musk with billions in new subsidies his congested and expensive satellite service doesn't really deserve such ingratitude

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Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

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“Yesterday, the administration announced it is ending the Biden administration’s 2022 guidance to hospital emergency rooms that accept Medicare—which is virtually all of them—requiring that under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act they must perform an abortion in an emergency—“ 1/n

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Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought “was a key author of Project 2025, whose aim is to disrupt and destroy the United States government order to center a Christian, heteronormative, male-dominated family as the primary element of society.” 1/2

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Some news! Resistance Summer School has an official home! I will teach Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 at the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington D.C., starting in mid-July. Thank you to everyone for their support! karenattiah.substack.com/p/studying-t...

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This is such an important data analysis, looking at cuts to NIH funding...and also noting how this funding WORKS. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This isn't waste. It's hard to get these grants! I should know! I used to be a scientist, and I left in part because I couldn't get GRANTS!

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Good coverage by the Tampa Bay Times of the shocking rejection by the state Board of Governors of the University of Florida’s choice for its next president. UF is the flagship university in the state. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

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HCR writes about Darren Beattie , the State Department acting under-secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, “who dismantled the office that countered disinformation from Russia, China, and Iran. In 2021 … Beattie married a Russian national whose uncle has ties to Putin.” More—

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As expected, the Trump administration has asked Congress to claw back the funding already allocated for public media for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. If enacted, it would remove $770 million for TV and radio stations across the country. DETAILS: loom.ly/hSUIHGk

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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days. EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

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Extreme cuts to staff at the National Weather Service leave Florida, Gulf of Mexico coast under-protected. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“Those who get their news by watching the Fox News Channel are likely unaware of the Republicans’ planned changes to Medicaid. As Aaron Rupar noted, on [Monday] morning’s Fox and Friends, the hosts mentioned Medicaid just once. They mentioned former president Joe Biden 39 times.”

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The new head of FEMA didn't know there is an annual hurricane season, was surprised by the scope of the agency's mission, and just declared that an unworkable (because of cuts) plan for the upcoming season is the one his agency will go with. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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New podcast! Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins. The Guardian calls it “refreshingly sarcastic” and Business Insider calls it a “funny and irreverent deconstruction of AI.”

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Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

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Trump’s puny attention span: He “appears to be having trouble with the demands of governance.… NBC News reported that the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, is trying to figure out how to change Trump’s intelligence briefings to hold his attention.” 1/n

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We need the Senate Democrats to highlight every instance in the BB Bill where it would cause cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or SNAP, and publicize each one, highlighted, with a page number. Then everyone needs to share those posts and videos.

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