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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

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NEW: @repjasmine.bsky.social says she would open an impeachment inquiry into Trump if she’s elected as House Oversight chair in the next Congress. www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

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After only five months in office, Trump has transformed the Department of Justice into an instrument for voter suppression. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

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Even if Kennedy’s guidance on COVID boosters eventually falls in court, he’s sent a message about how unreliable federal support for vaccines has become and will be. The companies that manufacture vaccines are sure to notice.

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Phang: It says, “Both major candidates have vowed to pursue a constitutional amendment to curtail the power of the president. The most decisive factor influencing voter sentiment appears to be the issues of martial law and impeachment.” So why the hell are we not doing the same damn thing here?

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John Thune, says the best healthcare is a job. Well, why didn’t we just think of that? The GOP leads with ignorance for the low information, gullible American voter.

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Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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What key GOP senators want to change in Trump's House-passed "one big beautiful bill" https://cbsn.ws/4kn63vp

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“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”

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We still can’t get straight answers on why ICE agents are masked and refusing to ID themselves. On top of all that they appear to be lying about cause. Congress, do you see what’s happening? Don’t be silent! Call your Senators & Reps. Demand an investigation. ☎️ Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

submitted 21 hours ago • 1043 comments

SERIOUS QUESTION: What is going on with all these “officers” in tactical gear for a routine traffic stop—with no clear identification? They seem like imposters. And what’s up with that ball cap?

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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VOTE THEM OUT! These Republicans voted in the dead of night to strip away healthcare and food from millions of Americans. So in November of 2026, we are stripping THEM of their jobs. We won't forgive. We won't forget.

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#Ukraine has once again proven that Russia can and must be defeated — forced into peace through strength. Today is yet another day of humiliation for Putin. Just like when the Moskva was destroyed, the Kerch bridgd was struck, the Black Sea Fleet ships were sunk and Kursk region was invaded⤵️

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Around 300 billboards were placed across Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida by a nonprofit labor advocacy organization seeking to bring attention to staffing cuts brought on by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

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“The truth is that the West sabotages itself by delaying the release of essential resources—a hesitation systematically exploited by Russia.” The West continues to fail Ukraine and undermine democracy by holding back on full arming of Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine kyivindependent.com/western-hesi...

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Is this why we’ve been seeing so many masked, unidentified ICE agents? As of May 29, 2025, ICE has 635 active agreements in 40 states—deputizing local cops to act as ICE. DEMS: Hold hearings. Sanctioned or not, we need answers. ☎️ Call your Senators and Reps now: (202) 224-3121

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MAKARY: 88 percent of American kids, their parents have said no to the covid shot last season. So the vast majority of Americans are saying no. BRENNAN: I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance. You don't go with popularity, you go with data.

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THESE are the tattoos we should be worried about… Valknut: historically Norse, used by some white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

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Vought gets a little salty after Dana Bash plays the clip of him saying that he wants federal bureaucrats to be "in trauma," telling her "you cherrypicked the quote" (she literally just played the clip)

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“He has a prosthetic arm, a prosthetic leg, they’ll rebuild his face — and then we’ll go home,” says Vira Ovsiannikova, mother of a severely wounded Ukrainian soldier. For nearly two years, she has lived alongside her son in hospital rooms. Volodymyr has undergone 40 surgeries, with 5 more ahead.

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Vought blatantly lies about Medicaid cuts on CNN, claiming "no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill"

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Wow—this is what community looks like. It’s heartwarming to see locals rally around Buona Forchetta after it was raided by ICE on Friday. In the face of fear and cruelty, San Diegans are showing up with solidarity.

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Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.

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Dear Sunday talk show anchors, Ask every Republican guest if they believe that Biden was executed and replaced by a robot in 2020 and why they believe Trump is still mentally fit after posting this— and don’t let them off the hook by saying it was a joke, or they didn’t see it.

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This should be head-line news. Where is the outcry from MOC and mainstream media? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

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Jeffries: "Every single public poll that has come out since the Trump presidency has had congressional Democrats winning the generic ballot. This is not speculative. In every single high-profile special election Ds have won. So the people are being very clear about who they trust more to govern."

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Mesopotamian texts before 2300 BCE and depictions suggest that same-sex relationships were not only tolerated but also celebrated in certain contexts, particularly between men. Charlie Kirk likes being a bigot.

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🔴 Zelenskyy: "I outlined the tasks for the near term and also defined our positions ahead of the meeting in Istanbul on Monday."

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#MorningVibe Have a tissue handy. @harvard.edu honoring Latin EGOT, Rita Moreno by having 2 international student artists performing for her is a beam of hope that somewhere, there’s still A PLACE FOR US. #ImmigrantsMakeAmerica

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More than 40 Russian warplanes are burning after a mass Ukrainian drone attack kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

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Text NOKINGS to 50409 to find your nearest June 14 protest. It takes seconds to find it. Pass it on. 🚫👑

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S2E2 - "Anschluss '77" - Wonder Woman stops a N*zi plot to bring back you know who. You bet I'd do it again!!! This is your reminder to always stand up for what's right. Rise up. Resist. Love thy neighbor. ❤️🤍💙

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BASH: Is it fair to say that what you are doing now is in part enacting Project 2025? VOUGHT: No, of course not. (This is a blatant lie.)

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On June 1, 1996, the last nuclear missiles were brought from Ukraine into Russia. The next day, Ukraine has lost its status of a nuclear state after signing the Budapest Memorandum. The US, the UK and Russia gave their assurances that Ukrainian security and sovereignty would not be violated.

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Ukraine launched a "large-scale" drone attack deep into Russian territory that security officials claim destroyed 40 military bombers as it gears up for another round of talks in Istanbul to explore prospects of a ceasefire. https://cbsn.ws/4knOknO

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Marilyn Monroe, born 99 years ago today. When Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked at the Mocambo Club because she was Black, Monroe (at the height of her own fame) called the owner and told him if he booked Ella, she would take a front table every night. And she did. #RIP

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We need a Senator Smith for today’s round of McCarthyism. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

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Awkward way for Joni Ernst to find out she isn’t funny. Let’s stop sending people like Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham to the Senate.

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Murphy: "Moody's just downgraded the US. They didn't do that under Biden, they did it under Trump, bc they look at this bill- the attack on the middle class, the diminution of spending power that comes with it, and the deficits - & say that if implemented, it's is gonna make the economy much weaker"

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Two bridges collapsed in Bryansk and Kursk regions of Russia last night, damaging a passenger and freight trains. Russian authorities say they were blown up. This looks like the work of Russian FSB before the next round of talks in Istanbul.

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"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”

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Dem Rep. Jamie Raskin went on MSNBC and didn’t hold back on his criticism of the Trump regime: “This is a gangster state … It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people." More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/1400-prote...

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