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For weeks, Sen. Josh Hawley babbled on about the devastating impact that Medicaid cuts would have on Missouri. Then he did as he was told — and voted for Trump’s tax-breaks-for-millionaires bill.

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A stunning scoop from @mariasacchetti.bsky.social: Despite pledging to target criminals, the Trump administration has freed a three-time felon from prison in exchange for his testimony against Abrego, a wrongly deported man who has not been convicted of a crime www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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The NY Times continues to frame Trump regime decisions in a he said/she said manner: “Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing #vaccines to Americans.” You don’t have to be a critic to interpret this as restrictive. The Post handled this much better:

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RFK Jr. said today that the evidence related to the safety of fluoride is “very clear.” He’s referring to a cluster of 74 studies, and 70% of them are at high risk of bias. This is a reckless man who puts ideology above #science. 🧪

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Hegseth: "President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and it was a resounding success." Move over D Day!

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In its shameful Citizens United ruling, SCOTUS said that campaign contributions = free speech. This NY Times blurb reveals how much more “free speech” the incredibly rich have. It also shows how transactional our political system is. This guy dropped $250-k just to get on Cuomo’s “good side.”

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For decades, Republicans have railed against government red tape. Now, the GOP Congress has chosen burdensome paperwork as its key weapon to push people off Medicaid and the ACA.

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Bypassing RFK Jr to make vaccines available wapo.st/3TBmtVd

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Senator Cassidy was played by RFK Jr. Only now — when it’s probably too late — is he willing to defend scientific integrity and vaccines. Shameful.

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Only last October . . .

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This should make Americans feel much safer.

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Canadians are voting with their dollars. Americans get hurt economically when the leader of their country behaves like a schmuck.

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No one is “keeping” any private business in America from opening on Juneteenth. What pisses off Trump is that some businesses CHOSE to observe the holiday by not opening today.

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No cable/broadcast TV network is rated worse on trustworthiness than Fox. In Pew’s recent poll, it was the only station that was more likely to be distrusted (42%) than trusted (37%). Perhaps the public remembers well the Dominion Voting System lawsuit.

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Rest assured. Trump’s decision-making on Iran is being guided by top experts. WaPo: “One person familiar with Trump’s habits in recent days said that he has consulted with a wide array of advisers, calling up not just Cabinet secretaries but also right-wing media hosts such as Mark Levin . . .”

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Call it an error. Call it a lie. Either way, Sen. Tim Scott defends Trump’s reverse-Robin-Hood budget bill by attacking the CBO. In this video, he says something false every 6.6 seconds in this video.

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This is classic Trump. Create a problem thru mass grab-and-deport activities. Then say you’re going to solve the problem you’ve just created. Trump just admitted the deportations in California will harm agriculture: “We can’t do that to our farmers — and leisure (industry) too … hotels.”

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From Schumer to Jeffries to Cuomo, the Democratic Party of NY state is littered with people who are incapable of communicating, incapable of meaningful action, or incapable of leaving women the hell alone.

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It was a Putin-style event. Military.com reports that this was “a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's” recent visit to the fort, “including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance.”

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Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

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It’s misleading for the @nytimes.com to present members of the RFK Jr. handpicked vaccine panel as “skeptics”. This gives them a scientific stature that they don’t deserve.

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Even the richest man in the world decides he’d better kneel.

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Beyond his attacks on vaccines, RFK Jr. is also attacking #fluoride — a mineral that reduces tooth decay by 25% according to the CDC. A new study shows that if RFK Jr. got his way and water fluoridation were banned in every state, children would suffer an additional 25.4 million cavities. 🦷

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Sen. Susan Collins told Dr. Bhattacharya that cuts for research into Alzheimer’s, cancer, etc., were “so disturbing.” Look out. When Collins gets this upset about something, she is likely to write a letter about it on her official stationery. Take that!

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First, Trump made ABC News kneel. Next, he denied the AP access to the White House. Now this. Trump believes the First Amendment must never interfere with his authoritarian goals.

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Is there anything that Trump wouldn’t lie about?

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Leave it to capitalism to encourage people to shift their source of drinking water from the tap to bottled waters that are dramatically more expensive. It’s bad for the environment too. Shipping water from one location to a distant location = large carbon footprint (not to mention the plastic).

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RFK Jr. has fired all 17 members of the CDC’s advisory committee on vaccines. Now, he will form a committee that feeds baseless fear about vaccines. Sen. Cassidy said this would never happen. RFK Jr. has made him look like a fool.

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More journalists need to report on the context of the White House’s use of ICE to provoke anger and protests in Los Angeles. NBC’s Julia Ainsley reported that Trump ghoul Stephen Miller recently went to ICE headquarters and chastised them for not deporting enough people.

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A lot of Washington DC leaders — the mayor, school board, city council, etc. — have been derelict amid an educational crisis. More than 18,000 reports of truancy went uninvestigated in the last 3 years. Politicians blame the pandemic, but truancy rates had tripled right BEFORE the pandemic.

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No, instead, I would say we are in the “set achievable goals for our activism” phase.

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The way the officer seems to have recognized this as a journalist and specifically turned, aimed toward her & fired is really appalling

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"A U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by [ICE]...The deputy marshal was briefly detained in the lobby of a federal building in Tucson because he 'fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE'” <Insert Family Guy skin color meme> www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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A new reason to detest Zuckerberg and his platforms: “Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks ...” Meta’s tactics “were so scuzzy they surprised even those digital privacy experts who have seen every trick in the book.”

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If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

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The two Trump-appointed judges ignored the vitality of the First Amendment, ruling that it’s OK for the White House to “consider journalists’ viewpoints when deciding whether to grant access.” Such nonsense.

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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

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