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Mark Warner: "It will move us as a nation aback to the same percentage of uninsured we had before Obamacare. It's not like these people are not gonna get sick. They're gonna show up at the emergency room. Rural hospitals are gonna shut down ... it's cruel"

DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order. www.politico.com/live-updates...

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled. Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year. This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful. Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood. We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

Imagine proudly calling something “alligator Alcatraz” when most of who you’re putting there committed no crime other than wanting a better life. DeSantis is gross. And cruelty is big business.

Anonymized or unidentifiable law enforcement like we've seen from ICE is a trademark of authoritarian regimes. California legislators have introduced the No Secret Police Act, which would require visible ID for federal agents. Urge your state & local officials to take action: www.bluestatedefianc...

Supremes say parents can opt out of letting their kids listen to LGBTQ stories. Can parents similarly opt out of kids listening to stories that DON'T have LGBTQ themes or incidents? 🤣

Birthright citizenship is “as close to a national self-definition as we have; it is our legal DNA,” David W. Blight argued in January. “One cannot overstate the gravity of Trump’s proposed action, nor the historical ignorance on which it stands.”

Trump: "If you look at the end of the Civil War -- the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day -- was it 1869? Or whatever."

Isso aqui estar na TV eu considero uma vitĂłria da comunidade shitposter

"This being on TV I consider a victory for the shitposter community"

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

Some good news 🎉 Federal workers retain the right to collective bargaining Losing collective bargaining would’ve made it easier to fire feds and block unions from challenging Trump administrative moves in court. A big win for federal workers—and for the rest of us who rely on them

Hey everyone, just a reminder: A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature

Hateful sycophants like Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem behave like they will never be held accountable. I live for the day when they will be held accountable.

This is the use of the military for domestic law enforcement; I don’t see any other way to describe it.

At today’s House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, RFK Jr said, “We absolutely consult CDC on every policy regarding vaccination” before rewriting COVID vaccine rules. Lying under oath? Not a good look.

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RFK JR: Another study shows the covid vaccine leads to an increase in miscarriage. There's no safety data for it, so we're not gonna recommend it. KELLY: Not true. We had a pediatrician that is on that committee. Not true.

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

BREAKING: Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says it will not halt its nuclear program following the U.S. attack, calling the strikes a “blatant violation of international law.”

One thing you can guarantee will happen tomorrow is that somewhere in America, a gaggle of insecure white men will convince each other that escalation means they're powerful. Instead of acknowledging what WE see when men have no means to mitigate conflict: which is senseless emotional volatility.

Alternative facts

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

this brand new megahospital *just* opened. the republican death bill is going to blow up our health care system. the bill also defunds pediatrics training programs. meanwhile trump deports the doctors and health care workers we all rely on.

Quack doctor at the center of this horrible story of measles killing and impairing people “conferred about supportive care methods with the C.D.C. and spoke privately with Kennedy, who shared his hesitations about the M.M.R. vaccine and praised Edwards in interviews as an “extraordinary healer.””

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

Aged like milk.

Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents

Wait wait wait… if I get a Thai rat will it teach me how to cook Thai food?!

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

SO MUCH THIS

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

These jackbooted thugs think they can hide behind masks and terrorize communities without any personal cost. The hotels think they can cash Trump's dirty checks without consequences. These protests make it clear that they're both wrong. I love it. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/fede...

I should be, and generally am used to these things but when the trump White House got huffy at us today for this accurate and chill story from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me, I must confess it did…… annoy me, let’s just say. If you’re gonna lie the country into war, the least you can do is be…

About two weeks ago I cut a video on America's counter-terrorism czar, a 22yo bag-boy and "lawncare business owner". Now that we've bombed Iran and pissed off the world again, he's the guy calling the shots about protecting our country from terrorism. No, seriously. https://youtu.be/QDCDwd28Jss

🖋️ “Bombing Iran: Convene an Emergency Session of Congress NOW!” hit 250 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PBJPJW to 50409

“President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. What comes next? https://theatln.tc/rWcByxFR

There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.

Hey MAGA, He didn’t lower grocery prices He’s not deporting just criminals He pardoned hundreds of criminals back onto our streets He didn’t end the war in Ukraine You didn’t get a $5,000 check from DOGE He’s started a new war with Iran It seems that you’re the ones who got owned