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Holy CRAP. This was fascinating. @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @gilduran.com w/ insight behind DOGE's gutting of govt. agencies, the administration's attacks on universities, Project 2025, and visions of a post-democracy America that would sound like science fiction if they weren't happening today.🇺🇸

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Sen. Booker (D-NJ): “I am sick and tired of hearing this kind of heated partisan rhetoric, which is one of the reasons we have divisions in this country. The attacks we see from POTUS, trolling and dragging judges is what we should be talking about that puts people in danger.”

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The GOP moved for 2 decades toward becoming a death cult, Accepting school shootings as a necessary evil, accepting unnecessary death from Covid long after vaccine availability. Now, joni Ernst says the quiet part out loud. Health ins shouldn’t matter because we’re all going to die anyway.

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This Memorial Day, please remember the sacrifice made by those to save democracy and the caretakers of those buried abroad. Huggs news.findagrave.com/2025/05/15/t...

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(Borowitz)To process the avalanche of bribes offered him on a daily basis, the President created "Group Receiving Inducements For Trump" (GRIFT). “We’re getting thousands of beautiful gifts a day and we don’t have enough people to sign for them all,” Trump said. “Eric and Don Jr. can’t do it alone.”

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Florida wants to end drag brunch (and make it impossible for LGBTQ+ people to enjoy the same rights as the rest of us). This 11th Circuit decision, which has been flying below the radar, says the state can't do that. joycevance.substack.com/p/hamburger-...

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Breaking: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus. Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.

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We don't need the Doggie Bruhs when we have the GAO doing what they're supposed to. www.gao.gov/press-releas...?

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The billboard featuring the Arch reads “Greetings from Gateway Arch National Park. Now with reduced staff. Made possible by $ D.O.G.E.”

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I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

submitted 29 days ago • 180 comments

Belle's economics 101 class is in session. Pay attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgW...

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BREAKING: In a victory for voters, a federal court rejects Jefferson Griffin's attempt to overturn the North Carolina Supreme Court election and orders the state to certify Justice Allison Riggs' victory. More to come.

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The Trump budget in one chart: Cut programs that help families and make America a leader of the world, pour money into kidnapping grad students and deporting toddlers.

submitted 33 days ago • 138 comments

Ahahaa. Elon is pissed at the Nazi compare. So fine … Nazi adjacent.

submitted 35 days ago • 120 comments

The longer this travesty continues, the more I can't believe that the wealthiest country on the planet allows itself to be scammed by the most narcissistic dumb fuck ever to leak out of a condom.

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Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in shock—and who could blame him? Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens. This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬 Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.

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Overheard: “William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.”

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As Leavitt swoops in to spout BS propaganda essentially neutering Bessent.

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TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

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Remember 3 years ago? When oil/bbl. was $120? Now 1/2 that so where's the price reduction at the pump?

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Trump's EO calls for military and national security "assets" to be deployed on American streets to assist with law enforcement, and for the prosecution of local officials who talk about "DEI stuff" like the history of racist police violence. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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As if we need more bad news and with an administration that denies science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ame9...

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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

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My forehead will have a permanent handprint on it at this rate.

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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