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so to be clear about what happened here, the Trump White House released audio meant to make Joe Biden look bad to Axios hours after the US's credit rating was downgraded. Trump wanted a distraction and the usual suspects in the press are happy to oblige.

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what the absolute fuck

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Explosive original reporting about Trump's plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement to target immigrants en masse and crack down on opponents.

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People in Gaza are posting final messages.

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The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.

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NEW Its 5pm on a Friday but my scoop is worth reading if you care about science, NOAA, or clean energy. The U.S. Secretary of Interior’s staff are calling “bullshit” on his attempts to claim a NOAA report found “faked science” about a wind farm that Trump wants scuttled but is already 30% done.🧵

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“This is so that people making over $1 million… can get a $90,000 average tax cut.” — @jonfavs.bsky.social Republicans in Congress want to cut Medicaid, raise health costs, and take food from kids—all to give millionaires and billionaires a tax break. We won't let them. #ProtectMedicaid

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It looks like Fortnite players have already gotten AI Darth Vader to say fuck

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Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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People are pointing out Musk would likely be awake at 3:15 am PT when this happened but according to @elonjet.net he was in Qatar and it was the middle of the day there, making it even more plausible it was him.

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This is what these people are.

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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

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it’s amazing watching the gulf states have a competition to see who can come up with the highest made-up number. Saudis said $600B, Qataris $1.2T, now the Emiratis say $1.4T. All numbers that are way bigger than the countries’ entire economy or sovereign wealth funds

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Thanks to Trump, Musk, Miller and more, the threats against US judges posted online have skyrocketed, with some platforms seeing a spike of over 1,000% And it's no longer just fringe platforms — with comment from @lbaum94.bsky.social and @wendyvia.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/violen...

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Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

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A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

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An estimated 500 National Weather Service employees have taken early retirements or been fired this year as part of DOGE cuts in the federal government workforce. Now the agency is short-staffed heading into hurricane season www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

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He is the head of American public health. He was, and is, dramatically unqualified for this job. Everyone knew this, but Republicans didn’t care. And now Americans will die specifically because of it while not one of those Republicans who allowed it to happen suffers a single electoral consequence.

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This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.

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does the guy who came up with the name HBO MAX get paid again

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Absolutely cooked.

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It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

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Andor is one of the best television shows ever made.

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this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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Make America Great Again.

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We managed to make the Tulsa race massacre a well-known component of U.S. history. This should be, too.

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As though a $400 million gift could be a matter of indifference to any person.

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Thanks to DOGE’s spending freezes: -EPA labs have halted critical research -Social Security staffers are rationing paper and can’t pay translators -NOAA has lost internet and phone services -National Park workers can’t buy medicine for visitors or rangers’ horses "Efficiency."

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When Dems went down to El Salvador, Trumps support dropped. When they stopped going, his support increased. Hakeem Jeffries and others who told them to stop are objectively helping Trump.

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Reminder: when Sean Duffy was a congressman, he and other Republicans voted against upgrading air traffic control systems. Now, he’s trying to blame those systems for Newark airport’s outages – while claiming DOGE’s cuts of critical support staff at the FAA had nothing to do with it. Hello?

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Holy shit this is glorious.

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Every act is a scam to serve himself.

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PLEASE READ THIS AND DONT DO WHAT HASAN DID

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Everyone is afraid, for good reason. We have to air out those fears. It's the only way through.

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JPMORGAN: “.. The trade war shock is still material. .. we now estimate an effective ex-ante tariff rate of 14.4%. This is akin to a $475bn tax hike on US households and businesses, worth 1.6% of GDP (still sitting close to the largest tax hike in the post WWII period).”

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read this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

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"He’ll eat in a room with a floor covered in feces. He’ll ask, many times, for supplies to clean it up... he’ll gradually start to long to be deported to El Salvador, a country he barely knows. He’ll want this but won’t get it, because this is an ICE jail." How is every story worst than the last?

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That's the ballgame. If we can't do anything to stop these planet-ruining human-hating AI motherfuckers for a full decade with this kind of administration greasing the wheels for them, we are permanently and deeply cooked.

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Ms. Rachel fucking rules.

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When RFK Jr is talking and the interviewer isn't either shutting him up or better, hitting him a lot, they are doing a bad job of interviewing him. Every second he's allowed to speak on tv, he's killing people. 🤷‍♂️

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“I think they [detained me] because they know who the fuck I am and they wanted to put the fear of god into me, not knowing that I'm a stubborn piece of shit and that's not going to work at all." www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

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30% is an enormously high tariff!

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I, for one, am glad that the ‘national security’ threat used to justify US tariffs on China has clearly been resolved so quickly.

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