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That feeling when professors of epidemiology start using words like BIOTERRORISM … 🦠 ☠️

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Never Forget This Simple Truth 😳🧨

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He should stick to hitting the bottle. 👀

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I so appreciate @repsherrill.bsky.social calling out White Nationalism. The racist POS, Pete Hegseth removed Maya Angelou’s, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from the military library but kept Hitler’s, Mein Kempf on on the shelf. #Voices4Victory #SheShed youtu.be/LmkZ220oTuA?...

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Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🙏⚖️🦅👍

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Whelp this is a HUGE ASS MISTAKE breakingdefense.com/2025/05/hegs...

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Just because you put lots of flags in your office doesn't mean you've done a trade deal with them

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BREAKING: SOS Marco Rubio, said that the government can expel legal residents from the country based on 'past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful.'" Once again: the SOS said that he can expel legal residents from the country for "expected beliefs!”

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Trump tried to sleep so he can lower the grocery prices.

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“We are the many. They are the few.” "This is what democracy looks like." "Stop the billionaire takeover" (📹 @datainput ) #3E #MayDay #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy

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Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

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Ed Martin Jr., a conservative activist with modest legal experience who has defended rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is testing Republican party loyalties as a deadline approaches for the Senate to decide whether to extend or end his tenure …

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Today, May 1, is Law Day. For D.C.Bar members, one small but important way to take a stand in support of the rule of law is to support Diane Seltzer for D.C. Bar President. We must defeat her opponent Brad Bondi, brother of the current U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Please vote here: www.dcbar.org

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What an original mind or lost his mind.

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Weird, and unsettling.

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NEW: Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t Trump's statement was a blunt boast about his administration’s intention to defy the Supreme Court's orders. WHERE IS SENATE MINORITY LEADER @schumer.senate.gov?🦗 Trump crossed his red line www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

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Wherein I ask: “How appalling is it that Trump—an outright criminal who should have gone to jail for far more than he was convicted of—is using his official power to punish lawyers for representing innocent people he doesn't like and to deny people the very due process he's getting?”

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Lawyers who've chosen to represent Donald Trump in his criminal appeal invoke the hoary principle that defendants are entitled to counsel, and to due process. Yet their client, the President, is punishing lawyers for representing his "enemies," and attacking judges for affording them due process.

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DONALD TRUMP, AUGUST 14, 2024: "When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand-new Trump economic boom" DAY 101:

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Paul Weiss and the firms that settled should be ashamed.👇 "These are big boys. These are the biggest, most powerful lawyers. These are not people that are easily intimidated. And they paid hundreds of millions of dollars because I guess they probably felt they did something wrong." --Donald Trump

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Hey Siri—make an advertisement to convince people to tune out legacy media and support independent pro-democracy news outlets.

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I have a proposal for when the shortages start happening in a couple of weeks. A “National Grocery Day of Action” where we all go to stores all over the country with signs saying:

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After his release from federal custody today, Mohsen Mahdawi delivered a bold message to Donald Trump and his Cabinet: “Let me make this clear—I am not afraid of you.

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This. Is. How. You. Do. It.

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Courage is contagious. And speaking truth to the powerful must not stop because the powerful threaten this with has power over.

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Reading the transcript of that ABC interview and came across the bit where Trump says law firms like Skadden and Paul, Weiss "paid me a lot of money." And the law firms had told us those hundreds of millions were just for probono work they were going to do anyway? abcnews.go.com/US/full-tran...

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Great job, Brad Karp.

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Today’s corruption bulletin:

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Among the cheerleaders the Trump administration has seated in the White House press room…

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This guy, Dom Lucre, shared child sexual abuse material on Twitter, got banned for it, and then Musk reinstated him. Absolutely wild to see him being treated like a real journalist.

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This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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SCOOP: A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government. @davidgilbert.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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A bipartisan measure to undo Trump's global tariffs fails in the Senate

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I drained my child's bathtub today. There was enough water in there to drown every living American, with enough time. That's 300 million lives saved. You can thank me for my service through Venmo

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The party that spent decades extolling the value of free markets unites behind imposing tariffs on every country on earth for no particular reason

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What makes a good tip for ProPublica? • Information that isn’t already known • Evidence that powerful people are doing something they shouldn’t • Specifics and receipts How to contact us securely:

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What could possibly go wrong

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What is this madness? What do “riots in Harlem” have to do with Harvard? No one wanted to interrupt and ask? Also, what riots?

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New- Chris Krebs’ “membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isn’t another act of retribution…” @jaketapper.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

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Opinion | The DOGE staffers are not too young to run the government. by Bill Belichick

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Sullivan & Cromwell’s Representation Of Trump Is A ‘Disgrace’ And The Firm Should Be ‘Embarrassed’ Says George Conway https://abovethelaw.com/2025/04/sullivan-cromwells-representation-of-trump-is-a-disgrace-and-the-firm-should-be-embarrassed-says-george-conway/

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NY Times Editorial Board: “The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts…” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

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So Navarro here is expressly admitting that it was Trump’s tariffs that caused the economy to contract in the first quarter of 2025.

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