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Musk’s team was caught using a customized version of the Grok chatbot, without approval, to sift through sensitive government data inside the Department of Homeland Security. They used a modified version in an attempt to hide the fact that they were doing it.

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Democrats in Congress: Investigate and expose why ICE is allowed to operate in masks and conceal their identities. There is no acceptable scenario where this should be permitted. @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems

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"In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people." - Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social No one uses current event details and historical facts to indict Trump better Richardson. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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#EndAutogenocide #3E

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Another big win in court. No, Donald, you can’t play with the lives of foreign students by arbitrarily revoking their visas and, no, you can’t treat universities like pawns in your Gangster State and retaliate against them for defending themselves.

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Trump cut staffing at the VA, and now Dallas vets are waiting months for care. Surgeries are being delayed. Vets are being left without mental health care. I’ve called for an investigation—because if you claim to support veterans, act like it.

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A video circulating on Reddit shows ICE officers wrestling a Hispanic construction worker to the ground while he repeatedly says that he is a US citizen. He was reportedly detained for hours until he was eventually released.

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There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.

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Some folks just thought it was trite when people warned if they come for the most marginalized, sooner or later they are coming for you.

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without question.

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McGovern: We live in the richest country on Earth and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one and especially when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break.

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@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."

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This is your biggest problem right now US. If your media is not giving it live coverage right now, you are getting played.

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Hey Kristi Noem, I haven't heard you say anything about the thousands and thousands of children, sick, elderly annihilated by Israel's bombing of Gaza. Where is your empathy and outrage for them?

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Doesn't this scare you when you live in America>?

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Republicans are trying to kick 13.7 million more people off of their health insurance – all to give tax cuts to some of the wealthiest people and corporations in the country.

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yep

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NEW: The six deportees on a grounded plane in Djibouti must be given a credible-fear interview in private, with access to counsel and an interpreter, either in US or commensurate circumstances abroad, Judge Murphy orders. DHS must update the court weekly. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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So red state folks...do you not understand that you will be impacted the most?

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This is what should be investigated, not Cuomo. The republi-CONS are always sending up distractions from the heinous crimes they are committing, Led by the king of no ethics no moral compass no compassion.

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McGovern: This is something Republicans don’t want to be associated with, and they’re doing their best to hide. But if they vote for it, they own it—and we’re going to make sure they own it

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MAGA = Ignorance. Please don't confuse them facts!

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and how is this better for America when services such as this are cut to offset tax advantages for the billionaire class?

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Israel, led by Netanyahoo, is a terrorist state.

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JD Vance is "profoundly wrong" about most everything. and it appears he has equivocated his entire adult life.

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@nbcnews.com @[email protected] @cnn.com Seriously, you are failing America by not reporting on the what the Democrats said at the 1 AM hearing for the Big Beautiful BS bill. or the disastrous showing of the two Cabinet officials. Afraid of being sued?

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The GOP tax bill makes the super-rich super-richer while robbing the working-class majority blind. Democrats are wide awake and standing unified to fight this historic ripoff.

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Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

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McGovern: "What the hell are Republicans so afraid of? What the hell are so scared of that you guys are holding this hearing at 1 in the morning ... if Republicans are so proud of what's in this bill, why are you trying to ram it through in dead of night?"

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Boyle: "Out from CBO, just tonight, are the distributional effects of this bill. And what does it show? The bottom 10 percent of Americans will actually be poorer as a result of this bill with the biggest benefit going to the top 1 percent."

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McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."

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McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

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Finally, calling them out for what they are really doing.

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Millions of Romanians are celebrating tonight nationwide. This is what democracy looks like, despite Russia's insane manipulation campaign and army of influencer-propagandists, the people saw right through the bullshit and made the right call for their future. Romania is undefeated. 🇷🇴🇪🇺

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Nicușor Dan, is the new President of Romania, he is pro-EU, pro-Ukraine, a mathematician, genius IQ, and wants to eradicate corruption and organized crime. "Today’s win is by a Romanian community that wants a profound change," "We are living a moment of hope."

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Exactly!

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Dear press: Why do questions of mental acuity activate only with the prior but not the current administration? Asking for a nation.

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Someone please explain to me how this isn’t a flagrant violation of SCOTUS’ decision in AARP that due process requires more than 24 hours of notice.

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