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Republicans are kicking 16 MILLION PEOPLE off of health care and cutting $300 billion from food assistance programs — all so billionaires can get a big tax break and buy another yacht. They’re betraying the American people — for generations to come.

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The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

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A recent study by the RAND Corporation found that $79 trillion was pilfered from the bottom 90% of income earners. The problem isn’t that America lacks abundance. It’s that America’s abundance is being hoarded by a tiny handful of rich people. www.levernews.com/abundance-is...

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...and many of those rich people fund the Abundance Movement, which doesn't want anyone to focus on that hoarding

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I'm self-employed. Medicaid expansion has allowed me to have coverage because the cost of private insurance has been out of reach for individuals running tiny businesses, like myself. F*ck GOP for trying to force everyone to go take menial jobs for corporations just to have healthcare.

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Understanding this post means you must touch grass immediately

submitted 13 hours ago • 43 comments

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why not decommission it the usual way: launching it into a million pieces over protected wetlands

submitted 14 hours ago • 76 comments

Oh.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1901 comments

Thread on why this is both a morally horrifying and strategically idiotic argument

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TONIGHT: Joining our friends at the Grassroots Connector for a talk about all things No Kings!!! Tune in: open.substack.com/pub/grassroo...

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A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

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The Lever recently produced the award-winning audio series MASTER PLAN about the 50-year plot to legalize corruption and legalize the buying of elections. MasterPlanPodcast.com Musk here is basically acknowledging that this Master Plan let him buy the election for Trump.

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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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Call To Action! Repost to help defeat Cuomo! No matter who you are or where you are, you can help us out! Everyone knows, or is followed on social media, by someone from NYC. thelibertypear.com/2025/06/03/c...

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Last night.

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

I’m not sure what’s happening here, but I’m pretty sure math is involved.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

boosting for my PA folks! pittsburgh, they're talking about cutting our transit service by 40%! it's budget time in the capital, please take a minute and reach out to your reps!

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#RaiseIt!🖤🗡️🏴‍☠️💛 3-0 #Pirates A shut fer a shut aht! Small ball’s the name of the game!⚾️ IKF, Cutch, and Frazier each with a productive out. The bullpen maintained the course. An efficient game all around. Defense held fast for Burrows!

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The US vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages.

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Exclusive: Just got sent internal Biden polling numbers from BEFORE the June debate disaster and Jesus Christ Minnesota and Virginia were only D +2

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

its remarkable how much the dynamic of debate changes when there's a socialist involved as a serious contender. everyones out here talking about expanding social safety nets and riding the bus

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Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre? McMahon: I’d have to get back to you Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is? McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.

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Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon's family is worth $3.2 billion. The administration is trying to give her a huge tax cut, paid for by cuts to Medicaid and food assistance -- including for kids. I asked her to explain why she needs the money. She refused.

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There’s a special election tonight for a South Carolina House seat that Harris carried by single-digits last fall. The early vote just came in, 80% to 20% for the Democrat.

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This criticism makes no sense. They're taunting Trump for chickening out on policies which they oppose. Would they rather he followed through on them?

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Kristof found the kids who died because of Trump's dismantling of USAID www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Especially if you’re a veteran, but even if not, I’d like you to consider joining me and @AdamKinzinger in Washington on Friday to rally for veterans, our oaths, and service. Here’s why I think you should come: (/1)

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Trump is right about DC being a swamp, he just made it a polluted ocean. I've worked for Congress, here's how it works and how it contributed to where we are now

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Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

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Hey I know what you could do, fund a think tank to push Democrats to stick together to do the right thing even when it's hard and scary and even when polls are nebulous.

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You can win sometimes. The Education Department was planning to garnish Social Security benefits on defaulted student loans. But once awareness of that got out, they TACO'd. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/02/t...

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If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

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at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people

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On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

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More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42) and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"

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Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by people they follow switching platforms than by their own followers switching platforms. Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801

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✡️🕊️ A broad coalition of Jewish organizations, synagogues, and concerned individuals gathered outside the White House this Sunday, June 1st, to demand an end to the war in Gaza ✋🛑 🧵 Video 1/2👇

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Hey DOGE!

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Anyone who talked to folks not on Twitter/in the party sounded this alarm and was shamed for it. We still have people TODAY trying to rewrite history. We should be furious that our future was thrown away like this not doubling down.

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Democratic base: We hate spineless Democrats. We can't stand how they grant Republican framing on immigration, Gaza, and more. They are putting people at risk and abdicating their role as opposition leaders. Chuck Schumer: I TRIPLE DOG DARE "TACO Trump" to go to war with Iran!!

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Before the the rallies and the rhetoric, there was a 4th of July parade: Haitian immigrants carrying American flags. Then everything changed. @franciswilkinson.bsky.social's essay on what happened in Charleroi, PA:

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I am v glad to see this ongoing reckoning w Scalia. In my view, he's responsible for much of the awfulness we see among Fedsoc judges who were raised on his ops & think its a sign of intelligence to disparage your colleagues in personal terms & act as if opposing args arent just wrong but laughable.

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The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed at ICE officials: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

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A powerful read from @franciswilkinson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

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Shorter Justice Kavanaugh: Let's wait till after the midterm elections to hold that bans on AR-15s violate the Second Amendment.

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Video shows two unknown men, without uniforms or identifying insignias, attacking and kidnapping a man from a Nashua, NH courthouse back in February. During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.

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