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"The scenes...are reminiscent of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, where police and the military act with impunity against citizens. These masked agents are...the face of Trump’s immigration crackdown, and have prompted calls to make it illegal for the agents to conceal their identities."

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60% of seniors in nursing homes are on Medicaid. Kids across the country rely on their parents' Medicaid for health insurance. The Big Ugly Bill would devastate American families.

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"Republican leaders are…desperately afraid the public will discover what the bill would do—rip health care away from millions, explode the deficit, and cause what might be the biggest transfer in government resources from poor to rich in American history." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-abo...

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And yet

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Damning Report Exposes Stephen Miller’s Shady Ties to Palantir #Palantir has been snapping up massive government contracts to increase surveillance capabilities. #MOG8 newrepublic.com/post/197149/...

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Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

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Mass murderer. (gift link)

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“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

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Scanlon: They're flat out lying when they say they're just kicking undocumented immigrants off Medicaid because those folks were never eligible for Medicaid in the first place. The truth is Republicans know that kicking millions of Americans off of health insurance is unpopular.

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Meanwhile, on the Big Beautiful Bill, @ryanlcooper.com points out that the one big area where energy tax credits are actually expanded is in ethanol and biofuels, which is demonstrably worse for climate change and a horrible use of land: prospect.org/politics/202...

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Yikes. Karoline Leavitt's statement basically completely confirms CNN's reporting. This is really bad for the White House and should be a major scandal. Trump lied. Again.

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These people are, in essence, sentenced to death. We know that's what incarceration does to people -- their lives are permanently shortened, even if they survive custody. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-rec...

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Have to give it up for MAGA & Trump voters. Kennedy wants every American to wear a tracking device. Palantir is assembling a database of every piece of information about every single American taken from every gov't dept Gov't troops on American street. Sounds like a police state Whole lot of fascism

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Rural hospitals will not “get over it.” They will shut down. Permanently.

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“Nationwide, the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe has led to a staggering $133 billion in economic losses each year, IWPR estimates.” #Pinks

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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

submitted 3 days ago • 784 comments

Thoughts on this ceasefire: - Israel is lighting Tehran up right now. Some of the most intense strikes so far - Khamenei says Iran will not surrender - Trump says ceasefire will hold “forever” which is fucking laughable - nobody cares that 400kg of uranium is missing?

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In case you wondered why Trump can't afford to pay for disaster relief: they are diverting disaster relief money to fund concentration camps

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Why did Congressional Republicans jam through an unpopular budget with the largest Medicaid cuts in history? It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich. Reverse Robin Hood.

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They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.

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DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

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From the Cato Institute; this one is worth reading. Topline: "nonpublic data from ICE indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind." Don't let their lies dominate the narrative. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

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Six months later: this is what the eggs cost 😒😞

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www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/... brilliant and on the money

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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

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Why is it that this country always has endless money for war but not for housing? Bombs but not books? Missiles but not Medicaid? Our priorities are not just backward — they're being driven by wealthy war hawks hellbent on padding their pockets.

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Today's Big DISTRACTION by TACO WAR with Iran Distracting away from what? - ICE Arrests - Tariff War(s), prices overall - Ignoring Putin’s Ukraine Genocide - Stock Market - New budget: #TrumpTaxSCAM - Musk Feud - Epstein Files - Term TACO - Qatar Jet - Bit Coin Scam - Midterms - Bday Parade #MOG8

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Striking to me that on the networks and cable news sites, no one was pointing out the obviously purely propagandistic nature of these claims. An assessment of the efficacy of attacks of this sort cannot be made instantaneously. It will take several days at a minimum.

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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

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BREAKING: TRUMP BROKE Another FEDERAL LAW Not Notifying Entire Gang Of 8… Its reported that Trump only informed Republicans and not the Democrats. If so, Trump also violation of 50 U.S.C. § 3093.

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I am once again reminding everyone that the President does not get to declare war, that is solely the responsibility of Congress.

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Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

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the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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RFK Jr.’s version of a high fiber diet.

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My column from Monday. Alabama Democrats are probably not going to win the governor’s mansion in 2026. But they still have to try. A weak statewide ticket will put the Democrats’ legislative seats in jeopardy, just like it did in 2022, and move the party closer to extinction.

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On July 1 Rubio is terminating The Dept of Women's Rights Stop saying there is NO war against women www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj7qgs2k/

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Beloved Ohio high school soccer star kidnapped by ICE and deported www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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