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1. As many people learned this morning, the National Park Service prohibits swimming and wading in the water in Rock Creek due to oil, heavy metals, pesticides, pet waste, and raw sewage in the water.

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so weird how the openly corrupt dismantling of federal governance, consumer protection and the social safety net routinely gets buried below 57 deep dives into that insane eugenicist couple or Mark Cuban's deep thoughts on why young men don't need libraries anymore

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The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The US is unloved. Meanwhile, China keeps improving its global standing 👇 www.politico.eu/article/usa-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 254 comments

This will be easy to confirm. Not that anyone will care.

submitted 7 hours ago • 297 comments

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

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This LOSER administration & Republicans disrupted $600 billion in trade & the U.S. supply chain, for a 90-day pause, to squeeze their additional 10% out of Americans, what a farce, & we still don’t have resolution… It’s all about the drama show, and power trip! www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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“Waaaaah…I don’t care if it’s a bribe. I WANT MY PLANE! Waaaaah 😭😭😭”

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How not surprising that a lobbyist for Qatar, who took a bribe from Trump to shut down an investigation of Trump University for consumer fraud, found that it was OK for Qatar to bribe Trump.

submitted 22 hours ago • 74 comments

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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Donald Trump is about to accept a gift of a jet from Qatar. This is a gift to him personally. He wants to transfer the jet to his presidential "library" - meaning to his personal use and that of his heirs. More analysis of Trump corruption here www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpU2...

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Props to Donald Trump: every day, in every way, his administration is finding dynamic new ways to wallow in corruption. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

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Life in Gaza two-and-a-half months into an Israeli blockade: people are killing horses, butchering wild rabbits, boiling weeds and scouring the shore for turtles to get something to eat. Livestock are already dead and most of Gaza's farmland is barren. www.ft.com/content/48dc...

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House Republicans are now targeting federal workers’ retirement benefits to help fund their massive tax cuts. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved a plan to slash $50 billion from the retirement system over the next decade by changing

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Trump's crypto venture is fleecing his supporters. 80% of the new or small-time crypto investors in Trump’s coin have been hit with big losses. Meanwhile, his team is making millions off the coin’s trading fees, which stay stable even when its value goes down. It’s a grift.

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Bessent last week said China would be “devastated” by a lack of US orders. Turns out China has other customers, too. 🤡

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The new GOP tax bill's temporary $2,000 per couple increase in the standard deduction beyond 2017 tax law extension is worth: -$0 for a fast food worker making $30k -$200 for plumber making $50k -$740 for a corporate lawyer making $1 million

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Is ANYONE actually SURPRISED? 👇 Anyone?!

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When you make a Monty Python co-founder laugh out loud. 💕

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And this is why some products will just disappear off the shelves..importers will not be able to afford to carry them.

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ICYMI: these are the only refugees they are making room for. Their vision for 🇺🇸 couldn’t be any clearer.

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DOGE was never about "efficiency."

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NEW: White House’s Stephen Miller: ‘We are actively looking at’ suspending habeas corpus www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Trump regime just arrested the Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka and roughed up two Democratic members of Congress for standing up to ICE. Here is Rep. Menendez, Jr. slamming ICE for their attack on Democratic officials. Nothing makes MAGA happier than arresting a Black Mayor and beating up Democrats.

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WTF are we even doing??

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"a grim milestone that has only been achieved twice in the last 30 years" www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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> @sfchronicle.com

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Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.

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Republicans in Congress are exploring ways to make Medicaid recipients pay higher fees and co-pays for insurance. They want to make the poorest Americans pay more for healthcare. Why? To help pay for tax cuts that will disproportionately go to their rich donors.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/h.... This situation in the US is getting worse for science almost by the day. Such myopic views will send US science backwards. I really feel for my US colleagues 🧪

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Reminder that wellness grifters like Trump’s new Surgeon General Casey Means spread misinformation about vaccines and health because it is extremely profitable for them to do so. (Chart by @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social)

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Florida's Plan to Replace Migrant Workers With Children Falls Apart www.newsweek.com/florida-plan...

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Trump's wisest appointee yet just explained YESTERDAY why an American got elected Pope for the first time TODAY, saying he agreed with the statement about our political decline and the papacy. www.instagram.com/reel/DJW3Crd...

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Oh yes it’s a pattern of well established behavior-preying upon anyone perceived as vulnerable.

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This wild chart claims the risk of death from polio is 1 in 1 trillion. There haven't even been one trillion people who have existed in all of human history. Somehow, many thousands of them have managed to die from polio. The rest of the chart is, of course, fake news.

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The U.S. is on track to have the worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948. Some regions are reporting that they are struggling to do contact tracing of cases because they are ALSO managing measles investigations. And, of course, funding cuts to public health have resulted in fewer resources.

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Holy crap. The D.V.D. litigators say the planned flight to Libya was going to be for Southeast Asian nationals!

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Can someone remind me is it good when the government starts making lists of people they think are inferior?

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Scoop: We've obtained internal cables showing how the U.S. government is pushing countries facing tariffs to clear way for Musk's Starlink State Dept says it's good to encourage Starlink adoption Others point to blurring of Musk's private/government roles ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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