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And right there is one of the reasons we bombed Iran. Pretext to get Netanyahu off the hook for his crimes.

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I long for the day we have a president who doesn’t call other humans “scum”

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Bondi flips out and refuses to answer after being pressed by @senjeffmerkley.bsky.social on Trump's crypto scheme

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In case it's not clear, ICE is going to be turned on all of us, any of us, who exhibits any degree of conscience or even interest in the law, not just immigrants or their advocates. And ICE and the police are multicultural. Diversity in the Repressive State Apparatus isn't going to save us.

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The hypocrisy is staggering. Israel has deliberately targeted hospitals, universities, schools, apartment buildings, and civilians. Let’s be clear: attacking any of these targets is wrong no matter who’s doing it. But Israel has no moral authority here.

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James Baldwin on this Juneteenth day. I am excited to discuss this book and its commitment to anti-racism and anti-imperialism, its demand that we see how Black liberation is intertwined with all of our collective liberation. Online via the Authors Guild next Thursday, June 26. Link in comment.

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ICE is essentially disappearing people. “The Ice official told me they are under no obligation to tell the family or the attorneys of the detainees that they have been apprehended, or that they’ve been moved to another state, to another facility, or that they’ve been deported.”

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It’s going to be real tough to discuss Japanese American internment without saying something negative. All national parks now have this sign. Sanitizing crimes and erasing memory is one more step towards a white supremacist version of history.

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Here's my interview with Mitch Jeserich on how the "Cold War" from Southeast Asia to Central America has led to Bukele's deportation prison and the MAGA demonization of immigrants as invaders and criminals. kpfa.org/episode/lett...

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This is monstrous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The normalization of killing Palestinians has been ongoing but this murderous “humanitarianism” is something new. I can’t recall a situation where people seeking aid risk getting shot en masse daily from the people —the Israelis— providing the “aid.”

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Call it what it is: an attempted ethnic cleansing of the United States.

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U.S. Senate Republicans were scrambling Tuesday to restructure several proposals in the “big, beautiful bill” that don’t meet their chamber’s strict rules for passing a reconciliation package. mainemorningstar.com/2025/06/24/r...

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Supreme Court Abets Trump’s Defiance of Court Orders and much more in today's Morning Memo from me at @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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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.

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⚡️Update: 'Dead and wounded everywhere' — Russia strikes Dnipro with ballistic missiles, hits civilian train. According to Dnipropetrovsk Governor, at least 8 people were killed and 84 injured in Dnipro. In Samarske, the number of wounded rose to 11, while 2 people were killed.

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Anyone who says "Ru-Ukraine war could've been prevented or would've been over if..." and then lists stuff Ukraine/West should NOT have done in response to Ru aggression is a russian apologist. Russia wants to subjugate Ukraine. The ONLY warmonger and obstacle to peace is russia.

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There’s a lot going on, and it seems like every week, #SCOTUS grants another Trump emergency application. But last night’s ruling in the third-country removal case stands out as especially problematic—not just for what it greenlights, but for the defiance of lower courts it necessarily condones:

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The Trump administration often dismisses #HumanRights as a serious factor in #ForeignPolicy. @ambdanfried.bsky.social on history’s lessons about the risks such thinking poses to solidarity and strategic interests: www.justsecurity.org/115191/trump...

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Are we clear yet that it’s a problem to have a pathological liar and malignant narcissist in a position of such power?

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Well done.

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www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

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100 days. 💔

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Ukraine said Monday "another massive attack" on Kyiv by Russian drones is underway, a day after the country's top military commander vowed to increase the "scale and depth" of strikes on Russia u.afp.com/Sx5g

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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Trump has no strategy with @politicsjoe.bsky.social youtu.be/zsRvCiXOXCs?...

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this seems correct

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😵‍💫 The meeting between Putin, Trump and Zelensky should be the result of long-term work and already prepared points, — Peskov. Russian fundamental approach: negotiations for the sake of negotiations, delaying the end of the war for the sake of continuing killings and trying to grab more territory.

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A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in a huge fireball on a test stand during preparations for its next launch at the Elon Musk-led company’s base in South Texas. https://trib.al/UM4fCXL

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Another way to put this: Russia, bogged down in Ukraine, is unable to help its partners www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/w...

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#Odesa is on fire.The city's historic center is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. "High-culture" Russians are barbarians in reality.What they can't steal,they destroy The attention of the world is on the Middle East these days.Russia continues going unpunished, will continue destroying #Ukraine

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Bombing Iran is a terrible idea. It’s unlikely to work—and nothing could be more perilous to American democracy than going to war under Donald Trump, Robert Kagan writes. https://theatln.tc/CH1ulpLM

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The whole idea of "antiwar" Trump has long rested on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order, and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate/corrupt reasons. Thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/1969...

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The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...

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I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

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WATCH: “She keeps looking for her mom and doesn’t want the bottle.” A mom married to a 🇺🇸 citizen with a legal family petition was grabbed by Trump’s Gestapo at her immigration appointment and taken from her husband and baby. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DLONDhV...

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Uh.... Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

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