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In claiming that those dropped from Medicaid will be put on employers’ insurance plans instead, James Lankford just enunciated Trickle Down 2.0: Healthcare Edition. It’s a lie, just like classic trickle-down economics. This budget plan will give us a sicker America. www.alternet.org/james-lankfo...

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ICE — or Trump’s Secret Police? Add this to the fact that Trump’s government is apparently compiling a database to build profiles on American citizens.

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This is f*cked up! Stories of ICE luring immigrants to hearings just to arrest them keep coming—now they’re going after kids. Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth grader from Southern California, went to a hearing in Houston with his dad. Instead of an update, they were both detained and separated by ICE.

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Homeland Security handcuffed one of Rep. Jerrold Nader’s congressional staffers in his Manhattan office, which is located in the same federal building as the immigration courthouse.

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WIN! Gas giant AirProducts is backing away from its “clean energy” megaproject in Cancer Alley. 🚨 A warning sign that #CarbonCapture and ammonia are risky, costly, and face opposition. 📉 Investors, take note. 👇 Read more. www.ciel.org/false-soluti...

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Republicans are now threatening women who miscarry. Miscarriages happen in 15-25% of ALL pregnancies. We are living in Gilead now. West Virginia Prosecutor Warns Miscarriages Could Lead To Criminal Charges www.huffpost.com/entry/west-v...

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Goldman on Trump's travel plan: "It's pretty consistent with what his 'immigration policy' is, which is just essentially to keep anybody who's not white out of the country."

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CHICAGOIANS STANDING UP TO ICE!! Don’t let them erase this. Share this everywhere!

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🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

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An epidemiologist at Columbia said the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is fake. The paper itself does not exist. Fake scientific papers used by the government to influence policy is fascism.

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Stay alert, New Jersey! If you get a text claiming to be from NJMVC demanding payment for fines, it’s a scam. They will never ask for money that way.

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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries vowed to expose the identities of ICE agents. “This is not the Soviet Union... every single one of them will, of course, be identified.” ....no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes.”

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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

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Lest you think DOGE is over…Big Balls and the federal government are making it official: www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

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🇺🇸🤔 A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, - The Telegraph Darren Beattie has provoked alarm within the State Department since being appointed in February for his ardent pro-Russian views.

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DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one

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Page One in Philly: @inquirer.com

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”

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Up to 7,400 Americans could “literally die” each year because of the cuts to SNAP, Medicare, and Medicaid alone. Trump is going to let thousands of Americans die each year just to fund more tax breaks for himself and his mega-rich friends. This is what an oligarchy looks like.

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ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

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abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg... Thread 🧵 I am full of heartache & disgust Pride Month 🌈 We should be HONORING HARVEY MILK NOW THIS HEGSETH orders NAVY to rename ship named for Harvey Milk, Gay Rights Activist HARVEY MILK IS A HERO He, served in the Navy This was done intentionally

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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (🧵) DAY 2 JUNE 2025 These Tumultuous Times Get as outraged as I am Call your Congressional Representative &Senators 202 224-3121 This must STOP ICE agents dragging off women, children, and families who are not criminals ICE No ID Masked No Warrant GESTAPO! (🧵⬇️)

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FUCK YOU TEXAS! What happened to live and let live? Mind your own damn business Austin statehouse has been taken over by radical right wing religious extremists Texas GOP leadership is so far right they've fallen off the cliff WAKE UP TEXAS! @noh8campaign.bsky.social i

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Now this ICE . . GESTAPO TO RECEIVE $42K BONUS To drag off innocent women and children with no warrant Who are not criminals Let that sink in

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Is there a quota ICE is trying to meet? Feels more about numbers than justice. Documented immigrants are showing up to court, having their cases dismissed—and instantly becoming undocumented, then detained on the spot. A student seized on the way to volleyball. Moms ripped from their kids…

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ICE is conveniently leaving out key details in their press conference. Marcelo Gomes’ father came here legally on a student visa in 2012. Marcelo was only 5. They’ve been trying to gain legal status. His dad was accused of speeding. Marcelo was detained by ICE on his way to volleyball practice.

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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

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State Voter Suppression Bills Could Disenfranchise Millions Ahead of Midterms https://twp.ai/4in2jF

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The Trump administration has raided a Democratic congressional office and detained a staffer. They ignored the office’s request to see a warrant.

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🧵House Bill 127 is scheduled to be heard on Tuesday, June 3 at the General Assembly. It would make it a Class 2 Misdemeanor, possibly resulting in a jail sentence of up to 60 days, for people who are helping register voters using the official voter registration form.

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“Without the threat of contempt, legal experts say the Trump administration could ignore court orders with impunity.” Project 2025 was once a secret. Now it’s being written into our country. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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The Trump administration announced plans to eliminate federal protections for millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness, opening the door to drilling and mining in some of the nation’s last untouched landscapes.

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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Unmarked ICE vans are the Trump version of a TACO truck on every corner, and they really, really suck.

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NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered its scientists NOT to publish in journals without clearance from the Trump administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

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Kwast claims that China is ALREADY, like today, mining Helium-3 on the Moon. And that is par for the course with him. Imagine that in a NASA Administrator www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

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