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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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For Reals

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Holiday Reading by Carl Larsson - 1916 Swedish, 1853-1919 watercolour and gouache over pencil on paper laid on canvas.

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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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And no one, not a single solitary person in the House, Senate, Special Counsel, US Attorney, or the Office of Government Ethics is doing a damn thang about it. The abject capitulation is astounding.

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Yes THIS.

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I think there's a useful point on the Overton window here but also, this was announced this evening and is leading homepages on literally every site I checked, so maybe give it twelve hours or so to start gauging the temperature of the reaction?

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Chris Gunness: "The Israeli American aid operation has turned Gaza into a human abattoir, where starving civilians are herded like animals into fenced off pens and in the process are slaughtered like cattle"

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British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

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one day it's going to come out that the total revenue for the entire generative AI industry is like $20-$25bn in 2025, and the cost to make that revenue was $50bn-$100bn+

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More information on this despicable case here: thehill.com/homenews/sta...

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Ms. Rachel says she’ll keep advocating for children in Gaza, even if it means risking her career

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WATCH: “You stand in my church. You promised me.” A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE

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1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

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Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

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This group exists for the specific purpose of trying to get Dems to throw trans people under the bus.

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Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter. Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to life. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Four Democratic members of the SJC - Blumenthal, Hirono, Padilla, and Booker - didn't even bother to show up. Booker! Trump is shoving Emil Bove down Booker's throat, and he can't show up? Is he too busy hawking his new book? What a complete failure to meet the moment.

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Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel. History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away. Please help share this widely. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

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Let's address a couple things about masked ICE and DHS officers in tactical gear. 1. They're not "Proud Boys cosplaying as federal agents." Yes, there's crossover between LEO's and right-wing groups. Yes, these guys ARE real federal agents. You don't get onto an SRT without years of experience.

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Trump's nazi "administration" is canceling everything that's beneficial to the American people to protect billionaires from paying their fair share of taxes and just to be hateful AF.

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A Palestinian boy watches in horror as his mother is gunned down by Israeli forces while waiting for humanitarian aid—turning what should be a lifeline into a death sentence. The so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" has become a killing ground.

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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

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And this is how they treat an Australian Military Wife visiting her US Army husband, I shudder to think how those rammed through the system are getting treated

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Musk is only pretending to step away from destroying the government to avoid financial and ethical disclosures. Don't fall for it. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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the kids who are actually playing against trans athletes who aren't auditioning for a gig as a right wing grifter are way more mature than the adults crying about it

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This guy is such a weak leader

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Russia has to build an entirely new security network covering every shipping container in the country. It must start inspecting every truck across seven time zones. They don’t have resources to do this. Supply chain chaos will be absolute.

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Things are heating up on that bad app

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The claim that Ukraine “has no cards” must surely be re-evaluated

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Despite all their contradictions and lies, MAGA has been remarkably consistent in one area: their hatred for America. They hate the people, hate the places, hate the very idea of it. MAGA changes positions on a whim all the time, but they will never, even by accident, make Americans' lives better.

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ICE has been doing major operations in San Diego in recent days. A must-read dive, icymi, into some local residents who've been organizing there:

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I have a friend who is an exvangelical and she put it very succinctly: “We don’t believe anyone else is human. You are not people to us.” Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.

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Be clear that she just threatened everyone who isn’t an evangelical Christian

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much? The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months. Here's how:

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There's no organized immigrant resistance to ICE. One of the most alarming things about these fash assholes playing military dress-up is that they're not doing it to arrest immigrants, they're armed up because they're expecting to fight American citizens... violently.

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The only people who are predicted to get richer in the next 5 years are the richest 10%, who will add 1-2% a year, the richest 1% who will gain 3-4%, and the billionaires who will gain nearly 10% above inflation every year. Everyone else will get poorer.

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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Great piece here featuring Scott Weidensaul discussing the very real possibility of losing the Bird Banding Lab

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While we are all reeling from the budget and its major cuts to NASA, NIH, USGS, etc. I want to also draw attention to this little nugget about State Wildlife Grants, which is the mechanism for funding State Wildlife Action Plans. Eliminating SWG will destroy state natural resource agencies.

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Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

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I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

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Last week, Marco Rubio insisted no one has died because of his USAID cutoffs. But these two kids, ages 5 and 8, were being kept alive thanks to US-funded antiretrovirals. Then they lost access to the drugs. And now, they're both dead. Via @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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The Trump administration’s release today of limited, additional budget detail confirms once again that the President continues to break his promises to lower families’ costs and help people who are struggling to make ends meet.

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