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West Virginia is warning that women who have a miscarriage could be charged with a crime unless they contact local police. Every woman in WV should call 911 every time they have a period. Gum up the system with malicious compliance. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...

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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

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Federal judge intervenes after ICE arrests 2nd asylum seeking in Portland immigration court www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

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Hidden in the GOP Tax scam is a provision to take away the tax on..... gun silencers. #TrumpsBillWillKill

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VARNEY: 8,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in May. That's not what you wanted to see. CHAVEZ-DeREMER: Well, we're certainly holding steady. VARNEY: But how could we're losing those jobs? CHAVEZ-DeREMER: Well, we're certainly holding steady.

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San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature.”

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This is disgusting. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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@sranderson.bsky.social‬ looks across several D.C. Circuit opinions on various U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America suits to piece together a fuller picture of how the court views President Trump's attempt to dismantle the executive branch. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

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The ignorance of this administration is jaw-dropping. On Wednesday, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon if teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre or Ruby Bridges counted as “illegal DEI.” McMahon wouldn’t give a straight yes or no. That says everything.

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If you had important information for voters, and kept it to yourself to sell books after it was too late, you’re not a hero. You’re an asshole.

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Government now citing fentanyl and online crimes against children as the rationale for including warrantless access to information about Internet subscribers in a bill called the Stronger Borders Act. It’s the same lawful access playbook again and again. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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This is an insane chart

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Look at all these lawless immigrants, dutifully showing up for check-ins with federal authorities when asked

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As I predicted, we are now entering an era where we cannot necessarily trust data coming from the federal govt on things like inflation. Something to watch VERY closely for GDP, unemployment, everything. www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

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Maybe the real waste, fraud, and abuse was the DOGE we made along the way.

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“Jordan Peterson is a bad and lazy thinker, and an even worse writer,” writes Luke Savage. “But he is also symptomatic of a more generalized decline in the quality of public intellectuals.” thewalrus.ca/is-jordan-pe... thewalrus.ca/is-jordan-pe...

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Greta Thunberg. Clear as ever. www.democracynow.org/2025/6/4/gre...

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Trump has appointed a 22-year-old former Heritage Foundation intern as the Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the US government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.

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A "significant share" of companies surveyed by the Federal Reserve said they raised the prices of goods and services unaffected by tariffs. One company said they did this to "enjoy the extra margin before tariffs increased their costs." See the problem here? www.axios.com/2025/06/04/t...

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Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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I think it's real. But if they feel this kayfabe helps them pass a murder budget that lots of House Members know will end their career with the smallest House margin in a century, go for it.

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Have you also been receiving those scam texts about an unpaid toll? What about the ones offering you a job that seems too good to be true? Text scams are the cockroaches of our digital lives. They just won't die. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Linda McMahon: We now have the full budget for Magnet Schools Rep. Joseph Courtney: Yeah, it says ZERO.

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In a new declaration in the DVD case, an ICE official describes how ICE officers and detainees face medical and security threats in South Sudan—the place where the government’s own lawyers proposed keeping the migrants in order to conduct reasonable fear interviews pursuant to a court order

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“i hope the wrong kind of person loses their livelihood and struggles to make ends meet”

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🚨🚨🚨 CBO MAKES IT OFFICIAL: 16 MILLION Americans would become uninsured under the #MAGAMurderBill when combined w/IRA subsidy expiration: acasignups.net/25/06/04/cbo...

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Sending taxpayer money to private religious schools is a violation of the Missouri Constitution…

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VA staffing cuts are on the table - including at Veterans Health Administration facilities that serve veterans. Ranking Member @repmarktakano.bsky.social won't let the Secretary continue to hide the real implications these dangerous cuts will undoubtedly have on veteran patient care.

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A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

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NEW: Virginia's two most populous cities voted Harris in November, and both have Republican sheriffs up for reelection this year, at a time where sheriffs are rushing to help ICE. There's no Democrat, or indy, challenging either sheriff. Main filing deadline passed; a final one is in two weeks.

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Nearly 300k Pennsylvanians would lose Medicaid coverage. Pennsylvania families would see a rise in energy costs up to $1200. Domestic manufacturing tax credits would be rolled back and the U.S. would lose $50 billion. And now this massive deficit added. Once again, I am a NO.

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Most federal employees fired by DOGE received fabricated documents justifying their dismissal, complete with bogus performance reviews. Some were labeled “poor performers” despite recently receiving internal awards for excellence. Now, Trump is pushing to expand these purge tactics.

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DEAN: Did your department have any worry about the president growing his own business while on the job? LUTNICK: My trip to the Middle East was extraordinary. It was amazing. DEAN: I'm sure. I'm asking you, did the question of conflict of interest come up? LUTNICK: No DEAN: It is grotesque

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The US is creating an international network of gulags around the globe. Andrea is back. And so is NEXT COMES WHAT. The Concentration Camp Tendency Goes Global

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NEW in Bolts: In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a GOP sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” is running for office without any Democratic or independent challenger. The race captures how local allies of ICE often run unchallenged. boltsmag.org/sheriff...

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When your massive ego gets you to announce something a more careful person would have kept quiet.

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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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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Millions of Obamacare enrollees would lose health coverage under the Republicans’ major policy bill, which would make coverage more expensive and harder to obtain. Here’s how. nyti.ms/43y01Ct

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In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

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There’s another scandal buried in the Trump-Republican budget plan that’s not getting enough attention: massive giveaways to Big Oil.

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wow -- even GOP Rep. Womack isn't happy that OMB DIrector Vought hasn't provided a budget proposal (note that Vought basically says he's too busy to do it)

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ICE detentions surge while deportations lag. NPR found overcrowded facilities lacking food and medicine after speaking to dozens of detainees, families, and lawyers over the past month.

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"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

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