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Senator Murkowski cut a backroom deal to exempt Alaska from Medicaid cuts, but the Senate parliamentarian shut it down. Protecting your own state while harming millions elsewhere is selfishness and disgusting.

The Supreme Court is in the process of overturning the Civil War. The Executive is perpetrating violence in major cities. Congress represents the extremely rich and not the People. Do they do right track/wrong track surveys anymore?

CNN ends its interview of Zohran Mamdani and immediately transitions to its next segment on Jeff Bezos' $50 million wedding in Venice (lol). "Next we take you to Venice, where capitalism rules with Jeff Bezos' $50 million wedding."

“And”???? Should be a comma there

This has it just about right

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

LAPD helicopter circling immigrant rights protesters behind the pride month rainbow-lit city hall

UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody. His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice." Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.

technically it's a polyghoul

A major new report commissioned by Utah health officials finds that gender-affirming care for transgender youth , including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, is medically safe and effective and improves mental health outcomes. www.transvitae.com/n... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

New market strategy: Sell on Trump's first lie (better yet, if you're a Trump associate with advance news of the lie, sell before the lie) and then buy on Trump's second lie (that purports to fix the problem caused by the first lie) and then sell before people realize the second lie is also a lie.

Elon Musk’s AI data centers polluting Black communities so that his Nazi followers can ask his chatbot questions is a perfect distillation of why AI is fascist technology

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Way to go, Encyclopedia Brownshirt.

MORAN: What does it (the Declaration of Independence) mean to you? TRUMP: It means exactly what it says; it's a declaration of unity, love and respect and it means a lot. It's something very special to our country.

“We’re learning that there’s a program to send school-age boys to Jupiter to get more stupider.”

Just saw a group of homeless people mocking a cyber truck driver and he stopped to yell back at them from his window lmfaooooo

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Trump: "I did it last time. And they undid it. That's why we have to stay president for a long time."

“.. If the IRS can go after you because of your beliefs, we'd no longer live in a free country,” Vance, in a resurfaced clip, says to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.” @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here we go. US born citizen in ICE custody.

Twitter phasing out DMs the day after it comes out that Elon has been using them to arrange drive-through bastards with ladies who were fired from podcasts is so fucking funny

Good news guys

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

"In just two months [Trump] has destroyed the reputation of the US, shown one way by diminished travel from the EU to the US. This is not only one more terrible blow to the US economy, it also represents reputation damage that could take generations to repair.” - Paul English, co-founder of Kayak

HAPPENING NOW: The Justice Department has missed a 5pm deadline to file details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's whereabouts and efforts to comply with a judge's otder to facilitate his return. Still waiting to see if they're just a few minutes behind or not planning to file at all

This government is not legitimate.

Did the White House just admit to market manipulation?

A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves*

“are you wearing the—?” “the habeas boots? the boots in which I carry all my habeas petitions just in case I get disappeared to the gulag in el salvador? yeah, yeah I am.”

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

they called it GamerGate because it opened a portal to a hell. Anita Sarkeessian did nothing wrong.