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If you're from Pennsylvania, please pay attention. John Fetterman may -- stress, may -- still be in play for voting to rein in Trump's warmaking authorities. This bill is not likely to pass but it's not entirely impossible. Every Dem must be for it. No bullshit on this.

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Love this

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The Senate must reject the nomination of Emil Bove to the US Court of Appeals. Whistleblower allegations that DOJ official Bove suggested defying court orders point to a brazen attack on the rule of law by someone who should not sit on the federal bench. americanoversight.org/american-ove...

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With the rule of law under near constant assault, lawyers can play a key role in its defense. We’re proud to co-sponsor a webinar series to equip lawyers with the tools & resources to get involved locally and nationally. Register: www.checksandbalancesnow.org/webinars

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Critical new details on the rot inside the Justice Department www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

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New from me and the great @hana-kiros.bsky.social reporting on the devastation caused by the USAID cuts Musk championed, Musk’s troubling obsession with “western civilization” and which lives he believes are worth saving (it’s not kids in South Sudan)

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Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilling effect to convince us to go away." Other reporters say they have been targeted too. My story below:

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Kennedy’s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u... This is just a freaking disaster

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How to stop authoritarian takeovers, 6 simple lessons from history: 1. Build a broad pro-democracy coalition. No purity politics. Learn to work with people who annoy you. You can go back to dunking on them after democracy is safe.

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This is what fascists do when their lies stop working.

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Hegesth is a case of a man clearly unqualified for the job, but got picked through his blind loyalty to another unqualified man and by questioning the merit of people who actually knew what they were doing.

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While we're talking about Whiskey Pete Hegseth...He had three days of hearings this week, each day worse than the day before. The full HASC Republicans got bored, so it was almost as if Dems had the majority, bc they sure as FUCK weren't bored flogging Whiskey Pete. There were so many highlights--

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www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Sen. Bill Cassidy is a physician. He knows people will die because of RFK Jr.’s anti-vax policies. Yet he voted to confirm Kennedy as Health secretary because he cares more about getting re-elected than saving lives. Cassidy is Dr. Death – a symbol of Republicans’ betrayal of the American people.

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The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum has a wonderful story about the woman who created the TV sitcom form, Gertrude Berg, and how the Blacklist and Communist scare of the 1950s canceled her fame and erased her legacy. A story which resonates today. READ: loom.ly/Rr5FDdg

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"A despotic man who yearns to be a strong man must continue to be exposed as the weak man that he is." www.americaamerica.news/p/pushing-ba...

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Brad Bondi, Pam Bondi's little brother, just lost his race for president of the D.C. bar association by more than 31,000 votes, with 43% turnout. Among the reasons this is funny: In the last 3 D.C. bar association president elections, turnout has been 6-8%, and maxed out at about 7,000 votes

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The NYT editorial board is right. There is only one emergency in all of these emergency declarations. And it's Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

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When Local Newspapers Die, Corruption Festers: Our study also found that digital media sites didn’t make much of a difference. By Brad N. Greenwood. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

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House Republicans Found a New Way to Go After Abortion Access in Blue States.

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Speaker of the House: Using active duty Marines on the streets of an American city is just “peace through strength.” ‼️ So we can’t count on the Speaker to defend the rule of law, or to defend the military against misuse.

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Bill Clinton said today that his big concern is that the "courts won’t hold until we have the midterm elections," adding that this is something everyone "should be worried about...whatever your politics." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Called it — there can be only one www.mediaite.com/media/tv/the...

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The Atlantic on Trump vs. Musk: "The most interesting clash is the one between two guys who thought they had bought each other off." READ: loom.ly/5nHzx7s

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#RejectBondi

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Great to see DOJ alumni banding together to provide pro bono legal services to DOJ employees. Bravo to Justice Connection for supporting the nonpartisan workforce.

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BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies. Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted class certification and prelim. injunction in a lawsuit challenging the policies.

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Our (Carrillo et al) new article in #PNAS: "Sensitivity of simulations of Plio–Pleistocene climate with the CLIMBER-2 Earth System Model to details of the global carbon cycle" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

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The tea party was the real warning, and I really hated that whole movement- because it wasn’t about anything

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on the 'One Big Beautiful Bill': "The right-wing messaging machine...has decided to just lie about what the bill does — which is sort of par for the course. Donald Trump lied about how he was going to lower grocery prices. They just lie about things."

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“There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities: (1) Lawless failed states… (2) Authoritarian states… Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...

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From this morning's cautionary @thebulwark.com newsletter about weaponized nostalgia: "Rumor has it that new CDC guidelines say the best way to keep nostalgia in check is with a subscription to Bulwark+—sign up today:" Never say this group has no sense of humor. www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-buy-t...

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Ed Martin was too extreme for GOP senators. Now, he’s at the DOJ, and former department attorneys are concerned he will use his new positions to spread disinformation, undermine future elections and target political opponents. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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As a longtime Palantir shareholder, I thought Alex Karp was different. I was wrong. The motherfucker is no different than any other corporate whore. Karp is selling out the American people to help a fascist authoritarian regime monitor citizens. This is Orwellian bullshit.

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Among the other crimes-against-reality here: what kind of psychopath orphans a single word in the final post of a thread?

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This was the most troubling line in the troubling piece

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Yes, the famous native-born Americans Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus and Ernst Geissler. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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“After careful deliberation, PBS reached the conclusion that it was necessary to take legal action to safeguard public television’s editorial independence, and to protect the autonomy of PBS member stations,” a PBS spokesperson said in a statement. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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300,000 deaths, most of them children.

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According to Politico, the Trump regime is brainstorming new ways to do harm to Harvard, including possibly cutting funds to medical institutions affiliated with the university. Fascists don’t care if innocent people die. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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www.serioustrouble.show/p/my-i-didnt...

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Trump says we're overrun by "illegals." He's manifested those fever dreams into reality through a “de-documentation” campaign, stripping legal immigrants of their visas & work permits. He's not targeting criminals; he's criminalizing immigrants who follow the law. wapo.st/3HvBBka

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Rupert Murdoch did this. American democracy is hanging by a thread because of Fox’s lies about our elections and its promotion of bigotry. People are dying because of anti-vax fears supercharged by Fox’s conspiracy theories. Rupert Murdoch did this. He is one of the monsters of our age.

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TX-based Freight Technologies announced they may invest up to $20M in Trump's meme coin with investor ATW Partners Research shows a big Freight Technologies shareholder in 2022 was Andrew Intrater, cousin of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, my latest:

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Greenland just signed a 30-year mining deal with a Danish-French company. Nice work, Donald!

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Some folks just thought it was trite when people warned if they come for the most marginalized, sooner or later they are coming for you.

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I wrote years ago that when Republican lawmakers sucked up to Trump, they told themselves if he ever got really bad, they’d stop him. I said at the time that they were fooling themselves. I was right, of course. Now they’re all in. They’re henchmen in the plot to destroy our democracy.

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I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

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