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42,500 deaths annually. That's the number projected by a Yale study on the loss of Medicaid coverage due to Trump's disgusting abomination bill.

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A win! The Trump administration is backing off its demand that states hand over personal data on SNAP recipients after a lawsuit. In a sworn statement filed in federal court, the USDA said it is pausing its plan to build a national database of Americans receiving food assistance.

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Here’s what will happen to our National Parks if Trump’s budget passes. Did you know America’s national parks actually generate more income than they cost to operate? Yet under Trump’s proposed 2026 budget, the National Park Service (NPS) would face devastating cuts:

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If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he lost money.

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Loyalty tests have officially arrived in the federal hiring process. The Trump administration just unveiled a so-called “Merit Hiring Plan”, which includes a quiz asking job applicants to name their favorite Trump policy or executive order.

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Oooh Zach Terrell is the edgelord I found following Steve Sailer, the race scientist eugenicist guy bsky.app/profile/jswe...

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Good News! The National Weather Service is hiring again, after DOGE’s “brilliant” decision to lay off essential staff. Apparently, round-the-clock weather alerts don’t send themselves. Who would’ve guessed?

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In Florida, private school vouchers are being used for Disney tickets. Wonder what @GovBillLee’s vouchers are now buying with Tennessee taxpayer dollars? www.wesh.com/article/flor...

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Donald has spent the last week pardoning his friends who defrauded Medicare, union pensions, banks, and more. This is what “fraud and abuse” actually looks like. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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Local Russian residents claim that a truck arrived in Olenegorsk (near Olenya Air Base), with the driver running around in panic as FPV drones repeatedly launched from the trailer. Traffic police have detained the driver, who reportedly said, "I was told to come here, someone would meet me."

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The Russian side has rejected the unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine proposed by the United States, — First Deputy Foreign Minister Serhii Kyslytsia.

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"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

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A geomagnetic storm is expected to set skies aglow in the northern part of the U.S. on Sunday night into early Monday morning, with the northern lights potentially visible as far south as Alabama to Northern California, according to the NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

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Libraries are for everyone! Everyone deserves to see themselves in the books they read and get the chance to experience diverse perspectives! Happy Pride Month! #librariesareforeveryone #pride #pridemonth2025 #TLSky #Skybrarian #Booksky

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The best bluff I make is not that I will use nukes. It is that there is some way to appease me that will take my nukes off the table, when it all does is re-enforce the value of the bluff. Can’t believe idiots still fall for it.

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Annie by far would be the funniest senator. And if there were a medical emergency she could help with that, too. No need for constituents to die prematurely and unnecessarily!

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“Penn Wharton, Trump's alma mater, finds that most households earning less than $51,000 will immediately see their after-tax income drop. Meanwhile, the bill boosts incomes of members of the top 1% by nearly $70,000 in the first year alone…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Russell Vought, now a key figure in the DOGE, is openly challenging the constitutionality of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. He claims the executive branch has the authority to withhold funds even after Congress has appropriated them, essentially saying the president, not Congress,

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Don’t look away. In Missouri, overturning the will of voters has almost become the legislature’s main business. @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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My radical position is that congress should remove a president if he pronounces that his predecessor was assassinated and replaced by a clone

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#FACTS

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Last year, Illinois abolished requiring prior authorization for inpatient mental health care — and now, we're extending it to outpatient care. Patients and their doctors should be in control of decisions about their care, not insurance companies.

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Reminder: Joni Ernst is up for reelection

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I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale. Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.

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The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,

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The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds. This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg. Seabird peer-pressure can be intense. (📷: Robert F. Bukaty)

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

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My 19yo is on an absolute bender of auto-didacticism -- just devouring books. (He insists on paper books, too.) This is the pile he brought home from the book store today.

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"The strategy here is to break the law in the open, over and over, until the law itself appears broken, ineffectual, and incapable of delivering consequences." [email protected] contrarian.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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If you know anything about RFK Jr the fact that he falsified the MAHA report should not surprise you in the least.

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RFK Jr. is an absolute fraud and anyone listening to his advice on health care is crazy. We know better. Humans have survival instincts. It is a matter of life and death. Find the time to access reliable sources of information. The U.S. gov't is not one of them #rfkjr @2menblackandwhite.bsky.social

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Gold standard science

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"'If they attempt to deport the Afghans, you’re going to see actual physical conflict between U.S. veterans and ICE,' he predicted..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

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@realtexaspaul.com www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/p... The date of the mass is JUNE 14th! This is not an accident!😂

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Evacuation of animals from Pokrovsk,Donetsk region, which is under constant Russian attack The daughter of the dog's owner informed that her father was unconscious in intensive care but had begun to move his limbs.Unfortunately,the owner of a cat was killed by a Russian drone. 📹denys_khrystov

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Breaking news from the can't-make-this-shit-up desk: The same folks who are certain that Fauci caused COVID by funding people to study bats in a Biosafety Level 4 facility now want to import 400 ostriches with the goddamn bird flu from Canada so they can live on Dr. Oz's ranch.

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"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Elon just confirmed he’s stepping away in a post on X. Now it’s time to remove the staffers he embedded from his companies across the government.

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Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

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Hey kids, I'm in my 70s. You've never lived in an America where the rich paid their fair share. I have. Let me tell you what it was like: We built new schools We built new highways We cut the poverty rate We led the world in technology *WE WENT TO THE FREAKING MOON

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She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. This is fascism, plain and simple.

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Elon can't even get right something we accomplished over 60 years ago... and your tax dollars are paying for it. That's the waste, fraud and abuse.

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