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BREAKING: 2 People Shot Near Stonewall Inn in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village - @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/n...

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I’m using @Resist.bot to send Faxes, Emails, & letters to Congress. It works great!

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“The communication, intended to be private, included Iranian government officials speculating as to why the strikes directed by President Donald Trump were not as destructive and extensive as they had anticipated.” wapo.st/3I08uWN

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“This bill is literally taking food out of the mouths of kids….” Sen Angus King (I-ME), the latest in a long series of Senate speakers on Trump tax cut and spending bill

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I see this stuff all the time: Young guys insisting Democrats - who just last year had a football coach running for vice president - are telling men not to watch sports. Just completely made up.

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A well-orchestrated lie’: Detained Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio tells UN cpj.org/2025/06/a-we...

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Is it good that the Secretary of Defense is throwing temper tantrums during press conferences?

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NEW: GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

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Well. #Ohio Republicans have sent the state budget bill to Governor DeWine Our list of dangerous items the governor should veto is....very long: bit.ly/OhioBudget2025 Pick the items you hate the most, and call the governor today: bit.ly/MikeDeWine

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Yes. Vought is killing kids.

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It’s been a long and hard journey, but this letter I received today has made every heartache, smear campaign and sleepless night more than worth it!

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Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

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NEW: A @wired.com investigation into 911 calls from ICE detention centers shows a system inundated by medical crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. This is the human cost of ICE's soaring arrest rates. It is disturbing reading. And it is going to get worse. www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

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“Judge rules Ohio’s EdChoice private school voucher program unconstitutional” You know our majority #Ohio #Republican legislators are unscrupulous because they keep getting shut down by the courts. www.cleveland.com/open/2025/06...

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People will lose their healthcare if Trump's budget bill passes. One estimate found that proposed cuts to Medicaid could result in more than 16,000 preventable deaths annually. This from the "pro life" party. Reminder that 202-224-3121 is the number for the Capitol switchboard.

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Megabill's midterm stakes: Speaker Johnson is privately warning that backlash from the Senate's planned Medicaid cuts could cost Republicans the House.

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For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer. We must stop this devastating bill.

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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting #Racist Views. It Won Him an Award. - New York Times #whitenationalists www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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Hot take: people should be able to call the police to verify if they think they’re being kidnapped by men in masks who won’t identify themselves in unmarked cars without it being a “resisting” crime

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Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

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In 2021, ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

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He knew the court would order the planes turned around, and told his DoJ lawyers to tell the court to fuck off. This letter has already shown up in the South Sudan DVD case in a motion filed by the Plaintiffs at SCOTUS today.

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This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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Lots going on in the world right now but please don’t forget they’re going to try and jam one of the largest transfers of wealth from working families to the richest corporations through the Senate this week.

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VEASEY: You've credited the 12 steps in your recovery. What's step 4? RFK JR: Making a fearless inventory VEASEY: Of ourselves. Do you remember step 12? RFK JR: We try to help other addicts VEASEY: Does cutting off treatment from people still suffering align with step 4 or step 12?

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U.S. initial damage report: Iran nuclear program set back by months, not obliterated Core components of Tehran’s nuclear effort were damaged but not destroyed by U.S. airstrikes on three key facilities, according to two people familiar with Defense Intelligence Agency assessment @washingtonpost.com

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Incredible proposed attack on humans, animals, and our country’s last wild places wapo.st/3T8gMxY

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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

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Breaking: His SCOTUS decides he can ship people to third world countries they're not from. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Republicans wants people up to age 64 to work for food stamps and Medicaid. Some experts say it won't work. - @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-tax...

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We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

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I don't think we're in a democracy anymore. Unmarked secret police kidnapping people off the street? A dictator mobilizing the military against civilians? Defying court orders? Ignoring due process? Arresting political opponents? Democracy has left the building. We CAN & MUST get it back, though.

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"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...

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"These strong-arm tactics are meant to silence and intimidate people, but they only strengthen our conviction." Democrats argue the new flurry of arrests or handcuffing of elected officials is an attempt to silence dissent www.cbsnews.com/news/democra...

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Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

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Montgomery County officially barred its employees from providing information to ICE on Wednesday, directing them to withhold crucial data like immigration status and country of origin unless directed to do so by their superiors.

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When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

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Tuesday, 6/24/2025: Rally Against HB1 & SB88, 10 AM to 12 PM, Veterans Plaza, Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capital Square. Bring your signs and your family and demand that Ohio lawmakers stop attacking immigrant rights.

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This is an insurrection.

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Wadsworth, Ohio’s first out nonbinary candidate runs for City Council. Angela “Gie” May is motivated to make the city feel safer for everyone. ✏️ @bjodway.com

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NEW: A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

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Both sides news coverage is killing democracy and there is no place where it is more dangerous that in how legacy media covers the GOP attacks on free and fair elections. For my latest and to access all Democracy Docket premium content, sign-up now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

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A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security.

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