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Trump’s $1 million-per-seat secret dinner is “the most brazen act of corruption by a president in our lifetimes, probably in a century, possibly ever,” says Chris Hayes. “Call it the Met Gala of presidential pay-for-play.”

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It's a rich irony that a President who is obsessed by the trade balance is blocking one of our best exports: American higher ed. International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally. But they can't come without reliable visas.

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FOX: But do you believe that the Qataris in particular are behind a lot of the antisemitism you just described? NOEM: You know, I'm not an expert in this area

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a self-described "far-right hate blogger" cited by Dylann Roof has been outed by HOPE not hate. 'Wright has featured on the personal podcast of James Delingpole, The Spectator columnist, who referred to him as “one of the smartest people on the planet”' in deep hopenothate.org.uk/2025/05/19/u...

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This is major. As a reminder, DOGE stormed the USIP building in March with the help of DC Metro Police who were originally called there by building employees. Even tho, USIP owned the building, DOGE just…took it. Background: www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institu...

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Question: Why would 🇺🇸 companies have to “eat them” if the other countries already pay them? Answer: They don’t. Tariffs are a tax on us. time.com/7285637/walm...

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⚡️ Zelensky meets Vance for first time since Oval Office showdown, discuss Istanbul peace talks, sanctions on Russia. The meeting occurred one day before a scheduled call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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There's a reason the government doesn't operate like a startup. And it's not just because most startups fail. Lives depend on the actions of those we entrust with our treasure and sacred honor.

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I was just diagnosed with multiple pulmonary emboli in my lungs. Here's my story. I'd owe tens of thousands of dollars if I didn't have insurance. We HAVE to save Medicaid from the GOP's attacks. Share YOUR #HealthCareHorrorStories <-- Use the hashtag and we will amplify them.

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Comic Mary Beth Barone thinks Republicans should get their own bathrooms.

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Couple of things going on here: 1) They need to retroactively justify the obsessive focus on Biden's mental health at the expense of covering Trump's own senescence. 2) It makes them appear neutral. 3) They want their stories to have impact. Dems can still be shamed; Trump and the GOP cannot.

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Meanwhile Cenk

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Axios’ editorial comms director who is relentlessly pushing the Axios/Tapper book about Biden was a literal Republican operative who did comms for Ron Johnson, Kevin Cramer, the RNC, the ND Republican Party, and worked on Rand Paul’s 2016 campaign.

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Literally what the heck happened to US journalists to make them so addicted to dunking on Biden? Are they seriously this butthurt over Biden turning down interviews? What a stupid-ass clownshow.

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BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.

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IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall 👏🏽

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Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

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apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

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Trump welcomes 49 white Afrikaners today as “refugees” from South Africa… The racism is a feature, not a bug.

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Democratic House Rep. Josh Gottheimer from New Jersey on the delays at Newark airport: "The region is short about 40 air traffic controllers that it needs...This is unacceptable, both at this airport and what the FAA is doing." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/b...

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Kash Patel is the living definition of waste, fraud, and abuse—all on the taxpayer’s dime. Flying private to see his girlfriend, skipping critical meetings, and totally unfit for the job he was never qualified for in the first place. But hey… playing FBI Director is rough work.

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At this point I really need every single American to be at this level of rage. I don’t recognize this country anymore. And he hadn’t even seen the news yet of the mayor being taken and congress members being assaulted by ICE. This is appropriate levels of rage.

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Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

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Hmm. It's almost as if Trump is aware of the quid pro quo that Putin offered Manafort in 2016 for just part of Ukraine and is frustrated that Putin isn't keeping to that deal.

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Art of the deal is raising the tariff to 145% then cutting it almost in half despite the fact that China has made no concessions and has completely ignored you. Xi just sits back at laughs at our orange clown.

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I know how important it is to have the right team by your side when tackling challenges head-on and delivering real results. I’m proud to endorse the team we need fighting for the Seventh District in Richmond.

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That’s the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima. It happened in February 1945. It has nothing to do with victory in Europe.

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could

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“If Musk continues to dominate the launches that take satellites to space, and the internet services that operate there, he could end up with more power over the human exchange of information than any previous person has ever enjoyed.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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I don't want to hear another word about AI "play" and "experimentation" to develop "nimble" skills in the classroom without this context www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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It's hard to parse Trump, but there's an interpretation (below) that says they're redefining "deal" to mean "a number I made up." Seems plausible, as it solves the pressing political problem -- it's easy to make up 192 numbers in 90 days. It solves none of the economic problems.

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A video of Canadian PM Mark Carney announcing a raft of tough new measures on vehicle emissions has been viewed millions of times online, but it's digitally manipulated and fake. Carney's voice in the clip has been entirely generated with AI. He never said those words.

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The Trump Organization just admitted that the president still controls his business. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

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the problem with “tech journalism” is that we had 2 decades of mainly white men regurgitating press releases about new cell phones and usb ports on laptops who now are their own publishing platforms while being unable to grasp how the future became automated high frequency feudalism

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He is the government now and needs to be reminded of it constantly, including via FOIAs.

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Even if you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d still need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

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Big news out of Georgia

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El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.

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BREAKING: Brian Kemp is not running for Senate in Georgia. Jon Ossoff is a favorite to win now. Let’s go. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

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Trump got his movie tariff idea this week from crazy Jon Voight. deadline.com/2025/05/jon-...

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