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Unión del Barrio first started its community patrol program more than thirty years ago in response to police harassment of Latinos. The group reactivated its community patrols recently in response to increased federal immigration enforcement in San Diego. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

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Keith Gavin was promised he could recite four Islamic prayers before his execution, but only got halfway through the first. “They started the lethal injection process while I was still standing right there,” said Imam Abdul-Adarr, who led the prayers. boltsmag.org/alabama...

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An executive order by Donald Trump. A ruling by conservative judges on the Fifth Circuit. New laws in two GOP-run states. Republicans this spring have stepped up their efforts against so-called grace periods for mail ballots, Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/restric...

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Rikers Island jail has historically been under control of New York City’s mayor, who has had to contend with powerful corrections officer unions. But now that balance of power has been thrown out the window by a federal takeover of the jail. boltsmag.org/new-yor...

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"We find that expansions increased Medicaid enrollment by 12 percentage points and reduced the mortality of the low-income adult population by 2.5%, suggesting a 21% reduction in the mortality hazard of new enrollees." Nerds, please help me figure out how many people this bill will kill.

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It's happening after 2 months! @unite4vets.bsky.social this Friday at 2 PM on the National Mall we will be bringing thousands of veterans, supporters, and allies to demand our government honor the promises they made to us! @dropkickmurphys.com will be playing and I'll be one of our speakers!

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history And what Elon is fighting for is to increase that theft of the poor by orders of magnitude.

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A new slate of anti-corruption reforms proposed by Democratic lawmakers was endorsed by @pogo.org @citizensforethics.org & @publiccitizen.bsky.social: neguse.house.gov/media/press-... Bills without bipartisan, bicameral cosponsors won’t move in this Congress, but could be a contract with Americans.

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Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre? McMahon: I’d have to get back to you Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is? McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.

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"They stood, diplomas in hand, having met every standard of physical endurance, academic excellence, and military discipline. But when the time came for the US Air Force Academy’s class of 2025 to commission as second lieutenants, 3 cadets were quietly held back..." www.advocate.com/news/transge...

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"A national network that pledges to coordinate, mobilize, and support one another when any single institution comes under attack..." www.standtogetherhighered.org

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Not a single one of these people raised a peep when judges were doing this against Biden!

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CBO now estimates that combination of Trump's budget bill + other parts of the GOP health agenda (e.g. allowing enhanced ACA tax credits to expire as scheduled) will increase # of uninsured people by 16 million. This is a backdoor Obamacare repeal by any other name www.cbo.gov/system/files...

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Remember that the Trump administration’s fictional motivation for attempting to destroy Harvard is that they are supposedly antisemitic.🙄

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Economics literature: Trump's 2018 steel and aluminum raised prices, reduced output, cut employment and reduced wellbeing. Trump, 2025: What if we doubled them? I can't find a single study that suggests this is a good idea. Lemme know if you find one.

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Ok the one thing trump is genuinely smart on when so much of the rest of the party’s power elite was so dumb about: his position since the campaign was just… shut up about it, say u won’t, then do it anyway

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Jeffrey Epstein invested $40 million into Valar Ventures, a firm created by Peter Thiel. That investment is now worth $170 million and some victims want a part of it. Great reporting from @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...

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⚡️Trump official who shut down counter-disinformation agency has Kremlin ties, Telegraph reports. A Trump State Department official who shut down a U.S. government office tasked with countering Russian disinformation has ties to the Kremlin, the Telegraph reported on June 3.

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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Ticket sales and subscription revenue at the Kennedy Center have fallen sharply since Trump made himself chairman. Single-ticket sales were down roughly 50%. Subscriptions revenue down 82% for theater and 57% for dance. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/a...

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“We are all going to die.”

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JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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🚨Heard about this earlier today; ICE is expanding to arrests at ATD (alternatives to detention) case management check-ins. Dozens of people got texts to show up weeks in advance of their normal check-in, and ended up detained. Three women let go were told to come back tomorrow with their kids.

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Mike Lindell’s attorneys say they aren’t going to argue that his election rigging claims are true. And it has me and @marshallglasses.bsky.social sounding like that scene in Dodgeball. #copolitics

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They are not picking up dangerous criminals, but the immigrants who were actually complying with the conditions of their presence in the US. And now, other immigrants have less and less reason to do so.

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Shameful

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Has Trump just breached the only trade deal he struck? At the time, British PM Starmer described the deal as one that "will remove tariffs on British steel and aluminium, reducing them to zero." Yet Trump just announced that they'll get a 25% tariff. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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The big beautiful bill seeks to ban state regulation of AI systems for 10 years. There are no federal regulations of autonomous vehicles. So the ban will create an entire class of unregulated vehicles on the road, explains our new staff writer Whitney Curry Wimbish: prospect.org/infrastructu...

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He should have just stayed quiet. Instead, he has confirmed his guilt.

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Planning to attend this event tonight as it'll have a focus on the destruction of the federal workforce, including the Voice of America. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost... #SaveVOA

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Flash bangs on civilians, handcuffs on congressional staffers, aggressive raids in places that dare oppose them. DHS is accountable only to an unaccountable president. Gift link: wapo.st/3FBTxJp

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DHS plans to transfer $143.6M from CISA (including from its frozen election-security program) to ICE to fund detention beds. Senate Approps HS subcommittee ranking member @chrismurphyct.bsky.social‬ is objecting & asking for more info about impact on CISA. www.murphy.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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ICE’s apparatus conflates data and demolishes citizenship, jailing breadwinning veterans and young adults amid Trump’s deportation frenzy. Due process evaporates as agents smirk at birth certificates. This systemic bullshit devastates lives. nymag.com/intelligen...

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