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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

The President is once again demanding a journalist be fired for reporting facts he doesn’t like. We can’t normalize this. I’ll say it again: the most ridiculous reason people gave for voting for Trump was “he supports free speech.”

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal notice.

The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

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As major U.S. cities brace for possible terror attacks in response to the strikes on Iran, just a reminder of who Trump put in charge of terror prevention God help us all

Anything to deny their own cognitive dissonance.

JD Vance this morning: We have no interest in regime change in Iran. Trump moments ago: Actually, we do.

Trump announces attack on Iran. No congressional approval. At the hands of the self-proclaimed "anti-war" president.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Oh Canada 🇨🇦 Thoughts on this, folks?

It’s official. The US has lost face, worldwide.

Holy shit. India’s Foreign Secretary just shut down Trump’s claim he brokered peace between India and Pakistan. Modi told him: “There was never any discussion… about a trade deal or U.S. mediation… India has neither accepted mediation, nor does it do so—and never will.”

This is above and beyond a lack of compassion. The later I see everyday with analytically minded business leaders, and can be learned. This man is simply a despicable human being.

The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

Outrageous: ICE agents arrested a former U.S. Army interpreter who risked his life aiding American troops in Afghanistan, right after his asylum hearing in San Diego. The interpreter legally entered the U.S. after the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Make America Healthy Again.

Oof. You knows it's bad when Tucker Carlson makes you look like the dumb one.

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

Natinyahu is missing but deserves a dishonorable mention.

💥 UPDATE: Shareholders of Alphabet / Google voted 99-0 percent (1% abstained) to reject two anti-DEI proposals at their annual shareholder meeting this month.

When does the “great” part start?

I don’t agree with everything DEI, but older white privileged men implying that performance-based hiring is thrown out the window the moment you hire anyone else but a white male makes me want to fight for it. YOU my dear, have de facto been the only quota for centuries..

There are two Russian flags in this official Department of Defense post

The roommate of Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter, responding to MAGA lies that he’s a Democrat: “He would be offended if people called him a Democrat,” he told CBS News, adding that Boelter “was a Trump supporter, voted for Trump,” and was happy Trump won the 2024 election.

🚨 Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman was shot and killed early this morning in her home. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted, and White House retweeted a happy birthday message to Trump: “America is safer under your leadership.”

They told Minnesotans to stay home. After the murder of Speaker Hortman and her husband—and the failed attempts on Senator Hoffman and his wife—fear was the official message. But the people came anyway. In defiance. In grief. In purpose. This was the #NoKings rally in MN. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”

“No Kings Day”: A compilation

A Native American woman to Border Patrol agents questioning her U.S. citizenship: “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us!”

Ocean Beach San Francisco today. #NoKings We were there

💥 BREAKING: Best Buy shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting today (tally TBA), as recommended by Best Buy Board. Proposal asked Best Buy to end its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, a benchmarking tool for LGBTQ+ initiatives.

Trump is getting richer. Are you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8vh...

Shameful.

UPDATE: By a tally of 98-2 percent, American Airlines shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI / LGBTQ+ proposal.

Tucker Carlson says in his newsletter that Trump is "complicit" in an "act of war"

Farmworkers are hiding because Trump made them targets. Without farmworkers, the crops that feed our nation rot and our tables go empty. This isn’t strong immigration policy — it’s economic sabotage fueled by hate. www.bbc.com/news/article...

More Pritzkers please ✊👊

They lie about everything

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Federal Judge Breyer rules that Trump's federalization of the California National Guard was ILLEGAL and orders control of the Guard be RETURNED to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

💥 Walmart heiress took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Sunday calling on readers to “mobilize” on Saturday, June 14. NYT ad: NO KINGS JUNE 14 MOBILIZE

💥 BREAKING: Walmart shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting today (tally TBA). Proposal asked the company to explain why it took so long to "revise" its DEI programs. Proposal presenter claimed Walmart's DEI programs have been "repackaged rather than eliminated."

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

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