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The position of the Trump administration is both that the Iranian government is evil and oppressive but also that Iranians who fled that government for their own safety and have lived in the United States for almost 50 years and married and raised children there must be deported back to Iran.

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Bringing this content over from the other site in an effort to make Bluesky the pre-eminent social platform for all things. 1/3 Great thread by @arturrehi.bsky.social

Tired of news that just makes you anxious? My podcast breaks down what’s happening without the panic. Sign up for email alerts below.: stanrmitchell.substack.com

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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 secretary of health and human services said that funding will be curtailed until Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, takes into account the science of vaccine safety in its campaigns.

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Covid vaccine safety data to be presented at tomorrow's CDC meeting w/ RFK Jr's new members: ✅ No increased risk of mortality in the 28 days after vaccination ✅ Reporting rates of death after vaccination were BELOW background rates of death in the general US population

A closer look at how intelligence shapes wartime choices, from the Six-Day War to today. warontherocks.com/20...

“THIS IS NOT OUR WAR!” Clinton-accuser-turned-Trumper Juanita Broaddrick posted on June 12. That was 12 whole days ago. After the bombing raid, however, Broaddrick turned into an expert on the art of war. Just one example of many:

Much of the media has gotten bored with the Ukraine war so you may have missed that Russia took out a passenger train earlier today. 10 dead. Talked to @caolanrob.bsky.social from a train station in UKR about the uptick in RUS attacks on civilian targets www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKu2...

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MUST SEE: Congresswoman Schrier nails conspiracy theorist and unfortunate HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., on the value of vaccines—and it’s glorious. Schrier also happens to be the first pediatrician in Congress.

I’m glad Cuomo lost. But based on the reactions here, Dems are learning the wrong lesson. What works in NYC is not necessarily replicatable in not-NYC. Take my advice and don’t start running socialists in swing states.

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🚨 LA: “Fake ICE agents targeting the schools” It was only a matter of time. How is anyone supposed to tell the difference? And now @MarshaBlackburn Jack Johnson & Speaker Sexton are codifying masked Secret Police vigilantes into law?

A confidential brief urges the ICC to investigate Wagner’s promotion of atrocities in West Africa apnews.com/article/wagn...

If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

There were no new measles outbreak cases to report in Texas in the last week, and the number of counties on the Texas active outbreak list has dropped to two. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/bioscience-medi...

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) cited a study that doesn’t exist, about vaccines. 💉 They made it up. A study about autism and vaccines in children, and they just made it up. ♿️

Something to remind you It's a world worth saving.

Planning to apply to Biology PhD Programs this year? Let us help you out!! At the Stanford Biology Preview Program, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the graduate school application process. Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy on the intel report showing the U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear program were not as effective as Trump claimed: "We were supposed to get a briefing today. It got canceled. I think it got canceled because they are trying to figure out how to lie their way out of this mess."

Her gift for finding losers is impressive. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

"Kiley Timmons did not reexamine his views. Instead, he sought out an even bigger quack to reinforce the priors which almost got his family killed. It sounds bad when I put it like that. But I don’t have some other way to put it."

When a mob was barreling down on him, Michael Fanone stood strong to defend our country. Fanone embodies the American spirit of bravery. While elites hide and kiss up to Trump, be like Mike — be brave.

NEW: NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte assessed that Russia is the largest existential threat to NATO members today and that Russia is preparing for a protracted war with NATO. Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Toretsk and Kherson City. Latest assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar062425 More ⬇️🧵(1/6)

Trump’s and Netanyahu’s incentives are now misaligned. Trump is committed to the idea that he finished off Iranian nukes once and for all. A final victory. Bibi has to deal with the reality of the Iranian nuclear program. He will tell Israelis that it’s still a threat. Because it is. Oops.

The Trump admin castrated Big Balls.

Palantir’s founder, Peter Thiel, does not believe in democracy, and he is funding its demise globally in hopes of replacing the democratic world order with authoritarian “network states” run by CEO-dictators. We document his connections to ICE, Project 2025, JD Vance, and fellow techno-fascists.

NEW: The pals of Palantir in D.C.: www.thebulwark.com/p/stock-trad...

Damning Report Exposes Stephen Miller’s Shady Ties to Palantir

Agile minds win future wars — Lt. Gen. Tullos on Air University’s mission to educate and equip Airmen. Listen here: open.spotify.com/epi...

The tendency to reach for convenient historical analogies that reinforce our own positions, or to interpret current events exclusively through the lens of the recent past, is distracting us from focusing on the outcome we need to achieve.

Three years without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Three years of cruelty. Three years of women denied care, criminalized for miscarriages, and forced to cross state lines in crisis. Three years of the GOP screaming “freedom” while snatching away our bodily autonomy. (1/2)

We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.

Senate Bill 22 allocated $300 million over the next two years for in-state film and TV production projects, and it invests $1.5 billion in the Texas film industry over the next decade. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/government-poli...

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Here's an interactive Spotlight graph showing the X discourse around 'sleeper cells' on Fri/Sat (June 20-22). The graph features cumulative number of posts (Y axis) over time (X axis) and plots individual posts along that graph sized by # of reposts. faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...