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A recent report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37B in potential legal liability from 11 fed agencies as of Inauguration Day. As he exits, these agencies are still on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped investigations into his corporations. See what this was about?

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Preparing for the possibility you could be targeted by the president is one of those things that's both uncomfortable to think about and — sadly — really essential these days. If you run a nonprofit or know anyone who does, you should read this. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/what-to-do...

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70% of lawyers have left DOJ Civil Rights Division & voting section down from 30 lawyers to just 3, dropping all major voting rights cases Trump has completely decimated crown jewel of DOJ & now weaponizing it to advance his extreme voter suppression plans www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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My take: "You'll never get this time back. You'll go to your grave wishing you'd never done this."

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I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

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⚠️ For those unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it does not only mean deportation of undocumented immigrants but also the expulsion of non-white people to the country of their racial or ethnic ancestral origin without regard to their citizenship, legal status, or place of birth.

submitted 9 hours ago • 63 comments

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

submitted 19 hours ago • 646 comments

Good enough to play outfield on West 35th St.

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Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responds to Trump. He points out how Trump is trying to dye his campaign with African blood. Even as Trump fabricated lies he quietly registered three mineral exploration companies in South Africa. It’s a mic drop 🎤moment if there ever was one!

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The Plan.

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Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO

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Legal-focused anti-ICE protest outside of Montgomery & Sutter

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Spoke with Mohsen Mahdawi after he was freed from ICE detention. He shared powerful reflections on people he met in detention, what really happened when he was detained at his citizenship interview, and explained how Columbia framed him & his classmates for antisemitism they actually stood against.

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Saw this on X and it's the cutest thing I've seen for a while!

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People have focused on the kook aspects of RFK Jr in a way that obscured his authoritarianism and cruelty. But he’s genuinely an enemy of freedom and basic decency. He’s a narcissist, a eugenicist, and a predator.

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WaPo profile of new, pensive Musk, so relieved to escape "controversy of DC Beltway" that for some reason—who can say why??— landed on him. Made him "whipping boy" Phrases not in piece: "Largest single donor" "feeding USAID into woodchipper" "mass firings" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

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The CTO of UnitedHealth says AI can improve health care. In a recent interview the executive said that around 90% of the company's claims are now auto adjudicated thanks to AI. He also says that new AI products will be launched later this year. fortune.com/2025/05/28/u...

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The difference between "access" and "transparency" is really important. Trump is absolutely giving more reporters more time to ask questions (inc. outlets that just want to praise him). At the same time it's stopped publishing transcripts and WH visitor logs.

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US administration openly intervened on behalf of the authoritarian populist candidate in the Polish presidential election

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What a surprise. Recent polling showing that most Republican voters in Texas oppose moves to squash the state’s booming renewable energy sector. Texas’s combined wind and solar power output is nearly double that of its closest rival, California. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Overnight: Elon Musk must face a lawsuit that accuses him of wielding unconstitutionally vast powers to reshape the US government, a US judge ruled. The Trump administration adopted a "perverse reading" of the Constitution's system of checks and balances, Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote. buff.ly/7jDznks

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Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

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President Donald Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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We decided to outsource NASA to a fucking loser and we are getting what we deserve

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In the name of soft power, the US sells old military equipment and let's rich people use them as toys, with dangerous consequences www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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IDF deliberately targeting children in Gaza, US doctors allege “They were children under the age of 12. That’s something I saw every single day, multiple times a day, for the whole four weeks that I was there.”

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Israel has taken over the distribution of food in Gaza from the UN. This is how they treat the starving Palestinians, forcing them into cages like animals before giving them slightest amount of food. How can the world let this happen?

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How desperate is our oligarch media to show support for Dear Leader's policies? This farmer lives 1,200 miles from the Boston Globe's coverage area but they had to put him on the front page of the website because - get this - he voted for Trump 3 times, and he STILL supports Trump!

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Voters overwhelmingly hate the idea of the FDA ending its routine food safety inspections. New polling from @dailykos.com finds that 84% of registered voters oppose the move, including 67% who “strongly oppose” it. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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The Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act bars the government from destroying a sacred Western Apache site by turning it into a copper mine. Gorsuch, joined by Thomas, has an incandescently angry dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Adolf Hitler said he loved the working man. As soon as he got into power he imprisoned the leaders of the Trade Unions to break them and forced wages down by introducing slave labour.

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“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

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Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes

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Look, the only thing we need to bring back from the 80s is the music.

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New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

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I remember in 2005 when Democrats decided they must Get Tough on National Security then won a landslide election in 2008 with a guy who said the Iraq War was stupid as fuck.

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The "big beautiful bill" passed by House Republicans would lead to 3.2 million people losing federal food assistance. The cuts to SNAP would also hit states with about $14 billion a year in costs, according to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. nevadacurrent.com/2025/05/27/r...

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“Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?” The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War, writes @jehadabusalim.bsky.social for Zeteo, but a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire. Read/share/subscribe:

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i do think that most workplace DEI is useless, but that doesn’t matter because when Republicans complain about “DEI” they’re not talking about that, they’re talking about the visibility of minorities in public life

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SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does not have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself. www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

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Melville

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NEW: DOGE's cuts are barely saving anything — and the disruption they’ve caused far outweighs any savings. Here are seven ways they're making your life worse.

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NPR just sued Trump over his unconstitutional executive order gutting federal funding for public media. Kudos to them for standing up for the First Amendment. It reminds me of when Mr. Rogers stood up to Nixon's attempts to gut public broadcasting 56 years ago.

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Another v good piece at @wired.com : TL;DR: No timeline promise Musk has made has EVER come true. It's always "full confidence we'll see this next year" I personally interviewed him at conf in 2011 when he was "highly confident" of manned Mars missions by NOW. www.wired.com/story/theres...

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