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Vought blatantly lies about Medicaid cuts on CNN, claiming "no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill"

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Russell Vought, now a key figure in the DOGE, is openly challenging the constitutionality of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. He claims the executive branch has the authority to withhold funds even after Congress has appropriated them, essentially saying the president, not Congress,

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Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

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She’s an absolute piece of shit.

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With Palantir finally receiving the attention it deserves, we wrote an article documenting Thiel’s history with Zuckerberg, his influence over JD Vance, and the connection between his neoreactionary ideology and Russell Vought’s Project 2025. It has always been Thiel’s plan to destroy democracy.

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When something like this happens, there's always a raft of "in any other administration this would be a historic scandal" responses. It's important to remember why this admin is different. It's not the media, and it's not (primarily) the admin itself. It's the congressional GOP. Period.

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How do we even know they’re ICE?

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"I do live in fear now and so does my family." Georgia college student Ximena Arias-Cristobal has been released from ICE detention, but her fight is far from over. Despite being back home, she still faces deportation and is struggling to resume her education. @tusk81.bsky.social tells us more ⤵️

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Trump Republicanism at work in Idaho: "One of Idaho’s most popular national forests plans to close ranger stations before reopening them on a limited schedule during the busy summer season. The cuts come after DOGE slashed jobs at the U.S. Forest Service..." www.eastidahonews.com/2025/05/afte...

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Today I received this fundraising email from Ted Cruz on behalf of an immigration restrictionist organization that was founded in 1996 and has been led and funded by white nationalists, eugenicists, and antisemites of various stripes. You'll never guess what their pet cause was in the 1990s....

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Oklahoma Republicans installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state's public school students to be taught conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. So a group of parents is using a law passed by Oklahoma Republicans in 2024 to opt their kids out.

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@nickkristof.bsky.social to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after Rubio denied deaths due to USAID grant cutoffs: "The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Trump Republicanism targets firefighters, first responders, miners, people who work in manufacturing: "We’re really losing 40 years worth of work. Even if they restart them, we’re going to have lost so many people to follow up...” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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There's a new group in town, the Ben Franklin Fellowship, which wants to be a kind of Federalist Society for the foreign service. It also wants to return the State Department to a "better" time, when promotion was more about "merit" instead of "diversity." wink, wink puck.news/meet-the-bff...

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🚨 Tucked into the Republican BS Budget (section 70302) is a provision that would prevent courts from holding members of the Trump admin accountable via contempt rulings. Meaning, a judge could order an action (Ex: return illegally deported people), but couldn't force COMPLIANCE of those orders. 😳 🎧

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Trump’s war on workers and immigrants continues. These dragnet raids aren’t about enforcing the law or upholding the constitution — they are meant to instill fear. We must stand together to protect due process and workers.

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“Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating, according to a U.S. federal indictment, the Treasury Department, regional experts, and Salvadoran media…” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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This has to stop. Has to.

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Jake Tapper's TV show ratings are tanking and his book isn't selling, proving that peddling irrelevant BS during a time of an actual national crisis isn't a winning formula.

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A big win! A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just blocked the Trump administration’s push to move forward with massive layoffs. The court denied the government’s request to overturn a lower court ruling, meaning the layoffs can’t happen, for now.

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"shocking turns" tend to be oversold. But okay, this counts ... www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/ny...

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The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,

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These SpaceX failures are being financed by taxpayer dollars. So far, over $7,000,000,000. So this is actual government waste, unlike the alleged waste at Social Security that DOGE was unable to find.

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Hidden fees in live-event ticketing and hotels are now illegal under a Biden-era FTC rule that just took effect. Kudos to former FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose leadership could finally make junk fees a thing of the past.

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Planned Parenthood has paused abortions in Missouri after the state Supreme Court ruled a judge used the wrong standard to block abortion restrictions. The decision comes after voters approved a constitutional right to reproductive freedom last November.

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If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

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Resolution Copper is blocking comments and hiding replies from anyone calling out what they’re doing at Oak Flat. They’re trying to mine on sacred Native American land, with the government’s help, and don’t want the public to push back.

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Big Tech billionaires dominate our media landscape — and now they want to take over our financial system. Thanks to Senate Republicans' crypto bill, these billionaires may be allowed to issue their own private currencies that wouldn't be subject to government oversight. This is oligarchy.

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There is no bottom to this barrel.

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SNAP: “cuts to 🇺🇸’s largest anti-hunger program means hundreds of dollars less in the pockets of the neediest families (690,000 Tennesseans)… $300 billion reduction in Trump’s budget bill which includes $5 trillion+ in tax cuts…” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 72 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (& today a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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