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Currently trying to unpack this segment from Reuters about Trump at the G7: "Putin speaks to me. He doesn't speak to anybody else ... he's not a happy person about it. I can tell you that he basically doesn't even speak to the people that threw him out, and I agree with him," Trump said.

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Trump garnishes social security payments for one million recipients while taxpayers pay for birthday parades and 60 day Marine deployments to U.S. cities in an unnecessary show of force while the top one percent get tax breaks. The elderly will struggle more, but at least Trump had a nice birthday.

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No Kings

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Asked my son to pick up glitter on the way home. I want the blade edge to sparkle. #NoKings

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Italy, France, Britain, Germany—even Russia—achieved greatness before falling back (sometimes into tyranny and dictatorship). But in the US the fall has been especially galling. Oscar Wilde said, “The US is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without passing through civilization.”

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A week after Pentagon leaders announced their intention to possibly rename the USNS Medgar Evers, christened for the World War II veteran and civil rights leader, his family urged the Department of Defense and the Navy to reverse their position. apnews.com/us-news/pete...

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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS - SANTA MONICA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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And who they didn't approve of

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