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I read Trump + Senate Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" so you don't have to. It came out at midnight & we're still getting numbers in from Congress's bookkeepers. Early returns: Nearly $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. Happy Saturday. Follow for more. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Budapest's streets overflowed with Pride marchers on Saturday, despite the Orban regime's threats of legal consequences. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

submitted 5 hours ago • 337 comments

The speed of America's descent into lawlessness and fascism—and the lack of a meaningful response from political leaders—is genuinely shocking.

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How much money does this actually "save?" How "efficient" is this really? The answers are: a.) an insignificant amount at best, and b.) it's not. The current regime is chock full of small, stupid, and venal people whose philosophy of governance can be boiled down to "fuck you, that's why."

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ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings. This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1205 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

submitted 22 hours ago • 568 comments

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

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Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.

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Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.

submitted 1 day ago • 142 comments

Opinion | Some say that Andrew Cuomo's defeat in the primary shows that the Democratic establishment has become weak. But I say that the fact that an unpopular disgraced sixty-seven year-old sex offender was able to win 37% of the vote shows that the Democratic establishment is still very strong.

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT birthright citizenship. The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship. That way led to war once. My latest in @thenation.com

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They are coming after Obergefell next. Y'all aren't paying attention. www.axios.com/local/richmo...

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the lone GOP lawmaker to vote with Democrats. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), an ardent backer of Israel, voted with Republicans. FUCK you @fetterman.senate.gov

submitted 23 hours ago • 31 comments

They're not going after dangerous criminals. They're going after our law-abiding neighbors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Just read: "100 private jets are flying to Jeff Bezos wedding. and I recycle yogurt containers" and I will add---we pay more taxes

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Preach! @replsimon.bsky.social

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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

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An anonymous plaintiff, Alex Doe (a man), filed a suit in Amarillo, TX, where PlannedParenthood doesn’t have any clinics but is the jurisdiction of right-wing-extremist, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk - who tried to ban mifepristone - claiming PP billed Medicaid for NONABORTION services they didn’t provide

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Finally a corporation is reacting to what’s happening here. Don’t be surprised that it’s not a car company or a shampoo brand. They’re all still pretending that life is normal. It’s a bookstore. Barnes and Noble fills their store display windows with Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale.

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Getting dragged away for asking questions continues. / This time in Miami-Dade🧵

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A great visionary who worked to realize a vision of this country that once seemed possible. An extraordinary human being & superb journalist who contributed to our shared understanding of our country and of one another. Rest in Peace Bill Moyers. @pbs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

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I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty. ‪ @sarapayan.bsky.social‬ reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:

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Join @riseandresist.bsky.social in demanding that Democratic Senators grind business to a halt and deny unanimous consent in for #Felon47 's Big Ugly Murderous Bill! If your state has a Democratic Senator or two, please call them and demand that they step up for Americans! Please repost!

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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

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A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...

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✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ REI "the long-term value of the company’s Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) commitments 'shows up everywhere.'" “Scaling back our commitments would fundamentally contradict who we are." Not a "political stance for us; it’s a strategic and moral imperative.”

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“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

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3.75 million children would have qualified!!😡 www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-g...

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Alright! You heard him! Vote him out of office! youtube.com/shorts/gIX5b...

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Take this as your sign to primary every appeasement-obsessed do-nothing motherfucker who looked at you sideways, gang.

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Mike Johnson brazenly lies: "We are not cutting Medicaid. The president has said that and I have said that. We're all said that. We're strengthening the program."

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doing surveillance to the surveillance state www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...

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Zohran’s results so far just show how tired Americans are of the status quo, how we need creative, people-first campaigning and governance, and why positive, progressive politics are the future. Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.

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🧵 ICE AIR FLIGHTS—24 JUN 2025 ✈️ Overnight, this ATS Gulfstream 4 on an ICE mission out of Phoenix arrived in Dakar, Senegal after a brief refuelling stop in Puerto Rico 👀 Follow this thread for ICE Air updates ⤵️

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Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.

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Trump and the GOP told you that going to college was a bad idea. They hiked up tuition to historically unprecedented levels to make college much more expensive. And now they're cancelling all debt forgiveness and coming for your paycheck. That's punishment for going to college.

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NEW VIDEO: Our right to vote is under attack. Elie Mystal and I discuss threats to free and fair elections and the history of restrictive voting laws that got us here today. youtu.be/QsgS2S0LOHs

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WATCH: “We both agree corrupt, abusive Andrew Cuomo should not be anywhere near city hall.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & @bradlander.bsky.social appear on Colbert together to ask NYC folks to rank them 1 & 2 on their ballots. (Reminder: Tennessee Republicans banned ranked choice voting here)

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NEWS: Stephen Miller owns a six-figure stock in Palantir, a company profiting off deportations, per @POGOwatchdog report migrantinsider.com/p/stephen-mi...

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Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S. : NPR share.google/srRXgnL8vmCp... You cannot tell me this is good for America. You cannot.

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If I were a Senate Democrat and Trump had just started an immoral and unconstitutional war, I would not vote to advance his Asst Sec of Defense. But these 10 just did: Fetterman Gallego Hassan Kaine Kelly King Reed Rosen Slotkin Warnock

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Know Your Rights Information🚨 ICE has been arresting people at immigration court and routine check-ins across the country. If you or a loved one is in this situation, know you still have rights.

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Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.

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We can manifest better days by taking action You know a general strike can cause a chain reaction Real change comes from the bottom the left and the right, been about profit. ✊🏾 Volunteer to prepare your community to strike back! #Generalstrikeus #Soulrebel

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