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“Commander in thief” is perfect.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/opinion/trump-corruption-allies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nFA.59RD.DvxJ2B486GUo
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Ashis Basu
about 6 hours ago
“While Epstein abused victims directly, the Tates were most impactful for how, their accusers say, they taught countless other males to abuse, exploit and dehumanize females.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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What are Trump’s connections to the Tate brothers exactly? | Rebecca Solnit
According to Heidi Blake in the New Yorker, the Tate and Trump circles have overlapped at Mar-a-Lago. What does that mean?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/andrew-tate-trump-relationship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Democracy Docket
about 7 hours ago
‼️ USPS will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration, according to Postmaster General David Steiner. “You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail,”
@peters.senate.gov
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https://bit.ly/4gE3CFR
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Marc Elias
about 14 hours ago
🚨BREAKING: Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration
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Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls
“You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That’s unacceptable," one senator told the postmaster general.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
about 17 hours ago
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Jim Acosta
about 17 hours ago
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Jennifer C
1 day ago
Corrupt Senate Republicans blocked the Right to Contraception Act the night before the 4th anniversary of Dobbs. The bill would have given every American a federal legal right to use birth control and protected doctors who provide it. The patriarchy is alive and well with Trump puppets. F that.
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Chris Murphy
1 day ago
Anytime any respectable journalist mentions our two chief negotiators with Iran, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they should note both receive sizeable paychecks from Middle Eastern nations with deep equities in these talks. It is a fundamental corruption.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
1 day ago
Yep. And Maggie first reported in early 2019 that Trump may have run in 2020 for that very same reason.
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Kevin M. Kruse
1 day ago
If your 80-year-old grandpa was insisting that the reason the backyard pool has algae in it is because terrorists are trying to make him look bad and demanding the police arrest somebody, you'd put him in a senior care facility before the end of the day.
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ElieNYC
1 day ago
First two cases at SCOTUS today invovle the Republicans preventing victims of terrorism from suing foreign governments, but allowing oil companies to sue foreign governments. Never change, Republicans
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emptywheel
1 day ago
STAT News asked whether Trump is the single then-79 year old patient who got privileged access to an Eli Lilly obesity drug. No one would deny it.
www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Norm Eisen
1 day ago
BREAKING: Over 100 former judges, @DDFund_ & @LDADemocracy have lodged a massive complaint w/ NY bar to investigate acting AG Todd Blanche for *Trump slush fund *DOJ political retribution *Epstein Files fiasco We have never seen anything like this
www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/06.22.26...
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TODD BLANCHE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR PATTERN OF SERIOUS ETHICAL MISCONDUCT
Today, Democracy Defenders Fund, Lawyers Defending American Democracy and a group of 101 former federal and state judges formally filed a comprehensive complaint in a letter to the New York State Bar,...
https://www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/06.22.26-pr
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Wayne Besen
2 days ago
Congressional investigations are needed to determine if Two-Faced Tulsi jeopardized national security. Tulsi Gabbard is a cult puppet, who appears to have taken direct orders from her bizarre, secretive cult guru. Did she share classified information?
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Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/21/tulsi-gabbard-her-guru-mysterious-messages-that-helped-shape-her-political-career/
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2 days ago
So Tulsi retires two days after she was informed that this story would be published.
newrepublic.com/post/212148/...
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Team Trump Quiet Over Explosive Tulsi Gabbard Cult Revelations
Gabbard may have been taking orders from Hare Krishna leader Chris Butler throughout her political career.
https://newrepublic.com/post/212148/team-trump-explosive-tulsi-gabbard-cult-revelations-washington-post-chris-butler
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Ron Filipkowski
3 days ago
But we already lifted all sanctions on Iranian oil.
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Good Trouble 🇺🇸
3 days ago
If we have a history after this madness.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Radley Balko
3 days ago
Using criminal charges to scapegoat innocent people for the regime’s mistakes is about as authoritarian as it gets.
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People caught vandalizing Washington Reflecting Pool to be fully prosecuted, US Attorney Pirro says
People caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Washington’s National Mall will be fully prosecuted, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said on Sunday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/people-ticketed-vandalizing-washington-reflecting-pool-be-fully-prosecuted-us-2026-06-21/
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Anne Applebaum
3 days ago
Republicans trying to make the world safe for kleptocracy
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Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats
GOP lawmakers are pushing forward a bill to repeal a vital shell company database—completely undoing the biggest anti-kleptocracy step forward the U.S. has seen in decades.
https://newrepublic.com/article/211855/republicans-making-world-safe-kleptocrats
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ProPublica
3 days ago
NEW: The administration is defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend. “It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law.
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“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid
Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalat...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defying-congress-foreign-aid-usaid-vought-rubio-constitutional-crisis?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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The New Republic
3 days ago
Trump now says it’s just “common sense” for Iran to have a nuclear program.
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After Months of War, Trump Says Iran Has Right to Nuclear Program
Trump now says it’s just “common sense” for Iran to have a nuclear program.
https://trib.al/rEQE4iv
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Alt National Park Service
3 days ago
Tulsi Gabbard’s election security investigation reportedly found vulnerabilities in some voting machines, but not evidence that votes were changed. Now the report is being delayed, Gabbard is out as DNI, and the public still hasn’t seen the full findings.
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Jared Holt
4 days ago
Wrote this about Gill last year. In my mind, he is the poster boy of DC nepotism
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How Rep. Brandon Gill went from clickbait to Congress
The 30-year-old Texas congressman helped promote the big lie documentary “2,000 Mules” and founded a far-right website.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/house-rep-brandon-gill-texas-trump-dc-enquirer-rcna184882
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Mueller, She Wrote
4 days ago
lol
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Jonathan Larsen
4 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: Pulled together, details across four UFC plot affidavits portray a Christian extremist movement. But I tracked how law enforcement's explicit references to Christianity and religion vanished by the time top officials addressed the scheme. And how badly they're missing the target.
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UFC Plot Was Christian Extremism
The FBI missed the plot and now Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and some media are Jesus-washing it
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/ufc-plot-was-christian-extremism
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Joyce White Vance
4 days ago
Better link:
joycevance.substack.com/p/the-execut...
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The Executive Order To Restrict Vote By Mail
Trump is still trying to suppress your vote
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-executive-order-to-restrict-vote
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Rep. Mike Levin
5 days ago
This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals…
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Behrens Science Museum
4 days ago
"In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in 'An Inconvenient Truth' have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come."
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'Scientists were dead right': Al Gore says on 20th anniversary of 'An Inconvenient Truth'
The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."
https://abcnews.com/US/scientists-dead-al-gore-20th-anniversary-inconvenient-truth/story?id=133922490
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Joyce White Vance
4 days ago
Facts matter. Trump is trying to restrict mail in voting by taking control of who is eligible. That’s up to the states, but Trump has decided the states can’t mail ballots to anyone who isn’t on his list. Read here to understand the EO & lawsuits challenging it:
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The Executive Order To Restrict Vote By Mail
Trump is still trying to suppress your vote
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-executive-order-to-restrict-vote?r=5n3e&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Joyce White Vance
5 days ago
This.
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Carl Quintanilla
5 days ago
MELONI, to Trump: “.. my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”
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Eric Holder
5 days ago
It’s time to call this out. The most unqualified person to ever be SecDef is blocking the promotions of high level people for racial and gender reasons not related to their experience or merit. That makes him a person with racist and sexist issues - and a hack who weakens our armed forces.
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Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/hegseth-navy-blocked-promotions-diversity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The Watchdog Coalition
5 days ago
Trump is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service right before wildfire season. He’s shutting down research stations and eliminating regional offices while claiming there’s no money for public services. Take a sec to tell Congress to stop this:
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-illegal-plan-to-destroy-the-us-forest-service/
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Musicology Duck
5 days ago
you just can’t make this stuff up
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
5 days ago
For U.S. taxpayers and consumers, the cost of the war is at least $132 billion. This lunatic cost us $132 billion.
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Marc Elias
5 days ago
These 19 election deniers and vote suppressors are on the ballot in the midterms. We should be worried.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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These 19 election deniers and vote suppressors are on the ballot in the midterms. We should be worried
Many are running for pivotal state-level roles like governor or secretary of state that wield enormous power to undermine a fair election.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/these-19-election-deniers-and-vote-suppressors-are-on-the-ballot-in-the-midterms-we-should-be-worried/
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LunaLuvgood2020
5 days ago
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately Robert B Shpiner At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm
#SheShed
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I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately | Robert B Shpiner
At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/19/trump-administration-healthcare-for-kids
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Lauren Ashley Davis
5 days ago
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The Justice Department on Friday refused to issue a signed declaration from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
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DOJ refuses to issue signed declaration verifying 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' is dead
The DOJ has refused to issue a signed declaration from acting AG Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Trump’s "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
https://abcnews.com/US/doj-refuses-issue-signed-declaration-verifying-anti-weaponization/story?id=134040412
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Headquarters
7 days ago
Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.
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David S. Bernstein
6 days ago
I just can’t even
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MeidasTouch
6 days ago
Wikipedia now officially lists the result of the 2026 Iran War as an "Iranian victory"
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Robert Reich
6 days ago
As the screwworm spreads... Remember that Elon Musk’s DOGE cut $15M from a screwworm monitoring program. And we're now learning that Trump’s USDA delayed a project to develop new ways to contain the parasite and held up construction of a monitoring facility. The incompetence is dangerous.
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Christopher Webb
6 days ago
Social Security is earned, not given. We paid into it our entire working lives. Speaker Johnson knows how unpopular cuts would be. That’s why these conversations happen behind closed doors instead of out in the open. We earned these benefits. We’ll fight to keep them.
#HandsOffSocialSecurity
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
6 days ago
Hegseth proudly ended the flu vaccine requirement for the military. Following this idiocy, only 40% of new trainees got vaccinated. There’s now a flu outbreak at an AF facility. A new recruit has died, though it is not clear if it was from flu. Now, the flu vaccine is again required there.
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rFA.l4Dh.KflZtnYU9M9A&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱
6 days ago
Iran Has Humiliated Trump as the US signed a document that even Republicans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation.
#TrumpsWar
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Iran Has Humiliated Trump
Officials in Tehran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/iran-trump-war-defeat-deal/687595/?gift=0pBM6hjaihJIqoJzXTgGhI__-bSpAnE3jocROheqZoU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Micah
7 days ago
this fucking guy, man
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Rhuta Bhayga
7 days ago
The party of utter corruption.
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Maxine Joselow
7 days ago
Scoop: The Trump administration is backing off its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system crucial to understanding climate change, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/climate/trump-ocean-observatories-initiative.html
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Veteran Fighting For Democracy
8 days ago
Wal-Mart calls the cops on a black woman who they think stole something. In the end nothing was stolen, but the cops riddle the car with bullets as she tries to leave the parking lot. Murdering a baby. Wal-Mart is responsible. The police are responsible and justice must be served.
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