Babsben
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The youngest Boomer. When in worry, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
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Marc Elias
about 17 hours ago
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his stateâs ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was ânot a bigâ deal.
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Louisiana governor: Discarding 45,000 votes ânot a bigâ deal and ânot my faultâ
âWell, it's not a big deâ it's not my fault,â Landry said.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-governor-discarding-45000-votes-not-a-big-deal-and-not-my-fault/
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Carl Quintanilla
about 13 hours ago
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Carl Quintanilla
about 15 hours ago
Man, there are some crazy âlabor vs. capitalâ charts, lately.
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Aaron Rupar
about 15 hours ago
this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.
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Mysterious Meddling in Democratic Primaries Has G.O.P. Fingerprints
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/gop-mystery-pac-midterms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.akFx.PSa3l4iKyeoj
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Robert Reich
about 17 hours ago
According to 404 Media, ICE officials have admitted that Palantir has helped build a database of 20 million people for the agency to use for raids and arrests. Yet another reason why Palantir is America's most dangerous corporation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real â and it's being built by Palantir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
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đChristine Slemmerđ
about 18 hours ago
âThe Reflecting Pools in Washington, D.C. were designed for one purpose: reflection. They are supposed to mirror the beauty, dignity, and symbolism of the monuments around them. They were never intended to look like a chlorinated Olympic swimming pool where you can count pennies on the bottom.â
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Kyle Griffin
about 18 hours ago
House Oversight's Robert Garcia says Dems will release a new report May 12 that he says will detail, from bank records, how the sweetheart deal that Alex Acosta helped further enrich Jeffrey Epstein and expand the network of sexual abuse of adolescent girls. "This report is just the beginning."
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FrankGinDC
about 20 hours ago
Is that using the database that DHS told congress doesnât exist?
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Joseph Cox
about 20 hours ago
This supports what we found about how ICE is using Palantir's ELITE tool. It finds not just a particular person, but neighborhoods that DHS have said are "target rich." ICE go to one place, then find they can arrest the neighbor too
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Joseph Cox
about 20 hours ago
New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80%
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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/
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Jason Koebler
about 20 hours ago
ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database:
www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...
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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/
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Project Salt Box
about 19 hours ago
The Palantir ICM + BI2 + Mobile Fortify pipeline is a staggering thing. Similar tools between Palantir and the FBI are also in the works. This level of surveillance transcends the current immigration focus.
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The Verge
about 21 hours ago
Palantirâs merch serves no tactical purpose for âwarfighters,â but is a new way for the laptop class to signal brand alignment. Read more from
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The New Republic
about 18 hours ago
In five days last week, Republicans gained maybe 10 seats in Congress. And not a single citizen voted. Thatâs not just bad for the Democrats, itâs bad for democracy. This canât be accepted as normal.
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Justin Wolfers
about 21 hours ago
Latest inflation report just dropped, and it came in hot, and slightly hotter than most folks expected.
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Joyce White Vance
about 19 hours ago
Alabamaâs AG announces heâs launched his own investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center, following the federal criminal indictment. But it looks an awful lot like a witch hunt for donors.
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Forbes
about 20 hours ago
Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased âbecause of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.â
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Cost Of Iran War Has Increased $4 Billion, Pentagon SaysâBut Some Estimates Say Itâs Closer To $200 Billion
Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased âbecause of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.â
http://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/05/12/cost-of-iran-war-has-increased-4-billion-pentagon-says-but-some-estimates-say-its-closer-to-200-billion/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Adam Kinzinger
about 19 hours ago
Trump's approval on the economy: 30%. On inflation: 25%. 77% of Americans â including a majority of Republicans â say his policies have raised the cost of living in their own community. The wave is forming.
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The Blue Wave Is Coming. Don't Let Them Convince You Otherwise.
It feels like it always does before a massive sea change. They can't fight the tide
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamkinzinger/p/the-blue-wave-is-coming-dont-let?r=kjv0f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Politico
about 22 hours ago
Itâs primary day in Nebraska, and this might be one of the strangest senate races seen in a while. âNobody really knows who's gonna win,â our Jack Blanchard said on today's Playbook Podcast. âThe whole thing's a complete mess.â đ§
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Julianne McShane
1 day ago
"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."
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How minimum wage hikes and food stamps fit in to suicide prevention
Studies show income, debt and access to basic needs shape mental health outcomes, but U.S. strategies have largely focused on clinical care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/05/10/suicide-prevention-poverty-food-wages/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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Carl Quintanilla
about 20 hours ago
â.. CHART OF THE DAY: Yes, â˝ď¸ gasoline; but also 𼊠beef. .. The cost of a pound of ground chuck has risen to near $7 .. up ~91% since Trump's 1st inauguration).â
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Andrew Lawrence
about 21 hours ago
its very funny to say âi was the hunted now im the hunterâ at a mid-day meeting where you fell asleep at your desk
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Ryan Enos
about 20 hours ago
This is a primary reason (in addition to cognitive decline making it harder for him to hide his racism).
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Rachel Maddow
1 day ago
"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..."
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DHS responds to claim of wrongful ICE detention
The Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood. Jeury Concepcion tol...
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/dhs-responds-to-claim-of-wrongful-ice-detention/6500126/
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Chicago Tribune
about 20 hours ago
As of Monday, the average national gas price was $4.52 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club, 50% higher than the average price of just under $3 a gallon before Trump began the war against Iran.
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Trump says heâll move to suspend federal gasoline tax. He canât do it on his own.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/11/federal-gasoline-tax/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicagotribune.com&mrfcid=202605126a021c5e770b223cc4513e29
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Angry
about 22 hours ago
Any questions about why the GOP is desperately trying to cheat before the midterms?
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Lindsay Beyerstein
about 22 hours ago
The president shared a scripted slop video about a Black doordasher stealing fried chicken.
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Carl Quintanilla
about 21 hours ago
â.. CPI food at home (essentially grocery prices) jumped by 0.68% m/m in April ... largest increase since August 2022 ..â - Schwab
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Better Things Are Possible
about 21 hours ago
Completely avoidable suffering that's happening only because one old man is bored and button mashing. The entire midterms campaign should be about removing him from office
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Mark Jacob
1 day ago
Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesnât make them right, and they wonât survive the real justice that is coming.
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Charles Gaba âĄď¸
about 22 hours ago
To hell with that. Win every damned one of them anyway:
secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
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Robert Reich
1 day ago
Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?
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Quinn Slobodian
1 day ago
3 actual quotes from this piece: âCan I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think itâs shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants."
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New Yorkâs rich lash out at âshamefulâ Mamdani plan to tax second homes
The cityâs wealthy property owners say they are sick of being vilified
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/4349d9ab-f335-47e1-a763-7e56caabc01b
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Quinn Slobodian
1 day ago
âWhat Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered
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Linda Holmes
about 22 hours ago
My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.
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Mark Joseph Stern
1 day ago
Justice Alito has extended his administrative stay of the 5th Circuit ruling against mifepristone. Mifepristone remains available via telemedicine and mail, for now. New deadline is Thursday.
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Cabel Sasser
2 days ago
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Covie
1 day ago
BTW, the cost to repair the reflecting pool went from $1.8 million to $7 million and now it's $13.1 million. A reminder that not a single soul asked for this project.
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
FOX NEWS' JOHN ROBERTS: When I talked to the president this morning, he kinda surprised me bc he said, 'John, I'm very serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.' WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON ANNA KELLY: This is a president who is famous for never accepting the status quo
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Justin Baragona
1 day ago
Oh, nothing to see here. Just a Democratic Senator laughing and cheering on Trump for saying "quiet, piggy" to a female reporter.
www.mediaite.com/politics/bil...
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Bill Maher and John Fetterman Gush Over Trumpâs âRefreshingâ Honesty â Especially His Infamous âQuiet, Piggyâ Jab
Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman both applauded President Donald Trump for what Maher called the president's "horrifying" but also "refreshing" honesty.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bill-maher-and-john-fetterman-gush-over-trumps-refreshing-honesty-especially-his-infamous-quiet-piggy-jab/
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Victor Ray
1 day ago
If you want to understand the political process that ended Reconstruction and led to a century of racial terrorism in the South, check out this response to Dems losing four House seats.
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MeidasTouch
2 days ago
Buckle up, folks. This likely means they expect prices to get much worse. Also: it would add an estimated $2.5 billion to the national debt every month.
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Brennan Center
1 day ago
Clarence Thomas's more than 34-year tenure on the Supreme Court has included votes that have helped dismantle affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act.
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Clarence Thomas Just Became the Second-Longest-Serving Supreme Court Justice Ever
His tenure has included multiple ethics scandals, as well as votes that helped roll back voting rights and ushered in unlimited corporate spending on elections.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/clarence-thomas-about-become-second-longest-serving-supreme-court-justice
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Justin Baragona
2 days ago
A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%.
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Manisha Sinha
2 days ago
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly âJohn Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.â
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darthâ˘ď¸
2 days ago
is there any one fuckin person in this administration even remotely competent jesus fuckin christ
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Mark Joseph Stern
2 days ago
In 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court's Democratic majority banned partisan gerrymandering under the state constitution. Republicans then won control of the court and spontaneously reversed that decision, re-legalizing gerrymandering. I suspect this is the model Virginia Democrats will follow.
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George Conway âď¸đşđ¸
2 days ago
"With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iranâs allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. ...
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Ryan Mac đ
2 days ago
Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement.
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