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There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers as Schedule F (now Schedule Policy/Career) begins. What I told @npr.org - this is the first step of a much broader assault on the civil service system. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

And the maggots just start eating living healthy tissue, creating super painful wounds that risk secondary infections. And the best part? They're called screwworms because if you try to remove them, the maggots turn themselves into a living drill and burrow deeper into the tissue.

We literally have had a program of releasing millions of sterile male screwworm flies a year into the Darien Gap in order to prevent it from expanding northward into Mexico. What happened to that program under Trump? Who the hell knows--but welcome to screwworm! These guys are absolutely nasty.

Welp *USDA CONFIRMS DEADLY SCREWWORM IN US CATTLE

President Trump says we wouldn’t have screwworms in the U.S. if he had his ballroom.

Hi from Washington, DC. Roaming squads of heavily armed military troops are STILL deployed throughout my city. Ugly authoritarian theater, troops far from their families, vast public expense. For no reason whatsoever.

HUGE WIN: House Democrats have successfully passed a War Powers Resolution to stop Trump’s war with Iran. Nearly every House Republican voted against it.

An oil terminal in St Petersburg after a drone attack. St Petersburg Economic Forum is scheduled to start today, with Putin in attendance.

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

ABC and CBS paid Trump. NBC gave to his ballroom. Scott Pelley took a stand and was fired. CNN is next. When Trump sued me, I fought and won. It is that spirit I brought to Democracy Docket. Fearlessly independent, always pro-democracy. Help it grow by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

My name is Josh Turek. I am a 2-time gold medalist, 4-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball, one of the first permanently disabled members of the Iowa House, and I am honored to be Iowa's Democratic nominee for United States Senate. If you are ready to push for change, join me: turek4iowa.com

Something remarkable is happening in Iowa with @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social's campaign. Congratulations on earning the nomination, Josh. Looking forward to hitting the trail with you soon.

If they willingly manipulate the truth here, one can guarantee they manipulate facts and truths in all other ways. This is what fascists do.

Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino spoke at this event with white nationalist Keith Woods & told Woods "immigration & remigration, mass deportations, are the number one issue for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our society, our values, our customs, our beliefs."

Only Ukraine's victory will end the war. Russian invaders and colonists must be removed from Ukraine by force. All occupied territory must be liberated. Hostages in the Russian Federation must be returned. Russian war criminals must be punished. Russia must make reparations.

⚡️ First responder killed in Russia's 'double-tap' attack on Dnipro, State Emergency Service says. Anton Yarmolenko was killed after arriving at one of the attack sites in Dnipro to help the victims and sustaining fatal injuries in Russia's follow-up strike, the State Emergency Service said.

Excerpt: ‘The death toll in Dnipro rose to 15 by around 4 p.m. local time, with two children, one born in 2023 and the other an 8-year-old boy, among the bodies pulled out from the rubble.’ Invasion by #terroristRussia was all that these innocent kids knew. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. #WarCrime

⚡️Update: Explosions again heard in Kyiv amid ongoing large-scale attack. Several explosions were again heard in Kyiv around 7:20 a.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground.

Russia has been attacking Kyiv throughout the night. At least 4 people killed and 58 people injured. Residential buildings, a medical facility, a service center, and vehicles have been damaged.

Russia killed five people in Dnipro and injured 25 more. People's homes ruined. More pain and suffering courtesy of Russia.

Nice work by Jared Polis.

NEWS: Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Kyiv, striking a 24-story apartment building and causing a partial collapse with people potentially trapped under rubble. At least four people were injured as fires broke out across multiple districts, including near a kindergarten. 1/

Please keep Ukraine in your thoughts. Kyiv is under a massive attack by terrorist Russia. And as always the terrorists bomb civilian homes

1 June 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Manuel Scheffer, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber together with his mother, Rachel.

A new White House website. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/ It is based on great replacement theory: that elites have been secretly enabling the “invasion” of “aliens” of color. The Trump administration projects itself as protecting the American people (to cover up its robbing of the American people).

Just so we are clear: It is a racist idea to call a group of human beings “aliens” or “animals.” Racist ideas dehumanize.

hi does anyone know what this means

In his own deranged words:

Trump’s Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely batshit insane. Get a load of this nonstop nuttery.

A United Nations report finds the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carries out systematic sexual violence in its illegal occupation of parts of Ukraine. Civilized countries must declare the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to be a criminal, terrorist organization.

Russia bombed Romania. NATO will do nothing. Ukraine continues to defend Europe alone.

🇮🇷🇰🇼 Bloomberg: An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base on May 30 injured several Americans and severely damaged two MQ-9 Reaper drones, despite Kuwaiti air defenses intercepting the missile.

The Justice Department tried to erase the history of Jan 6. We restored if. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfaremedia.org has preserved and posted it www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

One quite striking thing having actually read it: it's clear Trump doesn't understand how the US constitution set up the government to work, at least in theory. Congress is the boss: it makes the laws. And the executive…executes them. The clue is in the name. Congress is the president's boss.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

The vicious responses from MAGA to artists who don’t want to participate in anything connected to Trump shows exactly why artists don’t want anything to do with him or his movement of whiny, vindictive snowflakes. You get lied to, used, abused & discarded - it is never worth it.

We apparently have reached the point where people in my trusted circle are actually checking out. They’re living as if this is normal. What’s everyone else experiencing? #authoritarianism

It's hard to believe this Nazi-esque tyranny is happening in 2026 America, but it is: Timothy Snyder, on the purpose of Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund and the fascistic terrorism the pedophile führer is preparing to carry out against the American people.

This is a very significant escalation and expansion by Putin.

They're referring to immigrants, to human beings as "it"

This is so fucking disgusting.

This is real. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

Just in past 24 hours: -Criminal investigation of E. Jean Carroll -Subpoenas seeking info of ICE critics -Former judges demand inquiry into IRS "deal" -White House intervention leads to $600+M deal to family-linked firm -Monuments, pictures on currency Turning us into a tinpot authoritarian state