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MellowYellow
about 3 hours ago
Crazy part about all of this is during quarantine we all literally saw nature bounce back and start healing just from mfs keeping they ass home, also found out we dont need to be living like this doing this extra shit working like we do, saw that and said yanno lets go back to killing the planet
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Gillian Brockell
about 7 hours ago
HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/
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Leah Litman
1 day ago
Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??
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Mother Jones
about 3 hours ago
In one devastating ruling, the Republican justices disempowered ordinary citizens and their elected representatives.
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The Supreme Court deals a major blow to Congressional authority
In one devastating ruling, the Republican justices disempower ordinary citizens and their elected representatives.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/supreme-court-congress-landor-spending-clause/
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davidrlurie
about 3 hours ago
"Constitutional lawyer" Johnson ignores the fact that birthright citizenship is not simply a "tradition", but rather was incorporated into the Constitution via the 14th Amendment.
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Chantal James
about 4 hours ago
The US does not give for free from its generous heart! It gives to get something it wants. And its imperialism created the conditions that even had people in such lack where they needed aid in the first place often. So yes it owed & was supporting people, but not out of its goodness.
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Chantal James
about 4 hours ago
The US was keeping millions alive with USAID & also using it as a tool to jerk lifesaving aid before the third world to manipulate according to its agenda, those things can both be true, the staggering loss of life DOGE caused can still be mourned.
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Matthew Guariglia
about 6 hours ago
In Ottawa, the police chief had to make a 7-minute video telling officers to stop using databases and surveillance tools to look up women they found attractive out in the world. This is a major problem *everywhere* and one that has only gotten worse as police have gotten access to more technology.
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Ottawa police chief tells officers to change or quit
YouTube video by CTV News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuimcnlPN68
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 4 hours ago
My concern is that even if a judge orders this asshole to mail our ballots, that trump will ignore the court and sabotage mail ballots anyhow. He’s got a judge on the 3rd circuit who told DoJ lawyers to tell the courts to fuck off, and he’s deploying more election deniers to the bench.
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John B Des Moines
about 21 hours ago
Pushing back against MAGA is the right thing to do, and usually a winner in court as well.
www.npr.org/2026/06/23/n...
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People fired over Charlie Kirk posts get big payouts for First Amendment retaliation
While workers, who were employees in government or public institutions, feel vindicated by how their lawsuits concluded, they are still grappling with the aftermath.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5856300/charlie-kirk-assassination-jobs-social-media-payouts-fired-first-amendment-settlements
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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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Ron Filipkowski
about 12 hours ago
Was I wrong?
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Scott Horton
about 10 hours ago
John Pitney: cross referencing the conduct of Trump as president against the crimes and offenses the Founding Fathers ascribed to King George III in the Declaration of Independence, Trump gets a far higher tyranny score than the Hanoverian monarch did.
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Trump’s Affront to the Founding
The president besmirches the highest principles of the Declaration of Independence while embodying the tyrannical rule it sought to overthrow.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/trumps-affront-to-the-founding-declaration-of-independence-principles-tyranny?r=39wui&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Anyone who supports the Republican Party, full stop.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
about 10 hours ago
Tor Top lost his mother Nyarietna, in South Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak, caused by $20m in USAID cuts She started vomiting, he put her in his canoe and paddled 8 hours to the nearest hospital. She died in his arms less than halfway
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
about 10 hours ago
Negar lives in Takhar province, Afghanistan. Her newborn twins died last year when she had to deliver them at home because the USAID maternity clinic closed
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The Trump administration claims no one has died due to US aid cuts. Our trip to Afghanistan suggests otherwise | CNN
The wail of a woman in a floral dress reverberates through the malnutrition ward and down the stuffy hallways of a hospital in eastern Afghanistan: The unfiltered pain of a mother watching her 1-year-...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/asia/usaid-cuts-afghanistan-women-children-intl
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
about 10 hours ago
In Afghanistan, USAID cuts closed 400 pregnancy clinics, leaving at least 30 women dead. They each had names and families
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BBC Audio | The Global Story | The cost of USAID cuts to women in Afghanistan
Over 400 health clinics have shut. The impact on pregnant women has been devastating.
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct719b
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
about 10 hours ago
In 2025, USAID stopped funding clean water in Goma, DRC. Goma then suffered the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, with 1,479 deaths, a 361% increase. Every one of those people had a name
www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...
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What USAID did, and the effects of Trump's cuts on lifesaving aid
More than one year since massive foreign aid cuts and the eventual closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Oxfam outlines what USAID did and the ripple effects of losing it.
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/making-foreign-aid-work/what-do-trumps-proposed-foreign-aid-cuts-mean/
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
about 11 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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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
about 10 hours ago
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines
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Scott Horton
about 10 hours ago
Trump is setting up a situation in which Beijing can take Taiwan without a fight. Xi seems to have concluded that the surest path to securing control of Taiwan without a war runs through Trump, who has frequently criticized Taiwan and questioned the wisdom of defending the island. The objective of
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China Could Win Taiwan Without Fighting
The cost of Trump’s equivocation.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/china-could-win-taiwan-without-fighting
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Regina Schrambling
about 20 hours ago
Heard tonight that Claudia Sheinbaum is getting affordable EVs for her citizens.
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H Craig Blue
1 day ago
Absolutely. Charlie Kirk was attempting to attribute gun violence to exclusively non-white gangs from liberal states when a white kid from a red state, the son of Trump supporters, ended his life. With a gun.
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Melissa Gira Grant
about 20 hours ago
also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers
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Chris Sprigman
about 21 hours ago
NY-10, my district, is the most Jewish congressional district in the country, w/about 25% of voters identifying as Jewish. And yet tonight the district threw out pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman, and elected Brad Lander, who calls Gaza a genocide and favors an cut-off of weapons to Israel, by 30+ pts. 1/
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
1 day ago
I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.
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RJ
1 day ago
Well then it's Americans that are the real problem. Not all of them but WAAAAAY too many millions of them. When 70-75 million people condone that rapist & everything that's been going on, your country is pure poison.
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Hunter Walker
1 day ago
WaPo just put out a great story exposing memos showing Tulsi Gabbard's guru and his group guided her positions and inflated her support.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
TPM first reported on signs they were doing this in January 2025.
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Why Former Followers Of Her Guru Fear Tulsi Gabbard As Director Of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to Chris Butler, a controversial spiritual leader with extreme...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/why-former-followers-of-her-guru-fear-tulsi-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence
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Ozma
1 day ago
The internet was awash in effective public relations for YEARS but he wanted to show his true self to us and now we know what kind of person he is--we hear the ugliest most morally revolting ideas flowing from his mouth daily. We know he's a killer. But he didn't get there alone! Wall Street helped.
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The Resistance CO
1 day ago
Nobody should have that much money or power. Fuck that Nazi!
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Senate Press Gallery
1 day ago
By a vote of 50-48, the Senate adopted HConRes86-Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, Iran. GOP Senators voting aye: Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, and Paul. Dem Senator voting no: Fetterman. Senators not voting: McConnell and McCormick.
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emptywheel
1 day ago
In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map.
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Benjamin Gill
2 days ago
So the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is diverting a large amount of public money for basic science into areas of science that already well funded by investors and for profit companies. This will continue to undermine the pipeline of trained scientists and engineers from higher education. 🧪
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LibraryThing
2 days ago
Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author
#OctaviaEButler
. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
#💙📚
#Booksky
Have you read her work?
www.librarything.com/author/butle...
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ProPublica
2 days ago
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters,
@megomatz.bsky.social
, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reaching-out-reporting-obstacles?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1782162720&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Scott Horton
2 days ago
Susan Collins, who behaves throughout the interview like a droid on 15 second delay, explains why she loves AIPAC and craves their money and instructions.
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Jim Aloisi
3 days ago
I wish
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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CBS is no longer get a trusted news source.
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Regina Schrambling
2 days ago
Just a mystery why Americans are so clueless: Newsstands with no news.
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Jay Kuo
2 days ago
In a time of bonkers stories, this one may just take the cake. It turns out Tulsi Gabbard reportedly was little more than a puppet for a Hare Krishna sect’s guru this whole time. Read that sentence again, then read my write-up in the link in the comments.
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Rebecca Solnit
11 days ago
Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).
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David Ho
11 days ago
In case we had any doubt
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Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say
The newly crowned world's first trillionaire is once again facing criticism over the violent narratives he amplified on his platform X.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/13/musk-s-role-was-instrumental-in-the-belfast-riots-according-to-researchers_6754420_4.html
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Covering Climate Now
5 days ago
Between 1984 and 2025, coverage of sports and entertainment received 36 times the coverage that climate change did. Learn more from a new report, “From Silence to Whisper: Climate Change in U.S. News Media, 1984–2025,” released this week:
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Joohn Choe
2 days ago
The question I asked in 2019 was whether Chris Butler effectively owned a member of Congress. Eight months into her running USIC and one day into Swaine's reporting, the answer looks a lot closer to yes than it did when I was getting eye-rolls for raising it.
www.patreon.com/joohn/posts/...
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"Please confirm": How to own a Director of National Intelligence | Joohn Choe
For about seven years, ever since a political operative in Hawaii put me onto it, I've been pointing at the cult that Tulsi Gabbard is in an
https://www.patreon.com/joohn/posts/please-confirm-161782943?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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Joohn Choe
2 days ago
For about seven years, ever since a political operative in Hawaii put me onto it, I've been pointing at the cult that Tulsi Gabbard is in and catching the occasional accusation that I'm "doing a McCarthyism" or being anti-spiritual, so allow me one small victory lap. OK so here's the deal. 🧵
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Asha Rangappa
3 days ago
I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts
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Grudgie the Whale
3 days ago
It really is fucking wild that Trump is having people arrested for putting a finger in a pool when he pardoned the people who full out trashed the US Capitol
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Don Schreiber/Methane Mad Man
3 days ago
As the inevitable gravitational forces of truth, reason and mortality drag Trump to the ground, Solnit makes it make sense... "he found out you can seize a building but not an audience..." and in so doing strengthens us all for the fight ahead.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/winners-and-...
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Winners and Losers: A Hell of a Week in the US of A
There is no more one-sentence-fits-all opening in literature than Dickens's "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and this is a review of a lot of the winning and losing over the past...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/winners-and-losers-a-hell-of-a-week-in-the-us-of-a/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter
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Mark Chadbourn
3 days ago
An astonishing expose of the secret directives Tulsi Gabbard received throughout her political career. They appear to have come from the leader of the cult to which she belonged.
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Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career — The Washington Post
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://apple.news/ATCOKOiFGQnqGO14YNGGLxw
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3 days ago
Whose Fear Counts? By Tony Pentimalli A one-year-old boy is dead after police fired into a car outside a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, and the country is once again being asked to begin with the fear of the officer rather than the life of the child.
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Schooley
2 days ago
It's insane that a failing president just so obviously making stuff up constantly isn't treated like a crisis in the press.
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