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Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back.

This is only going to get worse.

The bill is truly terrifying

A budget that cuts funding for Planned Parenthood and boosts Pentagon spending isn't about safety. It’s about power and control.

Join us on June 14 for nationwide protests to deny Trump’s fascist birthday wish and send him one message: NO KINGS! Trump wants the world to see a glorious and powerful ruler, but what we’ll show them is a weak and unpopular president: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.

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White House for sale

Indivisible Bucks County and Yardley Indivisible hold up signs at a rally that read “SHAME GOP.”

We’re turning the massive energy from the Hands Off! protests towards one of our biggest fights yet: Stopping the GOP reconciliation plan that guts Medicaid, crushes SNAP, and shovels trillions of dollars to billionaires. To win, we need to be louder and more organized than ever before.

Only one of these men has a criminal conviction—and his name isn’t Kilmar Garcia!

Updating Old North Church's famous message Adam Balsam captured the latest work tonight by Silence Dogood, a local artists' collective using one of Ben Franklin's pen names to spread the word against tyranny, in this case by updating Paul Reve...

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250 years and here we find ourselves! No to tyranny then, no to tyranny today!

Big news: on a bipartisan basis the Senate just voted to reject Trump's tariffs on Canada. The House has to vote on it next, where it's less likely to pass, but the cracks are starting to form. Trump is losing support from Republicans on his costly trade war.

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

"Thus far, the review of the Naval Academy's Library’s holdings has identified 900 books that may run afoul of Hegseth’s order... They include “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.” and a biography on Jackie Robinson..."

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“Heads are exploding”: How security experts see the Signal war-plan breach - NPR

In Signalgate, Trumpworld is demonstrating exactly what's wrong with authoritarian populism: Refusal to admit error, walling out of constructive criticism, the cult-like defense of the leader at all costs.

Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:

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Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

You truly could not make it up.

You could not.

What a pleasant surprise to see a former fellow grad student’s amazing work pop up on my Bluesky feed.

BREAKING: BISIGNANO LIES UNDER OATH

@wyden.senate.gov: Were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions with those working at Social Security?

Bisignano: No, sir.

Wyden: That sounds like a reassuring response. Unfortunately, it's not true.

Decapitation Strike Preserving America from Trump's Appointments

Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" essay from November. We are living through it now.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans in a group chat that included the editor in chief of The Atlantic two hours before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen, the White House said. It was an extraordinary breach of U.S. national security intelligence.

Top Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat Shared With Journalist - The Wall Street Journal

Only the best and brightest, sure. What a breach by top security officials. Trump administration has its own “in-house” leakers. Blatant incompetence!

Looks like Joan and I have the same opinion!

Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador announced that his country had taken in more than 200 prisoners whom the U.S. has accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.

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Rejecting the rule of law time and again! What will thd courts do about it? What will congress do?

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

10 Senate Democrats caved on Friday by voting to give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government.

These senators need to keep hearing from their constituents about this betrayal: indivisible.org/resource/tel...

Shame on Schumer! He has tRump praising him. He should listen to his constituents and colleagues like Merkley and Wyden. House leadership set the example, Senste should follow suit. Don’t give tRump and musk a blank check.

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.

"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

The Congressional Art Competition is underway! Enter now for a chance to win an all expenses paid trip to Washington D.C. & to have your artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol for a year! More info about the competition and how to apply can be found at the link below!

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Opinion | How to Tell That the Chain Saw Is Coming for America “Shock and awe” didn’t end well in Iraq and it won’t end well in the United States.

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Brilliant piece and equally horrifying