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Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

"If SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act, the prospect of Republicans stealing only 5 seats in Texas will feel quaint. While California must counteract what the GOP is doing in Texas, we don’t have enough seats to counteract what they could do if the VRA if gutted. It cement permanent GOP rule."

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

BREAKING:

Mike Johnson just canceled votes for Thursday and is sending the House home early for summer recess in order to shut down Democratic efforts to demand more votes on releasing the Epstein files.

People exploding this false messaging that I voted for a bill + funding that I quite literally voted NO on. The threat environment this morning is scary.

Doesn’t help anyone. Drag me for the position if you disagree but don’t lie. It’s out of control. Saying I voted for this funding is false.

This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday.

It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever.

I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

The problem is this is a slow roll that people won’t necessarily put together. Defunding NPR and PBS and pulling all of the Trump truth tellers off the air is purposeful. 

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

If you wear womenswear, Austin-based shop Daughter's is donating 100% of the profits they earn today to Kerr County Relief Fund. The money will help those Texan families who have lost everything in the tragic July 4th flood.

The video below is of Daughter's Kapital stock.

www.shopdaughters.com

I've seen a lot in 20 years of politics. This Big Betrayal of a bill is about as bad as it gets.

We're going to work together and do everything we can to preserve core services, including critical care from Planned Parenthood.

not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?

I encourage everyone to read this letter.

Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

in 1967, senators rfk and joseph clark took a tour of the mississippi delta. they were horrified by the sheer scale of poverty, malnutrition, and neglect.

their report caused a national scandal. the scenes haunted kennedy; he considered it the worst thing he'd seen in his life.

ICE is continuing to target people showing up to court appearances and office check-ins. We will not passively stand by and watch our neighbors be criminalized and kidnapped. Our refusal to accept this must be made impossible to ignore. Join autonomous Chicagoans in a surge effort to make our stance clear Homeland Security Office/Immigration Court 536 S Clark Monday 07/07 at 9am Bring friends! Share widely!

🚨Keep the HEAT on ICE!🚨

We’ve been showing our dissent outside of immigration courts for weeks. For one hour on Monday 7/7 from 9-10am, we invite EVERYONE to join us outside of 536 S Clark to stand up for our neighbors. We MUST keep up the pressure.

Spread the word and bring a friend!

We are pretty sure Bernoulli understands cats as well as humans do, which is not at all

Bernoulli reached a milestone in today’s episode!

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

“Ostensibly the goal of customer service is to serve customers.
Often enough, its true purpose is to defeat them.”

Painfully true in U.S.
Is this true elsewhere?

Wrangling with customer service
is grinding us down,
Chris Colin writes.
What if that’s the plan?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

As of June 15, 71.8% of the 56,397 people in ICE detention had no criminal conviction. It costs taxpayers ~$165/day for a bed in a detention facility.

So we're now paying ~$6.7 million/day to keep people who haven't been convicted of a crime locked in prisons.

Sources: TRAC Immigration, DHS

Marine Corps veteran's father becomes target of violent arrest by federal agents A U.S. Marine Corps veteran expressed sadness and anger after his undocumented father was arrested violently by immigration agents.

THE FATHER OF THREE MARINES.

This is outrageous and un-American. Masked agents snatching and beating people. In America. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v...

There is no reason to treat him this way. And to continue to hold him in the way they are now.

The Roberts Court exists to give legal cover to bigots The majority decision in US v. Skrmetti is the latest example.

The Roberts Court exists to give legal cover to bigots www.publicnotice.co/p/skrmetti-r...

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug

💥 🍃 🏥 New Stem Cell Therapy Effective for Severe Diabetes (Type 1)
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Single treatment led to reduced or no need for insulin in all 12 patients

New England Journal of Medicine Report
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549
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This is my hometown. Trump’s armed thugs are disappearing our neighbors off the streets without due process. Hey ICE, take your masks off and identify ourselves, you fucking cowards.

Brutal.

tough tough tough decisions

The Alt National Park Service account. 887 thousand followers. "The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service. Our Website: www.ourparks.org

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

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Tucson folks, if passed as now written, this draft Senate reconciliation bill will sell off parts of Sabino Canyon, Madera Canyon, and areas around the Catalinas-among other sites in AZ. Let’s ask @gallego.senate.gov and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social what they’re doing to stop it.