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jimjam72.bsky.social

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New Fox News poll: "Look at independents, look at Republicans, because that's what the GOP and Trump needs for the midterms. And 78% of independents think that Trump isn't spending enough time on the economy. The economy is the number one issue by an order of magnitude."

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If police being doxed is an issue if people can see their faces, why don’t the many thousands of state/local police officers wear masks? Why do they typically wear their names and badge numbers in a visible location? ICE/BP just wants to hide from misconduct accountability. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."

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Minneapolis pastor: "There's a saying around here, ‘When does the ice go out?' When does the ice melt off the lakes? It's called Ice Out Day, you know people will park old cars on the lakes—or they used to—and they make bets on when the car would sink in. We know how to wait for ice out."

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Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"

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Is this real? Because if so I think I called it with twelve minutes to spare

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social

So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov

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Homeland Security sent a memo to Congress to explain the moments leading to Alex Pretti's death. In it they state people were told to get off the road. When they didn't they were sprayed with chemicals. How does ICE have the authority to control the public right-of-way? They are not the police.

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It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

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A wildfire in California has grown to more than 52,000 acres since sparking on Wednesday, causing evacuation orders to be issued in San Luis Obispo County, about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The Madre Fire is the state’s biggest so far this year.

washingtonpost.comMadre Fire, California’s biggest this year, surges to 52,000 acresThe fire sparked in the Los Padres National Forest in San Luis Obispo County and was growing exponentially, officials warned. The area is mostly uninhabited.

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Senior russian oil exec Andrei Badalov “mysteriously” died yesterday after developing a terminal (velocity ?) case of 11th-floor window cancer. He lived on the 7th floor.

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Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers. We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.

motherjones.comThe Bill Moyers that obituaries missedThe “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.

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this isn't hyperbole or caricature! It's a straightforwad, accurate characterization of what he said.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.

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Ah yes, the much discussed and analyzed realignment on war and foreign policy we’ve been hearing so much about. Count the GOP co-sponsors.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

UPDATE — At least *32* members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60

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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

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The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

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Not to mention: opposition to lgbt rights, deregulation, and massive expansions of executive power and attacks on the federal civil service. Transformative!

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Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

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Just like how it’s not sex discrimination, it’s just deciding whether a procedure is allowed based on the sex of the patient.

Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

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The SEIU-USWW President was just arrested at an anti-ICE demonstration after ICE kidnappings in LA. PLZ SHOW UP! FRIDAY JUNE 6 AT 4pm PST DOWNTOWN LA FEDERAL BUILDING 300 N LOS ANGELES ST, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 #StrongerTogether #LosAngeles #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement

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"Oh, Please!" You can't begin to understand a woman until you're bound to her by the law. Cemented. Locked in Holy Matrimony. Am I getting through to you? Only then can you experience joy - the unique enchantment of sharing your life with the opposite sex." - Adam