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Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims. (Published May)

‘Man, I loved that’: Trump cheers South Carolina rally attender who hit protester

Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account for several hours during the latest series of demonstrations on Saturday, meant to mobilize voters and encourage early voting in the midterms.

Q: What do you say to Republicans speaking out against the deal with Russia? Trump: I'm in the midst of negotiating a deal. When you're negotiating, you don't do that. I'm the one that's doing the rallies, that's taking people into a winning position. Every place I've gone to we're up

Trump to begin transforming historic golf course despite court order ft.trib.al/6caynEQ

The New York Times and NPR recently failed to convey just how extreme the former Fox host’s views have become.

Today, during the peak of our national day of action, the No Kings Coalition Instagram account was taken down and is no longer accessible. This is a clear attempt to silence the No Kings Coalition & prevent future communications. Don't let them silence No Kings. Spread the word.

Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action. This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.

Friends — It's time to defund Elon Musk. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

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President Trump’s super PAC doesn’t plan to reimburse the government for taxpayer money spent on ads praising his presidency, officials said.

Children’s books with Black main characters down 8% in a year, study shows

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

Breaking News: Relatives of Renee Good have filed federal lawsuits against the ICE agent who killed Good in Minneapolis, as well as Kristi Noem and other Trump officials.

If you've willingly consumed alcohol, a NY law makes it extraordinarily difficult to prove that you were unable to consent to sex. That includes situations where a victim is slurring words or falling down. Advocates say the law was critical in a DA's decision to decline prosecution at Cornell.

Trump claims the federal government can "supersede" Iowa and calls Iowans "troubled people"

Republican Sen. Roger Marshall has just voted against stopping Trump's illegal war in Iran.

Republican Sen. Jon Husted has just voted against stopping Trump's illegal war in Iran.

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has just voted against stopping Trump's illegal war in Iran.

Trump’s FDA pick refuses to say IUDs don’t cause abortions.

My intervention at the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution ↓

Trump shows off his taxpayer-funded helipad to Xi Jinping

Costa Rican Immigrant with Diabetes Dies in ICE Custody After Missing Food, Insulin Shots

In case you missed Susan Collins embroiled in a pay-to-play scheme… Maine, it’s time to send Susan Collins packing this November. We can’t afford six more years of being sold out to Trump and Collins’ corporate cronies.

GOP Senator Roger Marshall announces he will vote to continue the Iran war that's raising everyone’s gas prices. He says that ending the war would be a "huge mistake."

⚡️More than 57,000 women serve as military personnel in Ukraine's Armed Forces, General Staff says. More than 76,000 women serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including 57,000 military personnel, the General Staff said in response to an inquiry from the Kyiv Independent.

Please remember this when Trump or anyone else from his regime talks about "waste, fraud, and abuse."

Breaking News: The Trump administration has cut 750,000 enrollees from Obamacare, Vice President JD Vance said, claiming that many were receiving premium subsidies they did not qualify for and that some were not even real people.  nyti.ms/4xJwbXx

The 2026 WNBA Playoffs are approaching, and we have more scenarios to consider as the regular season heads into its final games. @mingemi.bsky.social and @richardcohen.bsky.social are here to break it all down and more. 🍎 bit.ly/3TmlbAy 📺 bit.ly/4aDRJfp

And the fleecing of the American taxpayer continues...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has settled the challenge that he brought with 11 other state AGs to the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. The deal to settle the suit is both improbable and outrageous. buff.ly/2rmbnaQ

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Austin American Statesman editorial board on the latest ICE shooting: "ICE agents are empowered to remove people who are not in the country legally. That is not a license to shoot them." www.statesman.com/opinion/edit...

The Supreme Court is making more and more consequential rulings in the shadows. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm — and what it means for public trust.

Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.

They lied during their Senate confirmation hearings. They should be impeached; lying constitutes perjury and/or high crimes and misdemeanors.

Trump is acting as if the White House is his house. He has been consistent - desperate to be a dictator. America must shut this all down in November! #Midterms 🌊

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This is a good one.

Trump's 250-foot arch is twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe, and is set to go up in the sightline of Arlington National Cemetery. Our lawsuit is still unresolved in court, but the Trump admin is breaking ground anyway. Sacred ground doesn't get a vote, apparently. #CorruptTrumpRegime

No one can say they didn’t expect this.

This is what you get when you elect a president so he can stay out of jail.

He said he Doesn’t Care about the average American….

He’s going to the Pentagon instead. So, he’s not completely silenced… but he SHOULD be.

While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.