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Senator Whitehouse tells it like it is. Fraud at the Social Security Administration is statistically rare. And undocumented workers DO NOT collect #SocialSecurity benefits. These are excuses to gut and privatize the agency that administers YOUR earned benefits! @propublica.org @whitehouse.senate.gov

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Replying to @gtconway.bsky.social

“This whistleblower has ‘provided substantive, internal DOJ documents’ that back up claims made by former senior DOJ attorney-turned-whistleblower Erez Reuveni, said the group.” bsky.app/profile/jben...

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social

NEW: A second whistleblower and former DOJ attorney has produced evidence that backs up allegations that Trump's court pick Emil Bove told DOJ attorneys to defy court orders, mislead judges and say "fuck you" to judges who rule against them, says whistleblower group. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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#ProudBlue This is what true leadership looks like. You lead with compassion & empathy. You comfort & heal. Not the hateful BS happening right now. I miss Biden’s leadership. He wasn’t perfect, but he is a good man & a true leader. These pics don’t fit their narrative of him being unfit.

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They bend every law, they break every law, they hack voting machines, they deploy roving gangs of thugs to steal people off the street, they openly embrace racism, they lie nonstop, they incite political violence, and much more. Their evil knows no limits. Then they claim to be followers of Jesus.

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I’ll take “Things the Sec Def Should Already Know” for $200, Alex

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BALDWIN: What is the authority that the administration is using to deploy active duty Marines to California neighborhoods? HEGSETH: The president has constitutional authority BALDWIN: Cite the provision of the Constitution HEGSETH: I'd have to pull up the specific provision

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"The saga around the boosters provides the clearest evidence yet that Kennedy was lying when he promised congressional overseers—and the American people—that his goals were to increase transparency and scientific accountability rather than impose his own agenda." www.thebulwark.com/p/rkf-jr-ken...

thebulwark.comRFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird FluHe just made two bad decisions on vaccines, and he made them in the worst way possible.

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Happy Sunday! We made it to June, arguably the best month of the year. We had six strong contenders this morning for sunrise but after a spirited debate this one took first place. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

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The reconciliation bill has a provision in it that would allow the IRS to revoke nonprofits 501(c)(3) statuses for alleged support of terrorism and let me tell you, if that becomes law they will 100% use that for political punishment. Without any doubt.

Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social

Worth noting that this escalation of the attack against Harvard is yet another example of the admin repurposing the "terrorism" framing to tar and persecute domestic opponents. Wrote about the admin's broader repurposing of the terrorism narrative last month. www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

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Donald Trump’s racism and derangement were on full display yesterday. And while news headlines fell well short of proclaiming the hatefulness of his remarks, media outlets came closer than they have before to openly addressing Trump’s vehemently racist views. presswatchers.org/2025/05/main...

presswatchers.orgMainstream media inches closer to addressing Trump’s racism | Press WatchStill too many euphemisms and anodyne headlines, but it’s a start

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In order to buy into Jake Tapper’s theory, you’d have to believe that democrats were duped into thinking Biden is young as opposed to believing that low information voters were duped by Trump.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

this is worth digging into. very nuanced analysis but my general takeaway is that Trump has a near mystical attraction for low-info, low-propensity voters catalist.us/whathappened...

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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

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All fellow Marylanders can take pride in the work of Dr. Carla Hayden, who has provided remarkable leadership as the Librarian of Congress. Her sacking by Donald Trump, who knows little about Congress & less about libraries, is a scandal exposing his contempt for learning, literature & knowledge.

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Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

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54.7 .... 5.5.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

DALLAS FED SURVEY: “.. What actions, if any, are you taking (or planning to take) in response to higher tariffs? Please select all that apply.” @stephaniekelton.bsky.social www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

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A friend of mine has coined the term “Pinocheting” to describe what the government is doing to these prisoners.

Randi Mayem Singer@rmayemsinger.bsky.social

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

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Former SSA commissioner @martinomalley.bsky.social , who is organizing a "Hands off Social Security" initiative, explains why the Trump administration suddenly adding living people to the "death master file" affects more than just a person's Social Security status.

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The fundamental problem with the “alien enemy”-or-innocent binary in this story, as other binaries, is that it’s deeply flawed. Innocence should be irrelevant. Even Tren de Aragua membership should be irrelevant. What matters is that this is lawless invocation of a wartime power during peacetime.

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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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Bukele has already returned migrants to the U.S. because they were from Central America or they were women—migrants the Trump admin had unilaterally declared as “criminals.” This is all a joke to them. It’s truly sick.

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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

npr.orgA whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataA whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.