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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 7h

"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, born #OTD 1890

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Donald Trump: 'What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening'

In a wide-ranging, free-flowing speech to a veterans association, the US president, Donald Trump, criticised the media for its reaction to his trade tariffs policy.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8h

For the love of god, please don't go into a tear gas attack with fitted sheets soaked in vinegar on your head.

Honestly. . .

(202) 224-3121☎️Sunshine🌞The❤️‍🔥Angriest😠Little💪Sn☼wflake❄️ @sinshinelove.bsky.social · Jun 14

We are so overprepared for tomorrow's thing it's slightly ridiculous.
We cut a fitted sheet up into pieces that can be tied around the head and soaked them in vinegar, in case the gas hits the face. Ziplocked them individually with a package of earplugs taped to the outside in case of audio attack.

ziploc bags inside a bigger ziploc bag: vinegar bandanas for tear gas and earplugs for soundcannons

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy"

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV, writes Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social:

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 6h

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 14h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

I’m sure House Republicans will be as energized by this as they were about conversations Joe Biden had after he’d left the Obama administration.

World Leader Caught Asking Trump for a Family Favor on Hot Mic

The godfather of MAGA shared a not-so-discreet moment with his Indonesian counterpart at the Gaza summit in Egypt.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

“Peace” update: “5 killed by IDF in Gaza despite ceasefire…”

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Shower Cat Love @shower-cat.bsky.social · 6h

Trump foreign policy is the unable to see past the thing directly in front of them and see the larger picture and second order effects. Having the US at the center of intl institutions (formal and informal) makes it more powerful, not less. Undoing this through coercive threats makes the US weaker.

cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 12h

Washington thought coercion would keep China down. But as @yelingtan.bsky.social @Mark Dallas @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social show, it did the opposite. Dependence became danger — and China learned to turn US pressure into its own power. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/america-th...

America, the Bumerang Master

How Washington Built Chinese Leverage Over...Washington (on Tan, Dallas, Farrell, Newman)

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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 16h

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 16h

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 20h

Did people all get hit in the head with the a hammer at the same time? What is going on?

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 20h

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 17h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 15h

North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people

The medical debt eliminated through a state government effort that offered hospitals extra Medicaid funds if they forgave patient debt & implemented policies to discourage future liabilities.

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North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

Solidarity is the only way

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