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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4m

Abolishing the death penalty is an urgent moral need. Revolting to be in the shrinking minority of nations that still sentence people to death.

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts

No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4m

Trump on Putin: "We're gonna be meeting in Hungary. Viktor Orban is gonna be hosting."

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3m

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 52m

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 9m

Young Republicans in NY texted the most ghastly comments imaginable. Praises of H*tler, calls to commit genocide, glorification of rape.

Most any Black or brown person coulda told you this does not surprise us—because they send us their racist hate unsolicited.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/faith-fact...

Faith, Facts, and the First Amendment

A clash with a Christian nationalist shows why defending the Constitution requires confronting bigotry disguised as patriotism

www.qasimrashid.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 12h

It honestly blows my mind how this is all in plain sight

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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto

[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h

It’s weird how the “young” Republicans are actually full-grown men and JD Vance treats them as children who shouldn’t face consequences for their racism, misogyny, or xenophobia.

But pregnant 12-year-old little girls are treated as adults and must literally bear the consequences of rape and incest.

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Moses @mosesbates.bsky.social · 43m

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 54m

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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NPR @npr.org · 1h

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1h

The head of the ADL is a literal Nazi apologist.

Jonathan Greenblatt ®
@JGreenblattADL
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What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @RepMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1h

"That’s why Smith’s tone—precise, almost understated—was so affecting. He wasn’t defending himself so much as defending what it means to be a federal prosecutor. Every sentence reaffirmed the moral geometry of the old DOJ."

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Jack Smith’s Quiet Integrity—and the DOJ’s Loud Collapse

Jack Smith breaks his silence just as Trump’s DOJ turns the law into a weapon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1h

Amazing that it took a decade for the "stand your ground" party to become the "we're going to use our drones to watch you get dressed so we can maybe arrest you" party.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 17h

Drones flying around Chicago suburban houses and apartments to peer through their windows in search of Latino people to target for assault and arrest by federal agents is not a world we should accept. And Chicagoans are not accepting it. This is an anti-fascist city.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1h

The Supreme Court's conservatives appear ready to weaponize the Equal Protection Clause to gut the Voting Rights Act — making a mockery of the law and further eroding their legitimacy. (via Bloomberg Opinion)

The Supreme Court’s ‘Colorblindness’ Would Gut the Voting Rights Act

If the oral arguments are any indication, the Supreme Court may be about to achieve a remarkably bizarre outcome: using the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to overturn a key provision of the Voting Rights Act — a law explicitly designed to achieve racial equality in voting.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 1h

The Congressional Black Caucus PAC is going straight at Mike Lawler’s direct ties to the Young Republicans and their racist text scandal.

#NY17 voters can expect to see ads about it shortly.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Congressional Black Caucus PAC uses Young Republicans' texting scandal to hit Lawler

The PAC is rolling out a five-figure ad campaign citing POLITICO’s report of the Young Republicans’ group chat.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1h

It is a cult.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Rep. John McGuire: "We had an epic week. He stopped 8 wars in 8 days."

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 16h

In fact, the “Young Republicans”group extends to age 40

There is NOTHING Republicans won’t try to gaslight us about

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, Mike Johnson

You want to know who REALLY hates America

Take a look at your own party

Thousands of messages from Young Republicans praise Hitler, use vile racist language, glorify rape and are outwardly homophobic

And if you ask “where do they get it from”

Well-sh*t rolls downhill, they say

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 3h

BRETT KAVANAUGH: “If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2h

And we're four months into the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative in MSM/NYT.

GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2h

PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections.

I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when Biden bungled a comment and it sounded like he called all MAGA garbage, quickly corrected and it was still a 3 day news story?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · 3h

If President Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act in Portland, “he’s going to have to point at people in inflatable chickens and inflatable frogs and inflatable unicorns,” said Jordy, one of the organizers behind the Portland frog.

My story today on the internet's favorite amphibian.

'Frogs Together Strong': Why The Portland Protest Frog Is So Good At Trolling Trump

Something tells us the administration is not a fan of the Portland frog.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 17h

This gets to an overlooked aspect of the government shutdown/ACA subsidy fight.

It would benefit Ds politically if they let the ACA credits expire so that Rs could take the full blame for rising premiums.

But that is not what Ds are doing.

Instead, Ds are fighting because they ACTUALLY CARE.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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