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Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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The man who had his staff park illegally at Borough Hall on sidewalks cannot be trusted to do the right things for pedestrians

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"The roadway once carried between four and six lanes for motor vehicles, despite 88 percent of people in the area traveling on foot and squeezing into 30 percent of the space." And now Adams wants to give it back to cars?

Mayor Adams May Nix Sidewalk Expansions on Bustling Eighth Ave. - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org Mayor Eric Adams cast doubt on years of city efforts to give pedestrians more space to walk on overcrowded Eighth Avenue.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Both the “black jobs” remark and using palestinian as a slur are hopefully clarifying as to actual Trump’s ideology and worldview, in contrast with the imaginary trump some people have built up in their heads as the memory of his administration has receded

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it is incredibly depressing to consider how it feels like media coverage in 2024 of Trump is even more dumb and bad than it was in 2016

this is a headline from 2016. trump said the exact same thing last night, completely unchecked by biden or the moderators. it’s hard not to feel like we’ve learned nothing.

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Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)

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like, why is anyone treating this like a serious proposal? the trump department of labor wanted to make it easier for employers to steal tips for christssake! he has an actual record!

Trump is proposing to make tips tax-free. What would that mean for workers?apnews.com Former President Donald Trump’s proposal to exclude tips from federal taxes is getting strong reviews from some Republican lawmakers.

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Every "senior official" who thinks "no one knows what he’s going to say" needs to resign. They are simply not fit to serve in their positions. It's Netanyahu. We know what he's going to say: whatever he thinks serves his short-term personal interests, which here is bashing Biden to help Trump.

"The White House has grown anxious about Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to a joint session of Congress, believing the Israeli prime minister could use the forum to criticize President Joe Biden for not supporting the retaliation against Hamas in Gaza enough."

‘No one knows what he’s going to say’ – WH fears mount about Bibi’s DC visitwww.politico.com The Israeli prime minister’s video this week, accusing the U.S. of withholding military aid, has raised the stakes (and the concerns) about his July 24 speech.

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six kids is a lot for any normal parent, it’s absurd to pretend that musk is any kind of actual father (in the parenting sense) of six children *in five years*, he’s a fucking deadbeat dad with money

New secret Musk baby just dropped www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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""The flight records show that many of the department trips left city limits and some followed trajectories that hit multiple city landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center," the story notes." Oh

Keeping libraries open is cool but have you ever flown a taxpayer-funded chopper to the Hamptons on a summer Friday?

You're Not Imagining Things: The NYPD Is Flying Way More Helicopters - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com Keeping libraries open is cool but have you ever flown a taxpayer-funded chopper to the Hamptons on a summer Friday?

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I am in a state run by clowns

because of Hochul vaporizing congestion pricing, the MTA now has a legal escape hatch on the federal agreement it made two tears ago to make the subways fully accessible

Congestion Pricing Cash Crunch Could Give MTA an Out on Pact to Make Subway Stations Accessiblewww.thecity.nyc A landmark 2022 legal settlement was hailed as the start of making nearly every subway station ADA-compliant. But that same agreement lets the MTA lower its spending when funds fall short.

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I feel like the fact there were alleged/charged organized attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results is flying a bit more under the radar than it maybe should be

Rudy Giuliani was processed in Phoenix on Monday, weeks after pleading not guilty in Arizona to charges of allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Officials in Arizona release Rudy Giuliani’s mug shot after he pleaded not guilty in election subversion case | CNN Politicscnn.it Weeks after pleading not guilty in Arizona to charges of allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, Rudy Giuliani was processed in Phoenix Monday.

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It's worth paying attention to what Liz Kruger, the chair of the NYS Senate Finance Committee, has been saying. She's offered perhaps the most thorough evisceration of Hochul's decision of any elected official. Full text, 'cause it doesn't all fit in the alt: www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/pre...

I have never seen politicians in Albany look this pissed off at a press conference. Including every face in the background. The proposed payroll tax is what the governor wants to substitute for revenue from congestion pricing. I'm calling it: Hochul will back down. link: x.com/bern_hogan/s...

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They know it works that’s why Musk bought twitter

Deplatforming is out of favor in Silicon Valley. But it works. A new study in Nature finds that Twitter's mass suspension of 70,000 QAnon-linked accounts after Jan. 6 meaningfully reduced the overall circulation of fake and hyperpartisan news on the platform. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.www.washingtonpost.com A new study finds deplatforming “super-spreaders” of misinformation can limit the overall spread of online whoppers.

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One way to see the Hochul climb-down in congestion pricing is that it is another instance where blue state politicians create a vetocracy that stops them from taking actions that would improve the quality of lives for citizens. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/n...

Supporters of Congestion Pricing Are Furious at Hochul’s ‘Betrayal’www.nytimes.com Advocates who have been fighting for decades for the program were shocked by the governor’s sudden move and its impact on funding for the city’s subways.

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Can't stand this gov. She does whatever the last rich person on the phone tells her to do.

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Not that it needs to be said but trump stealing credit for congressional dems' pandemic superdole and relief payments absolutely narrowed his loss and still explains a lot of his strength today

alone among heads of state trump could not turn covid to his advantage. people disagree with me on this but if not for the pandemic i think trump would have lost by even more than he did.

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One other thing to note to people: the felonies of which he was just convicted were possibly, all on their own, enough to *make* him president in the first place. He crimed himself into the presidency!

One thing to hammer home to the normies: Donald Trump was convicted unanimously of all counts by a jury that he and his lawyers had a hand in shaping. The hyperpartisans were kept off. It was people like *you* who looked at the evidence and quickly said “holy shit he’s so guilty.”

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It really feels like they structured this headline specifically to not say "Biden's EPA has lowered cancer causing emissions", which is just true on the face of it

"[B]enzene emissions from nearly all of those refineries have recently plummeted due to strong federal regulations and oversight...." Could you say that a little louder for the cheap seats? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Why cancer-causing pollution from oil refineries is fallingwww.washingtonpost.com Benzene pollution from U.S. oil refineries is falling due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations and enforcement, according to a new analysis.

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People will point to something and say “see voting doesn’t do anything” and it’s literally just the consequences of Republicans winning elections

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Most Americans in polls report that their own financial situation and the economy in their home state is good but think the national economy is bad. This isn't a case of people being secretly miserable in a way the economic data doesn't catch. Propaganda works.

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This is a pet peeve, I guess, but the Adams team’s incuriosity about the world bugs me. There’s a real thank-the-cops-for-being-just-wonderful subculture out there, which fuels Republican politics and fits with Adams’ poorly articulated right-wing outook, and his staff could educate him about it.

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Here it is, your moment of road safety Zen

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"An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over Justice Alito's front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case."

At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Displaywww.nytimes.com An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case.

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takes until graf 27 for them to mention that he's only on the ballot in 1 of the 6 polled states. great job guys

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Hey, look, yet another campus settling this peacefully. It's almost like the university presidents that called in armed police to their campuses to handle their own students made an incredibly stupid mistake and should be forever banned from leading an educational institution.

It won't get the attention it deserves because it happened here and it's decidedly un-sensational, but the UWM administration's response to our student encampment is an object lesson in the virtues of restraint and non-escalation, and should be a national model

UW-Milwaukee strikes deal with pro-Palestinian protesters to take down encampmentwww.jsonline.com Protesters have until Tuesday morning to take down the tents. They also agreed not to disrupt commencement, which will be held May 19.

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a reminder: crashes that happen during police chases are a policy choice, not random. our newsroom found that vehicle pursuits by the NYPD jumped nearly 600% during the Adams administration: www.thecity.nyc/2023/07/05/n...

"The chase began when officers saw the driver make an unspecified traffic violation, cop sources said, declining to go into detail."

Hit-and-run driver kills Brooklyn pedestrian during police chasewww.nydailynews.com The driver slammed into two women crossing a Brooklyn street, killing one of them, during a police chase in which he later hopped out of his vehicle and onto the subway on Thursday, cops and source…