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NEW: Judge Cannon grilled special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors today on how closely AG Merrick Garland oversees their work

Judge Cannon wants to know whether Merrick Garland is supervising Jack Smithwww.politico.com The judge in Donald Trump’s classified documents case asked lawyers how much independence the special counsel has.

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not good!

for those who still need to hear it… from the upper ranks of the Trump / MAGA policy brain trust and government -in-waiting, in their own words: “of course we aren’t fucking bluffing.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extremewww.rollingstone.com “Yes, we do really want to burn it all down,” says a Republican close to Trump.

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Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of these two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Read this out loud. Then read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

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It took them about 15 minutes to decide that the actual text of section 3 of the 14th Amendment was unenforceable and optional, and months to deliberate on the extent of a completely invented presidential immunity that’s not in the constitution at all. Objectively pro-insurrection behavior

It remains astonishing that SCOTUS waited weeks to even announce they were taking on the presidential immunity case and now we stand on the eve of the last scheduled day of decisions and they still haven't released it -- all but guaranteeing Trump will not face a federal jury before the election.

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Stock buybacks don't just line the pockets of CEOs and shareholders — they're dangerous. Boeing failed to implement a $7B redesign of its 737 Max while spending that much per year on buybacks. A dollar spent on buybacks is a dollar less spent to upgrade equipment and safety.

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Yes, if you don’t like the choice between Trump and Biden, think of it as picking between Stephen Miller and Pete Buttigieg, Steve Bannon and Deb Haaland, Michael Flynn and Lina M. Khan, Alex Jones and Jessica Rosenworcel, or Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Both sides are not “the same”

Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

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As we approach Juneteenth, 89% of the House GOP voted this week to restore a statue depicting “an enslaved Black ‘mammy’ holding the infant child of a White [confederate] officer, as an enslaved Black man follows the officer off to war” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Republicans embrace a Confederate symbol, after years of uneasewww.washingtonpost.com The House vote to restore the Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery failed, but not before it got a lot more GOP support —about 89 percent — than similar recent votes.

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Animal advocates say the Apache County, Ariz., incident with a deputy fatally shooting seven abandoned dogs highlights the need for the area to address rampant pet hoarding and abandonment.

Deputy fatally shoots seven starving, abandoned dogswapo.st Animal advocates say the Apache County, Ariz., incident highlights the need for the area to address rampant pet hoarding and abandonment.

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Mike Johnson says that during the House GOP meeting with Trump today, Trump "said very complementary things about all of us. We had sustained applause. He said I'm doing a very good job. We're grateful for that."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net Mike Johnson says that during the House GOP meeting with Trump today, Trump "said very complementary things about all of us. We had sustained applause. He said I'm doing a very good job. We're...

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A new ad is gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert’s most visible attempt to counteract unrelenting Democratic attacks claiming he will follow a path blazed by leaders in GOP-led states and work to unwind Washington’s existing abortion protections. Via Washington State Standard @statesnewsroom.com

Reichert works to fend off Democrats’ claims he’d try to restri...www.newsfromthestates.com Republican Dave Reichert says he will uphold Washington’s abortion law if elected governor. A top Democratic Party leader and abortion rights activist said Wednesday they don’t believe him.

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The long-awaited DOJ report on Phoenix PD has dropped, and it’s brutal. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Phoenix police violated civil rights, Justice Department says in reportwww.azcentral.com The DOJ investigation looked into areas including the Police Department's use of force and use of deadly force, and possible discrimination in both.

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Members of NYC mayor Eric Adams's administration have been actively making calls to elected officials to urge them to ban masks at protests, reports Morgan McKay of NY's Fox5 (WNYW), a response to several anti-Semitic incidents

UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks. This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.

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Group of Seven leaders have reached an agreement to loan money to Ukraine backed by the profits from frozen Russian investments, a senior administration official confirmed Thursday

G7 leaders agree to loan Ukraine money backed by profits from frozen Russian investments | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Group of Seven leaders have reached an agreement to loan money to Ukraine backed by the profits from frozen Russian investments, a senior administration official confirmed Thursday.

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JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, has emerged as the chief amplifier of Donald Trump’s felon status while other Democrats have largely avoided focusing on Trump’s conviction.

This Top Democrat Isn’t Afraid to Call Trump a Felon and a Grifterwww.nytimes.com Most of the party’s leaders want to avoid too much focus on Donald Trump’s felonies. JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, feels differently.

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It is rare for Poynter to weigh in on how bad a news story was, but the WSJ hit piece on Biden was that bad. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

The Wall Street Journal’s story on Biden’s mental fitness: fair or foul? - Poynterwww.poynter.org Is it an honestly reported story on a pertinent topic? Or is it a pointed piece built on quotes from those who don’t want to see Biden reelected?

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I wrote about why anti-abortion groups might try to replicate their success in Louisiana, in getting mifepristone and misoprostol legally redefined as "controlled substances," and what to look out for: they are coming for anyone who helps people get an abortion.

The Real Reason for Louisiana’s New Mifepristone Lawnewrepublic.com Most of the rationale for making mifepristone and misoprostol controlled substances is gibberish. Groups are targeting these drugs because they offer a way around abortion bans.

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Right-wing accounts are going viral by an interview that appears to show an ex-Black Panther endorsing Donald Trump. I talked to his grandson, who said an opportunist took advantage of the 82-year-old: “My grandfather doesn’t support Trump.”

Did a former Black Panther really just endorse Donald Trump?www.whatimreading.net David Hilliard, a former leader of the Black Panther Party, appeared to endorse Trump in a social media post. However, his grandson says that’s not the case.

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Some of this is quietly designed behind the scenes, exploiting specific sections and text of the US criminal code, which we’ve identified by number in our reporting since 2023. Some of it tho, Trump and his prominent allies have just been declaring publicly in recent years

… more from @ryanbort.bsky.social and me over at Rolling Stone, from last week, on the *multiple* legal game plans that have already been laid in the upper ranks of Trumpland, on different ways they’re designing to sic the feds on Alvin Bragg if Trump’s reelected www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Has Been Convicted in His Hush-Money Case. Now What?www.rollingstone.com Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is wrapping up, which means the presumptive Republican nominee for president could soon be a convicted felon.

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The soulless weasels are working this shit from both ends. www.mediamatters.org/heritage-fou...

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administrationwww.mediamatters.org Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust p...

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“Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), the program’s overall top spender, was reimbursed for nearly $30,000 in lodging expenses and more than $10,000 for food in 2023.”

Lawmakers expensed millions in 2023 under new program that doesn’t require receiptswapo.st Critics say the program’s lack of transparency and record-keeping opens it up to abuse. Matt Gaetz was the program’s top spender.

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Yes, of course, there absolutely IS science to support the advice to stand six feet or more away from people who might be infected with a deadly respiratory virus www.scientificamerican.com/article/marj... by @tanyalewis.bsky.social

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Attacks of Fauci Over COVID’s Six-Foot Rule Not Based in Sciencewww.scientificamerican.com Attacks on Anthony Fauci over guidance on masking and social distancing issued during the COVID pandemic ignore the science on viral spread

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People really don't understand that if the ACA/Obamacare goes away, insurance companies are going to immediately decide that having COVID, ever, was a pre-existing condition for a massive list of chronic conditions and deny everything.

It used to be, if you got diagnosed with something, then lost your insurance, you couldn't be insured again. "Pre-existing conditions." I'm glad folks don't remember. I'm glad this is ancient history. But there's a *reason* it was a big deal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exi...

Pre-existing condition - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Across the US west, organized & heavily armed groups of far right activists (many affiliated with the Bundy network) are taking over county level GOP organizations. This is a continuation of a process of GOP radicalization that’s happened off and on for decades . www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

At least 66 members of far-right group in rural Oregon standing for officewww.theguardian.com Revealed: anti-government People’s Rights Network, founded by Ammon Bundy, appearing to follow ‘entryism’ strategy

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