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Jen Hines
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Just a citizen who cares about democracy and responsible governance
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The fix is in.

Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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A baby was pepper-sprayed by CPB here in Chicago this weekend. A BABY. DHS says it never happened but here's the video evidence. It shows: "a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car."
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal ‘blitz’
YouTube video by Chicago Tribune
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How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
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“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
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Jim Comey's appendix of Trump attacks was 60 pages (tho it did not claim to be comprehensive).

Tish James' is 113 pages.
Is that sign piece-meal printed on office copy paper?
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Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
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SCOOP: Trump has raised about $1.9 billion from an array of corporate donors.

No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
Scoop: Trump's $2 billion fundraising binge
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
www.axios.com
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I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out
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"Principled conservatives" spending decades pretending as if the conservative movement wasnt actively recruiting and cultivating theocratic fascists in mega churches across the country to power their imperialist project.
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Page One in Austin:

“James Comey and Letitia James are good examples,” Kendall said. “There’s no reason to think they won’t do the same to retired generals ..”
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Wow. Former vice president Dick Cheney has died at 84-years-old.

Cheney was an instrumental proponent of the Iraq war, the expansion of executive powers, the use of torture, and the expansion of domestic surveillance in the US.
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‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump

A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.msnbc.com
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Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracist, is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon.

Legitimate news organizations out.

Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.

That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon
The far-right activist has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
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The most immediate and important thing Congress can do is to call Adm Holsey, Lt Gen McGee and other cashiered officers to testify about their experience since Trump took office. Unless, that is, the GOP majority can’t handle the truth about what Trump is doing to the armed forces. wapo.st/4nEItvh
Opinion | Why is Trump politicizing the military? Ask the fired generals.
Why are so many generals getting fired? Congress should summon them to find out.
wapo.st
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Just as a reminder: New York is a donor state and massively so.
Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."
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"This spring, Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon last week..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder
The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...
www.wsj.com
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In the latest chapter of Too Many Journalists Are Not Standing Up For Each Other or Even For Themselves:

A highly paid CBS News person sat there and listened to Trump lie about his lawsuit against her own network, and she just let it slide.

www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...