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[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I'm not surprised that a former drug dealer like @ByronDonalds would corner and threaten a woman in a grocery store, screaming that he'd "end" her.

Sounds dangerous. Sounds violent.

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[SEIU Local 73 @SEIULocal73]

After losing to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, UIC ran to the Fourth District Appellate Court to pause APP bargaining. UIC wants this to be quiet. Let’s make it loud instead!

See you there.

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has been demanding special perks from bureau employees during his taxpayer-funded travels throughout the country, including helicopter tours and jet ski excursions, according to whistleblower accounts given to Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees and obtained by MS NOW.

[Chicago Cat @Chgocat]

@senecaprojectus Yes it is tiring. I remember when Anita Hill was just raked. And then the drunken SCOTUS Candidate Kavanaugh who was accused, where the FBI had 4500 tips, essentially buried, and so on. F the Patriarchy!

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

Costs in Florida are through the roof, and instead of fighting for us, Ashley Moody is bowing down to the corporations jacking up our prices.

My Florida First Agenda will lower costs and help bring the American Dream back into reach for hard working families.

[Danny Rivero @TooMuchMe]

NEW: Next in Florida's war on 'woke': Becoming its own higher ed watchdog

Cannot overstate how big a deal this next salvo from Florida is.. including the little known history of how accreditors pushed the South to desegregate colleges and universities
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[Reuters @Reuters]

Wells Fargo workers reject bid to dissolve union at New Jersey branch https://t.co/MntIX9D4RP https://t.co/MntIX9D4RP

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “How does he get away with it? He turned to a reporter on the plane and said, ‘Quiet, piggy.’ Why is it that none of your former colleagues turned to him and said, ‘Go fuck yourself, Mr. President’?”

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

When are Republicans going to start calling for Ken Paxton to drop out?

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.

New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.

Abolish ICE.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

ICE killed a father of three yesterday and no one is talking about it.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years in Houston building homes and raising a family.

According to people interviewed, every night after work you'd find him on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog. He helped his three kids (U.S. Citizens) get through college.

It certainly seems that he was doing everything right, and then a federal agent shot him dead during a stop and his own son found out from a Facebook video, recognizing his father's voice as he lay bleeding in the street.

His son says that if his father had recognized any sign of law enforcement, he would have complied without question.

DHS says he "tried to run him over." This is the exact same lie they used to justify murdering Renee Good, a mother of three.

We are being asked to trust a rogue, lawless agency's word over a dead man's family, again, with no body cam release and no independent investigation.

Everyone should be outraged.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
What exactly is the hold-up?
IT'S THE FUCKING LAW!

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Shaq caught wind of this 7-foot-3 kid in Kemah, Texas who powered through the police academy only to fall one point short on the state exam. His whole dream of becoming an officer looked like it was slipping away right there.

Then Shaq jumped in and covered the guy’s living expenses for the next five months so he wouldn’t have to juggle a second job and could zero in on passing that test. Because of that extra push, Jordan Wilmore got back in, nailed it, and just got sworn in as a Kemah police officer.

[Abigail Miller @Abigail_M2050]

Rep. Ted Lieu played Pam Bondi video of Trump partying with Epstein and asked if underage girls were present. Bondi snapped: This is ridiculous. There’s no evidence Trump committed a crime. Lieu fired back: I believe you just lied under oath

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

LMAOOOOO, Judges REJECTED trump's pathetic bid to get his name put back on the Kennedy Center, hahaha!!!

NOW TAKE DOWN THAT TARP, BITCH!🤣🤣🤣

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Every Republican that endorsed Donald Trump endorsed a rapist.

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

BREAKING: French Senator Claude Malhuret TORCHES Trump and his alcoholic, drug-addicted administration on the floor of the Luxembourg Palace: "Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction!"

This might be the greatest MAGA takedown of all time. Nobody was spared...

"A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health," he said, referring to RFK Jr.

Malhuret's comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It's said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump's case, he's building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames.

"A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces," Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security," Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar.

"A Turkish proverb says 'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus," said Malhuret. "His fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term."

"Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction," he continued. "Bomb more to win more."

This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile desperately exploiting his role as commander-in-chief to obscure the fact that he preyed on children with his long-time pal Jeffrey Epstein.

"There isn't a single country where Trump did not take advantage of the situation to enrich himself without ever forgetting his family. A Boeing plane offered by Qatar," he said, referring to the $400 million jet that Qatar "gifted" to Trump. "Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from."

"Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused an immediate procedure of impeachment here," Malhuret. "But we are not here. We are in MAGA's America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests."

Rarely have we heard such an exhaustive yet succinct distillation of the Trump administration's rampant criminality and incompetence. By focusing on individual Cabinet members and what makes them uniquely unfit for office and then expanding the aperture to the broader patterns of corruption and malignancy, Malhuret delivered a master class in political messaging.

Every mainstream outlet in the U.S. should be running this speech to show Americans what the world thinks of our leaders.

Since they won't, please make sure to like and share to spread this far and wide!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

When Democrats take back control they have to do more than correct course. Every criminal act by Trump and his administration must be prosecuted fully. LP Senior Advisor @stuartpstevens joins MSNOW:

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. https://t.co/jUerk3nvtl

[Scott Maxwell @Scott_Maxwell]

CBS Miami reported that when it tried to ask Florida's attorney general for details about the spending, Uthmeier “refused to speak and was hurried away, surrounded by his security detail.”
Taxpayers deserve accounting for every damn dime.
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