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[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Tommy Robinson keeps proving that he only cares about women and girls when the wrong'uns aren't white.

Here are two examples of the same situation.

In the clip, Tommy Robinson agrees with a white predator called "The Midnight", who boasts about waiting until after midnight to target drunk girls and "scoop them up". Tommy even says "good answer" when he explains his name.

In the screenshot, Tommy is calling out two brown wrong'uns for doing the exact same thing, preying on drunk girls.

It's literally the same situation, but he has two completely different energies depending on the colour of who is doing it.

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

“In 2014, Fauci managed and directed the funding for research for an Ebola vaccine. When a Dallas nurse caught the virus while she cared for a dying man, Fauci put onprotective gear and went into the isolation room himself. Eight days later, he walked the nurse out in public and hugged her.”
https://t.co/l9YOCpBXXh

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

That's a big kick in the guts.

Payrolls is much weaker, and the U.S. lost -23k jobs in March, well below expectations of +80k.

Huge downward revisions, too: May now +63k (instead of +129k), June now +20k (down from +53k).

Very bad news. Revise down your views substantially.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 98.5%.

[Appodlachia @appodlachia]

They yearn to breathe

[Acyn @Acyn]

MSNow: President Trump is also pushing so that his family is immune from audits. It looks like it may go forward.

Trump Voter: No. Fuck that. No! How does he get to do that and we don’t?

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

This bill just passed the Senate, 86-11.
It will do very little on sanctions, but it will give Trump huge & unprecedented new powers to place 100% tariffs on many of our allies

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

JFC. A Kansas police department used Flock cameras to track down a local resident after he wrote a critical guest column about the department. “The police connected him to political posters hung in the city and followed his movements.”

[Sam Stein @samstein]

We've had mass deportations for, what, 1.5 years now. JD Vance and Stephen Miller said it would be a boon for US workers cuz it would free up jobs. And yet, the labor market appears incredibly bleak. Per WSJ:

"In recent months, almost three in 10 of the unemployed have been looking to work for more than six months, the greatest share since the pandemic recovery four years ago."

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Hard not to notice the contrast between the MAGA GOP and Democrats here. The GOP is so poisoned with bloodlust that it goes so far as withholding funds from states that didn’t vote for Trump, whereas Dems like Ossoff can still rise above petty partisanship for the greater good. It’s not difficult to figure out which party would be better for the country right now.

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

Susie Wiles has avoided a lot of the self-enrichment accusations tarnishing other people swarming around Trump.

Which is why this story about how the White House is pushing a conspicuous change that greatly benefits her son-in-law is so interesting:

https://t.co/5tzzEb43zz

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Welp. It’s happening.

Bulldozers and heavy equipment arrived in Big Bend National Park today. The most rugged, pristine lands in the lower 48. Trump’s border wall is coming. CBP is refusing to inform residents, park superintendents, landowners, business owners, or Texas legislators what is happening. What we know is that they are now paving new roads where there were none, erecting fencing and walls to protect those roads, and then planning to install technology and border patrol agents in an area where close to zero people ever cross the border.

Ironically, depressingly, they will be spending billions of dollars to destroy this pristine American land while literally making it easier to access, which means easier for coyotes and border crossers to actually traverse the region if they wanted to. Before this, there were no roads, just desserts, cliffs, and cacti, which made it all but impassable.

A few miles upstream, the first border barriers the administration just erected were washed away in the first flood of the season — not even a bad one — but hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, literally floating down the Rio Grande. A few miles downstream, near Eagle Pass, razor wire and debris are washing up ashore from the first floods there, making this critical water source inaccessible for Texans or any wildlife enthusiasts.

Right now, as we speak, $4 billion is flowing to contractors in Trump’s orbit to cut Texans, including me and my family, off from the most critical water source in the state. All for what? Big Bend is 25% of the patrolled southwest border and accounts for less than 1% of all border crossings. Border towns, businesses, tourism — all about to be destroyed. Nevermind the irreversible wildlife damage, the feds stealing land from private citizens via eminent domain, and all the money wasted that could go to actual solutions to secure the border or support these communities.

Ever since I first visited my family here when I was 13 years old I wanted to make a life in West Texas. Three years ago, after so much hard work and planning, I spent my savings on building a home there. One I hoped my son would inherit. A home in one of the most beautiful, rugged, untouched, places in the country. Also one of the safest.

Now, everything that makes this special place special is being upended — for an illogical, wasteful, stupid plan that won't work and won't help the country.

A genuine gut punch. So depressing.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.

[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

Trump wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on ships named after himself because, as a boy, he enjoyed watching "Victory at Sea."

We can't run a government like this. It boggles the mind that so many millions of people still accept this without qualm.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Uber aggressively marketed itself as a safe alternative to drunk driving. Then, when women got drunk and used it assuming it was a safer and more responsible alternative, Uber blamed them for its drivers raping them.

[Anung Un Drama @spaceghost]

Government services should never even be looking at profits.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Protecting the Endangered Species Act is supported by 84% of Americans, by the way.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

That old video of George Santos calling Max Miller a woman beater just reveals that everyone in the Republican Party has known the truth about that scumbag for years and done nothing about it. Even if the dam breaks and they all call for him to resign, they’ve been complicit in his abuses for a long time—especially Trump.

[Fred Lambert @FredLambert]

A reminder that Elon Musk also recently claimed that Tesla has the best chip team in the world and that it will soon surpass NVIDIA in capabilities.

Of course, it's all made up. Dojo didn't work. Most of the team left, but you know. Elon going to Elon.