🚨NEW: Big Tech’s data centers are getting tax breaks, access to cheap power & new transmission lines — all funded by jacking up your electricity bills.
Example: MD @GovWesMoore is helping tech moguls’ scheme amid huge rate hikes on the working class. https://t.co/6T3Xn3XR51
🚨🚨 Trump’s VA just allowed doctors to deny care to Democrats, unmarried Veterans, among other groups.
This isn’t healthcare. It’s political purity tests for people who risked their lives for this country.
It’s unethical, authoritarian, and every one of us should be outraged.
MORE: https://t.co/x64ehnAzjj
The deployment of federal agencies to LA may be getting the headlines, but many of the most serious abuses have come from local police.
We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: https://t.co/Y0XEvD86Pm
Journalists have been assaulted, hit with projectiles, and forced out of public areas during the L.A. protests that began June 6.
We're tracking at least 20 physical attacks — mostly by law enforcement.
Watch Managing Editor Kirstin McCudden explain.
🚨NEWS: Ezra Klein created a viral Jon Stewart clip pretending Dems made broadband funding too complex (it was Republicans & corp lobbyists), so now in the name of abundance, Trump may give the cash to Musk & force states to block AI rules.
Abundance! https://t.co/LsZW0bZsOF
🚨BREAKING: Trump immigration officials are using a secret subpoena to target privacy laws & immigrant children & Dem Gov. Polis is allegedly forcing state officials to comply under threat of firing, according to court documents reviewed by The Lever. https://t.co/Werut7tfCR
Twelve years ago today, @Snowden — a longtime @FreedomofPress board member — blew the whistle on global mass surveillance.
The revelations take on new urgency as the Trump administration builds a “master database” with our most sensitive information.
https://t.co/DDh9ZxLDxV
In 1984, White House lawyer John Roberts wrote a memo explaining why presidents couldn't legally remove officials at independent agencies.
Today, his court issued a ruling allowing Trump to remove officials at independent agencies. https://t.co/82AIQocApR
The Trump administration will define “terrorism” as expansively as it can to carry out its censorship agenda. Just ask Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil.
Let’s not hand the president more opportunities to abuse his power.
https://t.co/h1ch4oW3QY
A legal battle brews in Oklahoma over missing Signal messages used by a top state official to coordinate anti-ESG policy. Critics say it's a transparency issue. Officials say it’s protected political speech. #ESG#okgov#okleg#transparency
https://t.co/wIkJtZyJgR
STUDENT VISAS REVOKED-
While @GovStitt doesn’t know *why* these students in Oklahoma were targeted , he says he trusts President Trump.
"There is either some kind of criminal activity. There is something that’s happening with those visas that they say is a danger to the USA.”
NEWS: Amid the tariff crisis, private equity firms are accelerating the looting of companies they own in order to pay themselves out.
PE lobbyists are also pushing to have the Trump tax bill include a provision creating a new tax break when they do this. https://t.co/qKAcB8TI19
SNEAK ATTACK!
Mike Johnson is planning to bring the BUDGET RESOLUTION to the House floor for a vote TODAY.
This bill GUTS Medicaid, demanding $880 billion in cuts to the healthcare safety net.
Don't let them do this in the dark!
Repeat after me: #HandsOffOurMedicaid!!
I don’t even know what to say anymore.
This is a violent Nazi regime. These are concentration camps. It is not possible to deport all these people, just as it wasn’t possible to deport the Jews & Roma in Germany. Their labor will be exploited until there is a “final solution.”