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I Really Wasn’t Expecting This -Occasional Troublemaker; Endeavoring to Use My Powers for Good with Meh Success; Chief of Staff to Bix, My Rescue Pupper.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

STEPHANOPOULOS: The president has repeatedly claimed vandals cut a 350 foot gash in the pool. That claim is echoed in a legal filing by your department. What evidence do you have?

BURGUM: Ah, well we have the actual cuts that were made

STEPHANOPOULOS: There's a 350 foot gash?

BURGUM: Well it's multiple gashes that add up to 350 feet

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Gavin Newsom on Trump: “He works for one man. That one man has added $4B to his personal fortune while sitting in what is supposed to be a public trust. He told you he was gonna drain the swamp. He didn’t drain the swamp, he gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf. This is a corruption story, this is a heist. This is one man trying to do to our American self government what no king or no foreign power has ever managed to do. And the question is whether we will let him”

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

When HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanded that the agency stop running vaccine awareness campaigns back in 2025, the chief medical officer at the time, Dr. Deb Houry, said she initially thought it was “a misunderstanding.”

“It's an active flu season, it's not like flu is over. And we'd already paid for these ads, so it didn't make any sense,” she said. “And so, I brought it to our political leaders and brought it back to our communications staff, and asked them to please relay back to the department: ‘Surely this isn't what you want.’ And then, we got a note back: ‘It's a direct request from the secretary.’”

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

This SCOTUS is CORRUPT AF.

We need term limits ASAP and we need to expand the court to counter balance the right-wing justices stolen by Mitch McConnell.

#ExpandTheCourt

[Happy Doggo Thailand @happydoggothai]

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วันนี้คือชีวิตใหม่ที่รอคอย…

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[PBS News @NewsHour]

Veterinary care is becoming increasingly expensive for American pet owners.

As prices rise, attention is turning to a major shift in the industry: private equity firms and large corporations buying up veterinary practices across the country.

@paulsolman has the story.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

$3,600.

That's how much EXTRA the average family in Washington state had to pay since Trump took office because of his reckless and stupid policies.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

👏DO👏NOT👏LET👏THIS👏STORY👏DIE👏

Texas Attorney General, and now Republican nominee for the Texas Senate Ken Paxton gave his friend 28 days in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy.

He does not have to register as a sex offender.

He didn’t even lose his license to practice law.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that the 1962 red card reversal for Brazil’s Garrincha was rumored to have involved bribes.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

Trump repeatedly claimed the FBI secretly planted 274 agents in the Jan. 6 crowd as undercover agitators.

Then he put Kash Patel in charge of the FBI.

Patel didn't confirm Trump's conspiracy. He said those agents were deployed after the riot began for crowd control, while the DOJ Inspector General had already found no evidence that undercover FBI employees were planted in the crowd to incite the attack.

That's the story.

When Trump's own FBI had access to the files, the "274 undercover agitators" claim quietly became "274 agents responding to a crisis."

If there were proof of Trump's allegation, his own FBI Director had every incentive to produce it.

He didn't.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

American search and rescue dog Zilla is one of several highly U.S. trained canines deployed to Venezuela after back-to-back earthquakes struck the South American country. His handler, U.S. rescuer Dustin Reynolds, told @camiloreports that Zilla recently found a family of three trapped in the rubble.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: DOGE has officially been shut down after failing to achieve its stated goals.

Analysts now estimate the initiative ultimately increased the federal deficit rather than reducing it, despite being launched as a government efficiency effort.

[Rep. John Larson @RepJohnLarson]

Trump, Musk, and 'DOGE' set their sights on Social Security, because they want YOUR MONEY and YOUR DATA.

They're out to slash your earned benefits, take your personal information, and sell it off to the highest bidder on Wall Street.

Their only problem? We stand in their way!

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

In the biggest voting news of the week, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican attempt to restrict mail voting by barring states from accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day. https://t.co/VJJ05vp5vD

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rep. Jason Smith on Speaker Johnson sending the House home after a failed vote:

We don't need to be recessing when we hit a bump on the road.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Remember when we actually had a President who cared?

"Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blacksburg, in Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day. So all of us need to demand that Congress brave enough to stand up to the gun lobbies – all of us need to stand up and protect its citizens."

[Sen. Tammy Baldwin @SenatorBaldwin]

Our democracy works best when more people vote—not less. I refuse to sit idly by and let President Trump try to intimidate voters. We must pass my bill to stop him from sending armed federal agents to our polling places.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The Interior Department inspector general should investigate Trump's award of the reflecting pool maintenance contract to Trump allies.

It likely violated contracting and ethics rules, and has exceeded estimated costs by millions of taxpayer dollars.
https://t.co/LtbtyJw7mf

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Trump destroyed the teams at DOJ dedicated to going after kleptocrats and oligarchs like Putin, right off the bat. It was the first of many favors. Trump/Russia is no hoax. https://t.co/KspmgA2mec

[Josh Shapiro @JoshShapiroPA]

One year ago this weekend, Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law.

Since then, over 160,000 Pennsylvanians have lost healthcare coverage, dozens of rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and costs have skyrocketed for families across the Commonwealth.

When Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans passed that bill, they knew that hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians would be worse off — and they did it anyway.