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Saturday Dose of Democracy:

Tucker Carlson blasts Trump as "complicit" in Iran strikes, warns of "all-out war"
Did Donald just lose Tuck Tuck?! It certainly sounds like the former Fox News blowhard has soured on the MAGA cult leader, at least with respect to his Middle East policy. Carlson called Trump "complicit" in the rapidly escalating conflict in the region, writing in his most recent newsletter: "While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the US at the center of last night’s events. Washington knew these attacks would happen. They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it. Our country is in deep." We can't believe we're saying this, but Carlson is correct. We are certainly in deep, having bent over backwards to enable and strengthen Netanyahu's hand over multiple administrations.

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US will help to defend Israel "if needed," Trump says after warning Netanyahu against bombing Iran
Well, it certainly sounds like Bibi is "wearing the pants" in this very asymmetrical relationship. Just imagine the deafening criticism from the right if a Democratic president publicly and privately pleaded with Israel to refrain from an audacious attack, only to pivot hours later and voice full-throated support. There's a cuck chair sitting somewhere in the Jerusalem with Donald's name on it.

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Top scientist takes on the GOP's crusade of ignorance
Jasmine Clark for Georgia: Trump, RFK Jr., and the rest of their cronies in Congress have taken a chainsaw to our scientific research, public health, and climate initatives and are waging an all out-war on science and the truth. PhD scientist Dr. Jasmine Clark has had enough, and she's running for Congress in order to restore sanity to the government and make America a global leader in scientific development once again. Will you chip in to help jump-start her campaign and flip the House blue?

Most US adults say Trump’s ridiculous military parade is not good use of government funds, new poll finds
Turns out most Americans think the MAGA cult leader's silly and incredibly expensive military parade is less of a patriotic display of strength and more of a very late midlife crisis. Do any of the tanks come in candy apple red with convertible tops?

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Trump administration gave personal Medicaid data to deportation officials, memo shows
The MAGA cult leader's administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data ― including the immigration status ― on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his authoritarian immigration crackdown. An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns. Nevertheless, two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the dataset handed over to the Department of Homeland Security, the emails show. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were given just 54 minutes on Tuesday to comply with the directive.

Army launches review into Trump merchandise being sold at military base
Uh, yeah. You definitely cannot be doing that.

Judge frees Harvard scientist ICE tried to deport to Russia
A Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos into the United States has been released on bail after spending four months in federal custody. In February, ICE apprehended Kseniia Petrova, 30, at Boston Logan International Airport after she allegedly failed to properly declare frog embryo samples she had brought from Paris. The Russian-born scientist had her visa revoked and was held at an ICE facility in Louisiana, facing deportation to Russia, where she had previously been arrested for speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine. "If I go back, I am afraid I will be imprisoned because of my political position and my position against war," Petrova told the Associated Press. A federal judge ordered her release from ICE custody in May, ruling that the immigration officers had acted unlawfully, and that neither Petrova nor the nonliving frog embryos posed a threat. However, she remained in federal custody after prosecutors in Massachusetts charged her with one count of smuggling goods into the US. That case is ongoing, and she must return to court next week for a hearing. Petrova, who says she didn't realize the embryos needed to be declared, faces up to 20 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine if convicted.

Trump's disastrous budget bill sends our electric bills into the stratosphere
Evergreen Action: Big Oil's cronies in the House have passed a catastrophic budget bill that guts clean energy and gives huge handouts to greedy fossil fuel companies and the ultrawealthy, all at the expense of the the rest of us — on top of killing jobs, raising prices, kicking millions of people off their healthcare, and putting countless Americans at risk of food insecurity. We need to let the Senate know that we will not stand for this flagrant attack on our climate, our economy, and the well-being of our families. Click here to contact your senator now and make your voice heard!

Trump regime won't release detained graduate student Mahmoud Khalil despite court ruling that he be let go
Even after a judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil's release, anti-immigrant, law-flaunting ghouls in the Trump administration say they found a loophole to keep the Columbia University graduate detained. We call it fascism because it is fascism.