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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

#ProudBlue We need to be screaming about this at the top of our lungs!!! We MUST stand against this cruelty!!! ICE is holding immigrants in a basement of a federal building in LA without enough food & water & without beds. @aaronparnas.bsky.social reporting

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Work as a Punishment for Poverty.

Simply: Budget Bill does not directly cut Medicare. It will automatically chop over $ 535 Billion Dollars from the Medicare budget. This is called "sequestration". This is to give tax breaks to wealthy people. Medicare recipients will all feel this, except the rich people voting yes.

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Minority rule on full display. The wealthy have made it clear that they purchase politicians to enhance their own wealth and power. Isn't it time for us, the taxpayers who fund these elected officials' salaries, to be properly represented? #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #MomSky

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The memo was distributed to leadership but not publicly.CBP justified cancelling the policies by stating in "Rescission of Legacy Policies Related to Care and Custody" that the policies were “obsolete”/“misaligned” with the agency’s enforcement priorities. We all know that cruelty is the priority.

from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Do Republican lawmakers know the Qatari jetliner bribe is wrong? Of course. Would they scream bloody murder if the Dems did it? Of course. Do they care that it's wrong? Nope. They've made a deal with the devil. Their best hope is that there's a place for them in the coming criminal dictatorship.

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Autistic 4th Grader Delivers Powerful Response to RFK Jr. www.thegodpodcast.com/p/autistic-4...

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He’s so clueless and vindictive.

The fascists are here. Now. Stop trying to pretend this is normal. Anyone at Fox News? Hello?

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Wish I could think of an example of a society that once drew intellectuals from around the world then scared off all the smart people and dumped all their resources into a police state. Wonder how that turned out for them.

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr. NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

Nearly all of remaining staff at CDC's NIOSH received lay off notices today, we're told This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

‘I don’t want to die in a hotel room somewhere’: Black Sabbath on reconciling for their final gig – and how Ozzy is living through hell

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Remember, to throughly cook all meat products, for safety’s sake…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

I checked, what actually happened is they threatened to sue and the billboard companies caved without a fight because when nine of the biggest law firms in the country have promised to do free work for Republicans nobody can afford to get sued by them thehill.com/homenews/hou...

A well-oiled machine 🫠

I recently wrote: "Legacy media isn’t declining because people no longer value news; it’s because they value it more than ever." It elicited a ton of positive comments. Here is the context and a link to sign-up to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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Karoline Leavitt is celebrating Trump’s first 100 days of failure by calling Amazon's display of tariffs next to prices a “hostile political act” and accusing them of partnering with a “Chinese propaganda arm” while she avoids answering if Bezos is still a Trump supporter. The woman is shameless.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

Here is the picture for a thousand words explaining why I don’t watch CNN anymore. I just call it CNNN, the cable not news network.

I can't wait to see what her husband's crewmates have to say about this.