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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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If only the GOP could read

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Can someone show Captain Bone Spurs that THIS 👇 is how you show respect on Memorial Day? It’s not that hard.

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Dear Mike Johnson and friends,

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Lauryn Hill, born today in 1975. 🎂 Her debut solo LP not only got 11 Grammy noms, making it the first hip-hop record to receive that many; the hit single made her the first woman since Debbie Gibson to debut at #1 with a song she wrote, recorded, and produced on her own. “Doo Wop (That Thing)”

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There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

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The first Memorial Day, May 1, 1865.

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The untold Story of #MemorialDay's Black origins | kgw.com www.ktvb.com/article/news...

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7 Sites Pay Homage To Black Military Soldiers On #MemorialDay - Black Enterprise www.blackenterprise.com/7-sites-pay-... #Blackhistory

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Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

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A two part Memorial Day Reid. Part one: On Memory... www.joyannreid.com/p/a-daily-re...

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When Muhammad Ali knocked down Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965, a 22-year-old photographer named Neil Leifer was ringside. Decades later, the image he captured still has our attention. Leifer spoke about how it took on a life of its own.

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Are we sure Trumpism isn't an infectious disease? How doeas one explain the new infections of RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marco Rubio?

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What are they getting for doing this? What are these ICE agents getting for openly defying a judge’s order? They took him knowing the judge was printing the order to stop them. I can’t take this anymore. This is insanely grotesque.

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Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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A provision in the proposed "big beautiful" spending bill would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders. Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored.

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How long before Trump pardons Derek Chauvin?

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So the Real ID is meaningless if you’re brown?

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

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Five years after George Floyd's death sparked worldwide protests over police brutality and racism, NPR's Michel Martin reflects on Morning Edition's return to Minneapolis to examine what has changed.

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MUST WATCH: He was cuffed. They still beat him. 25+ complaints—and the cop kept his badge. They won’t just cover this up. They’ll erase it. That’s why I wrote Erased. Read it before they ban it too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

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A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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America is NOT woke or it would have elected a woman to the presidency. America is a joke because it allowed a career scam-artist to cheat its way out of prison and into the Oval Office. Our global reputation is stained forever.

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Page One in Minneapolis @startribune.com

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George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today. The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

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The Fugees’ 2nd and final studio album “The Score” hits #1 today in 1996 — just six years after Lauryn Hill met Pras Michel (and his cousin, Wyclef Jean) as high-school kids in Maplewood, New Jersey. Two Grammys (for Best Rap Album and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group) “Killing Me Softly”

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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

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Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin took a trip to Minneapolis and spoke to the city's mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison and national civil rights attorney Ben Crump to reflect on how the city and nation have changed.

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This is just the beginning….

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In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the president may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without approval from Congress.

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The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts say that overhaul could take years and cost hundreds of millions.

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Always be a Bruce.

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We break down key health provisions in the House-passed reconciliation bill and how they compare to current law. Explore the changes to Medicaid, the ACA, Medicare, and Health Savings Accounts, and more before it moves to the Senate:

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No one prepared me for Perimenopause and Menopause 😭 35 plus symptoms and I had 10 last night 🤪😂 Please be gentle with yourself and with your Mom, sister or partner! I’m so grateful to have a husband and friends who are very supportive! 🥰

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Hidden in the GOP Tax scam is a provision to take away the tax on..... gun silencers. #StopTheBillionaireBailout

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The decision reverses course on the use of consent decrees to ensure accountability of law enforcement agencies. It comes days before the anniversary of George Floyd's murder by a police officer.

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INBOX: Bloomberg publishes an “atlas” to the Trump family’s “money-making machine”: “.. In any other era, this scale of presidential moneymaking would threaten to be the story of the year, but political uproar has hogged most of the attention.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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