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Last week, Marco Rubio insisted no one has died because of his USAID cutoffs. But these two kids, ages 5 and 8, were being kept alive thanks to US-funded antiretrovirals. Then they lost access to the drugs. And now, they're both dead. Via @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Reverend Barbour is the moral leader for terrible times. Musk's Legacy of Death vs the Rising Movement for Life open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...

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Wow. Just—wow

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These men were building us homes. The violence is being committed by ICE — masked men, no ID, no warrants. Don’t believe the rhetoric being pushed by violent criminals about ‘violent criminals’ cause it’s all BS. Call your Reps and demand they hold hearings, sanctioned or not. This needs to stop.

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@npr.org's lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order cutting federal funding should prevail on free speech and press freedom grounds, Knight Institute says. See our full statement from @katiefallow.bsky.social: knightcolumbia.org/content/npr-...

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Trump left West Point after his speech instead of staying to shake the hand of every graduating cadet, as is longstanding tradition. If Obama or Biden had done that, we would never the hear the end of it. But it's Trump, so reporters don't care.

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