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So many gems in this sit down interview with a literary giant, where we chatted our scattering, writing ‘in community,’ being in the sandwich generation, organized chaos in Haiti, and more. If you’re not already acquainted, pick up one of her beautiful books today. haitiantimes.com/2025/05/16/h...

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A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.

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This was caused by Citizens United.

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Profiteering off the presidency is Trump's most successful business venture www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

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The Wisconsin Judge indicted by DOJ has filed a motion to dismiss her indictment. "The indictment is an ugly innovation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Yea it is.

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Don’t Fall For Elon Inc.’s Press Campaign talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

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The government will decide what work you can do in the name of freedom

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When it comes to vaccinating pregnant women & children, the benefits greatly outweigh the risks. People should be able to make that choice for themselves. RFK Jr. is making it less likely that insurance will cover this vaccine and less likely that people can have that choice.

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Man, what encapsulates the moment better than the guy ignorantly slashing important government spending turning himself into the victim when people complain.

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Old: Drain the swamp. New: Pardon the swamp.

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Women don't owe you anything. Remember that.

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WATCH: “My son is afraid I won’t come home from work. People are scared. They’re taking anybody.” Powerful NYT piece on the NASHVILLE raids by @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE that snatched hundreds, terrorizing communities. (Few had violent pasts) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKM1ydH...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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FLASH: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration attempt to end foreign student presence at Harvard. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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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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If you need a little hope this morning

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What it means for DOJ to have indicted a member of Congress, in a highly questionable case joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutin...

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Chairman Mao announces that he’s increasing the price of iPhones

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NOBODY WANTS APPLE BUILDING IPHONES HERE YOU IGNORANT FAT TODDLER. Good God you exhausting sloppy goon

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But don’t let facts get in the way.

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It’s time to turn the lights out on Lauren Boebert

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Perhaps CNN is figuring out why no one is watching CNN. It's just one big informercial occasionally interrupted by Scott Jennings lying.

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Georgia high school production of "The Crucible" is canceled after parent complaints that it "was demonic and disgusting." @hesherman.bsky.social: "the play about witch hunts, about the persecution of people out of hysteria...had provoked the same moral persecution it portrayed as unjust."

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So you’re telling us the radical transparency people are against… transparency? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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How does this help war fighting? Oh right.

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"A century after the suffrage movement, the SAVE Act threatens to echo the harms of the Expatriation Act. While it’s supporters claim it will target non-citizen voters, instead it could prevent American women from voting."

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Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.

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The “how the f**k did I end up here” look

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BREAKING: MeidasTouch, the nation’s top independent pro-democracy media network, is proud to announce that attorney and renowned legal analyst Katie Phang has launched a brand-new YouTube channel in partnership with MeidasTouch. Subscribe now: youtube.com/@katiephangnews

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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

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When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen. Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

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Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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This. 👇

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Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government. By @rhersher.bsky.social

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Storm chaser Brad Arnold, who is tracking the Greensburg-Haviland, Kansas tornado and is being hammered with RFD, just said live on Ryan Hall's channel that the tornado is the largest he has ever seen—and is very clearly shaken. When an experienced storm chaster is shook ... #kswx #tornado

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CNN: “Trump first approached Qatar to inquire about (Swamp Force One)— contrary to the narrative from the president that Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a ‘gift’ to him.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/p...

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"The report in question was neither peer-reviewed nor published in a medical journal..." www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

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