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For those who didnt understand why you keep government separate from private business. apple.news/A0Obh94fdTGu...

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McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

Crockett: Right now, it seems like you don’t care about the constitution unless it’s the second amendment and that’s misinterpreted as well. There’s other amendments.. And we don’t get to just change it because our fearless leader says that he doesn’t like it

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

Trickle up economics

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Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."

Crockett: He wants there to be a portion of the budget that goes up to $1 trillion on the defense side. They have failed the very last seven audits. So why would they continue to get raises, which they always do. Yet we're going to hurt the most vulnerable amongst us.

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

ICRC says Israel has ‘obligation’ to meet the needs of Palestinians struggling to survive.

UK vets could face price caps on medicines, prescriptions and other services. Long overdue. The entry of private equity (PE) and big corporations resulted in profiteering. Need to break the business model of PE. End tax relief on interest payments. Regulate PE.

The UK keeps arming proud advocates of genocide ... "Ben-Gvir touts bombing food depots while at Mar-a-Lago" electronicintifada.net/blogs/michae...

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

The last boats without crippling tariffs from China are arriving. The countdown to shortages and higher prices has begun. #TrumpTariffs

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

“Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Apparently, Trump doesn’t understand what independence means either apple.news/AuLHm5SQCRQa...

An Abu Dhabi-backed company will use a digital coin affiliated with President Trump in a $2 billion deal, a founder of his family crypto firm said on Thursday. The transaction is a public and vivid illustration of the ethical conflicts swirling around Trump’s crypto firm.

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Spoiler alert! It’s because the American Stock Market is a scam. finance.yahoo.com/news/markets...

Trump most definitely lives in an alternate reality, is delusional as hell, probably the dumbest guy of all time.

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National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

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The anti-tax movement has dominated American politics for 50 years — but it may finally be fraying. www.levernews.com/is-the-gops-...

Trump will prove himself to be the fraud and horrible deal maker we all knew he was. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-h...

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After Brief Face-to-Face With Vance, Pope's Easter Address Denounces 'Contempt' for Migrants www.commondreams.org/news/jd-vanc...

'Another Day, Another Cover-Up,' Rights Group Says as IDF Releases Report on Medics' Killing www.commondreams.org/news/idf-rep...

Emboldened by the new administration’s regulatory reprieve, “price optimization” consultants are showing corporations how to weaponize import levies to fleece consumers. www.levernews.com/how-trump-is...