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One passed laws for your kids. The other passed his hat for your cash.

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This is going to break me, isn’t it?

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🌮🌮🌮

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“It’s a lot easier to destroy a thing than to build a thing.”

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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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Trump's funding cuts to Harvard threaten the university's position as the world's leading research institution. The next 10 are all in China.

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Sadly I did not know this for the first 55 years of my life. They do not teach you this. This is absolutely true. And we should honor all of them this Memorial Day and always 

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Never forget

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Marlene Dietrich and World War Two ...

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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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We know where Trump got his ideas: "Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs: By seeking to 'liberate' Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards." ~ By Timothy W. Ryback in The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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“I’m proud that @freedom.press is doing what CBS’s corporate owners won’t — standing up for press freedom and against authoritarian shakedowns. People who aren’t willing to defend the First Amendment should not be in the news business,” says @johncusack.bsky.social freedom.press/issues/we-pl...

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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

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A Friendly Reminder.

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The GOP was supposed to cut through the deficit. Instead they’re slashing our social safety net while ballooning our debt.

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The fabulous art of ADRIAN TEAL !!!

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