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Information on Governors' powers when a president mobilizes the National Guard. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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6/7/25 📣Tonight was a First ever Live Broadcast of a Broadway Play‼️ George Clooney wrote & performed as the highly trusted CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night and Good Luck." It was a portrayal of a Courageous Broadcaster speaking Truth to Chair of Senate Subcommittee Sen Joe McCarthy‼️

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📣Courageous Broadcasters like #ScottPelley, Journalists, Recognized Credible Newspapers like #NYTIMES, #CNN #AndersonCooper along with #ThePeopleoftheU.S. MUST SPEAK OUT COURAGEOUSLY AGAINST THIS #AuthoritarianGovernment in power like never before‼️‼️‼️

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📣Courageous Broadcasters like #ScottPelley, Journalists, Recognized Credible Newspapers like #NYTIMES, #CNN #AndersonCooper along with #ThePeopleoftheU.S. MUST SPEAK OUT COURAGEOUSLY AGAINST THIS #AuthoritarianGovernment in power like never before‼️‼️‼️

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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6/7/25 📣Tonight was a First ever Live Broadcast of a Broadway Play‼️ George Clooney wrote & performed as the highly trusted CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night and Good Luck." It was a portrayal of a Courageous Broadcaster speaking Truth to Chair of Senate Subcommittee Sen Joe McCarthy‼️

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Cult leader Curtis Yarvin version of government vs communities which are transparent, accountable, and nurture both individuality and collective wellbeing. Cult-like groups, by contrast, are secretive, controlling, and exploit members for the benefit of the leader or inner circle.

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6/4/25 President Donald Trump's family business, The Trump Organization, has unveiled 12 new overseas projects since his victory in the November 2024 election, already surpassing the total number during his first term in office, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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The CBO estimates that Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which is stuffed with tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, will explode the deficit by $2.4T and kick 10.9M people off their health insurance. This has always been the GOP strategy: socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

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PTSD Awareness Month and Beekeeping for Veterans June is recognized as PTSD Awareness Month, dedicated to increasing understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and promoting access to effective treatments, especially for veterans and military personnel.

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Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C. The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker. All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit. They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.

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JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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West Coast: Air Traffic Controlers Window Washers are considered an expenditure that DOGE's controllers want justified.

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Phang: These “radical left” judges? These are judges that you had a hand in appointing—or they were appointed under Republican administrations. So how very convenient that when you don’t get your way, suddenly these are all radical left judges. He is just an intellectually lazy asshole.

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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Fun Fact: Trump's involvement with the Nation’s Parade, celebrating the Second World War’s 50th anniversary in 1995, sullied “an otherwise positive day,” according to the NYT.

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🚨NEWS: The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Today, I’m thinking of the soldiers I served with in Afghanistan. Not everyone made it home. Some returned with invisible wounds. But these men and women led with courage and believed in the promise of our country. And they sacrificed everything to defend our freedom.

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Turns out that red knots have a kinship so close to the horseshoe crab that one might consider them cousins." selc.org/news/red-kno...

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"Turns out that red knots have a kinship so close to the horseshoe crab that one might consider them cousins." selc.org/news/red-kno...

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New in Marine & Coastal Fisheries: Estimating the size of the Atlantic horseshoe crab population in the Delaware Bay is crucial for managers to set appropriate harvest levels that will support fisheries as well as migrating shorebirds that feed on horseshoe crab eggs - doi.org/10.1002/mcf2...

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Red Knot - Sunset Beach, Clatsop Co., OR It's spring migration and the shorebirds are on the move. Knots are rare, but regular on Pacific Coast Beaches #photography #birds #oregonbirds #shorebirds #redknot #nature

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"The story of the red knots [birds] & horseshoe crabs, is a charisma-driven, care-conjuring odyssey that leads me to seek relationship & cause for concern in animals that few see any likeness or relatedness in...." selc.org/news/red-kno...

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NEW: Voting rights groups filed suit Friday to block a new law that forces Montana voters to include their date of birth on both their absentee ballot application and the ballot envelope, or risk having their vote tossed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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If you need a little hope this morning

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