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The world laughs at him. They always have.

The 143-bed hospital faced "persistently low utilization and increasing financial pressures," the provider said.

This guy in Missouri saw the strike package as it headed out of Whiteman AFB and tweeted it 24 hrs ago

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

Chicago ✊

Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.

The St. Louis County Democrats have helped organize 1/2 dozen or more protests since March and they have ALL been civil and peaceful. We WILL NOT deviate from that plan. @GovMikeKehoe is being provocative for show. Join us tomorrow sign up or just come. mobilize.us/s/YkdZqo

"Trump declares intention to openly break Congressionally-enacted valid law in order to honor white supremacy." Sums it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Notable clip today👇 in light of the news that the Trump administration successfully pressured ABC into suspending Moran

🥴 Trump said that Ukraine gave Putin a reason to go in and bomb the hell out of them, - Reuters

✨ Great response by Amy McGrath. Thank you for not pulling any punches and always supporting your fellow vets.

"Let cash registers ring!"

In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.

Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.

-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich -$700B in Medicaid cuts -$500B in Medicare cuts -$300B in SNAP cuts -Leasing public lands to Big Oil -Ending IRS Direct File -Ending clean energy tax credits -Banning AI regulation in the states The oligarchy's wish list.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …

🇻🇦🇺🇦 Zelensky: After the inaugural mass, we met with Pope Leo XIV. We thank Vatican for its readiness to become a platform for direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. We are ready for dialogue in any format for the sake of real results. Thanks for support for Ukraine!

We collected well over 180,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. It passed by 57%. These assholes don’t care about us. STOP VOTING FOR THEM.

Like Pritzker's approach to this more and more!

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum had surgery to repair his Achilles tendon after tearing it in a season-ending injury. He scored 42 points in 40 minutes Monday night before he got injured.

Trump is visiting three countries in the Middle-East — Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar — where the Trump Organization has planned real estate projects.

Duffy’s full of it. Pete Buttigieg and Dems pushed to modernize our air traffic control system under Biden—Republicans in Congress blocked it. The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

The Pope at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. No wonder the White Sox swept the ‘Stros

tl;dr: White smoke, black pope!

Apparently the Cardinals watched Conclave and Sinners before they voted.

The new pope's brother: “I know he’s not happy with what’s going on with immigration. I know that for a fact. How far he’ll go with it is only one’s guess, but he won’t just sit back. I don’t think he’ll be the silent one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

‘JD Vance Is Wrong’: The Pope Appears Uneasy With Trump Immigration Policies Before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became pope, a social media account under his name shared criticisms of the Trump administration’s positions on immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

🇻🇦🙏 Pope Leo and Saint Pope John Paul II

Cause: Trump and DOGE laid off air traffic controllers and FAA safety personnel. Effect: - A shortage of 3,000 air traffic controllers nationwide - perpetual delays at major airports - thousands of flights cancelled due to staff shortages and safety concerns

The winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction, which was announced today:

Weird how all the Nazis keep finding jobs in the GOP. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...