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Is this who we are? newschannel9.com/news/local/f...

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

I’m more concerned about our fighter jets at the bottom of the Red Sea.

8 years ago today, Republicans in the House voted to take away my health insurance (and that of millions of Americans). The day after my first chemotherapy. Now they're getting ready to attack our health care again.

DOGE employees reportedly gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets

📌BREAKING: “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Bill Owens, resigns saying, “Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.” 📌CHILLING

This is how those of us of a certain age first learned about April 19, 1775. Still inspires. youtu.be/Y6ikO6LMxF4?...

So.... we're no longer ensuring that our food safety laboratories, can actually do what they're supposed to do: "The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts" www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

When ICE agents descended upon 19-year-old Merwil Guttiérez in New York City, they realized he was not the intended target of their operation — but they arrested the boy anyway. Merwil was, in fact, in the United States legally — from Venezuela, seeking asylum. Merwil’s father, Wilmer Guttiérez,…

Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries

"Trump administration officials have discussed possibly denaturalizing and deporting activists and other individuals whom they label as having committed so-called 'fraud' on their applications for citizenship by subsequently supporting what Team Trump decides are 'pro-terrorist' causes or groups."

WATCH: “I wept today.” On Thursday, @SenatorLamar reacted after Tennessee Republicans passed @SenBoWatson’s cruel bill to keep undocumented kids out of schools through the senate 19-13. 7 Republicans opposed it with Dems. @ToddGardenhire (R) also wept.

Bravo NORWAY BRAVO 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

"Like other authoritarians, Trump seeks to manipulate and define reality—of the present and of the past” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The #MomSky protests! We stand for love, care, diversity, dignity, respect, safety, and democracy. The lack of empathy is the source of terrible, cruel policies that are causing unspeakable harm. Anyone who agrees with our values of empathy and care, JOIN US by tagging all your posts with #MomSky.

“Christian ‘TheoBros’ Are Building a Tech Utopia” in TN & KY. It’s called the “Highland Rim Project” & is an initiative of New Founding (NF), which is backed by “Tech Bro” Marc Andreessen. NF founder Nate Fischer is invested in Pronomos, which funds crypto-based charter cities & “network states” 1/

Millions of Americans are watching their retirement savings disappear as the market continues to crash and a recession looms. Donald Trump:

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At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

JPMorgan raises recession odds this year to 60%.

Almost half of the country’s health insurance now rests in the hands of a man who once sold miracle pills — with zero proof they worked — on daytime TV.

Ag groups on the tariffs "it is a shit show" agfundernews.com/food-ag-grou...

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