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Haven't seen much coverage on the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, 4/30/1975 youtu.be/9N7QEwGsNiA?...

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It’s this easy to show support

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

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🎵HEAD LIKE A HOLE, BLACK AS YOUR SOUL🎵

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I welcome the news that Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from ICE custody. His arrest during a citizenship interview, simply for exercising his conditionally-guaranteed right to free speech, was wrong and illegal.

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We’ve gathered photos of Ukrainian flags raised across the globe by UNITED24 donors, ambassadors, and friends🇺🇦 These flags have flown at concerts and festivals, on mountaintops and boxing rings, outside donor homes and even in space. Thank you to everyone who raises the Ukrainian flag💙💛

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Nation’s Independent Bookstore Owners Announce They Don’t Have It In Stock But Would Be Happy To Order It In For You theonion.com/nation-...

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The US is now officially in stagflation -- with a shrinking economy AND above-average inflation First time we've been in stagflation since Jimmy Carter

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Despite promises of cuts from Trump and Elon, the U.S. spent about $220 billion more in the first 100 days than it did last year. We’re spending far more and getting far less. So where is all the money going?

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Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

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An infantryman from the Khyzhak Brigade, call sign Vepr, hadn’t contacted his beloved for two weeks. The girl learned through his commander that he had been wounded. Wanting to support him, she wrote a heartfelt letter, which his brothers-in-arms delivered by drone to his position in Toretsk.

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Pete Hegseth shows real leadership by passing the blame to Mike Waltz. Was it Waltz who set up Signal on Hegseth's office computer and added his wife, brother, and lawyer in a war plan group chat?

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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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In a time of unprecedented wealth disparities, the American economy appears increasingly oriented toward the needs of the most affluent.

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Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

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I love these too much. I just can't help myself with photographing them. Fiery-throated Hummingbird at Batsu Gardens, San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature 🌿

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Woke up in a lovely bed and breakfast today on a lovely vacation to find out a place I've loved to work for just over a decade has been dismembered in minutes. Just wanted to join the chorus to say that I've been let go from Vox Media on May Day, along with a great team doing great stuff.

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Going to print this out and frame it on my wall

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The Hill: Egg prices reached another record high last month. It now costs American shoppers an average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs — nearly a five-fold increase since 2020.

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Big yikes

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Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Big shoutout to Chicago! ✊ 👏

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Kamala Harris: The courage of Americans who are speaking out to say, it is not ok to violate court orders. Saying it is not ok to detain and disappear American citizens or anyone without due process. The courage of judges to uphold the rule of law in the face of those who would jail them.

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if you dont use garlic are you even cooking

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Giant otters really don’t care.

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You asked, I listened As an act of civic journalism, I contacted the Privy Council Office and the Speaker of the House of Commons to clarify if Pierre Poilievre can still serve as Leader of the Opposition and if he can continue living in his public mansion The official answers: No and no

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In one of the danker corners of the Internet, status-anxious dudes are currently working themselves into a froth over an article I wrote more than a dozen years ago and avowing how I am a miserable failure in in my career, anyway, here's a shot of Krissy at the riverfront property I just bought her

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After decades of waiting, we’re finally getting a Bob Dylan-Barbra Streisand duet forward.com/culture/musi...

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If You Were Wondering How Out Of Touch They Really Are….

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Microsoft has dropped a law firm that settled with the Trump administration in favor of one that is fighting the president’s executive orders, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

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Every small ounce of INTEGRITY this leech had died with Senator Mccain.......

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I was among the people interview for this piece. Glad to see 60 Minutes standing behind it.

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video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group

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The Trump administration is patently breaking the law, trying to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport people without due process. Americans reject this. The courts are taking them to task. We won’t stop fighting for our Constitution.

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The markets know the difference.

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It was the fuck aroundiest of times, it was the findoutiest of times.

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ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

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Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

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Today on Fresh Air, a special remembrance of Terry's husband, Francis Davis. They were together for 47 years. He died April 14. Listen to Terry's piece: tinyurl.com/29udnvz3