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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name." -- John Stuart Mill (1867)

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When David Brooks joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won, Brooks writes.

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Bingo

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humanity had a good run 🙃

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BREAKING: Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, NBC News projects, defying Elon Musk after he spent millions against her. nbcnews.to/4hU1reg

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Elon Musk went to Wisconsin where he said the "destiny of humanity" rested on the election. Tonight the voters agreed and rejected his and Trump's undemocratic vision for the country.

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Every network should be covering this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...

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Everyone keeps saying "No one is coming to save us!" but I think it's a distinct possibility that whoever did this is coming to save us.

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“.. There’s currently no country in Europe where more than half of the population has a positive attitude toward the US ..” @bloomberg.com #GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ah, he never disappoints.

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We came for the new Google Store opening in Santa Monica, at 3rd and Broadway, and suddenly found ourselves at the intersection of democracy, fascism, Waymo and Tesla

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Exklusiv: @johnkrafcik.bsky.social, früher Chef von Alphabets Robotaxifirma Waymo, spricht im Interview über die Robotaxipläne von #Tesla und wie Tesla einen Robotaxidienst im Juni in Austin faken könnte. Das ganze Interview: www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/... #AutonomousVehicles #AV

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GOOD: Mallory McMorrow will launch a bid for the open Senate seat in Michigan.

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If you’re in the US, you can watch PBS for free using the app. There’s a series of documentaries called American Experience that’s really good—each is about a different event in history. Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30. It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.

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This came out in 2014 and I have thought about it a lot recently.

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It is a bleak moment but at least there is a lot of Walton Goggins.

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Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts. And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think www.1011now.com/2025/03/05/t...

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Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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For the visual learners

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The astounding Republican trend of inheriting a working, growing economy from Democratic presidents and then breaking it and plunging us into a recession continues!

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An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

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I'm Still Here just won Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. It has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.

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Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

submitted 105 days ago • 357 comments

The Making Money-Launderers, Drug-Dealers, Kleptocrats, Grifters, Swindlers, Howard Lutnick, Marc Andreessen, Donald Trump, & Donald Trump Jr. Even Richer -- Again Act.

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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

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