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It was a rough week. I had to put my cat to sleep in the early hours of Monday morning at the emergency vet. My brother had to put one of his dogs down later in the day. Monday also would have been my parents' wedding anniversary if they were still alive. I hope they're taking care of both animals.

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After discovering the baby shark in the tide pools, Ranger Robin had one thought and one thought only. Don’t sing the song. Don’t sing the song. Don’t sing the song! #FindYourDoo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo

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First Washington Post won't authorize paid ANTI MUSK AD NOW Zuckerberg and META No ANTI Musk ads Hitler destroyed Democracy in 53 days Here we go Deport the immigrants Fire/Eliminate institutions Squash the FREE PRESS Squash FREE SPEECH

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Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act . It's yet another alarming move by the most unabashedly corrupt president in American history. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bribery-unbound

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True words.

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📢 App Version 1.98 is rolling out now, including: (1/5) • a new option for who can reply to your posts • search posts by a user • lots of little improvements to make the app feel better!

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✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ DSW "We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], and call on our associates, customers, and communities to hold us accountable to showing it every day." The NAACP Black Consumer Advisory encourages consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values.

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One Russian newspaper today sums up how Moscow views events of the last few days: “Dumbfounded Europe, kneed by America just below the belt, is still struggling to get its breath back.” #ReadingRussia

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Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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www.ebony.com/bernice-king... Some good advice from the above link. Thank you to the friend who found the link.

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Marbury v Madison is a seminal case from 1803 that holds that the federal courts must determine the constitutionality of the actions of the other two branches of government. Hope that helps, Stephen.

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I’m sure “DOGE” will be all over this.. truthout.org/articles/tes...

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USAID is expected to be reduced to about 290 workers from the more than 5,000 foreign service officers, civil servants and personal service contractors it currently employs, according to two sources familiar with the plans.

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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

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The strain of bird flu is distinct from what has previously been found in dairy cattle. The finding means the virus has again spilled over from birds to cows, and it raises some worrying questions.

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A note to our readers, from Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Editor-in-Chief John Harris:

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nbcwashington.app.link/1h2uOpH0LQb Good news!

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Panama President Jose Raul Mulino accused the United States government of lying after the US State Department said US government vessels would be able to cross his country's namesake canal without paying fees reut.rs/4hrJxA6

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With all of the Trump/Musk mayhem, don't ignore the GOP's continued assault on free and fair elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Resisting Trump and Project 2025 in Austin, TX Please SHARE because the MSM is mostly silent on these protests abcnews.go.com/live/video/s...

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It appears the VA site for grant applications to help homeless veterans is down. Unsure if this is a glitch, or the end of assistance for homeless vets.

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BREAKING: The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on December 25, killing 38 people after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan, was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system, an Azerbaijani government source told Reuters on Tuesday

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The World Organization for Animal Health, a France based NGO, has discovered a new H5N9 bird flu strain at a duck farm in Merced County, California. Additionally, they also found H5N1 at the same farm.

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In 1836, Frank McWorter established the town of New Philadelphia in Illinois. He would use the money from selling lots in his town to buy the freedom of more than a dozen of his enslaved family members. The integrated town of New Philadelphia survived until it was bypassed by the railroad in 1869.

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Knowing the names of the an unelected oligarch’s underlings who are destroying the government from within is a crime now, apparently.

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People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

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An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.

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"The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term The whole archive is fully searchable This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government" blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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That last paragraph is how you know Nova Scotians mean business

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JUST IN: B.C. Premier David Eby says he directed B.C. Liquor sales to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states and remove the highest-selling brands from those states from the shelves of the province’s liquor stores.

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I just can't anymore tonight. Too much. It's just too much.

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I think I've called my three congressional reps more in the last two weeks than I have the last four years.

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