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Was TIME as focused on facts as 60 Minutes?

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I fought damn hard to create the 988 Hotline because help should not be hard to get – regardless of who you are or where you live. This is wrong and cruel – and you can be sure I will fight this. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/l...

My name is Peter Morley. I live on fixed income. I have Lupus & chronic illnesses & disabilities & have subsisted on Social Security Disability for 18 years. I've survived cancer 2x & had 11 surgeries. I DEPEND on Medicaid & SNAP. I will NEVER GIVE UP fighting for me & for you until my last breath.💜

Boo fucking hoo.

BREAKING NEWS: Seriously chunky water sausages receive simultaneous hugs.

I read it…

“So self-destructive,” mused Stahl about White House pressure on a program known for “our integrity, our honest reporting, our toughness, our independence. How foolish of these people to threaten all of that?”

Jon Cryer: I have Trump supporters in my family—I feel for them on some level, because we in the entertainment industry created this guy. We built up this image of a billionaire, this brilliant businessman, and it was never him. He was always kind of a moron...

Who else AGREES with David?! 🤚 One. Of. The. Good. Guys. 😎✨

"The podcast by Ben Meiselas and his brothers regularly outdraws Joe Rogan’s. Their secret weapon? Reason. Imagine!" Read now 👇

"Internal USFS direction curtails public involvement, fast-tracks logging guidance side-steps normal public involvement procedures used for decades to gather input on proposed projects and to comply with the law." wildearthguardians.org/press-releas...

What do you call the $38 BILLION Musk is reported to have received for his for-profit business(es)? Chopped liver? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the future of Louisiana's congressional map and the Voting Rights Act. Here's what you should know. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/sup...

Elissa Slotkin is a former CIA agent cosplaying as an everywoman. AOC is a former waitress who treats voters as though they are smart enough to know who's screwing them and how we can fix it.

"The sixth mass extinction is not a future possibility – it’s a process that’s already underway. What happens next is in human hands." 🌏 en.as.com/latest_news/...

It’s time for accountability. When we get back to Congress next week, articles of impeachment need to be filed against Pete Hegseth.

In the hierarchy of terrible ideas, this one is pretty high up there. Whenever I’m traveling the state, whether it be the Northland, Greater Minnesota or the Metro, nowhere do I hear that we have too much funding for early childhood education. www.axios.com/2025/04/17/t...

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Ed Martin appeared on Russian state television some 150 times. Gladly contributing to Russian propaganda efforts should end his nomination to be a U.S. attorney, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes.

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On March 25, 2025, Trump issued an executive order that would suppress tens of millions of voters: “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS”... joycevance.substack.com/p/the-execut...

Where’s @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social ? Mahmoud Khalil is a legal resident of NY—your constituent. You weren’t part of the delegation that showed up—so what are you doing to make this right and to stop innocent people from being snatched off NY streets w/out due process?

The fuck? This is untenable. Dude is a walking security threat.

It would be very healthy for human species, If there is less Discouragement.

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#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1933: The Nazis begin their persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses by shutting down the Bible Student headquarters in Magdeburg. By 1945, some 10,000 Witnesses had been sent to Nazi concentration camps, with as many 5,000 dying in custody. /1

Today is Day 13. Still 0 deals.

Standing with the Armenian community in Glendale to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. We must stand up to Azerbajian's continued aggression and insist on the release of Armenian POWs. And we must demand justice.

Doug Jones should take a crack at the seat. Nothing to lose, maybe you get lucky on another GOP freak implosion plus a strong national swing, and if nothing else it forces them to burn some money shoring it up they otherwise wouldn’t.

It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal: "President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "