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Too many careers - but most recently photographer and hospitality. Seeing what I can do to keep my grandkids from not having a hell-scape to live in.
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this how shiteee things are #ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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A Supreme Court decision on deportations gave both the Trump administration and the #ACLU reason to claim victory. But legal scholars say it marked a setback for the rights of noncitizens in the United States: buff.ly/6JMVnG4 @rhamlin.bsky.social and Paul M. Collins Jr. @umassamherst.bsky.social

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Indiana senators leave universal private school vouchers out of budget bill over cost concerns https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/04/10/senate-budget-leaves-out-universal-vouchers-cuts-virtual-school-funding/

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Rami Malek isn’t chasing stardom—he’s chasing something deeper. In an exclusive interview with The National, the Oscar-winning actor reveals how his latest film The Amateur marks a new phase in his career

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The agency acknowledged it made a mistake with the wording.

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The New Yorker won three National Magazine Awards on Thursday, along with two ASME Awards for Design, Photography, and Illustration—the most of any publication this year.

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The HHS has launched a “massive testing and research effort” involving hundreds of scientists worldwide that will determine “what has caused the autism epidemic” by September, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.

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Almost immediately after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled, Syria came under attack. Israeli airstrikes have hit several hundred times since December. Syria's new leaders are starting to speak up.

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This researcher’s project joins at least 30 others across the University of California system that have been terminated by the National Institutes of Health. Those multi-year awards were worth more than $173 million. buff.ly/LaMkF0S 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

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⚡️The European Union will dedicate 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in revenue generated from frozen assets of the Russian Central Bank to Ukraine's defense industry, the EU's Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova announced on April 10.

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What's wrong with me? I'm agreeing with #DavidBrooks www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

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get ready #tariffs www.latimes.com/california/s...

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China is using AI to ramp up disinformation against Taiwan to "divide" Taiwan's public, the island's National Security Bureau said.

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Your comedy moment

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At least 19 states, all of whom with Democratic attorneys general, presented “undisputed evidence” they were not receiving FEMA funds already appropriated by Congress.

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Hell no, we are prodded and cued and then we can tune it the best we can.

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BREAKING: The acting commissioner of the IRS is resigning over the agency's deal to share immigrants' tax information with ICE, according to two people familiar with the decision.

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The JPMorgan CEO opened up about mistakes, leadership lessons, and the importance of making work "fun and fulfilling" in a letter to shareholders.

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ALL AMERICAN FASCISM, none of that Euro trash for us, no sir! #Trump jacobin.com/2025/03/trum...

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Capitalism is NOT coming to the rescue - #tarriffs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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not escapism, but momentary holdism? #adultswim www.salon.com/2025/04/05/w...

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The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

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"Nixon looks like a fucking saint compared to this." @michaelmechanic.bsky.social was in Princeton, NJ, today to speak with #HandsOff attendees there. From kids hoping their education will survive to Social Security recipients worried about their ability to even exist, this is what they had to say.

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A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals rules that more than 65,000 votes cast in the contested race for the state Supreme Court in 2024 must be recounted and verified — a win for the Republican candidate in the razor-thin, disputed contest.

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“Iowa should be the Tuscany of North America. It has some of the world’s best soil yet it has an obesity crisis, a water crisis, and a cancer crisis.” Austin Frerick explains why titans have amassed near monopolistic domination of what we eat every day–and the systems that enabled them to do so.

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They should know #policestate www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

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The #Fascist creep factory is churning. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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aptly put #DOGE lucaskunce.substack.com/p/america-ju...

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"The Trump administration, MAGA, and the wider far right have seen the power of posting—text, yes, but especially image—content that evokes excitement among their allies at the same time as it produces disgust and fear in their opponents." www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...

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"Do you know how proud America is of you?"

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“By now, we would have a search and rescue team of hundreds of people on the ground in Myanmar, digging people out of rubble. Now all we’re told is, ‘we may be able to send three people there.’”

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The Democratic senator from New Jersey began speaking at 7 p.m. Monday and continued into Tuesday evening.

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Hours after joining 22 other states in filing a lawsuit aimed at President Donald Trump’s cuts to health services, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul told a crowd Tuesday that the legal community needs to stand up against what he described as intimidation and unlawful acts by the White House.

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BREAKING: In a speech condemning Trump for over 24 hours, Democratic senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech ever by a lone senator – beating the record by Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957

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An impassioned marathon speech by Sen. Cory Booker protesting the Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies and court-defying deportation of migrants broke the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history on Tuesday night. Read more: bit.ly/3YccSa8

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READ THIS NOW jacobin.com/2025/03/trum... #trump

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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg just got Democrats in a tiny state to permanently shield CEOs from workers & shareholders holding them accountable for corporate fraud. The new law will affect everyone in America. www.levernews.com/this-state-i...

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cruelty is the point, etc #MAGA www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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let's talk classic American #photography www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

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oh swell - what next for #GAZA www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-...

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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Tesla dealerships and showrooms across the United States on March 29, protesting against CEO Elon Musk’s role with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and demanded he leave his ‘unelected’ role in the Trump administration.

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welp, the Washington Press Corp is officially broken - #whitehouse www.thedailybeast.com/wh-correspon...

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OPINION: "Many parents ... seem content for their children’s horizons to dim at the hands of overreaching leaders that come, like the backwoods preachers of my hometown would tell you, like a thief in the night," Taylor McKay Hathorn writes. buff.ly/LcJoDCi

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