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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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BREAKING: MeidasTouch has won the Webby Award for 2025 Podcast of the Year! Thank you for this incredible honor. None of this would be possible without this incredible pro-democracy community. Shoutout to the Meidas Mighty!

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🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

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Today’s top story at the Wall Street Journal. Glad you finally caught up to what the rest of us know about this incompetent con man.

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'What about if you were to scrap the two child benefit cap, surely that would do more than 30 minutes in a breakfast club?' Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the two child benefit cap as she launches pilot project for 750 breakfast clubs

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The festival's annual 'Burning of Judas' tradition opted to put a certain president in the line of fire this year...

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JUST A FACT…👇

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“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!” -Pope Francis

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Clash of the Plumage While Charlie and I sat out back this morning, I watched these two ... 1/3 #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #doves #RockPigeons #RockDoves #pigeons

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WHO ELSE AGREES WITH BARBRA?! 🤚

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On Christmas Eve 1968, astronaut William Anders snapped the iconic "Earthrise" photograph. Anders' image beautifully captures the fragile solitude of a living Earth and launched the modern-day environmental movement. On this Earth Day 🌎💚 - Pledge to help protect our only home.

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That is exactly right!

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He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.

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Yes, at some point we need to conclude that the problem isn’t bosses trembling in terror of an overmighty reactionary bloc of voters, and accept the problem is the bosses are themselves repellent wingnut cranks working hard to impose their horrible politics on everyone.

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The difference between Christianity and Christian Nationalism is a Pope who advocated for our most marginalized and a woman who considers him evil for doing so.

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I always look forward to funerals too. Good times.

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Homeland Security Secretary can’t secure her own purse.

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"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities." - Pope Francis

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The man in charge of America's bombs just leaked classified military plans. Again. Let us review Pete Kegsbreath’s latest drunken idiocy.

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Summer arrived early. Listening to first Cuckoo of the year.

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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This is an elected representative, ladies and gentlemen.

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They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Hillbilly misery…

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#WoodPigeons #Pigeons #NaturePhotography #Birds #PigeonSky #Trains (2 of 2) “Ooops!”

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Was that why all of those hypocrites was touching him in that mass prayer photo op...

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Which is precisely why millions of people are protesting against you.

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Banks exist to keep you in debt, and so in misery, for as long as possible. youtu.be/IB2wLjqihjM?... Banks are not your friend. They exist to exploit you, and they will whenever they can.

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OMG

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So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires? (Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security) Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.

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The Ministry of Propaganda is out early today doing damage control.

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Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

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Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…