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The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

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Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope: “This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”

submitted 39 days ago • 361 comments

DHS is paying the president of El Salvador to imprison immigrants from the U.S. in brutal conditions — and today, Trump welcomed him to the White House. Our government shouldn’t ship people off to be tortured.

submitted 58 days ago • 48 comments

Trump’s Misleading Tariff Chart www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trum...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

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To the federal workers who have lost their jobs or otherwise been impacted by the Trump-Musk Administration’s attacks on the civil service: I want to hear your stories. Please go to my website at kaine.senate.gov/federalworkers to write to me.

submitted 77 days ago • 18 comments

UPDATE: The reduction in force comes along with a reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, consolidating 28 divisions to 15.

submitted 77 days ago • 54 comments

I would like to go back to the inauguration and do it all over again exactly the same but this time instead of “DOGE boys” we call them “Musk rats,” thank you, to whom do I apply?

submitted 77 days ago • 41 comments

Texted LITERALLY WAR PLANS

submitted 78 days ago • 1469 comments

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

submitted 78 days ago • 672 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 78 days ago • 2057 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com, me on “The Tom and Daisy Presidency,” and how there’s only so much courts can do, especially under current law, when at least part of the administration’s goal is to break things—and “let other people clean up the mess they had made.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...

submitted 84 days ago • 16 comments

Falling debris from a failed test of a SpaceX Starship prototype disrupted flights at several Florida airports.

submitted 97 days ago • 470 comments

Just saying.

submitted 103 days ago • 397 comments

are you a fed who got today’s OPM email? NPR wants to hear how you're responding — or if you're not, why. do you see this as a chance to show the value of your work? are you burnt out from another chaotic week? did your system flag the message as spam? reach me at shannonbond.01 on Signal

submitted 109 days ago • 8 comments

Here's a riddle:

submitted 112 days ago • 398 comments

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

submitted 112 days ago • 436 comments

Former Illinois guard Terrence Shannon Jr. is trying to create something positive out of the school’s upside-down banner mishap over the weekend.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 113 days ago • 2338 comments

JUST IN: Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday unveiled a $55.2 billion spending plan with an unexpected “budget surplus” — but noted the uncertainty of state funding under President Donald Trump. trib.al/wWhssXc

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 115 days ago • 23 comments

My office is hearing reports that the Trump administration’s purges include firing veterans who have served our country for years. Our veterans deserve better. If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121 And share your story: www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...

submitted 116 days ago • 267 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

submitted 118 days ago • 142 comments