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Elton hits #1 today in 1975 with “Philadelphia Freedom" — a song he wrote for his friend Billie Jean King, who coached a tennis team by the same name. “We were driving to one of his concerts .. He said, ‘I want to write a song for you.’ I turned scarlet red, I’m sure, and went, ‘Oh please. What??’”

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

Donold sends people with soccer tattoos to El Salvador and lets people with swastika tattoos go free.

“The Salvadoran president offered to turn the CECOT into an extension of the U.S. prison system in exchange for a payment of $20,000 per individual per year.” The two presidents are basically slave traders in drag. english.elpais.com/internationa...

“I was in paradise,” she said. “I would very much like to stay in paradise.” The story of Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova, who has been in ICE detention for nearly two months and fears she will be deported to Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

Ksenia Karelina was wrongfully detained and imprisoned in Russia for over a year while visiting her family. Today, after far too long, she'll arrive back home in California. Welcome home, Ksenia.

The Abrego Garcia Case: A Quick Update open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

We went from having an economy that was "the envy of the world" to, as the WSJ said, "The Stupidest Trade War In History" and consumer covidence at 34%, all because of a bankrupt reality TV show host.

My sisters and I received these benefits after our father died at 36 years old. While it didn't replace his income, it helped our grieving mother, who was 31 at the time, provide for us. Judge Box o'Wine is intentionally lying, which by all accounts seems to be her job.