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Fewer patients in states with legal marijuana are filling prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications, particularly benzodiazepines, highlighting the potential of #cannabis as an alternative treatment for anxiety. A public policy professor explains: https://buff.ly/4fSCA9G #mentalhealth

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10m trees to be planted in US to replace ones destroyed by hurricanes

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Donald Trump’s first choice for attorney general in his second presidency, former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, paid for sex, including with a minor, used illegal drugs and sought to obstruct investigators, according to a U.S. House Committee on Ethics report.

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Gun violence in the U.S. is a public health crisis, and it has been for some time. Get an overview of the staggering numbers and key history in the Data Hub’s “Gun Violence 101” guide:

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The former Congressman from Missouri, who once pushed to abolish the IRS, has marketed himself as a Certified Tax and Business Advisor after attending only a three-day seminar.

submitted 63 days ago • 119 comments

New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors

submitted 63 days ago • 29 comments

Disgusting. Anti-American.

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GOP senators should be hounded mercilessly by reporters on whether they’ll knowingly support Patel now that Trump has made the corrupt reality of the situation so inescapably, alarmingly clear.

submitted 64 days ago • 25 comments

@gregsargent.bsky.social: Trump isn’t really going to get in Musk’s way? It all strikes me as a recipe for an absolute policy catastrophe for Trump’s voters.

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Why do many billionaires? It's pretty sick to be hoarding so much money imo.

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2024 opened with considerable progress on countering gun violence in the U.S. But as the end of the year approaches, it’s clear that the battle is far from over. Here’s what we learned about gun violence in 2024.

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U.S. House Democrats released details early Thursday on how much federal disaster aid each state would lose if Republicans drop it from a stopgap spending bill that’s been rejected by their own members as well as President-elect Donald Trump.

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NEW: A host of billionaires — sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others — have managed to avoid paying a tax on investment income. propub.li/41EtbPK

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By nearly every metric, Bidenomics was a roaring success. It would be a mistake to ignore or forget the lessons that can be gleaned from the administration’s robust economic policy.

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US Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked Donald Trump's transition team to hold Elon Musk to the same ethics standards as other transition members, putting oversight of the unusually powerful presidential adviser in the spotlight reut.rs/400w3Fr

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It’s becoming a well-known fact that beef is bad for the climate – but it’s important to understand the reasons why. sentientmedia.org/why-is-eatin...

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“Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations mock the struggles of working Americans, bypassing the standards and sacrifices we demand from everyday workers,” Duvalier Malone writes.

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It’s most accurate to call billionaires hoarders.

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#Constitution

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EPA bans widely used chemicals linked to cancer before Trump takes office

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“Confirmation hearings of nearly a dozen billionaires are a golden opportunity, Democrats. Go seize it.” newrepublic.com/post/189109/...

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Tulsi Gabbard’s ex-aides say that the former congresswoman, whom Donald Trump has nominated as the next director of national intelligence, used to regularly consume Russian state media. newrepublic.com/post/189066/...

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In a series of secret offline memos and meetings, the justices toiled away over how they would formulate their code of ethics, and—crucially—whether it could actually be enforced. newrepublic.com/post/188974/...

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WTF.

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The combined net worth of Joe Biden’s Cabinet was $118 million. The total net worth of Trump’s Cabinet? It’s at least $13.3 billion. newrepublic.com/post/189109/...

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Pete Hegseth and Doug Collins’ push for cutting veterans health benefits alarms servicemembers and veterans groups: cnn.it/3OLBaD0

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ABC News, citing interviews with three of her former staffers, reported Thursday that Gabbard regularly read and shared articles from RT (formerly Russia Today), a state-run media outlet, even after being advised that RT wasn’t a credible source. newrepublic.com/post/189066/...

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I agree with all of this.

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This is truly the best legal advice we can give.

submitted 79 days ago • 506 comments

One of the many things that drives me crazy is the way in which Dem policies are largely universal whereas Republican policies are explicitly only for certain people, and often times not for their own supporters. And yet the media treats them as morally about the same.

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

We need to build a new opposition movement that is strong enough and durable enough to weather the attacks coming from Trump and the GOP in the years ahead. I hope you watch, consider and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bCh...

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Tulsi Gabbard, who Trump plans to nominate as his director of national intelligence, was a faithful consumer of Kremlin-controlled propaganda network RT, three of her former aides said. Critics say she’s increasingly grown soft on Putin’s Russia, and some lawmakers question her commitment to the US.

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Cassidy Hutchinson is one of the many people on Trash Patel's hit list. Her "crime"? She testified before the j6 committee. She was pressured by Trump's camp to downplay what she knew. She did not. This is one of the many reasons Trash Patel cannot have any role in law enforcement.

submitted 79 days ago • 538 comments

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

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