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apple.news/A3CESad9UTw2... I am deeply disappointed in these companies for succumbing to the pressures of bigotry. Many of them have been on my boycott list for some time, and my patronage of the remaining ones will continue to wane rapidly.

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The House could vote next week on drastic cuts to Medicaid that would gut critical programs that protect the civil rights and dignity of millions of Americans — including people with disabilities. Contact your member of Congress: No cuts to Medicaid.

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The 88-year-old Francis has been hospitalized for a week with a complex lung infection.

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Inflation is a feedback loop in which higher prices force workers to demand higher wages, resulting in higher prices, then higher wages. Today, as prices skyrocket and corporate profits soar, wages remain pretty flat. GOP blames inflation, but it's price gouging and greedflation.

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Hmm…

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Federal workers responsible for America's nuclear weapons, scientists trying to fight bird flu, and officials responsible for supplying electricity are among those who have been accidentally fired in President Trump's rush to lay off thousands of workers reut.rs/438ofU4

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With new producers, a new studio, and a new 007 on the way, change is expected for the next James Bond.

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Senate Republicans are about to try to advance a budget resolution that clears the way to cut taxes for Trump’s billionaire buddies. Democrats are going to expose how Republicans want to gut health care, jobs, public safety, housing, education, and national security.

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I hope a 2025-26 Blue Wave brings order and balance. Though I’m not a Democrat, I support many of their policies. I oppose political ideologies, as they divide us and benefit only a few. It’s disheartening how they make us ideological partisans. I fear political and economic power over the masses.

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#OTD in 1991, flight deck crewman John Bridges was sucked into the intake of an A-6E aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt. Incredibly, he survived because he became wedged in the engine. The flames were caused by his equipment getting stripped from his body and pulled through the jet.

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Bad news and I hope he faces massive internal pushback resistance and defiance.

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Bridget “Biddy” Mason was born enslaved in 1818 and forced to suffer grueling conditions. After gaining freedom in 1856, Mason worked as a nurse and midwife and eventually became one of the richest women in California. She used her money to start a daycare center and fund community care efforts.

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This is clearly illegal.

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President Trump’s immigration policies impact real people and families who have been robbed of certainty and control over their futures. Learn more about how the Trump administration’s immigration policies are impacting people across the country.

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Russian forces have taken back more than 309 square miles of territory from Ukraine in the Kursk region of western Russia, or about 64% of the total taken by Ukraine since an incursion began last year, a top Russian general said reut.rs/41on69q

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Voters in Germany are set to go to the polls as US leaders threaten to withdraw military support from the continent, economic malaise lingers, and the far-right gain ground. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists debate the electoral stakes reut.rs/4bbgP4s

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was counting on Ukrainian and European unity and US pragmatism as Kyiv faces a mounting crisis in relations with its hitherto key US ally under the leadership of President Donald Trump reut.rs/3EWgQwM

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The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting for equity in farming.

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Of course they have to much influence.

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More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

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The US is refusing to co-sponsor a draft UN resolution marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine that backs Kyiv's territorial integrity and condemns Russian aggression, three diplomatic sources said, in a potential stark shift by Ukraine's most powerful Western ally reut.rs/435NMNI

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#OTD in 1945, U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima. The Marines initally faced light resistance because the Japanese waited until the beaches were crowded with men and machinery before laying down heavy fire. A war correspondent described the landing as "a nightmare in hell."

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#OTD in 1942, the Clemson-class destroyer USS Peary (DD-226) was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Darwin, Australia. A nearby seaman in the British Merchant Service reported witnessing a U.S. sailor perform one of the bravest acts that he had seen or read in all his life.

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US President Donald Trump said he has put billionaire Elon Musk in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, appearing to contradict the White House over who runs the cost-cutting program reut.rs/41lKSTo

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