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Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

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JUST A REMINDER…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

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Why did Russia just begin a huge propaganda campaign announcing that Ukrainian forces are no longer in Russia's Kursk region? Because Ukrainian forces ARE still in Kursk - and now ALSO in Russia's Belgorod region.

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After the Steelers selected Derrick Harmon with the 21st pick, his voice cracked on a conference call as he shared the news. His mother was on life support at a local Detroit hospital. Harmon was able to tell his mom he got drafted on Thursday night before she died.

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Mars Perseverance Sol 83 SHERLOC ACI Camera mosaic - From 2di7 & titanio44 - https://flic.kr/p/2kYAG76

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"While human skin shares gel-like characteristics, it has unique qualities that are very hard to replicate. It combines high stiffness with flexibility, and it has remarkable self-healing capabilities, often healing completely within 24 hours after injury."

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You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.

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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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As you may know, I have a new book coming out in August. If you’d like to pre-order it, without co-funding Jeff Bezos’s next mansion, I recommend purchasing it today for Independent Bookstore Day.

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Just a handful of tix available for my show Monday night: www.mayoarts.org/shows/the-dr...

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We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

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Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay

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First hummer of the day. The colors of my bougainvillea and this male Anna’s hummingbird look so pretty in the muted 5:30 AM light.

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Musk’s staffers are now forcing federal employees at several agencies including the FAA to sign non-disclosure agreements. The goal is simple: silence the resistance through more threats and now, forced agreements. Maybe we’re not supposed to be talking about being forced to sign NDAs… oops, lol.

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i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.

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Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

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#freestatedays

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"A 21-year-old man who died fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine has been identified as the son of a senior official in the CIA. Michael Gloss was killed on the front line in the eastern Donetsk region in April last year, Important Stories, a Russian investigative outlet, reported."

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"Gruber’s team is working to translate whale conversation with an unprecedented richness and detail. They hope to eventually develop a quasi–Google Translate for cetaceans, which would convert sperm whale sounds into human language and vice versa."

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Vance has killed again www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

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Defense officials are describing Pete Hegseth as paranoid and increasingly isolated. Panic-stricken Pete has been threatening Pentagon colleagues with polygraph tests in his frenzy to get to the bottom of leaks from his department. Last month, word leaked that Hegseth was…

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Hegseth set up an unsecured internet line in the Pentagon to use Signal, then leaked military strike details to his wife and brother. A national security threat hiding behind encrypted emojis.

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What a gift to have a bird trust you enough to nest at your home. Be grateful.

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"people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners, even those from sites linked to Phoenicians and their forebears the Canaanites."

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Today is Day 13. Still 0 deals.

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A federal judge has sentenced former Congressman George Santos to 87 months in prison over multiple wire fraud and identity theft charges in connection with his 2022 run for Congress. (via @wshupublicradio.bsky.social)

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Our health care system is broken. We need to end the disgrace of being the only major country not to guarantee health care for all as a human right. We must pass Medicare for All — legislation that I will be introducing next week.

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This is one of my favorite sets in my collection. Somewhere out there in the 1960s, a kitten and bird were pals. 💕

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I can’t stop thinking about a rejection letter a friend had from a publisher for his manuscript which said, “I think I’d have really liked this, if you were more famous.” An actual person, who is paid to read books, said that.

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Curiosity - Vera Rubin Ridge RMI - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/KwFvpM

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Today is #WorldPenguinDay! This infrared image from #NASAWebb, taken to mark its second year of science, shows an interaction between a distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at left, the Egg. Take a closer look: webbtelescope.pub/3EP21MO 🔭 🧪

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#booksky

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A celestial whisper: a planetary nebula’s ring of ionized gas cradles a white dwarf star, as radiative shock waves etch delicate secrets, shimmering through a starry expanse.

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Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration. This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power. It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.

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This could be the best solution, given the current situation of our American brothers and sisters :

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"Increasing evidence supports the existence of early ocean(s) of liquid water at the surface of Mars until at least 3.0 Ga ago".

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"It was quite a scene. It was loud. And I mean, loud."

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