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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
What happened to the President of The Kennedy Center for the performing Arts in Washington after Trump fired her? She is now Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
What happened to the President of The Kennedy Center for the performing Arts in Washington after Trump fired her? She is now Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University.
“For the Good of Us.” Research must go on despite deep, devastating cuts and the blind eye to humanities’ needs currently occupying the people’s house.
December 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“For the Good of Us.” Research must go on despite deep, devastating cuts and the blind eye to humanities’ needs currently occupying the people’s house.
Our personal libraries cannot be bought. They will continue to expose truths and lies where they are found.
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our personal libraries cannot be bought. They will continue to expose truths and lies where they are found.
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An Ellison takeover is probably the worst of all outcomes, but it still feels like cheering for Godzilla beating out King Kong. Either will flatten the city in the end. This much power and media consolidation is bad for everyone but the shareholders.
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
An Ellison takeover is probably the worst of all outcomes, but it still feels like cheering for Godzilla beating out King Kong. Either will flatten the city in the end. This much power and media consolidation is bad for everyone but the shareholders.
Ellison can’t buy Warner brothers!! Now they want to control the movie/entertainment/arts business too? And Thump is putting his thumb on the scale indicating he can give contender Netflix obstacles to their Warner Brothers buy.
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Ellison can’t buy Warner brothers!! Now they want to control the movie/entertainment/arts business too? And Thump is putting his thumb on the scale indicating he can give contender Netflix obstacles to their Warner Brothers buy.
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Reproductive rights groups do NOT want the Quebec government to enshrine abortion rights in the province's proposed constitution. First, it's not really a constitution - it's a regular law that can be amended. And that would turn it into an anti-choice weapon to restrict abortion.
Why Quebec’s plan to enshrine abortion rights is raising alarms
Civil society groups are warning that the Legault government’s plan to enshrine abortion rights in Quebec’s proposed constitution could have unintended consequences.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Reproductive rights groups do NOT want the Quebec government to enshrine abortion rights in the province's proposed constitution. First, it's not really a constitution - it's a regular law that can be amended. And that would turn it into an anti-choice weapon to restrict abortion.
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as an example, do they really believe the french are any less french for being in the EU? or the Dutch and less Dutch? They live in a transactional world where they look after No.1... the rest of us are in a real world.
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
as an example, do they really believe the french are any less french for being in the EU? or the Dutch and less Dutch? They live in a transactional world where they look after No.1... the rest of us are in a real world.
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The EU is the result of countries representing the needs of *their people. Musk's life has been lived on other continents; Bannon's also.
These disturbed, malformed men aren't useful to the species.
These disturbed, malformed men aren't useful to the species.
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The EU is the result of countries representing the needs of *their people. Musk's life has been lived on other continents; Bannon's also.
These disturbed, malformed men aren't useful to the species.
These disturbed, malformed men aren't useful to the species.
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As a Brit, I’ll just say that Brexit was the single biggest self-own in our economic and political history. We were collectively conned by the evil version of Mr Toad (Farage), and the poshest malevolent clown to ever pratfall around 10 Downing Street (Johnson) and we’re paying for it every day.
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
As a Brit, I’ll just say that Brexit was the single biggest self-own in our economic and political history. We were collectively conned by the evil version of Mr Toad (Farage), and the poshest malevolent clown to ever pratfall around 10 Downing Street (Johnson) and we’re paying for it every day.
Colin Allred just dropped out of the Texas Senate race leaving Talarico. Will Crockett run?
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Colin Allred just dropped out of the Texas Senate race leaving Talarico. Will Crockett run?
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Twitter should be sold and put on the Stock exchange will regulations in place to end the right wing propaganda
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Twitter should be sold and put on the Stock exchange will regulations in place to end the right wing propaganda
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It was only a matter of time…
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It was only a matter of time…
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Today’s “One First” tackles the grant of certiorari in one of the birthright citizenship cases, and then Justice Kagan’s TX redistricting dissent—“yet another warning about the majority’s seeming willingness to do … whatever it wants, at least where rulings on emergency applications are concerned.”
196. Justice Kagan's Texas Redistricting Dissent
As unsurprising as the Supreme Court's intervention in the Texas redistricting case may have been, Justice Kagan's dissent is still a telling indictment of another emergency ruling that lost its way.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Today’s “One First” tackles the grant of certiorari in one of the birthright citizenship cases, and then Justice Kagan’s TX redistricting dissent—“yet another warning about the majority’s seeming willingness to do … whatever it wants, at least where rulings on emergency applications are concerned.”
We thought Tricky Dick was bad. I’ll take Watergate Nixon over felony criminal convictions Trump any day of the week.
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
We thought Tricky Dick was bad. I’ll take Watergate Nixon over felony criminal convictions Trump any day of the week.
And to think we were all appalled when Tricia Nixon managed a Whitehouse wedding in the Rose Garden when her snooping, tape eraser dad was President. How times have changed and our sensitivities have been shot to hell.
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
And to think we were all appalled when Tricia Nixon managed a Whitehouse wedding in the Rose Garden when her snooping, tape eraser dad was President. How times have changed and our sensitivities have been shot to hell.
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I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
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Here’s what he’s missing:
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Here’s what he’s missing:
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.
The GOP.
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Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
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Some say it is illegal to arrest a sitting president. It is not. The president is subject to the law like everyone. That none have been arrested in the U.S. is only a policy internal to the DOJ based on the need for continuity of government operations--a policy that never imagined a criminal POTUS.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Some say it is illegal to arrest a sitting president. It is not. The president is subject to the law like everyone. That none have been arrested in the U.S. is only a policy internal to the DOJ based on the need for continuity of government operations--a policy that never imagined a criminal POTUS.
This is the man seeking to move education in the US to private sector control. www.propublica.org/article/jeff...
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This is the man seeking to move education in the US to private sector control. www.propublica.org/article/jeff...
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This is some of the worst and most lasting damage this reckless Trump/republican regime has caused.
“…Even if they are able to clean up his mess … elect a supremely sane president next, America will NEVER again be a trusted partner. Because there are enough Americans who would vote for him … (again).
I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is some of the worst and most lasting damage this reckless Trump/republican regime has caused.
Fareed Zakaria’s GPS show this morning on the topic of the Trump Crypto currency conflict of interests is worth watching. Trump family wealth increase in just one year is just astonishing considering the related Trump favorable policy changes.
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fareed Zakaria’s GPS show this morning on the topic of the Trump Crypto currency conflict of interests is worth watching. Trump family wealth increase in just one year is just astonishing considering the related Trump favorable policy changes.