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CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage
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I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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"a kind of celebration of ignorance"
October 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"a kind of celebration of ignorance"
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Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
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KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
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🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
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those circumstances include:
that there is an
extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. Cf.
Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 884-885 (listing "[a]ny number of factors" that contribute to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence). To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court's case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiak2peq4v5ab5nqwwccg5drwwqzgnufkvxgw4ayraidywmn2sshhu@jpeg)
September 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
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RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history
BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history
BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
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We must insist the Supreme Court protect voting rights and democracy. In 2015-17, I litigated and won 4 redistricting cases in the Supreme Court. In the last few years my firm has litigated two others in the Court and won both.
Don't give in to the cynics. When we fight we can win!
Don't give in to the cynics. When we fight we can win!
August 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We must insist the Supreme Court protect voting rights and democracy. In 2015-17, I litigated and won 4 redistricting cases in the Supreme Court. In the last few years my firm has litigated two others in the Court and won both.
Don't give in to the cynics. When we fight we can win!
Don't give in to the cynics. When we fight we can win!
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Another take on yesterday’s EO, which has broad ranging impacts across the federal government.
www.einpresswire.com/article/8380...
www.einpresswire.com/article/8380...
New Executive Order Corrupts Federal Grants With Political Appointee Oversight and Interference
New Executive Order hands control of all federally funded research to political appointees with no scientific or subject matter expertise.
www.einpresswire.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Another take on yesterday’s EO, which has broad ranging impacts across the federal government.
www.einpresswire.com/article/8380...
www.einpresswire.com/article/8380...
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I did the smell test and detected the distinct odor of petroleum here
NEWSMAX: CBS and CNN and others are attributing airplane turbulence to higher temperatures and climate change. Has this come across your desk?
LEE ZELDIN: Listen, this is crazy. And it just doesn't pass any smell test for even the average layman in this country.
LEE ZELDIN: Listen, this is crazy. And it just doesn't pass any smell test for even the average layman in this country.
August 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I did the smell test and detected the distinct odor of petroleum here
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Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
August 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
August 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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Members of QAnon claimed that a cabal of pedophiles had infiltrated the highest levels of our government. It turns out they were right.
August 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Members of QAnon claimed that a cabal of pedophiles had infiltrated the highest levels of our government. It turns out they were right.
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I am baffled by the Washington Post's sanitized framing of this story. The Supreme Court is clearly going to "rule on the law" -- that is what courts do! The news is that SCOTUS signaled that it might gut the VRA entirely.
Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?
Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?
August 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I am baffled by the Washington Post's sanitized framing of this story. The Supreme Court is clearly going to "rule on the law" -- that is what courts do! The news is that SCOTUS signaled that it might gut the VRA entirely.
Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?
Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?
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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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New Hampshire enacted a new voter suppression law today. Now, it will be sued and it will lose. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New Hampshire Enacts Strict New ID Rules for Absentee Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
New Hampshire enacted a new voter suppression law today. Now, it will be sued and it will lose. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie
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In recent months, the Department of Justice has been contacting states demanding access to sensitive election and voting data. Democracy Docket is the details of where this happening and what they are asking for. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
All the States Where DOJ is Demanding Voting Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In recent months, the Department of Justice has been contacting states demanding access to sensitive election and voting data. Democracy Docket is the details of where this happening and what they are asking for. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Today is the July meeting of National Endowment for the Humanities' National Council, in which Council members review recommended grant proposals.
We wonder if Council members will notice that two-thirds of #NEH staff have been fired, or that... 1/
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
We wonder if Council members will notice that two-thirds of #NEH staff have been fired, or that... 1/
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Meeting of National Council on the Humanities
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby given that the National Council on the Humanities will meet to advise the Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities ...
www.federalregister.gov
July 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Today is the July meeting of National Endowment for the Humanities' National Council, in which Council members review recommended grant proposals.
We wonder if Council members will notice that two-thirds of #NEH staff have been fired, or that... 1/
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
We wonder if Council members will notice that two-thirds of #NEH staff have been fired, or that... 1/
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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HHS Secretary Kennedy stacked the CDC’s critical Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with anti-vaxxers and contrarians.
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
Anti-vax Sentiment On Display At Two-Day Vaccine Panel
The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concluded with a vote to validate an unsupported anti-vaccine narrative.
www.importantcontext.news
June 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
HHS Secretary Kennedy stacked the CDC’s critical Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with anti-vaxxers and contrarians.
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
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Forecasters will imminently lose observations crucial for hurricane tracking and prediction, as data from three NOAA/DOD satellites will go unmonitored.
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Forecasters will imminently lose observations crucial for hurricane tracking and prediction, as data from three NOAA/DOD satellites will go unmonitored.
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
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June 13, 2025
June 13, 2025
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved “That six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in V...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
June 13, 2025
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If MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell loses his election rigging defamation trial in Denver, this will be the day that did it. And the witness who sealed his fate? Himself.
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell loses his election rigging defamation trial in Denver, this will be the day that did it. And the witness who sealed his fate? Himself.
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Rule #1: don’t call in the Marines unless you actually need the Marines. While there seems to be a good level of awareness of the high stakes, which can drive caution, the political theater of this small-minded and selfish president and his SecBro puts civilians and Marines alike in danger. 1/2
June 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Rule #1: don’t call in the Marines unless you actually need the Marines. While there seems to be a good level of awareness of the high stakes, which can drive caution, the political theater of this small-minded and selfish president and his SecBro puts civilians and Marines alike in danger. 1/2