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Heather Cox Richardson suggests we articulate what we want from our democracy. Here are some of my thoughts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_o... #nokings
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October 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Heather Cox Richardson suggests we articulate what we want from our democracy. Here are some of my thoughts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_o... #nokings
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Walmart is taking 850,000 water bottles off the market after customers reported being hit in the face with the lid.
Two people suffered permanent vision loss after trying to open Ozark Trail stainless steel water bottles, according to a report.
Two people suffered permanent vision loss after trying to open Ozark Trail stainless steel water bottles, according to a report.
Walmart recalls 850,000 water bottles after users get hit in the face
Two people suffered permanent vision loss after trying to open Ozark Trail stainless steel water bottles, according to a report Thursday from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Walmart is taking 850,000 water bottles off the market after customers reported being hit in the face with the lid.
Two people suffered permanent vision loss after trying to open Ozark Trail stainless steel water bottles, according to a report.
Two people suffered permanent vision loss after trying to open Ozark Trail stainless steel water bottles, according to a report.
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Nearly half of all the rural hospitals left in Missouri are at risk of closure — the proposed Medicaid cuts will likely finish them off.
Closing these hospitals not only harms the people in these communities, but it will also hasten the death of these communities.
Closing these hospitals not only harms the people in these communities, but it will also hasten the death of these communities.
June 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Nearly half of all the rural hospitals left in Missouri are at risk of closure — the proposed Medicaid cuts will likely finish them off.
Closing these hospitals not only harms the people in these communities, but it will also hasten the death of these communities.
Closing these hospitals not only harms the people in these communities, but it will also hasten the death of these communities.
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We've got new distributional data on the Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" from @natasharsarin.bsky.social and team at @budgetlab.bsky.social.
The results are **stark.**
Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources.
Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.
The results are **stark.**
Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources.
Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.
June 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We've got new distributional data on the Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" from @natasharsarin.bsky.social and team at @budgetlab.bsky.social.
The results are **stark.**
Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources.
Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.
The results are **stark.**
Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources.
Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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Using the excuse of a single national security emergency, real or fake, the fascist dictator takes complete control… totalitarianism. Any courageous opposition is silenced or imprisoned.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
April 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Using the excuse of a single national security emergency, real or fake, the fascist dictator takes complete control… totalitarianism. Any courageous opposition is silenced or imprisoned.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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Exactly. I want them relaxed and overconfident.
April 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Exactly. I want them relaxed and overconfident.
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Trump on the midterms: "I really think we're helped a lot by the tariffs situation. It's great."
April 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Trump on the midterms: "I really think we're helped a lot by the tariffs situation. It's great."
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Don’t forget “many people” means “voices in my head”.
April 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Don’t forget “many people” means “voices in my head”.
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When imaginary people call the buffoonish idiot Donald Trump "sir" you know it's all a lie.
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
When imaginary people call the buffoonish idiot Donald Trump "sir" you know it's all a lie.
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Trump: "These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass."
April 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Trump: "These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass."
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Justice Sotomayor, writing in today's deportation case. How many times must she write, "With fear for our democracy, I dissent," before Republicans get the point? Perhaps only when, as the poem goes, they come for them.
April 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Justice Sotomayor, writing in today's deportation case. How many times must she write, "With fear for our democracy, I dissent," before Republicans get the point? Perhaps only when, as the poem goes, they come for them.
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6 April 1928 | French Jewish girl Simone Zilberstein was born in Paris.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 817 people murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 817 people murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
April 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.
April 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.
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They are snatching people off the street and sending them away to brutal prisons in foreign lands with zero due process - and they won't even bring them back when they realize a mistake was made.
That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country.
#StopTrumpsTerror
That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country.
#StopTrumpsTerror
April 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
They are snatching people off the street and sending them away to brutal prisons in foreign lands with zero due process - and they won't even bring them back when they realize a mistake was made.
That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country.
#StopTrumpsTerror
That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country.
#StopTrumpsTerror
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"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."
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He's literally doing this
a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a clock that shows the time as 7:20
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a clock that shows the time as 7:20
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April 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
He's literally doing this
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We all knew he wanted to bring the US back to the Gilded Age but him admitting it out loud is just... astonishing, really.
A handful of people had everything, and everyone else had nothing. Brazen corruption. Child labor was rampant. No worker protections. People died young.
This. Is. INSANE.
A handful of people had everything, and everyone else had nothing. Brazen corruption. Child labor was rampant. No worker protections. People died young.
This. Is. INSANE.
April 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We all knew he wanted to bring the US back to the Gilded Age but him admitting it out loud is just... astonishing, really.
A handful of people had everything, and everyone else had nothing. Brazen corruption. Child labor was rampant. No worker protections. People died young.
This. Is. INSANE.
A handful of people had everything, and everyone else had nothing. Brazen corruption. Child labor was rampant. No worker protections. People died young.
This. Is. INSANE.
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Good lord.
There are whole books about the "Panic of 1873," and even a page at the Department of Treasury web site about it!
home.treasury.gov/about/histor...
For now.
There are whole books about the "Panic of 1873," and even a page at the Department of Treasury web site about it!
home.treasury.gov/about/histor...
For now.
Financial Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1873 After the Civil War, the US banking system grew rapidly and seemed to be set on solid ground. But the country was hit by many banking crises. One of the worst happened in 1873 – duri...
home.treasury.gov
April 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Good lord.
There are whole books about the "Panic of 1873," and even a page at the Department of Treasury web site about it!
home.treasury.gov/about/histor...
For now.
There are whole books about the "Panic of 1873," and even a page at the Department of Treasury web site about it!
home.treasury.gov/about/histor...
For now.
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The strongest period in American history, according to Trump: hunger, tuberculosis and filth.
Left: housing in New York, 1910
Right: the "lung block" in NYC, so called bc of the spread of TBC.
Left: housing in New York, 1910
Right: the "lung block" in NYC, so called bc of the spread of TBC.
April 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The strongest period in American history, according to Trump: hunger, tuberculosis and filth.
Left: housing in New York, 1910
Right: the "lung block" in NYC, so called bc of the spread of TBC.
Left: housing in New York, 1910
Right: the "lung block" in NYC, so called bc of the spread of TBC.
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Trump: "You know, our country was the strongest, believe it or not, from 1870 to 1913. You know why? It was all tariff based. We had no income tax." (This is nonsense.)
April 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Trump: "You know, our country was the strongest, believe it or not, from 1870 to 1913. You know why? It was all tariff based. We had no income tax." (This is nonsense.)
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As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.
April 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.
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Booker: "I've never seen an administration in my lifetime do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggering hurts American people."
April 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Booker: "I've never seen an administration in my lifetime do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggering hurts American people."