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Arguably the most famous children’s hospital of all, St Jude’s, was founded the year before that dumbass and I were born.

When we were little in the 60s, scary diseases were still around hence the big push for school vaccines. He knows this. He’s just desperate to be right.
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"There's no fear today" -- it's a love fest for Letitia James outside the courthouse after she pleaded not guilty
β€œMy father would have been ashamed of this Republican Party,” he said. β€œHe would have been embarrassed and ashamed that a president of the United States was as incompetent and traitorous as the man occupying the White House now. He’s a disgrace to the office of the presidency.”
(Daily Beast, 2020)
Ronald Reagan’s son on what his dad would think of current GOP | CNN Politics
CNN’s Jim Acosta talks to Ron Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan and former first lady Nancy Reagan, about the current state of the Republican party.
www.cnn.com
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Here's what happens to a self-insured middle-class couple's health premiums in every county in Washington state if the ACA enhanced premium tax credits aren't extended.
Yes! Power to the People ALWAYS! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊✊🏻
Yes! Let this be so! Power to the People. Always. ✊🏻✊🏼✊✊🏽✊🏾
This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
When I saw the headline I first thought it was The Onion. 😳
The Trump corruption just never stops.
The company brought Junior in right after the election as part owner. They just won the largest drone motor contract awarded by the Pentagon.
Native Floridian and long-time GA resident here. It truly is all god, guns, and garbage.

It’s so awful down there, my hubby and I just packed up and moved from the mean lunatics in Fla to glorious Washington State. My god, what a true relief it is to be as far away from the Deep South as possible!πŸ€—
Important read right now.

β€œThe lesson is not to abandon joy, but to refuse to let joy erase reality. To understand that the lives we wantβ€”the laughter, the games, the peaceβ€”are the very lives denied to those seized in the dark.”
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US.

And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.
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BREAKING: Former special counsel Jack Smith asks to testify in open hearing. @nicollewallace.bsky.social reports.
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Bodies washing ashore in the Caribbean after U.S. strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats showed burn marks and missing limbs, raising questions about the human toll of Trump’s military actions, with locals reporting mutilated corpses and explosion-like injuries.
www.rawstory.com/trump-strikes/
Burned bodies with missing limbs wash ashore after Trump's anti-drug boat strikes
A series of dark discoveries in the waters of the Caribbean prompted further questions about President Donald Trump's military strikes on boats alleged to be operated by drug traffickers."The first bo...
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β€œFrom now on, there will be few, if any, independent journalists in the building to question top defense officials or to banter with the troops. The restrictions will likely reach military installations across the country and overseas as well.”
The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps
I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
www.theatlantic.com