The fact that people have to rely on donated sick days... this is America. And it's bad.

Russian bullsh*t repeats itself. 1939 issue of RT (Russia Today Society) a propaganda pamphlet from the 30s & 40s produced to counter Western Media. Bullsh*t justifying the Red Army invasion of Finland thats remarkably similar to todays anti Ukraine conspiracies.

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BREAKING: Watch the exact moment Kerry Kennedy announces the entire Kennedy family will be supporting President Biden, not RFK Jr. Retweet so all Americans see.

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Republican state Rep. Austin Smith has dropped his reelection bid after being accused of personally forging more than 100 petition signatures to get on the 2024 ballot.

And he’s facing a possible criminal investigation into his signatures.

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Gun violence is the number one cause of death for the children of America—not some form of illness or car accidents.

It doesn’t have to be this way—together we can change this.

Joe Biden and I just closed the background check loophole and it will save lives.

What a truly horrible person she is. It figures though — look who Spartz’s bestie is. 🤮

Unintended consequence: School lockdown drills also teach kids how to be a school shooter.

More than 22K children dropped from Florida KidCare in 2024 as state challenges federal eligibility protections. Florida is the only state challenging the new federal health insurance protections for children.
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This photograph should win a Pulitzer for capturing the media's role in America's descent into post-fact fascism.

Within four months of the Nazis coming to power, the regime destroyed the world’s first trans clinic, purged the civil service, and embarked on the largest book banning/burning in history. Trump isn’t Hitler. But history is sending us a warning. We ignore it at our own peril.

The Satanic Temple plans on taking advantage of a bill Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Thursday that allows chaplains to provide support services for public K-12 students.

DeSantis says that's not going to happen, potentially setting up a First Amendment fight.
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Putin's wing of the Republican Party has now requested around 100 amendments to the Ukraine bill that sound like they were written in a Russian troll factory.

'Ukrainian nazis', 'biolabs', 'Nazi Azov Battalion', more..

It's more than 4 images, so it's a thread.

A Maryland teenager was charged today with threatening mass violence after investigators found a 129-page “memoir” the 18-year-old had written that described shooting up a high school and elementary school, according to court documents.

I firmly believe what we did yesterday with the Mayorkas impeachment was necessary and proper. The articles did not even specify any act that was the 'high crime or misdemeanor'; just a scattershot of insufficient allegations.

Ticketmaster has used its monopoly power to make the ticket-buying process expensive and excruciating. This is a big step in the right direction to take on concentrated corporate power. ​​rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

Today, Belgium announced two things.

- Discovered a network of Putin's goons bribing EU politicians

- Rushing F-16's to Ukraine in the next 40 days instead of in 2025.

Probably unrelated.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is telling reporters that he wants to delay the vote on aid to Ukraine for as long as possible.

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Cate Davies 😻 Edu, MH, Kindness Teachers strike over violence against them at my local MAT
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And this is why she does it. All of it.

Shame that it's being rewarded.

My husband was fighting a parking ticket in NYC so we had to go to this same courthouse he’s in. No phones were allowed in any court room. We watched 2 people waiting to fight their tickets get arrested for using their phones. Why wasn’t this lard ass arrested?! I’m sick of this!