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Your annual reminder that part of Central Park used to be a Black community that the city stole using eminent domain and bulldozed so future relocated Ohioans could sit and stare wistfully at the sunrise while drinking a latte and telling themselves if I can make it here I can make it anywhere.
🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a sweeping package of election laws Saturday, including a measure making it a felony to seize ballots, election records or voting technology before an election is certified. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
California enacts new election safeguards against potential Trump interference in midterms
It’s the latest move by the Golden State to prevent law enforcement or federal officials from disrupting the counting of votes ahead of the midterms.
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MS NOW reporter and WABJ member Akayla Gardner was denied entry into the White House grounds and asked to hand over her badge.
“I” not “I’m” What do you see in this converse /nike Ad?
Worrying about there not being enough white people at a college football game or boys playing girls sports isn’t going to hit the same with sky high gas prices and people having turkey loaf on Thanksgiving instead of turkey because food prices have skyrocketed. Republicans are in trouble.
For nearly 40 hours, residents in Frederick watched an ICE operation unfold in their neighborhood — one that turned violent and included attempts to intimidate those who spoke up. Marylanders care about their neighbors. There is no place for ICE's cruelty in our communities.
Perhaps the only “appropriate populations” in their eyes are wealthy people with Cadillac health insurance?
Covid Vaccines Delayed for Half of U.S. Children
The Health Department has not decided whether to provide the shots to states through the Vaccines for Children program, which serves uninsured and low-income families.
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This should be a bigger story. He is actively trying to harm poor,black and brown children. #Covid #VaccinesForChildren
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d agoVaccines for Children is a federal program that provides shots for kids who aren’t insured. RFK Jr.’s HHS has refused to ship new COVID19 vaccines for VFC because they ask if they’re “appropriate for the populations those programs serve”. These shots protect kids from hospitalization and death.
So many people take so much of the work it took to get here as a society for granted.
JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him
NEW: Judge Sullivan isn't buying Todd Blanche's excuses for refusing to hand over handwritten FBI notes underlying four Epstein survivor FBI interviews. He's ordered Blanche to hand them over for in camera review by 9/24. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community… Nurses are advocates first. We’re trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that’s what we’re doing.” @nationalnurses.bsky.social
'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”
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"House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote." www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...
House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...
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I was told yesterday that Harris would not do anything different than Trump with regard to Palestine.
On this date 63 years ago, four young Black girls were killed just because they were Black. The 16th Street Baptist Church was rocked by a bomb on September 15, 1963. I was born 10 years afterwards, and the perpetrators were not convicted until after I was born. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
America Sees the Truth
On September 15, 1963, an explosion shattered the quiet of a Sunday morning, blowing apart the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls who were getting ready for Sunday Sch...
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There’s no reason for armed federal agents to be at or near a polling place in any state, at any time
NEW PIECE: I finally return to my "hierarchy of finance" series with quite a long read about the Household, particularly the Antebellum (pre-Civil War) U.S. household. This piece in fact became so big, I had to save the twentieth century... for part 2. www.crisesnotes.com/the-househol...
The Household in The Hierarchy of Finance in a Capitalist Economy (Part One)
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Biden/Harris blocked this, but hey, folks were told Trump was better.
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On Sept. 15, 1963, the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Four girls were killed. It took until 2001 to convict the last killer. See more here: https://bit.ly/4czyBAi #16thStreetBaptistChurch
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he began what many in 2025 STILL consider a romantic tryst or loving affair with Sally Hemings. Ms. Hemings had no legal capacity to consent to such a relationship not only because she was enslaved, Jefferson's property, BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS 14-YEARS-OLD. /1
Q: "Was the president aware that his son was accepting a gift from a Russian oligarch when he decided not to go to the Bahamas for his wedding?" Blanche: "The president doesn't know who this person is…When you say, 'Am I investigating?' Am I investigating what?…I don't have any information."
🥳 Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday newly eligible voterrrr! Happy birthday to you! Now blow out your candles 🎂 and make sure you're #VoteReady for November by the end of #NationalVoterRegistrationDay bit.ly/2026nvrdreg
What better way to celebrate becoming an American 🇺🇸 citizen than ensuring you're #VoteReady to participate in your very first election this November 🗳️? And this #NationalVoterRegistrationDay is a great day to do so! bit.ly/2026nvrdreg
Today is National Voter Registration Day. Everyone should check their voter registration status, especially if you've moved, changed your name, or haven't voted in a couple of cycles. And if you're a first-time voter, why not register? It takes two minutes.
Sen. Booker on Kash Patel: “We don't have an FBI director. We have a lackey here…He's like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of…He's an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn't qualify even to be an FBI agent.”
