Julia Marie - writer

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Resistance fighter. Poet. If you believe in peace and democracy and if you back UKRAINE please read My Novella CATBIRD won a ZIBBY AWARD. Www.JuliaMarieDavis.com Care about Dem-ocracy? https://a.co/d/e67TRsD Follow me on Substack!

Phang: "The fact that it's taking France and England and other foreign countries to be able to launch investigations, and yet our American DOJ is sitting on it doing absolutely nothing, including not cooperating with those foreign nations, is such a big red flag."

Judge Esther Salas: I can’t remember a time when we had leaders literally calling us monsters and criminals, which, unfortunately, we’ve been called by the leader of this country.

Kentucky’s largest recipient of state funds under Gov. Andy Beshear’s Medicaid policy was Addiction Recovery Care. Amid an ongoing FBI investigation, the company recently reached a $16 million settlement with the DOJ over fraud allegations. w/ @kentucky.com

Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed.

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did th...

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Navalny, in prison: “I don’t for a second regret it… the only thing we should fear is we’ll surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves & hypocrites. That we will surrender without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and the future of our children.”

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Breathtaking courage and determination. Well deserved honor! Michael J. Fox will receive one of the Television Academy’s biggest honors, the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, at this year’s Emmys “in recognition of his transformative contributions to Parkinson’s disease research and advocacy.”

Michael J Fox To Get Bob Hope Humanitarian Award

Michael J. Fox has been tapped to receive one of the Television Academy's biggest honors, the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, at this year's Emmy Awards.

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More than half a dozen Democratic donors, bundlers and donor advisers said they’ve lost trust in the DNC. “It’s beyond embarrassing and it’s not going to get better until [Ken Martin] is gone,” one Democratic bundler told us.

‘It’s beyond embarrassing’: Ken Martin and the DNC have a 2028 problem, donors warn

Democratic donors, bundlers and advisers told POLITICO they’re unsure the party’s top organization can turn things around in time for a critical presidential cycle.

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On this date in 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin, and the efforts by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan race” were undermined by the success of African American athletes, notably Jesse Owens.

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Parnas: Are you at all concerned about the USPS mail-in ballot rule they’re floating… Fontes: A lot of people don’t know that the USPS has an obligation. Once a piece of mail gets into their hands, they’re mandated by law to move it through their system and get it where it needs to go.

Remember when David Hogg was running for DNC chair and the establishment stepped in and said we needed a responsible adult and then gave us Ken Martin, who throws his phone at his staffers? Also the DNC is $2 million in debt. But centrists still demand they should be in charge.