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Calluses on fingertips from playing a D-28 with dirt under nails from stewarding rich Palouse loess farm soil
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
DOD Quietly Changes Number of Soldiers Killed in Iran War newrepublic.com/post/213484/... via @newrepublic.com
DOD Quietly Changes Number of Soldiers Killed in Iran War
Eighteen U.S. soldiers have been killed in strikes so far.
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Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you so much Canada, we are sorry our current leader is an idiot.
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
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Sometimes a non-answer tells you as much about the man as an answer. That was the case today with Todd Blanche. I watched the full hearing, and culled it down to the most essential bits for you. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Mr. Blanche Gets His Hearing
Sunday night I wrote to you that Todd Blanche was the worst nominee to be attorney general in the modern era.
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"The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas. No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers. At her side, a pink rolling bag. Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot & yanked from a car he’d been driving. He lay handcuffed in the street, where he'd remain for 5 hrs."
ICE agent kills man in Biddeford, spurring protests
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, was not the target of the warrant agents were trying to execute, federal officials said.
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The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
Transcript: Danish Journo’s Viral Trump Moment Amid Epic NATO Meltdown newrepublic.com/article/2128... via @newrepublic.com
Transcript: Danish Journo’s Viral Trump Moment Amid Epic NATO Meltdown
As an explosive exchange at NATO perfectly captures the disaster that Trump has wrought, a foreign policy expert explains the bigger story: The world is moving on without us.
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(The Atlantic) Great piece by Tom Nichols. Yup, the illusion of Trump having any significant control over the Iran War he started is a complete fantasy. Trump and his staff are woefully ill-equipped to understand and deal with the Iranians: NO EXPERIENCE. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War
The cease-fire was always just a Trump fantasy.
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Teddy would run ’em out of town northdakotamonitor.com/2026/07/02/t...
Teddy would run ’em out of town • North Dakota Monitor
There is a disconnect between the deeply American conservation and stewardship values Theodore Roosevelt championed and the rapacious policies and wrong-headed neo-mercantilism of the Donald Trump adm...
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Courts Just Ruled Trump Has To Pay E. Jean Carroll. But His Campaign Against Accountability Isn’t Over. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Courts Just Ruled Trump Has To Pay E. Jean Carroll. But His Campaign Against Accountability Isn’t Over.
The latest E. Jean Carroll ruling is about more than one judgment. It’s about whether Americans still trust the institutions that issue them.
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Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.
$400 million gift plus the $934 million taxpayers paid to retrofit, only to be given to Trump? And he claims it cost taxpayers virtually nothing. Outrageous! www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-qatar-...
Trump Set to Own Qatar-Gifted Air Force One in 2029 Following $934M Taxpayer-Funded Retrofit
President Trump plans to personally own a Qatar-gifted Boeing 747-8, converted into an interim Air Force One, sparking debate over ethics and taxpayer funding
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The WSU Board of Regents recently approved a $13.5 million upgrade to bring the equipment currently used to make Cougar Gold cheese up to modern standards and increase cheese production. https://news.wsu.edu/news/2026/06/22/wsu-creamery-upgrades-will-produce-more-cougar-gold-benefit-students/ 🧀
WSU Creamery upgrades will produce more Cougar Gold, benefit students
A $13.5 million upgrade will help bring the equipment currently used to make WSU’s beloved Cougar Gold cheese up to modern standards and increase cheese production.
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The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...
He used our tax dollars to pay for it. He ruined it. Now we’re being treated like trespassers.
A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.
TRUMP THEN: If you had a knife, you can't even cut the Reflecting Pool. TRUMP NOW: We have vandalism… I think 290, 300 foot slit right through, and probably a box cutter, or a knife of some kind.