Thomas Smith, guy that dropped out last month won Michigan's Republican primary for the 8th Congressional District and beat Trump’s guy Amir Hassan
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Congratulations, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Healthcare should never be confined by party or ideology. Medicare for All belongs in the lexicon of every leader serious about serving the public. Thank you for making it the centerpiece of your candidacy.
The Jefferson County Clerk is looking for an outside consultant to audit its voter data after an LPM News investigation found discrepancies that impacted residents' ballots.
Jefferson County Clerk seeks outside help to ensure voters receive correct ballots
The Jefferson County Clerk’s office is auditing its voter precinct data.
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This is an important breaking story published through our collaboration with the Appalachian News Exchange, written by @justinhicks.lpm.org and Howard Berkes. Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/05/a...
Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall • Kentucky Lantern
A new report found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from black lung at the highest rates in nearly 50 years.
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An Eastern Kentucky coal operator told a U.S. Bankruptcy Court late last week that it expects to wind down its operations in September. Clintwood JOD LLC wants to dismiss a lawsuit by former workers, saying it doesn't have any money to pay what they should have received.
Bankrupt KY coal operator tells court there’s nothing left to pay laid-off workers who sued
Three hundred former employees of Clintwood JOD LLC sued in March, seeking 60 days of pay and benefits they say they should have received under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notificatio...
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Thanks to the FMLA, most employees are guaranteed 12 weeks of unpaid leave after the birth or adoption of a child, to recover from an illness, or to care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition.
Some Kentucky produce providers are seeing growing interest in farmers' markets and other non-grocery store options for fruits and vegetables, in light of the recent cyclosporiasis outbreak across the country.
As cyclosporiasis cases grow, some Kentucky customers turn to local produce
Some produce providers are seeing growing interest in farmers' markets and other non-grocery store options for fruits and vegetables.
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A massive genomic study has linked mutations in a specific gene to an increased proportion of muscle, decreased levels of belly fat and blood sugar and a reduced risk of conditions including heart disease go.nature.com/4q03zHc
More muscle, less belly fat: mutations to a gene are linked to wide-ranging benefits
Analysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ‘cardiometabolic’ conditions.
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Scientists have long suspected that how our bodies deal with calories is somewhat determined by our genetic makeup. Now, they’ve zoomed in on one gene—FNIP1—which plays an outsize role in how we burn energy www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Scientists discover a ‘skinny gene’ mutation that acts like Ozempic
One in 7,000 people carry this gene mutation
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The problem is not that the public doesn’t understand the structure of the U S Constitution , but that the US Senate doesn’t understand it. www.instagram.com/reel/DboesAu...
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Republicans have a long history of refusing to adapt or prepare for the future. www.instagram.com/reel/DbnsKVs...
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Fetterman says America has a responsibility to Israel because Israel has "progressive values"
This is the only language that bullies understand, and frankly its dumb that bullies always escalate until something like this happens to them. Don't be a dk and you won't get fked. FAFO.
Isn't the Republicans all about posting the 10 commandments? If I had to pick the group that was foisting their religion on others, I'd pick the evangelical Christian Nationalist.
They have at max four talking points and they're all racist.
Physical assult Appears ICE and the republicans refuse to acknowledge our constitutional rights and encourage the brutal attacks on protestors This is happening all over OUR country and it is beyond wrong
An ICE goon involved in a widely discussed confrontation has returned to active duty. According to reports, the goon-who had been placed on administrative leave after an incident involving an alleged assault-has now been reinstated to full active duty.
I fought Rudy Giuliani and Trump in 202 and learned an important lesson: They would lie in the parking lot but have to be more careful in court. Jeanine Pirro's dismissal of the bogus case against David Hearn is just the latest example of this.
Senate Republicans were eye to eye with the Epstein survivors and suggested that they understood the gravity of Todd Blanche's complicity in the Epstein cover up. Today, they're moving forward to confirm him anyway. These survivors deserve better. The county deserves better. #epsteincoverup #Pinks
In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Ask him what Mitch McConnell thinks about it. It's odd he talked to him for around 20 minutes, but nobody has talked to him since.
AIPAC has nothing to do with Jewish Americans aside from taking their cash to give to Bibi’s government