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I listen to the Grateful Dead, Dead Kennedys, Kendrick, Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Beck, Johnny Cash, Cake, and bands like that. THIS WAS ALWAYS AN AMERICAN DREAM GO DUCKS! 🦆🦆🦆🦆

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

If our decorated combat veterans are being treated in this way for having a protest sign in their yard, we are in a dark, dark place. US Army Captain, Anna King, who earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star in the Iraq war, was violently detained on her front porch. www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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Mitch McConnell's approval rating has hung in the mid 20's for years, among the worst in the country. He's made a massive climb in the approval ratings since being unconscious. (1) Unconscious Mitch McConnell Scores Higher Approval Rating Than Conscious Version share.google/DL14zNgmNwof...

Unconscious Mitch McConnell Scores Higher Approval Rating Than Conscious Version

Voters pointed to progress on guns, the environment, and a host of other issues that could have been achieved if only McConnell had not been sentient.

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How can Republicans defend a guy that revoked policy that lowered prescription drug prices and cut tens of thousands of Veteran Affairs jobs? Trump Reverses Some Biden Drug Pricing Initiatives, Potentially Impacting Medicare Costs | AJMC share.google/mcn1ZkngDi8X...

Trump Reverses Some Biden Drug Pricing Initiatives, Potentially Impacting Medicare Costs | AJMC

Experts suggest that most Americans will not experience immediate changes in their out-of-pocket health care expenses.

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The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.

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Jess Venner, author of “The Lost Voices of Pompeii,” talks about the people who faced the destruction of Pompeii. With actor Tom Hiddleston, host of Nat Geo's “Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston,” we explore what life was like in Pompeii. Full podcast is on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4fmXSOv

Republicans are trying to sneak new voter suppression measures onto a bill to ban congressional stock trading. They've also riddled the bill with loopholes that would allow members to keep holding and selling stocks — and their families to buy them on their behalf. Priorities.

'This Bill Is a Trojan Horse': GOP Pushes Voter Suppression Under Cover of Insider Trading Ban | Common Dreams

House GOP sneaks voter suppression measures into bipartisan stock trading ban bill, sparking outrage from Democrats and

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This is really something. Republicans privately fear Trump is now trapped in a "quagmire" in Iran that is set to screw them badly in the midterms, per Politico. They did this to themselves by giving this madman a blank check for the war. We detail it all on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2133...

Trump Rages at Fresh Iran Setbacks as GOP Midterm Panic Grows: “Bleak”

As Republicans grow anxious that Trump’s Iran debacle will hurt them in the elections, a former State Department official explains the deeper reasons Trump is stuck—and why this will get worse for the...

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