Just in case you were wondering, our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 was held in multiple venues, and the artists included: The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Loggins & Messina (Their final performance before splitting up) Dan Fogelberg Elton John The Beach Boys America Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen 1/2
The White House claims it has secured all of Iran—when it can't even secure one DC ballroom.
Pretty good guess here for why Bondi is gone: joycevance.substack.com/p/an-inadver...
An Inadvertent Release
Judge Aileen Cannon forbade it.
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“… combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan …….and here we are 😢
After saying Cato's report finding that immigrants cut deficits by $14.5 trillion over the last 30 years was impossible, the Manhattan Institute published a fiscal effects calculator that shows that doubling immigration will reduce deficits by $11 trillion over the next 30 years. Seriously!
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.
"Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer. She advocated for the blind & for women’s suffrage and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union." #WomensHistoryMonth www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
Biography: Helen Keller
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer.
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Did the hospital ship arrive in Greenland yet? Are Greenlanders getting the TrumpCare they needed?
Unlike the permanent tax breaks given to billionaires, Trump’s “No Tax on Tips” policy ends in 2028—and the savings don’t come close to covering the higher health care costs we’ll pay from that big, ugly bill.
This is Princess. She and her human work hard every day collecting trash at an apartment building. It is an often thankless job, but one kind resident thought the pair should know how much they are appreciated, and that Princess should get a uniform too. 13/10 for all (TT: oliviaolp)
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.
Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
You know who can also testify as to what was happening with Epstein and don’t need clemency? His victims.
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.
CNN@cnn.com · 7mo agoDon Lemon has been taken into custody after anti-ICE confrontation in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. https://cnn.it/4roAO6t
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
“.. If the Trump administration wants the public to support its immigration enforcement actions .., it needs to speak honestly about events. Kristi Noem has repeatedly demonstrated that she is incapable of that.” @nationalreview.bsky.social www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-...
Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
It's never good when the forecast looks like it belongs at a Grateful Dead show
