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Tis the weekend, so let's be jolly… wait...what's that? I lose an hour of sleep? We all do? So I'm gonna be tired dealing with tired, cranky people? Well sheeeeyat...
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The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”

The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/LmNKGxR

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Sepia photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a Native American women looking outwards with strong expression

Angel De Cora (1871–1919) artist of the Winnebago people, forcibly taken from her family by US authorities as part of a programme to assimilate Native American girls into white society. De Cora later became a Native American rights advocate #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Boy, 4, breaks away from mom, fatally struck by SUV driver, who leaves Brooklyn scene The child was hit by the driver of Ford SUV on Rockaway Parkway near Linden Blvd. in East Flatbush about 11:10 a.m., cops said.

We need to open completely car-free safe streets around a lot more than just schools

An adequately trained, attentive driver should easily be able to avoid killing a 4-year-old pedestrian

Our city’s parents should not have to fear a child’s “breaking away” being a death sentence

Buttigieg: You’ve got money from the Middle East going into the Trump family crypto fund while you have Americans going to the Middle East for Donald Trump’s war.

The Justice Department forced the Florida Bar to drop its probe. The Florida Bar said today it is no longer investigating former Justice Department attorney Lindsey Halligan, reversing an earlier statement that a review was underway

Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.

📖 🔊We have your weekend reading (and listening)!

The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.

Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.

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DOJ Releases Interview With Woman Who Claimed Both Trump and Epstein Sexually Assaulted Her as a Minor The Justice Department released several FBI documents on Thursday describing interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her as a minor.

DOJ releases interviews with girl Trump allegedly raped after others found them and pointed out the government unlawfully withheld them.

DOJ's explanation for why they withheld the interviews? They were "duplicative."

www.mediaite.com/media/news/d...

Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart

Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

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‘It's far too common’: Push for hospital safety continues after deadly emergency room shooting at Aurora Sinai MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A 40-year-old man is dead after he was shot in the Aurora Sinai emergency room early Monday morning.Christopher Robinson died Monday afternoon.A 38-year-old victim was also shot

Hospital shootings are rising, threatening patients and staff. Three people died in hospital shootings this week in Milwaukee, WI and Homewood, AL. Hospitals must work with frontline healthcare staff on effective programs to prevent workplace violence. cbs58.com/news/its-far...

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“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

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“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

That’s what the President of the United States is saying to the American people.

He won’t be hurt by a retaliatory attack or high gas prices. But you will — and that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make.

Seems troubling.

More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.

Like clockwork.

A tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service in south Michigan (Union City)

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7 - Teach your Children - Crosby, Stills and Nash 1970 YouTube video by stin

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Sierra Nevada mountains just north of LA, CA, USA. Jagged snow covered peaks rise above green trees and a yellowish plain. A small blue lake peeks around a bend.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel -Maya Angelou

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DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.