JUST IN: AOC Grills RFK Jr. Over Medicare Advantage Payments Amid Fraud Allegations YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

www.youtube.com/live/E4ruVRw... 4/21/2026 @forbes.com

Accidental Renaissance

Lawmakers use haka to protest in New Zealand's parliament YouTube video by Associated Press

Haven't seen AOC's challenge in question - so I wouldn't want to compare.
But the NZ Parliament challege being referred to here - was a Haka (War dance) - and the video provides the energy on full view !!
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Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

Judge Orders Release of Mother and 5 Children Held in ICE Jail for Nearly a Year The El Gamal family, including two 5-year-old children, reportedly faced severe medical neglect in the Dilley facility.

A lawyer for the El Gamal family, that has spent close to a year at an immigration detention center in Texas, demanded the family’s release after a federal magistrate judge found that “requiring them to endure further detention… risks compounding the constitutional violation.”

NHS approves new treatment for aggressive cancer that could triple life expectancy Also known as Ziihera, the antibody treatment targets a protein called HER2, which stimulates tumour growth. It works by activating the immune system to eliminate cancer cells and reduces HER2 levels

my little sister worked on this cancer trial!! everybody say well done Liv ✨

And then there's the number of people who lost their lives under Trump's two administrations. If Covid deaths count, and they should, plus the civilian deaths in Iran and equatorial Africa (USAID recipients who have now perished due to the cuts), Donald's numbers rival Pol Pot and Idi Amin.

Next item on my timeline!

Democracy Wins As Senate Quietly Kills Trump's SAVE America Act As soon as Senate Republicans moved on to voting on a budget resolution, debate ended on the SAVE America Act without a vote, which means that Trump's election rigging bill is dead.

Democracy Wins As Senate Quietly Kills Trump's SAVE America Act
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Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Some good news here in the smart and humane state of Pennsylvania.

www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

This fking asshole can take his apology & shove it. He has the balls to say even though he knew he was lying to ppl it wasn't intentional. Bullshit! He knew exactly what he was doing & he knew it was wrong but he was making so much money he didn't care. He's a douchebag of the worst kind.

Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."

The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.

One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.

Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

JUST IN: AOC Grills RFK Jr. Over Medicare Advantage Payments Amid Fraud Allegations YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

youtu.be/E4ruVRwkKGY?...

Here's the video

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

If you've ever wondered about this GOP being a cult...

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. 

Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

NC dentists begin public push for increased Medicaid payments • NC Newsline Some NC residents who use Medicaid cannot find dentists who accept their insurance. Dentists say Medicaid payments need to go up.

“Children are living with pain,” said Crystal Adams, director of the N.C. Oral Health Collaborative. “Adults are unable to find employment because of their oral health. That should not be the reality in our state.” ncnewsline.com/2026/04/21/n... @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol

Democratic Senators in the Senate killed the SAVE (Trump's Ass) Act, using Senate rules to block it even coming up for a vote.

Regardless of your theory of their reasoning, they did this amazing thing for us. The GOP created the SAVE Act.

The parties are not the same.

Instead of asking other men how to talk to women, men can just... talk to women YouTube video by The Daily Show

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The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer. When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for Complete Knowledge. She had devoted her life to the propositio...

French polymath Clémence Royer was born 196 years ago today. Now she is most known for her 1862 translation of On the Origin of Species which pushed Darwin's ideas into the realm of human evolution, but in her day she was celebrated for her encyclopedic knowledge.

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#WomenInStEM

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Follow @neguse.house.gov to save Democracy and get rid of corruption.
You won't find him at Coachella or the Met Ball with AOC or Bernie Sanders. He's too busy doing the job tax payers pay him to do - clean up Congress!

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Want to save irreplaceable, priceless New Deal era art from Trump’s destruction?

Visit StopTheDemolition.org and take action to save the Social Security murals!

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Wow:

More Corruption from the felon.

Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering

Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...