Pay Attention to What Happened in Newark. Should you worry about getting on an airline flight tomorrow? No. Should you worry that the Golden Age of phenomenally safe flying may be nearing its end? Yes.

Pay Attention to What Happened in Newark.
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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

5 key takeaways from a frenetic weekend of Ukraine diplomacy | CNN It was a weekend for the history books. What began with US President Donald Trump furiously berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House ended with a show of European unity in Lo...

It was a weekend for the history books. What began with US President Donald Trump furiously berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House ended with a show of European unity in London and vows to wrestle negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine war away from the US.

Omg!!! Come through!!!! These photos are EVERYTHING #BeyondTheGates

Another excuse just to post this beauty 🤍🤍🤍 #TabyTuesdays #TabyanaAli

I genuinely think Tommy Tubberville is the dumbest Senator I’ve ever heard… God help us…

Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN?

Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia

Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN

MoDOT’s snow removal efforts were stymied by legal fight to raise pay The agency fought with Gov. Parson over the right to use the State Road Fund to increase worker pay—a key step to attracting more employees.

They don’t have enough drivers because employees are so low paid they qualify for food assistance. Streets are not being cleared. They tried to use assistance money to give pay raises and outgoing governor sued to stop it. This is the fucking GOP clown show Missouri. www.stlmag.com/news/modot-s...

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The special counsel's report (volume 1) summarized in a headline.

Jack Smith’s final say: Takeaways from the special counsel’s report A defense of Merrick Garland, a criminal charge not pursued and a few new tidbits of evidence.

NEW: Jack Smith defended Garland’s pace, laying out DOJ’s frenetic, secretive efforts to win privilege fights with recalcitrant witnesses — Scott Perry, Mike Pence, John Eastman — that took months.

More takeaways from the Smith report.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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Sen. Jack Reed: "I do not believe you are qualified to meet the overwhelming demands of this job. We must acknowledge the concerning public reports... the totality of your own writings & alleged conduct would disqualify any service member form holding any leadership position ..."

Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing did not come up.

The call to Justice Alito yesterday was just an “excuse for President-elect Trump to speak with one of the nine people determining the fate of his hush money sentencing in the coming days and who will review many more Trump-related issues over the next four years.”

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166 million-year-old ‘dinosaur highway’ discovered in southern England | CNN Nearly 200 Jurassic footprints found in southern England reveal new insights into 166 million-year-old prehistoric creatures, according to scientists.

Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.

Wilted is about to be treated the same way they all treated Nina for three years.

The only difference is that she deserves it

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A Supreme Court justice called the president elect and asked him for a favor. Sam Alito needs to recuse from any and all cases to which Donald Trump is a party.

Inspector General of DOJ, Loretta Lynch, talked to Bill Clinton on the tarmac at Phoenix Airport.

REPUBLICANS: "OMG! An outrageous conflict of interest! DOJ is looking into Hilary Clinton's emails!!!!!!"

Justices Samuel Alito calls Donald Trump who has/will have business before the Court.

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You know how horrible Drillow is if I am actively hoping for Cujo to ruin them? And I loathe Cujo #GH

Trump speaks with Justice Alito amid push to halt criminal sentencing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Trump Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned.

Sweet Jesus. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...

Ex-FBI informant behind fake Biden-Ukraine bribery allegations sentenced to 6 years in prison | CNN Politics The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison, a...

Alexander Smirnov, the informant behind fake Biden-Ukraine bribery allegations, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison.

Nice job, Strib. The right way to cover this buffoon

Cooper: Trump chose to attack you, blame you for this.

Newsom: People are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives.[Trump] wanted to politicize it… I stood next to Biden. And he had the backs of every single person in this community. He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.

Trina Robinson:

Sidelined and not given a grief story after Spencer’s death.
No justice after being tormented by that psycho.
Every story idea we suggest for her is given to the friend.

Tired of Trina being disrespected on that show. She deserves better.