New Epstein Files Mention Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov More Than 140 Times Details emerge of Sergey Lavrov's mentions in Epstein-related documents, depicting exchanges involving Russian officials and significant implications.

⚡️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is mentioned over 140 times in the Epstein files.
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Dear Director Ratcliffe, I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator

Sitting U.S. senators don't make letters such as this one public unless they feel a paper trail is needed to inform the public.

Not great. Really not great.

h/t Sahil Kapur

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Perhaps Republican governors should lead the way and agree with Trump by nationalizing voting in their own states?

8 years from the day he won his race to go to the Senate @dougjones.bsky.social announces he’s running to be governor.

Writing Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided Production If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here.

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Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

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And Jesus wept

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.

(Via Christopher Hale)

Double.

Pensacola protest at Graffiti Bridge to preserve Constitution, among other issues.

Escambia County FL went Blue in special election. Protest in Pensacola today at Graffiti Bridge.

‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from home

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First, they come for the lawyers. Then, they come for the teachers.

“Shedding light on the campaign to transform…Putin himself declared last year: “Wars are won not by commanders but by schoolteachers.’”

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‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from home

Then, they come for the teachers.

“Shedding light on the campaign to transform Russian schools into instruments of militarisation, Putin himself declared last year: ‘Wars are won not by commanders but by schoolteachers.’”

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‘Massive gift to America’s enemies’: Activists decry cuts to government-funded networks | CNN Business Advocates for the government-funded networks, including lawmakers in both the United States and Europe, say the cutbacks will undermine press freedoms and hurt America’s standing in the world.

Radio Free Europe beamed coverage of Russia's war in Ukraine into Russia when the Kremlin banned its citizens from calling it a war.

Radio Free Asia bravely exposed China's mass detention of the Uyghurs.

The Open Technology Fund helped fund the creation of Signal.

All three are in jeopardy now.

Trump's US attorney in DC fires salvo at Georgetown law school. Dean fires back. Georgetown University cites its Catholic and Jesuit mission in rebuffing the acting U.S. attorney's threats and criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion programs and curriculum.

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Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

Don’t give in to lies. Don’t give into fear. Jim Acosta

Twenty Lessons On Tyranny From the Twentieth Century

Twenty Lessons On Tyranny
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Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
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Post from March 2023.

Trump's sudden love of TikTok shows he needs disinfo more than he hates China “It’s been a great platform for him," said Trump's incoming national security advisor

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Opinion | This is why we have a presidential oath The presidential oath was intended to be a measure of accountability.

“The Founding generation believed that oaths have consequences, binding those who took them to a course of action.”

As applied to the incoming president, that’s unfortunately wishful thinking. If you’re listening tomorrow, let that sink in.

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Opinion | Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom MAGA’s cruelty toward immigrants and its disregard for civil liberties are on full display in the Lone Star State.

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A group of men sit in front of a chart that incorrectly spells "military" as "miltary."

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

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Join us in the fight to keep democracy alive and to make it flourish in the face of the greatest threat we have confronted at least since World War II:
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Chris Murphy: "There's no doubt that this administration's policy toward the Middle East is going to be compromised by the fact that they're making money off the very people they're sitting across the table from and supposedly having a conversation about the interests of the US"