'Bizarre': Doctors Truly Can't Make Sense Of Pete Hegseth's Flu Vaccine Announcement Doctors break down why removing the flu vaccine requirement for U.S. troops is concerning — and "particularly weird."

Doctors break down why removing the flu vaccine requirement for U.S. troops is concerning — and "particularly weird."

Rural Voters: How Democrats Can Win Them Back | Susan J. Demas Talks With Matt Hildreth of Rural Organizing "I think there's going to be a whole new generation of Democrats looking to fight for small towns and rural communities."

Rural Voters: How Democrats Can Win Them Back | Susan J. Demas Talks With Matt Hildreth of Rural Organizing
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Utility CEO pay surges amid higher profits, customer struggles Investor-owned utilities paid their CEOs $622 million in 2025, lowering the bar for bonuses while customers struggled to afford bills.

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Banks that crashed the economy in 2008 are quietly back to their old tricks The Financial Times reported Friday morning that the big banks that Wall Street is betting on are failing in private credit markets. It's something that New Republic writer Logan McMillen is sounding ...

Banks that crashed the economy in 2008 are quietly back to their old tricks

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There’s a secret message embedded in Trump's Bible-reading stunt President Donald Trump this week read passages from the Bible at a public event, and according to the Religious News Service, the choice of verses revealed a secret message, providing "red meat" to hi...

There’s a secret message embedded in Trump's Bible-reading stunt

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Trump administration doesn’t want you to know the COVID vaccine worked A peer-reviewed scientific report showing that the COVID-19 vaccine reduced the likelihood of hospital visits for recipients is being suppressed by the Trump administration. The decision to hold back…

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'Devastating' Supreme Court revelations prove 'coward' John Roberts bows down to MAGA Of the six GOP appointees who now comprise two-thirds of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts is often described by legal analysts as the most nuanced. But he isn't nearly as much of a w...

'Devastating' Supreme Court revelations prove 'coward' John Roberts bows down to MAGA

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Trump was handed the strongest post-Covid economy in the industrialized world - by far - and he has singlehandedly fucked it up royally. It’s all on him.👇

Trump's policies are 'calculated' to keep Americans dependent on expensive oil: expert Even as Americans groan under the weight of rising gas prices, an activist and energy policy expert is warning that President Donald Trump’s policies are designed to keep people dependent on fossil fu...

Trump's policies are 'calculated' to keep Americans dependent on expensive oil: expert

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AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

Understanding the federal government’s indictment of a civil rights icon, the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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Trump's presidential library looks like a casino — but that's the point When Bill Clinton’s presidential library opened in Little Rock in 2004, one of the most frequent and tiresome observations about the cantilevered glass-and-steel structure was how much it resembled a ...

Trump's presidential library looks like a casino — but that's the point

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'Terrified' red state lawmakers face the $1 billion consequences of Trump's agenda The fallout from President Donald Trump’s unpopular Big Beautiful Bill keeps hitting impoverished red states harder than others a hospitals and voters come to terms with yawning debt and healthcare cu...

'Terrified' red state lawmakers face the $1 billion consequences of Trump's agenda

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How Lonely Walks in Nature Can Make You Feel Less Alone How Lonely Walks in Nature Can Make You Feel Less Alone: You’re never really by yourself in nature

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U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working For the CIA, Sources Say Two Americans killed in Mexico, previously identified only as embassy staff but working for the CIA, participated in a raid on a drug lab.

Two Americans killed in Mexico, previously identified only as “staff from the United States Embassy,” participated in a raid on a drug lab.

When Rome Masquerades as Christian The Pagan Family Structure at the Heart of Christian Nationalism

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‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

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Trump 'humiliated' as golf course taken over by windmills President Donald Trump was left "humiliated" this week, according to a report from The Daily Beast, as activists trolled one of his premier golf courses with structures he seems to hate above almost a...

Trump 'humiliated' as golf course taken over by windmills

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2.Not just for our family, tribe, nation, or religion—but for all creation.

The music carries accents and music from the Middle East.

#AtTheAxisOfTheWest #SoulLearningSchool #NewMusic

2.So the world goes.
So it has gone.

The cover came in a dream: a red point in Israel where the Religions of the Book have met and shed blood, streaming down into a heart. St. John of the Cross says, “In the end we’ll be judged by Love.”

New Release Friday: At the Axis of the West, Volume 1.

1. This album began in my travels through the eastern Mediterranean in the early 1990’s. I meant it to be a book of poetry, but the political truths in those poems stirred anger across Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Greece, and elsewhere.

At least 88 big corporations paid $0 in income tax last year — thanks to Republicans Dozens of America’s most profitable corporations avoided paying any federal income taxes in 2025, according to an analysis out on Tuesday from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.The 88 comp...

At least 88 big corporations paid $0 in income tax last year — thanks to Republicans

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'Financial Pawn of the Saudi Monarchy': House Judiciary Opens Probe Into Jared Kushner www.commondreams.org/news/kushner...

The Horrifying Secrets—and Spreadsheets—in RFK Jr.’s Diaries Behind the political persona lies a vulnerable child of tragedy who grew into a man obsessed with documenting his own self-destruction, reveals Isabel Vincent.

The Horrifying Secrets—and Spreadsheets—in RFK Jr.’s Diaries
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Conservative Christian broadcaster slams Franklin Graham’s 'embarrassing' Trump defense Conservative Christian evangelist Franklin Graham is rushing to President Donald Trump’s aid, defending an image the president posted that appeared to depict him as Jesus Christ, “bathed in divine lig...

Conservative Christian broadcaster slams Franklin Graham’s 'embarrassing' Trump defense

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Trump’s top aide commits 'embarrassing' Biblical blunder President Donald Trump’s top Pentagon official just quoted the 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie “Pulp Fiction” as if he was reciting from the Bible.“The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by...

Trump’s top aide commits 'embarrassing' Biblical blunder

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(around photos of Jeff Bezos and an Amazon employee) Jeff Bezos made $90 billion in profit... because of their hard work. Amazon's profits went UP 45%, but its taxes went DOWN 87%. Thanks to Trump's "Big Ugly Bill," Amazon paid just $1.2 billion in taxes (down from $9 billion last year). Hardworking Americans are struggling, while Republicans hand massive tax breaks to the Epstein class.

Tax the rich.

State Department Tells Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “lacks the competence” to review Trump’s campaign of deadly boat strikes, a State Department spokesperson said.

State Department Tells Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings
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A one-time treatment tweaked their genes — and lowered their cholesterol Doctors have never had so many cholesterol-lowering drugs at their disposal, but getting patients to take them every day is difficult. Gene editing could open a new frontier.

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