Pangram words 1 and ? I'm currently at 60 words and struggling--no second pangram in sight. GN4L, but I struggled to get there... #nytspellingbee

Sen. Tommy Tuberville: The Republican Party has not accomplished 'anything' despite their majorities in Congress.

"It's embarrassing that we're up here and we're raising money to continue with the same people being up here."

7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in.
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What do these companies have in common?

-Block
-Citigroup
-Coinbase
-CVS
-Dominion Energy
-Disney
-Halliburton
-Hasbro
-HP
-Kohl's
-Live Nation
-Palantir
-Paypal
-PG&E
-Southwest Airlines
-Tesla
-United Airlines

They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.

That did not help me at all, though I miss Henry!

Clearly Sam doesn't hang out at antique car shows very much! #nytspellingbee share.google/TMC9R5xvjeAu...

You know why Trump says “the U.S. government must put military protection over funding for Medicaid, Medicare and daycare”? Because those programs don’t help him personally, while exploiting the military allows this man facing accelerating physical & mental decline to feel powerful.

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?"

All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

Happy 'Paying A Huge Portion of Your Income For Abysmal Healthcare, Lousy Wages, Underfunded Schools, A Wasteful War, and a Rapist Leader Day.'

Time to end this regime...

Spot-on. Thank you, Michael de Adder

Olivia Troye, Ex-Pence Aide, Runs for the House as a Democrat

I saw MAGA's corruption from the inside. So I resigned. I spoke out. I got death threats.

Now I'm running for Congress — because I know how these people work, and how to stop them.

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New whistleblower book reveals that Trump admin officials tasked with dismantling USAID had no idea what the agency actually did, with one official admitting he assumed it only did abortions, and asked career health experts to dumb down their presentations to the level of a children's TV show. 1/4

Your vote matters.

Quick one! Pangrams first and eleventh. GN4L. QBABM #NYTSPELLINGBEE

The aircraft engine casing was a completely new word for me! Thank you!

Sure, let's write stories that whitewash JD Vance, the lying hypocrite who spread hateful, racist rumors about Haitians eating their neighbors pets during the 2024 election

Big news from CMS--they are (finally) in the process of adding caregiver accounts! They've also announced a standards-based, vetted Medicare App Library.

I'm sitting in the great hall at HHS, here for Kill the Clipboard phase 1 demonstrations. I am hoping it's more than hype--but I confess to a significant degree of skepticism.

Do you think he can rig it?

Rarely has a people had such an *opportunity* to stop the evils of their government as we do right now. If we impeach and remove Trump, we will avert additional crimes against humanity. If we do not, history will judge us harshly. All of us. Yes, even me and you.
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Was a secret US mission behind the F-15E jet downed in Iran? | The Security Brief YouTube video by BBC News

At least the BBC is asking questions about some of the strange aspects surrounding the F15 shootdown, the rescue of its high-ranking "weapons officer," and related action deep in Iran. Elements of the DoJ story don't add up and we know they lie habitually. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0t...

Bravo to Pope Leo, for denouncing Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s ‘whole civilization.’ We need those with moral authority to speak out against our president’s abuses of power.

Yes, We're All Waiting For "It" To Happen. When It Does, the Hatred That Made Him Will Remain. The words Walter Reed showed up on my timeline over the weekend.

He has merely been the symptom.

The hatred in the heart of his supporters is the sickness.

Even when he’s gone, they’ll still be here.

So, any celebration will be short-lived.

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SAM ALTMAN and THE AI ELITE Are Buying America with RONAN FARROW and ANDREW MARANTZ YouTube video by Wajahat Ali

I know there's a lot of news, but I hope people can find time to watch this interview with @ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz and their blockbuster New Yorker reporting on the sociopath Sam Altman and the dangers of OpenAI.

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JUST IN: Scientists built bacteria that EATS cancer from the inside out.

The future of cancer treatment isn't a drug. It's a living organism that devours tumors from the inside.

Here's how it works:

Imagine if every day the media led with accurate stories about Trump’s bizarre behavior and not selected nuggets that make him seem normal. The entire national political discussion would shift dramatically.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

It's really hard to overstate the catastrophic failure of legacy media to present the ascendancy of a psychotic criminal to the presidency for what it was. Time and again, they normalized, sanitized, sane-washed and thus assisted a madman as he seized and began to serially abuse awesome power.