John Oliver tears apart Trump's 'epic run of picking losing fights' Late-night host John Oliver delivered a scathing takedown of President Donald Trump's increasingly desperate attempts to win political battles he has no business fighting, highlighting a dramatic shif...

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Why are straight white men overrepresented in positions of power? | Steve Phillips When we wonder why marginalized groups are ‘underrepresented’, we are asking the wrong question

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Too many straight white men.

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed ...

The Save Act died in the Senate, again yesterday, but with tRump’s Epstein war, most people didn’t notice.

In some South states, less than 30% of citizens have a passport, and most married women nationwide don’t have a birth certificate matching their current legal name.

#ProudBlue #SaveAct

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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?! 👇

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 is an important thing to think about."

Iran's 10-Point Plan is Still a Workable basis for Talks ( Code Pink ) - The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in

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Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults

A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults

Why is the Maga project teetering? Because not even Trump supporters voted for this dysfunction | Moira Donegan The president’s fixation on culture-war grievances is a colossal misreading of voters who just want prices to come down, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan

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Is MAGA crying uncle?

‘Predators’: Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, as human rights decline Global rights group says leaders of three countries behind devastating wars inspire other states to carry out abuses.

‘Predators’: Amnesty slams #Netanyahu, #Putin, #Trump as human rights decline

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We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation

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I’ve always thought that restoration can only come after forgiveness and that only comes after admission of the wrongs committed and asking specifically for forgiveness.

Is this why we went to WAR???

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska review – the remarkable story of a wartime institution From haven for intellectuals fleeing Hitler to the HQ of the feared Abwehr, the changing fortunes of a Parisian icon

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Hotel Exile

The Shreveport shooting shows how Black women and children are at a higher risk of domestic violence Cerina Fairfax in Virginia and Nancy Metayer in Florida were also killed by their husbands, yet deaths of Black women are least likely to garner calls for policy change

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No one is worth less than any other.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

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They don’t look like drug smugglers to me.

Trump’s latest border wall plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’ The rural Texas region, long spared, is being fast-tracked for the border wall amid bipartisan opposition

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Ruining a beautiful place for something stupid.

Pike Place
Seattle

I love that place.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

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Wow.

Ew!

There are flash flood warnings today near Taylor. They’re telling us not to drive.

with the flooding here in the past two days, two more people have died.

which means 150 people have died in the last year, within one hour from san antonio, from flash floods. crazy.

There's been major flooding in Michigan.

Have Republicans in Congress funded FEMA yet?

Nope.

MASSIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP IS ARRESTING U.S. MILITARY VETERANS:

U.S. Military veterans are flooding the Capitol building to protest against Trump's illegal war in Iran and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Feature or bug?

Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented’ The podcaster admits he ‘misled’ supporters as his rift with the US president deepens over the Iran war

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Mmm-okay.

Republican Drafts a Bill That Would Make Joseph McCarthy Blush The bill writes Joseph McCarthy's wildest fantasies into federal immigration law and dares the courts to do something about it…

The bill writes Joseph McCarthy's wildest fantasies into federal immigration law and dares the courts to do something about it…

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