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A masked DHS agent shot at peaceful protesters in Chicago, hitting a priest in the head with a pepper ball — for no apparent reason. Not normal.

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A judge’s ruling sets new limits on ICE arrests without warrants — expanding constitutional protections and requiring monthly reports on warrantless arrests.

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Bob Ross is the polar opposite of Donald Trump — kind, empathetic, and an American hero. Decades later, his paintings will help fund public broadcasting — thanks to viewers (and art buyers) like you.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 18h

Their constituents will be most affected if ACA subsidies aren’t extended — and they don’t care.

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Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater is on tour with a mission to make ‘the revolution irresistible.’ A group of 15 artists is traveling to 33 U.S. cities to stage this year’s show, ‘Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress.’ This is one of their acts.

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Here’s the irony: Trump is threatening his opposition with jail time despite being convicted of 34 felonies — and he still won’t release the Epstein files.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 19h

No one will stop Trump from breaking the law.

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Home birth can be a beautiful thing when someone has the choice and is prepared for it — but once again, the Trump administration is taking away people’s choices over their own bodies.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 20h

‘I don’t see why the government needs to be shut down.’ GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is siding with Democrats in the shutdown fight over health care — because Republicans’ current plan would more than double health insurance costs for the 22 million Americans on ACA plans.

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This is straight out of the Project 2025 playbook.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think people on the left are the ‘snowflakes’ here.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 22h

Trump said he didn’t write the infamous birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that referenced ‘a wonderful secret,’ claiming, ‘It’s not the way I speak.’ Unfortunately for Trump, Jimmy Kimmel Live! brought the receipts.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing.

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Right after the Trump administration moved to bail out Argentina with $20 billion of U.S. tax dollars, Argentina removed export taxes on soybeans and struck a trade deal with China — which immediately pulled out of existing soybean contracts with U.S. farmers. This farmer isn’t happy.

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Trump says he wants to deploy the National Guard to Portland to stop this.

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