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Education: Project 2025 Comes True
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Education: Project 2025 Comes True
“Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” Those are the opening words in the Education Chapter of Project 2025. In other w...
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March 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Proposed Oklahoma social studies standards suggest ‘discrepancies’ in 2020 election oklahomavoice.com/2025/03/13/p...
Proposed Oklahoma social studies standards suggest ‘discrepancies’ in 2020 election • Oklahoma Voice
State education officials added new language to new social studies standards that suggest there were "discrepancies" in the 2020 election.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
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EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...
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March 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Who Do You Distrust? sheilakennedy.net/2025/03/who-...
Who Do You Distrust?
In 2009, I wrote a book titled “Distrust, American Style.” The publisher’s blurb summed up its theme: “When people wake up every morning to a system that doesn’t respo…
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March 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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What Was That?
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What Was That?
Grandpa Simpson visited the Justice Department on Friday, giving a speech that must have given even his handlers pause, a campaign stump speech delivered in front of the Seal of the Department of Just...
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March 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter!

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5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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March 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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When They Decline To Face The Music sheilakennedy.net/2025/03/when...
When They Decline To Face The Music
The Trump/Musk administration has been in power for a mere two months, and during that time we’ve been treated to a firehose of destruction and illegality. Two months isn’t much time fo…
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March 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Makes Me Proud To Be A Lawyer! sheilakennedy.net/2025/03/make...
Makes Me Proud To Be A Lawyer!
Okay, a recovering lawyer…but still. One of the worst aspects of this traitorous and criminal administration has been its willingness to spit in the eye of those who believe in and support th…
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March 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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A Functional Media? sheilakennedy.net/2025/03/a-fu...
A Functional Media?
Research strongly suggests that Americans are split between an informed electorate and those delicately referred to as “low information voters” (also known as “MAGA”). As I&…
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March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Humphrey’s Executor
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Humphrey’s Executor
Who is Humphrey’s Executor and why should you care?
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March 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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What is the ACIP and why does it matter?
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What is the ACIP and why does it matter?
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is a federal advisory committee that develops recommendations for vaccination in the United States.
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March 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Chaos Compounded
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Chaos Compounded
So much damage, so little time
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March 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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It turns out that abandoning allies and tossing out security guarantees is bad for business. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/04/t...
How Trump Is Killing the U.S. Defense Industry
It turns out that abandoning allies and tossing out security guarantees is bad for business.
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March 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The American Century is Over
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The American Century is Over
Making China and Russia Great Again
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March 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Strategic corruption reserve
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Strategic corruption reserve
President Trump is hawking a memecoin and collecting most of the revenue from the sale of a separate coin from a company called World Liberty Financial.
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March 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Us Against The World sheilakennedy.net/2025/03/us-a...
Us Against The World
Before the shameful bullying session in the Oval Office, President Zelensky sent a memorandum to Trump, in which he detailed the numerous talks between Russia and Ukraine since 2014– talks th…
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March 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Trump credit card freeze crippling cancer and Alzheimer's research
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Trump credit card freeze crippling cancer and Alzheimer's research
On February 26, President Trump issued an executive order expanding the power of the United States DOGE Service (DOGE), the government initiative controlled by Elon Musk.
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March 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Shameful And Horrifying sheilakennedy.net/2025/03/sham...
Shameful And Horrifying
Yesterday, the ignorant buffoon who occupies the Oval Office shamed America and made the world far less safe. Acting more like a mafioso than the chief executive of a powerful and legitimate countr…
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March 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The Real Problem
Bingo! That was my reaction when I read the title of this opinion essay in the Washington Post: “Can we find common ground without a shared reality?” The author, Kate Cohen, identified …
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February 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Reality Counts
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Reality Counts
Markets Do Not Lie
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February 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The Aura of Invincibility is Fading
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The Aura of Invincibility is Fading
Plenty of people are now taking swings at Trump
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February 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Speaking Truth to Power: Trump Doesn't Get a Pass
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Speaking Truth to Power: Trump Doesn't Get a Pass
Or a third term
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February 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Fascinating…And Complicated
One of the problems of living through the Trump/Musk attack on the rule of law is that their firehose of assaults distract us from considering longer-term issues. I know that I have neglected readi…
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February 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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National Park Service withdraws Black community in Louisiana from historic landmark consideration
A Louisiana landscape where centuries-old sugar cane plantations and Afro-Creole culture remain preserved along the Mississippi River will no longer be eligible for consideration for federal recogniti...
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February 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM