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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
My favorite Christmas movie as well!
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
My favorite Christmas movie as well!
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We interrupt your doomscroll to remind you that public media always plays music free of charge – and free of algorithmic involvement.
Though NPR has lost federal funding, we're committed to keep bringing you the arts because it is core to our mission.
To stand with us, donate here: n.pr/47jpe4d
Though NPR has lost federal funding, we're committed to keep bringing you the arts because it is core to our mission.
To stand with us, donate here: n.pr/47jpe4d
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We interrupt your doomscroll to remind you that public media always plays music free of charge – and free of algorithmic involvement.
Though NPR has lost federal funding, we're committed to keep bringing you the arts because it is core to our mission.
To stand with us, donate here: n.pr/47jpe4d
Though NPR has lost federal funding, we're committed to keep bringing you the arts because it is core to our mission.
To stand with us, donate here: n.pr/47jpe4d
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David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic about the various ways Trump could rig the midterms. He notes that modern autocrats don’t cancel elections. They hold unfair elections to fool people into thinking they’re not living in a dictatorship. It’s called “competitive authoritarianism.” (Gift link)
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic about the various ways Trump could rig the midterms. He notes that modern autocrats don’t cancel elections. They hold unfair elections to fool people into thinking they’re not living in a dictatorship. It’s called “competitive authoritarianism.” (Gift link)
October 7, 2025
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October 7, 2025
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
October 7, 2025
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BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down.
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BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down.
The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down.
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Charlie Kirk once said some gun deaths 'worth it' in order to have Second Amendment www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
Charlie Kirk once said some gun deaths 'worth it' in order to have Second Amendment
The Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder made the remarks while answering a question during a TPUSA Faith event in April 2023.
www.snopes.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Charlie Kirk once said some gun deaths 'worth it' in order to have Second Amendment www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
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"We want visitors that come to this memorial to realize that it could have been any one of us that day. It didn't make a difference how old you were, how young you were, what your profession was," Gordon Felt said of the Flight 93 Memorial during our 2021 interview with him.
Remembering the 40 heroes aboard Flight 93 and how they thwarted 9/11 hijackers
Since 2001, a great deal of attention has been paid to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. But less so for Flight 93. The U.S. Capitol was the likely target of where hijac...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"We want visitors that come to this memorial to realize that it could have been any one of us that day. It didn't make a difference how old you were, how young you were, what your profession was," Gordon Felt said of the Flight 93 Memorial during our 2021 interview with him.
September 8, 2025
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September 8, 2025
On Friday, September 5, Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell told Southern Baptist pastor and Newsmax host Tony Perkins that Trump may try to declare that “there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the ...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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“There is no Constitutional Crisis" is exactly what someone would say if they created a Constitutional crisis.
September 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“There is no Constitutional Crisis" is exactly what someone would say if they created a Constitutional crisis.
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I find it obnoxious how RFK Jr points to rises in noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease - which tend to be driven by social factors such as diet, stress, pollution, and longevity - to slander the CDC's demonstrable success in preventing communicable diseases.
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I find it obnoxious how RFK Jr points to rises in noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease - which tend to be driven by social factors such as diet, stress, pollution, and longevity - to slander the CDC's demonstrable success in preventing communicable diseases.
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RFK Jr. is to us what an asteroid was to the dinosaurs.
September 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
RFK Jr. is to us what an asteroid was to the dinosaurs.
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is it a bad look when your uniformed military personnel bow down and literally roll out a red carpet for the leader of a nation dedicated to destroying you and all western democracies
August 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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August 6, 2025
Members of the House of Representatives are back in their districts for August, and on Monday, Republican Mike Flood of Nebraska held a town hall in Lincoln.
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August 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.
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The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.
May 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.
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Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'
December 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'