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Going to the gym at a time opposite of your usual is like a whole new gym experience.
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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NEW: Following a ProPublica investigation, more than two dozen House Democrats are pressing the Trump administration to reverse a new Department of Veterans Affairs policy that makes it harder for male veterans with breast cancer to get health coverage.
Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That.
After ProPublica revealed changes to how the Department of Veterans Affairs covers men with breast cancer, House members demanded the agency reverse its decision. Separately, new Senate legislation would require the VA to be more transparent.
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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71% of immigrants detained by ICE have no criminal convictions.

These are mostly private, for-profit prisons that put their bottom lines over health and safety. We see the results — immigrants are dying. It is absolutely outrageous.
www.notus.org/immigration/...
2025 Fiscal Year Among the Deadliest in ICE History for Detained Migrants
Nearly all of ICE’s detention centers are run by privately owned companies and have been criticized for overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions.
www.notus.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
September 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Infuriating.
Today, I tried to get my COVID vaccine and was denied. Even after showing the pharmacist @govwesmoore.bsky.social 's statement that Maryland law says all Marylanders should have access to the COVID vaccine, I was still denied. They said they had to follow the box. This is RFK's fault. RFK must go.
September 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
July 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is claiming he suffered “severe beatings,” sleep deprivation, malnutrition and other forms of torture at the hands of his jailers.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes ‘severe beatings’ and ‘psychological torture’ in Salvadoran prison
Abrego submitted a harrowing and detailed account of abuse after the Trump administration illegally deported him.
www.politico.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Why is no one talking about how no one has grown seedless cherries yet?!
July 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I'm supporting the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025 because I believe that every person in America has the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions. 1/2
June 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Kat Cammack, a Republican representative in Florida experience an ectopic pregnancy in May 2024, she experienced a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy around five weeks gestation. There was no viable embryo, and delayed treatment could have been fatal.
June 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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"The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus"
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#OnThisDay: VICTORY!

This extra issue of Stars and Stripes published on May 8, 1945, what became known as Victory in Europe Day, when the German Nazis surrendered to the Western Allies and Russia.
May 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Truth
April 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Why does Secretary Pete Hegseth still have a job? He exposed classified ATTACK PLANS in an unsecure Signal group chat, put our service members in danger, and then LIED about it.

POTUS, it’s time for your favorite catchphrase: YOU’RE FIRED.
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Ending protections for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela puts more than 500,000 people at risk of deportation.

These individuals used a legal pathway to seek safety here. Sending them back to countries plagued by violence is cruel and will put lives at risk.
U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport
A total of 532,000 migrants from from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela entered the U.S. under the CHNV policy.
www.cbsnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.”
March 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The White House is pushing schools to monitor and report international students and faculty for their political views — but that's not how free speech works.

Add your name to urge universities to reject censorship from the Trump administration.
Tell Universities: Protect free speech on campus
The ACLU is calling on universities to reject the Trump administration’s egregious overreach and to defend the rights of students and faculty. Add your name.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/free-speech-on-campus?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=so[…]_chan=soc&ms=adv-na-tw-na-nat-na-freespeech-campusprotests-na
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here

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March 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM