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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
January 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM
A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
"It’s trite on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to say that his work is not finished. It feels more precise to say that it’s barely gotten started. Until we secure genuine political power for Black Alabamians — not subject to the whims of white politicians — none of us will live in a democracy."
January 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"It’s trite on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to say that his work is not finished. It feels more precise to say that it’s barely gotten started. Until we secure genuine political power for Black Alabamians — not subject to the whims of white politicians — none of us will live in a democracy."
How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience
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How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience
As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure.
apnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:26 AM
How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience
apnews.com/article/just...
apnews.com/article/just...
What to know about the warrants most immigration agents use to make arrests
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What to know about the warrants most immigration agents use to make arrests
The Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics are sparking debate over federal agents' authority to enter private property.
apnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
What to know about the warrants most immigration agents use to make arrests
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"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
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Living through the Holocaust to be killed later for the exact same thing is a level of evil and sadness that is just unimaginable
One of the victims of the antisemitic massacre in Australia was a Holocaust survivor. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Holocaust survivor, London-born rabbi and 10-year-old girl among victims of Bondi beach terror attack
At least 16 people including one of the alleged gunmen died at the shooting in Sydney on Sunday, aged between 10 and 87
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Living through the Holocaust to be killed later for the exact same thing is a level of evil and sadness that is just unimaginable
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We'd never deport veterans, Noem says in earshot of deported veteran.
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We'd never deport veterans, Noem says in earshot of deported veteran.
Is the U.S. walking the path to tyranny? “With the demands that “red” states gerrymander voting districts, (Trump) clearly knows the Republicans cannot maintain control of Congress in a fair election, so he is more than willing to cheat to retain power.”
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Is the U.S. walking the path to tyranny? “With the demands that “red” states gerrymander voting districts, (Trump) clearly knows the Republicans cannot maintain control of Congress in a fair election, so he is more than willing to cheat to retain power.”
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
How Alabama Power kept bills up and foes out to become one of the nation's most powerful utilities | Alabama Reflector
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alabamareflector.com/2025/11/04/h...
How Alabama Power kept bills up and foes out to become one of the nation's most powerful utilities | Alabama Reflector
Lax to nonexistent regulation by Alabama state authorities has meant Alabama Power customers pay some of the highest bills in the nation.
alabamareflector.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How Alabama Power kept bills up and foes out to become one of the nation's most powerful utilities | Alabama Reflector
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alabamareflector.com/2025/11/04/h...
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I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
Reagan on tariffs in 1987 - generally they are bad. Free trade is good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reagan on tariffs in 1987 - generally they are bad. Free trade is good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
Same.
If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.
October 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Same.
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths. “With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said.
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apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths. “With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said.
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
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Tonight, a post that is longer than usual. But a Judge in Boston issued a 1st Amendment decision that is incredibly important (& long), and we trace his reasoning and some startling conclusions he committed to paper. I hope you’ll stick with me and read to the end. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The First Amendment (And A Court) Punch Back
Tonight, we have a post that is longer than usual.
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Tonight, a post that is longer than usual. But a Judge in Boston issued a 1st Amendment decision that is incredibly important (& long), and we trace his reasoning and some startling conclusions he committed to paper. I hope you’ll stick with me and read to the end. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
“If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society… Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society… Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
![INDICTMENT
COUNT ONE
False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government
[18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)]
1. On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES
B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the
Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not "authorized
someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports" regarding an FBI
investigation concerning PERSON 1.
2. That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding
an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.
3. All in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreig64rkqqi3z5ssu66f2fy6nimwfxyaymydwqfrhxveid6skd36m7m@jpeg)
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
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Will Berry's grace and advocacy for the man who killed his mother -- I struggle to describe it. It's easy to find people who call themselves men or women of faith. It's much harder to find people who follow their faith wherever it leads, even when it takes them to very difficult places.
Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: The state of Alabama executed Geoffrey Todd West Thursday for the 1997 murder of Margaret Parrish Berry. The execution took place over the objections of Berry's son Will, who opposed the execution; said he had forgiven West and unsuccessfully sought to meet with him.
Alabama executes Geoffrey Todd West in fourth execution of 2025 | Alabama Reflector
West was convicted in 1999 for his role in the murder of Margaret Parrish Berry while stealing $250 from the convenience store.
alabamareflector.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Will Berry's grace and advocacy for the man who killed his mother -- I struggle to describe it. It's easy to find people who call themselves men or women of faith. It's much harder to find people who follow their faith wherever it leads, even when it takes them to very difficult places.