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You don't need to be a voice for the voiceless. Just pass the mic. ~Su‘ad Abdul Khabeer

OUR 44th president. Let's finish what he started and guarantee healthcare for every American. 🇺🇸

Weird propaganda ad during the World Series calling liberals the *new* racists. If true, aren’t the republicans implying that they’re the OG racists? Like “Yep, we’ve been the racists for the past 400 years. NOW it’s the liberals!”

Thank you to the Pretti family for their courage. Minnesotans have not forgotten.

According to a recent survey, Americans are divided on whether empathy is a good thing. 83% of the religiously unaffiliated agreed that empathy is "a foundational moral value that helps build a healthy society” while only 42% of white evangelicals did. [kottke.org]

Mahalia Jackson’s voice helped inspire a movement for freedom and equality. On her birthday, we honor her legacy at the Obama Presidential Center, where “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” fills the museum soundscape and the café bears her name, thanks to the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation.

Elon apparently wasn't too happy about our latest episode of the Coffee Klatch — and my criticisms of him. Here's the full conversation, in case you missed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6g...

The International Ice Cream Consortium (IICC) sounds like a cover for a convention of global assassins. But I'd still trust the results of their ice cream awards. Just because they kill people doesn't mean they can't recognize great ice cream.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

This will be nyc when it happens.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🚨BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson today, “Should we bother asking you a question about Jared Kushner treasonously manipulating US foreign policy behind Marco Rubio’s back with billions in laundered bribes sitting in secret bank accounts, or have you not heard about it yet?"

“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

After the recent Trump rallies, it's a novelty to see a president able to fill a venue again.

How a single philanthropist is leveraging smart partnerships to bring prosperity to Hunting Park and East Tioga. https://bit.ly/4i0Pbw4

Child rapists love child rapists which is why Trump "doesn't care" that Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton's stepfather was indicted for RAPING her when she was 9-12 years-old, then fled the country. Yes, read that again. NOW YOU KNOW WHY WE NEED A HUGE #BlueWaveIn10Days!!!

Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now? I think it's three things. #HighStakes

Heartbreak, hope and human imperfection: Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs – ranked!

Iran's LIVE 24/7 Trump is in JAIL Billboard in Tehran.

Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Russia is buying up "holiday homes" right next to critical NATO airfields and naval bases. Intel officials warn these "Trojan horse" properties are being used as launchpads for surveillance, drone deployment, and grey-zone sabotage. Read how the Baltic region is fighting back 👇

Unlike Susan Collins, I owe Donald Trump and the billionaires nothing. I owe the people of Maine everything, and I'm ready to fight for Mainers in Washington.

As a doctor, I know a politician should never come between a woman and her medical care.

Yikes! Look at that Community Note!

I can think of a few things I need to report. 1. Trump’s reflecting pool scam 2. Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel’s use of government assets for personal matters 3. Kristi Noem’s DHS contracts to friends

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Watching Vance light his 2028 prospects on fire in real time is something

Albanians just set fire to the Supreme Court after it allowed Jared Kushner to buy land in the country against the their will.

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Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

We are witnessing the disgraceful attempt by the United States to make Ukraine break so that Vladimir Putin can declare victory in his disastrous war. Donald Trump is an open puppet of the Kremlin. The United States political, legal, military and media establishment are along for the ride.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

. I’ve been concerned about those two months for while There’s something weirdly sinister approaching I’ve read several scenarios of what Trump & the GOP will do .

Ossoff: "Foster kids don't have lobbyists or a super PAC. Neither do the women subjected to medical abuse in ICE detention. Neither do the female inmates sexually abused by the warden and the chaplain in their federal prison ... they deserve leaders who see them"

No campus polling site? NC A&T students marched nearly an hour in the heat on the first day of early voting to cast their ballots anyway. This is what civic determination looks like. 🗳️ #NCVotes #YouthVote #EarlyVoting #VoteBlue

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

So the president claims not to know who did something that should only be doable, if at all, with the president’s knowledge, if not by the president himself.

Yeah, I know it’s childish, but I do feel the tiniest bit better.

Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

“[Ms. Greene] forwarded copies of the threats to [Donald Trump], hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks. “She got a five-word reply from the president: ‘Your fault, you deserve it.’ …

We’re literally at the Public Executions by Firing Squad stage of Fascism and the news media is just like, “Interesting, this is extraordinary and unprecedented 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷”

Rubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill.

BREAKING: Israeli occupation forces advance with two tanks and a number of soldiers into Tal Al-Daryat, near the village of Al-Muallaqah in southern Quneitra province, southern Syria.