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Artist, doc filmmaker, admire all creatures. Plants too. And rocks. Rivers, big on rivers.

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Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

10.03.2026 02:01 👍 6070 🔁 1439 💬 52 📌 88
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Thousands just flooded the National Mall to stop the regime's war on reality. Details here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-keep...

10.03.2026 14:06 👍 221 🔁 69 💬 5 📌 1
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Megyn Kelly says Lindsey Graham "is a homicidal maniac with a bloodlust that is insatiable"

"This guy should be nowhere near President Trump... This is not a force for good in The United States of America, Lindsey Graham."

10.03.2026 14:08 👍 91 🔁 18 💬 29 📌 4
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SEVEN. That’s how many strikes hit near the Iranian girls’ school.

Video shows a tomahawk missile hitting a building next to the school. The kind of “precision” you get when an incompetent administration runs a war on outdated intelligence.

Don’t look away —we should all see the deadly destruction

10.03.2026 03:03 👍 2793 🔁 1374 💬 149 📌 77
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Biography: Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt grew up to become one of the most important and beloved First Ladies, authors, reformers, and female leaders of the 20th century.

Eleanor Roosevelt redefined the role of First Lady in the United States. In the years after, she served as US delegate to the UN General Assembly and had a lead role in defining the text for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

#WomensHistoryMonth

www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

10.03.2026 13:29 👍 280 🔁 104 💬 7 📌 0
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“We've Got to Vote on It. We've Got to Debate on It” – Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) defends Iran War Powers Resolution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAhF... #PINKS

10.03.2026 13:32 👍 118 🔁 60 💬 7 📌 6
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"When senior health officials lie, it does mean that people die... His conspiracy theories and his lies have literally put people’s lives at risk." - Dem Sen. Chris Van Hollen called for Kennedy to be removed.

Details here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-keep...

10.03.2026 14:15 👍 229 🔁 65 💬 6 📌 2
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The last northern spotted owl in B.C. is likely gone. Is it too late to bring them back? A new federal recovery plan for the species offers a glimmer of hope, but with no owls sighted since 2023, it may be too little, too late

Today on Can Geo: The last northern spotted owl in B.C. is likely gone. Is it too late to bring them back? 🦉

A new federal recovery plan offers hope, yet with no sightings since 2023, the future looks uncertain.

🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/456jZEt

#EndangeredSpecies #NorthernSpottedOwl

10.03.2026 14:15 👍 31 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0

It was always a political appointment. What else could it be? Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS News, except ideologically. Her appointment as Editor-in-Chief thus required conflict with the newsroom. Scott Macfarlane, I think, saw all of this, and drew the obvious conculsions.

10.03.2026 02:09 👍 934 🔁 213 💬 16 📌 7
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‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

The Heat Will Kill You First

10.03.2026 14:16 👍 177 🔁 83 💬 3 📌 8
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mon, March 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM PDT

yahoo/news Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling Mon, March 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM PDT

This is absolutely maddening.

We “can’t afford” Medicaid, to help children with food insecurities or fund education but we can waste millions on these buffoons and their lavish lifestyles.

$25 mil on Surf and Turf for Kegseth
$200 mil for Kristi Noem’s mile-high-club.

10.03.2026 06:09 👍 606 🔁 360 💬 31 📌 22

The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill to make it illegal for corporate investors that own 100 or more single-family homes to buy houses in the state's largest counties.

Nashville Democrat's Charlane Oliver’s “Homes not Hedge Funds Act” passed with only one no vote.

10.03.2026 14:18 👍 550 🔁 132 💬 14 📌 31
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Sen. Chris Coons: "I'm gravely concerned that the administration is preparing for a very risky special operation to try to send American and Israeli troops into some of Iran's heavily fortified and protected nuclear enrichment sites."

10.03.2026 14:18 👍 1024 🔁 302 💬 55 📌 20

This reminds me of a compilation “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” of poems & drawings by children in Terezin.
Most German citizens didn’t know what was happening inside the camps—or didn’t want to know. Now MAGA wants us to forget history as they deny oversight of humans in for-profit detention.
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10.03.2026 13:31 👍 30 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1

He leans on the podium, voice low and gravelly (known to happen when people are taking opiates) barely able to keep his saliva in his mouth, slinging his words in a slow facsimile of the carnival barking he is known for while media outlets pretend his words are not those of an addict.

10.03.2026 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We're spending $1 billion per day on war as millions of working people struggle to get by.

Meanwhile, America's ultra-rich have never been richer.

10.03.2026 14:01 👍 4611 🔁 1901 💬 180 📌 77

It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.

10.03.2026 13:15 👍 3915 🔁 981 💬 278 📌 54

"[Each is] not just a weak choice but literally the worst possible choice, the person guaranteed to do maximal harm to the interests of the country & the purposes for which their department exists. In short, we have never seen quite the collection of clowns, cranks, & crooks that Trump has assembled

10.03.2026 14:11 👍 568 🔁 137 💬 18 📌 3
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Poison-pill effort to cancel proposed billionaire tax hits voters' mailboxes California voters are being urged to put a poison-pill effort on the November ballot that would nullify a controversial proposed tax on the state’s billionaires.

Poison-pill effort to cancel proposed billionaire tax hits voters' mailboxes

10.03.2026 14:28 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH
Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

Watching the DOGE boys try to describe their mission and define DEI is tremendous content

www.youtube.com/watch?v=joma...

10.03.2026 14:16 👍 476 🔁 89 💬 29 📌 13
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 👍 3944 🔁 1742 💬 478 📌 762
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This man has access to the nuclear codes.

10.03.2026 11:47 👍 334 🔁 110 💬 41 📌 12
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> @nbcnews.com

10.03.2026 14:30 👍 470 🔁 148 💬 75 📌 25
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Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

10.03.2026 14:20 👍 3759 🔁 1279 💬 239 📌 111
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New Report Finds States Have Deprived Schools of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Since 2016 WASHINGTON—Forty-two states devote a smaller share of their economies to their K-12 public schools than they did 20 years ago.

States have drained K-12 funding and it is hurting students. This new report makes it clear that instead of diverting taxpayer funds to vouchers and privatization, states must redouble their effort and commit to investing in the schools that 90% of kids attend. www.aft.org/press-releas...

10.03.2026 14:33 👍 162 🔁 88 💬 7 📌 6

Representative Frost was fabulous in this interview.

10.03.2026 00:02 👍 2793 🔁 1068 💬 87 📌 64
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LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 3/9/26 YouTube video by MeidasTouch

Trump's mixed messaging on wanting to end his war. Trump’s gushes over Putin amid reports Russia may be helping Iran target U.S. troops, Trump family grifting, Epstein files updates, and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!

09.03.2026 23:45 👍 776 🔁 273 💬 47 📌 5
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The End of Aid Archives The U.S. Agency for International Development saved lives and promoted American interests around the globe. As the Trump administration abandons the decades-long approach to soft power, ProPublica inv...

6/ Secretary Marco Rubio has repeatedly said no one has died as a result of cuts to foreign aid. Our reporting proves that isn’t true.

Read our full series about the fallout of dismantling USAID here: www.propublica.org/series/the-e...

10.03.2026 00:15 👍 515 🔁 158 💬 7 📌 5
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”

John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.

First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

10.03.2026 00:03 👍 2147 🔁 678 💬 19 📌 23
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John Oliver on Trump’s dismantling of USAID: ‘What this administration has done is beyond cruel’ — Guardian US Last Week Tonight host examined the devastating impact of the demise of USAID, the primary federal agency for foreign aid

John Oliver on Trump’s dismantling of USAID: ‘What this administration has done is beyond cruel’ - The Guardian

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