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Flint-born, former San Franciscan, Chicago-based poet, educator, singer-songwriter, and kitchen sink sardonicist https://www.larryodean.com

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Trump fundraising pitch features U.S. soldiers killed in Iran war The email solicitation to benefit Trump’s PAC also offers donors “private national security briefings.”
14.03.2026 20:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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100 Years of Women Who Changed History Revisiting the obituaries of a century of notable women to show how they were remembered — and what history may have left unsaid.
14.03.2026 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lobbyist Arrested in Extortion Attempt of Client Who Received a Trump Pardon
14.03.2026 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

13.03.2026 22:09 👍 14488 🔁 3304 💬 177 📌 153
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Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students' Ability to Think Over a dozen professors spoke of the grim effects that AI is having on their students, and what they're doing to push back against the tech.
14.03.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.
14.03.2026 15:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“We Don’t Want To Be Studied Like Guinea Pigs. We Want To Be Helped.” Three years after the East Palestine derailment, residents are still suffering.
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Opinion | Why I’m Suing Grammarly
14.03.2026 14:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Challenge Josh Hawley to a Duel If he loses, he has to stop trying to ban the abortion pill. If I lose, then at least I'm spared from hearing him talk about it ever again.

If he loses, he has to stop trying to ban the abortion pill. If I lose, then at least I'm spared from hearing him talk about it ever again.
www.jezebel.com/josh-hawley-...

14.03.2026 14:26 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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White House war promo videos marry action movies, sports and video games to real-life combat footage Through its social media feed, the White House has sent out a series of pumped-up videos that mix real Iran war explosions with movie action heroes, video game footage and sports heroes.
14.03.2026 14:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alcoholic Man Shouting Racial Slurs at Passersby on Street Corner Booked for Kennedy Center Performance WASHINGTON — The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced a three-week run performance featuring Terry Gillespie, a local alcoholic... Read more nonsense
13.03.2026 22:50 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With WASHINGTON—Saying critics of the missile strike that killed at least 175 civilians were dodging a fundamental question, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday demanded to know what girls were doing ...
13.03.2026 22:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week
13.03.2026 22:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The scariest movies don't care if you close your eyes Did you hear that? Undertone beckons audiences to dive deeper into the isolating art of sound-forward horror.
13.03.2026 22:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Undertone’ Review: And Now a Word From Our Demon!
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Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters
13.03.2026 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sagrado Corazón by Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas March 13, 2026 – “The most likely scenario is that the men neither slid in nor slithered out. Men who dream up bombs you can strap around women’s necks are not creatures of nuance and subtlety.”
13.03.2026 20:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: Ric Grenell departing as Kennedy Center head Grenell will be succeeded by Matt Floca, who currently oversees bulding operations.
13.03.2026 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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To Keep Americans Safe, the Press Must Only Publish Hot Photos of Me “The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published ...
13.03.2026 20:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge quashes subpoenas in Justice Department's investigation of Federal Reserve's Powell A federal judge on Friday quashed Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill.
13.03.2026 20:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. judge orders Trump administration to continue funding consumer watchdog agency A federal judge on ​Friday ordered the ‌Trump administration to continue funding the U.S. ​Consumer Financial ​Protection Bureau, saying top ⁠officials had unlawfully ​relied on deficient ​legal advic...
13.03.2026 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Authors Guild Applauds Publishers’ Lawsuit Against Pirate Site Anna’s Archive - The Authors Guild The Authors Guild applauds the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and thirteen major publishers for bringing a copyright lawsuit against the notorious pirate website Anna’s Archive. Anna’s Archi...
13.03.2026 19:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge quashes grand jury subpoenas in Powell probe, dealing blow to DOJ Chief Judge James Boasberg found “essentially zero evidence” of a crime, calling the Trump DOJ's case against the Fed chair “so thin and unsubstantiated” that it could only be pretextual.
13.03.2026 19:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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India's Reliance Industries paid Trump $10 million before he took office. It keeps getting wins from Trump. - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Trump announced that Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries is opening a $300 billion oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas.

NEW: Trump announced this week that Reliance Industries is opening a $300 billion oil refinery in Texas. That's the latest lucrative win for Reliance, which paid the Trump Organization $10 million the year before Trump took office.

13.03.2026 18:32 👍 94 🔁 79 💬 5 📌 7
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The collaborative “Critical Memory” project challenges participants to reimagine how we teach and acknowledge the hard truths about U.S. history and uplift the voices of impacted communities.

Check out this weekend's Weekend Read here: https://bit.ly/3P93pPl

13.03.2026 19:00 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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New Heritage Foundation: Reigniting the Patriarchy New Heritage Foundation report wants to focus on the family — controlling it, that is.

The growth of access to higher ed in the 50s & 60s aimed to produce “a well-informed & democratic citizenry, w/ people who understand the need to participate in society.”

The Heritage Foundation is attempting to reverse this.

Fighting back is essential, & requires using every means possible.

13.03.2026 16:29 👍 39 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1
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"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off AI Killed My Job: Educators.
13.03.2026 18:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Guess Which Country Voted ‘No’ on Advancing Women’s Rights at the U.N.? “The silver lining is that its anti-equality agenda failed spectacularly," the co-founder of Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice told Jezebel about the embarrassing efforts of said country.

“The silver lining is that its anti-equality agenda failed spectacularly," the co-founder of Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice told Jezebel about the embarrassing efforts of said country.
www.jezebel.com/guess-which-...

13.03.2026 17:42 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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The DOGE bros are even dumber—and more racist—than you thought If you were hoping to see what some of the racist tweens behind the short-lived Department of Government Efficiency look like and how they justified their actions to dismantle scores of federal ...
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