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“There are dark shadows on earth, but the lights are always brighter.” ― Charles Dickens

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Constitutional amendment to launch billionaires into the sun.

11.03.2026 18:48 👍 887 🔁 215 💬 36 📌 1
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Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket reliquary casket at Ashmolean Museum Oxford

Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket reliquary casket at Ashmolean Museum Oxford

The Ashmolean Museum Oxford has fascinating articles online providing the history of objects in their collections. Learn more about Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered in 1170, on this page describing his reliquary casket.

Thomas Becket Reliquary Casket: bit.ly/4lgTP8S

10.03.2026 12:44 👍 859 🔁 144 💬 19 📌 0
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Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia! Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia!

CMON GEORGIA

Shawn Harris here. Tonight we got more votes than any Republican in the special to replace MTG. Pls help me win the runoff shawn-4ga.com/l/FdY5pN

End2End

11.03.2026 01:13 👍 241 🔁 97 💬 7 📌 1
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😕 🍪

10.03.2026 22:13 👍 14016 🔁 4497 💬 424 📌 146
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Rep. Bresnahan April 2025: I meet with my financial advisor. We talk about, you know, what different positions are coming up.

June 2025: The trades that are being executed on my behalf, I do not have any dialogues with my financial advisors.

10.03.2026 11:53 👍 1941 🔁 707 💬 87 📌 32
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Canada is off to a strong start at the Paralympics | CBC Sports CBC Sports' daily newsletter recaps the opening weekend of the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games and looks at the Canadians to watch on Tuesday.

🇨🇦 Canada is already up to seven medals — one gold, three silver and three bronze.

#Paralympics
#TeamCanada

www.cbc.ca/sports/paral...

10.03.2026 11:48 👍 818 🔁 110 💬 13 📌 9
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Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."

10.03.2026 12:55 👍 11411 🔁 2962 💬 603 📌 234
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Nobody in this Administration can agree on why they started this war or when it will end. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President are all saying different things. Servicemembers’ lives are on the line, and they deserve better than this.

10.03.2026 23:40 👍 1382 🔁 464 💬 94 📌 14

“This is our second war in a month.”

Take a moment to sit with that.

10.03.2026 14:18 👍 550 🔁 119 💬 16 📌 1
 In today's poll, voters were asked about Trump's handling of:

    his job as Commander in Chief of the U.S. military: 42 percent approve, while 55 percent disapprove;
    foreign policy: 40 percent approve, while 57 percent disapprove;
    the economy: 39 percent approve, while 58 percent disapprove;
    the situation with Iran: 38 percent approve, while 57 percent disapprove.

The 58 percent disapproval for Trump's handling of the economy is the highest disapproval he has ever received for his handling of the economy. The previous high was 57 percent, most recently in Quinnipiac University's December 17, 2025 poll.

In today's poll, voters were asked about Trump's handling of: his job as Commander in Chief of the U.S. military: 42 percent approve, while 55 percent disapprove; foreign policy: 40 percent approve, while 57 percent disapprove; the economy: 39 percent approve, while 58 percent disapprove; the situation with Iran: 38 percent approve, while 57 percent disapprove. The 58 percent disapproval for Trump's handling of the economy is the highest disapproval he has ever received for his handling of the economy. The previous high was 57 percent, most recently in Quinnipiac University's December 17, 2025 poll.

New Quinnipiac numbers are out. Trump is:

Negative 19 points on the economy
Negative 19 points on Iran
Negative 17 points on foreign policy
Negative 13 points on performance as commander in chief

The 58% disapproval for his handling of the economy is his highest ever

poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

10.03.2026 16:42 👍 625 🔁 158 💬 27 📌 17

Who is demanding the imposition of sharia law in America?

I can't think of anyone calling for that, much less enough of a groundswell that it warrants an actual response from Congress.

Who's pushing this, Mike? Name names.

10.03.2026 16:48 👍 1711 🔁 351 💬 198 📌 25
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This War With Iran Will Cost More Than We Can Afford Iraq cost us $6 trillion. Even a short Iran war could add $1 trillion to a budget deficit that Trump may already be tripling.

Iraq cost us $6 trillion. Even a short Iran war could add $1 trillion to a budget deficit that Trump may already be tripling. trib.al/txXV9QN

10.03.2026 12:25 👍 111 🔁 50 💬 10 📌 5
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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

Always unlimited money for war.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

10.03.2026 12:38 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

I have known Thom Tillis since I was 21 years old when I was a cub reporter and he was state speaker of the #NCGA. He engineered the Republican supermajority in North Carolina and he turned the state Wolf Pack red after Obama won it in 2008.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

10.03.2026 12:40 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
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LUCE: “.. Long after oil prices have stabilised, the world will recall his administration’s glory in the imagery of ‘lethality’ .. Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death.”

@edwardluce.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/2f3e...

10.03.2026 12:40 👍 570 🔁 171 💬 17 📌 5
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Removing race from kidney function algorithm helped more Black patients access transplants Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”

10.03.2026 12:38 👍 179 🔁 78 💬 2 📌 5
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The big swipe #war #health

10.03.2026 02:16 👍 123 🔁 63 💬 9 📌 5
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@tedrall.bsky.social

10.03.2026 03:26 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump told us who he was in 2012. Will we finally believe him today? Trump has always been an election denier. He has always vilified voting. He has always started with lies, escalated to the courts, and ultimately embraced violent rhetoric.

One of the most important things I have written in a while. I hope you read, learn and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

10.03.2026 03:20 👍 2104 🔁 842 💬 61 📌 29

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.

But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

09.03.2026 14:43 👍 5103 🔁 997 💬 422 📌 78
Americans are already paying for this war in blood. Now, struggling under the weight of this administration’s policies, they will pay in treasure, too. [...]

Do not tell us there is no money for health care. Do not tell us there is no money for college. Do not tell us there is no money for child care. There is money. There has always been money. What we lack is leadership. What we need is the courage to seize it. For every day this Congress fails to act, Americans will pay—in blood and treasure—for a war no one debated, no one authorized, and no one can justify.

Ortega
Democrat for Congress

Americans are already paying for this war in blood. Now, struggling under the weight of this administration’s policies, they will pay in treasure, too. [...] Do not tell us there is no money for health care. Do not tell us there is no money for college. Do not tell us there is no money for child care. There is money. There has always been money. What we lack is leadership. What we need is the courage to seize it. For every day this Congress fails to act, Americans will pay—in blood and treasure—for a war no one debated, no one authorized, and no one can justify. Ortega Democrat for Congress

With seven U.S. servicemembers confirmed dead and crude oil futures jumping 25 percent to $115 a barrel, the campaign issued the following statement on the human and economic costs of this unjust and illegal war. Read the full statement.

09.03.2026 04:46 👍 206 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 2

“it’s not my fault if this goes wrong, I was ill advised by my scheming viziers”

09.03.2026 22:05 👍 229 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

It's bad the president is completely clueless, but even worse that he's being influenced by his failson-in-law who doesn't actually hold a government role at all.

Is he getting tips from cabbies, like Tom Friedman, too?

09.03.2026 22:07 👍 560 🔁 100 💬 40 📌 4
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Everything’s fine

09.03.2026 11:28 👍 2172 🔁 349 💬 149 📌 198
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Kids grow fast, and so do we.

This fall, we're adding more than 1,000 seats for universal 3-K in 56 zip codes. Childcare will be more accessible and affordable across all five boroughs.

09.03.2026 23:06 👍 3017 🔁 421 💬 41 📌 29
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NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

09.03.2026 16:33 👍 16600 🔁 6922 💬 972 📌 504

“It is a war against people,” says Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard, who is calling for the school massacre to be investigated as a war crime.

09.03.2026 23:28 👍 94 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 0
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Anyone remember???

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