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Highlights of the Conversion Therapy Argument at the Supreme Court

Highlights of the Conversion Therapy Argument at the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

How A ‘Brittle’ Constitution Broke U.S. Politics with Historian Jill Lepore Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 09/08/2025 · 51m

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Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement

Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

Check out Fact Post on Bluesky to see more of these folks who have or havent changed their vote: bsky.app/profile/fact...

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JD Vance reacts to Trump's budget bill kicking 17 million Americans off health care:

"It's immaterial"

Horrible

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If you, like me, are a New Yorker who will be out of town next Tuesday for the Mayoral election, be sure to VOTE EARLY!

You can find your early voting location (it's probably different from your usual Election Day poll location) over here: findmypollsite.vote.nyc

Big deal

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I’m flashing back to 5 years ago when I lived near Barclays and had Fox News-watching relatives calling: Leave now! And then I’d go for a walk and there’d be nothing much but a peaceful march down Flatbush. That’s why I objected to Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” op-ed: It was premised on a lie.

What happened when Lyndon Johnson federalized the National Guard President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

Why Lyndon Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965

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'We all are going to die': Sen. Ernst offers bleak response to grilling over Medicaid The Republican senator offered a glib response to constituent questions at a town hall regarding cuts to Medicaid under the Trump-endorsed One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

'We all are going to die': Sen. Ernst response to grilling on Medicaid

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Congressional “Protect Children’s Innocence” Act openly endorses mutilation for intersex children This is the first bill to explicitly state that nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children are mutilation—and to support that mutilation.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ban on gender-affirming healthcare openly endorses the mutilation of intersex children.

This is the first bill to state that nonconsensual cosmetic & sterilizing surgeries on intersex babies are "mutilation"—and legislators support it.
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Hands Off the ACA!

House budget bill should preserve Medicaid's 'original purpose,' says Rep. Jeff Hurd Medicaid cuts loom over House Republicans' budget reconciliation. Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Colo. says the "right reforms," like work requirements and stopping "improper" spending, could save money.

Medicaid needs to be ‘preserved,’ says Colorado Rep. Jeff Hurd
They want to get rid of the ACA!!!! They are hiding it behind “going back to what Medicaid was originally for,” it’s freaking me out! I rely on it!
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Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS The Trump administration has accused the two broadcasters of using public funds to produce biased coverage and “left-wing propaganda.”

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Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS

This is Terrifying!!!! WAKE UP AMERICANS!!!!!!

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China Has an Army of Robots on Its Side in the Tariff War Enormous investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence are giving China an edge in car manufacturing and other industries.

“China’s automation drive has been guided by government directives and backed with huge investment. And as robots replace workers, automation positions China to continue to dominate mass production even as its labor force ages.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...

It’s here, people. Protest in the streets every night! protest.one/calendar/

Protests against pro-Russian leaders sweep Eastern Europe Large rallies took place in Hungary, Romania and Serbia

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well, would you look at that? on march 12, good ol’ doc marshall of kansas re-introduced legislation to do just that!

a hyde amendment for trans care with no age restrictions. trans kids. trans adults. all 16 trans people america let live to be trans elders.

who could have seen it coming!

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I know a fun play with Roy Cohn in it

Make Authoritarianism Great Again? with Maria Ressa Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · 03/06/2025 · 1h 8m

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