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This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.

Billy Joel releases his “Piano Man” LP this week in 1973.

“I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit,” he said of the title track. “The melody is not very good .. the lyrics are like limericks. .. But my songs are like my kids and I look at that song and think, ‘My kid did pretty well.’”

MEAction NOW on Spoutible A $400K house at 6% costs $863K on a 30-year mortgage. On Trump’s 50-year plan? $1.38M. That’s half a million more in interest. Trump supporters cheering for 50-year mortgages is

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Sabine Savvidis on Spoutible Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule

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'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants — NBC News The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration’s capacity for detaining immi...

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UK investigates remote ‘kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses — The Times and The Sunday Times The UK is investigating a security loophole that could allow hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses to be remotely deactivated. Government officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centr...

"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."

Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.

America, America | Steven Beschloss | Substack Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency. Click to read America, America, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Have you looked at my longer-form writing on politics and democracy at America, America? If not, I hope you will and consider subscribing (free or paid). You'll find there over 1,000 essays, written since J6. So much more to do before we've ended America's current nightmare. www.americaamerica.news

It turns out that nobody will vote for you to care for their children when your leader AND HER HUSBAND get arrested for being sexual predators.

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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

We’re told the WILSON COUNTY man who wrapped his van to back @aftynbehn.bsky.social in TN-7 is 93 years old.

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BREAKING: Gavin Newsom just went into Houston, Texas of all places and brought the house down.

This part of his speech gives me chills.

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GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social in TEXAS: “Let’s stand up for the rule of law. Let’s stand up for a system of checks & balances. And let’s stand up for our democracy — for all of us.”

He celebrated the passage of Prop 50 in Abbott’s backyard. Will other states join? #CaliforniaClapback

Ya think? He won't make it.

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Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.

Who gets screwed: everyone else.

🔴 Blackout in Kharkiv. We are plunged in total darkness again.

If I were to defy a court order, I'd be in jail, not building a ballroom.

Reopen government, swear in Adelita Grivala, release the Epstein Files, restore healthcare subsidies, and fund SNAP.

Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk | Robert Reich The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority

It is the responsibility of all of us to return the nation to a path that is morally sustainable.

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.

And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

Oysters returned to Dún Laoghaire harbour after 200 years More than 18,000 oysters are being deployed in Dún Laoghaire harbour in Dublin, as part of an effort to try to reintroduce the shellfish to Dublin Bay over 200 years after they became extinct from the...

A reintroduction of shellfish, just to improve water quality and not as a commercial fishery. Welcome news for #Dublin Let’s see how they get on. #rewilding www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

The Prime Minister Who Tried to Have a Life Outside the Office As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast.

Sanna Marin, the 30-something Prime Minister of Finland, became the subject of intense media scrutiny when videos of her clubbing went viral. The Finnish press were “smelling blood,” she said. Her new memoir is an effort to set the record straight.

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At least 10 pardoned insurrectionists face other criminal charges - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington At least 10 January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by President Trump have already been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes.

This makes at least 11 of them re-arrested. But sure, go after law-abiding daycare workers, kids walking to school, people in their homes, at work etc. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.

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