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MONACO IL SUPPLI • MADElI® CHARLOTTE FOOD AND DRINK 'They're not chasing criminals.' Manolo's Bakery owner closes store to protect customers Updated 5 hours ago POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship Updated 5 hours ago

LOCAL Super G executive in Pineville describes agents dragging out teen store employee Updated 5 hours ago LOCAL 'Just walked up to them.' Border Patrol questions people at a Charlotte Walmart Updated 6 hours ago LOCAL Federal Border Patrol sweep across Charlotte sparks fear, closed shops and protests

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:

“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”

“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”

“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”

“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”

“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Poem by e.e. cummings next to of course god america i "next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum why talk of beauty what could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voice of liberty be mute?" He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

As e.e. cummings and so many other thinkers and writers have known, we should beware those who sing their patriotic love of America while showing complete disregard for the lives of Americans.

Hello from outside the Portland ICE facility.

Aspects of our political system which are currently failing and long overdue for reform:

- The two-party system
- The US Senate
- An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency
- A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva still hasn't been sworn in. Mike Johnson knows that Grijalva would vote yes on the release of the Epstein files. #gopcorruption #swearherin

Presenting the plague of frogs on Portland. And yes, I choose to believe God has a sense of humor & is laughing at this too.

There’s no better way to show how absurd a bully is than to ridicule their absurdity. Kudos to Portlanders! Stand United & keep exercising your 1A right to protest tyranny!❤️✊🏽

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…

You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

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In addition to lying here, Trump and Kennedy put fetuses at risk: acetaminophen is prescribed for fever, and fevers can DEFINITELY cause problems for fetuses!

"Decades of studies have shown a clear association between fevers early in pregnancy and a specific set of birth defects, ...

A protest sculpture depicting Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared briefly on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., bearing the caption “Best Friends Forever.” (This photo was shared with us the piece was installed by an anonymous artist collective.)

It’s super bad to suggest someone is in hell, right, Republicans?

If Democrats ever get power again there needs to be a proper reckoning. Criminals need to be indicted, prosecuted and convicted for trying to subvert our democracy and rights for Trump.

There is no room for Merrick Garlands and milquetoast centrists anymore.

You need accountability.

I said from the jump that Kimmel never said the shooter was MAGA. I heard it the way he meant it: that MAGA is desperately spinning a narrative that the shooter is anything but MAGA. It’s like when I say I don’t trust the source of the texts, people make all kind of assumptions about what I mean.

Phang: Now, it’s pretty obvious on its face that this is just censorship, plain and simple. After all, if you’re not spewing Trump-administration-approved propaganda, then you’re not going to have access to the American people. That’s the message being sent.

🧪 #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #CDC #antivax

Timelapse shows Northern Lights display over North Sea Monday night's dazzling sight was filmed from Flamborough in East Yorkshire, over three hours and 40 minutes.

Timelapse shows Northern Lights display over North Sea. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Scientists, this was written for journalists but it's relevant for you, too.

Scroll down to the section about using LLM chatbots as research assistants.

There are some cases in which LLMs are great and useful helpers. But at least right now, it looks like literature review is *not* one of them. 🧪

Beware of opinion masquerading as fact...

Texas teachers having to post donation lists of things they need for the school year is a scathing indictment of Texas governmental leaders at every level and shouldn't be treated as normal

Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals

This proves five things:

1. The protests in LA were peaceful
2. The National Guard and Marines were unnecessary
3. ICE officers lie
4. DHS stats on ICE agent assaults are overblown
5. You can not, in fact, indict a ham sandwich if you have no case

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Senator Carol Alvarado of Texas points out although the Latin population grew during the last census, their representation shrank.

Texas Republicans have gerrymandered Texas voters so extreme that minorities are not represented even though they are the cause of the large growth in population.

Be the human you hope someone will be to you in your time of need...PERIOD!!!

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#BlueSkyVets
#Voices4Victory

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” pays for massive new tax cuts for the wealthy by cutting around $1 trillion from Medicaid. Threats to rural hospitals made Republicans add back $50 billion.

Problem is their bailout doesn't require the money be spent on rural hospitals.

#kakistocracy