Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?

McMahon: I’d have to get back to you

Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?

McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.

“.. I work in Toys and we had about 600 price changes in the last couple days... EVERYTHING went up," one user posted last week. “It's f***ing crazy."

@the-independent.com $WMT $TGT
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Once a TV huckster, always a TV huckster. These aren't "audiences." They're people.
The reason these folks didn't go on the exchanges in the first place is because they don't make enough money. Oh, and they're cutting the ACA subsidies too so even more people will lose insurance.

Yes. People Will Die. Joni Ernst’s cringey videos were wrong. They also reveal a lot about the GOP’s desperately dishonest sales job.

This. A good explainer of how Medicaid cuts work.

CBPP: “Trump’s budget sharply reduces the fruit & vegetable component of WIC’s food benefits for expecting parents and young children… takes away $1.3 BILLION in fruit & vegetable benefits from 5.2 MILLION participants…” (104,000 in Tennessee) www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-b...

The Bonus Army of World War I Fought for Their Pay. Now, Veterans Are Fighting For Their Jobs Veterans to gather in Washington D.C. to protest the Trump administration's cuts to Veterans Affairs and federal jobs. Jon Stewart among the speakers.

We are a little over 24 hours out from the Unite for Veterans rally on the National Mall and livestreamed everywhere. Join us at @unite4vets.bsky.social thewarhorse.org/veterans-pro...

Slashing CISA Is a Gift to Our Adversaries Trump is making America more vulnerable to cyberattack.

A piece I wrote on cyber security for @thebulwark.com.

www.thebulwark.com/p/slashing-c...

trump sure showed them

Trump Skips Return Of Dead U.S. Soldiers To Play Golf And Boost His Business Instead The four Army soldiers died in a training exercise in Lithuania. Trump chose to attend his personal business partners’ dinner Thursday and play golf Friday.

NEW -- President Donald Trump skipped the return of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base Friday and instead spent $4.2 million of taxpayer money to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf.

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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now HUNTSVILLE, AL—In an effort to comfort the child by telling her the funds had gone to a far better place, local parents Blake and Allison McKee gently explained to their daughter Friday that their mon...

Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now

Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

Entire Staff Is Fired at Office That Helps Poorer Americans Pay for Heating www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...

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#45 called Pete Buttigieg “Alfred E. Newman.”
Mr. Buttigieg’s response:
“I guess the fact that I inspired him to make a literary reference, possibly for the first time…..” is genius.

Buttigieg is quickly becoming one of my heroes.

Military to remove 'Enola Gay' photos for violating DEI rules A photo of Army biologists was on a list of images to be purged, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish that included their gender.

Crazy that Hegseth had photos of the Énola Gay removed due to DEI concerns.

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‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan Jewish creatives and activists also sign New York Times ad after US president’s proposal to ‘take over Gaza’

Rabbis are finding Trump’s Gaza plan inhumane.

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

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Wishing all of you the best and happiest of holidays!
I’m grateful for having all of you remarkable, kind people in my life!

Really enjoyed the new documentary Beatles '64 on Disney. Martin Scorsese hs created a film that places the Beatles's first trip to the U.S. in historical and cultural context. This film communicates why the Beatles and that trip became so important.

I appreciated that this film works to place the Beatles into cultural and historical context, communicating how they were important and why there were important on so many different levels (at least seven... 😁). By doing that, it makes the case of why they are still relevant.

Trying out Bluesky. It looks promising, especially since it’s decentralized, unlike FB, which is quite centralized.