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Trump and Republicans claim they want to "protect children."

But they've rolled back child labor laws and environmental protections, blocked gun safety reform, and spread lies about vaccines that save children from deadly diseases.

Hello?

James B. Hunt Jr., North Carolina Governor Who Kept State Blue, Dies at 88 During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in 1984 cost him a shot at the presidency.

Breaking News: James B. Hunt Jr., who served as governor of North Carolina for four terms, has died at 88.

This US citizen went on his lunch break and ended up in a chokehold by a masked federal agent and detained, video shows | CNN Mubashir had just stepped outside into the snowy Minneapolis winter weather to take his lunch break when he says he saw a masked federal officer running toward him “at full speed.”

"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."

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A Timeline of the Legal Saga Surrounding SNAP Payments Weeks of uncertainty during the longest government shutdown in American history have left some states struggling to issue payments to food stamp recipients.

The Trump administration told states in a late-night Saturday memo that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, adding to the chaos surrounding the anti-hunger program. Here’s a timeline of the SNAP developments that led up to this point.

Trump approves pardon for former NYPD officer convicted in Chinese government scheme | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has approved a pardon for Michael McMahon, the White House said Friday, a retired New York City police officer who was convicted in 2023 for his role in stalking a New Jersey fa...

President Donald Trump has approved a pardon for Michael McMahon, the White House said Friday, a retired New York City police officer who was convicted in 2023 for his role in stalking a New Jersey family on behalf of the Chinese government.

Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.

As part of Trump’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) during the government shutdown, the Interior Department said it plans to lay off about 2,050 employees, including 272 from the National Park Service (NPS), 335 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),

143 from the Fish and Wildlife Service, and 474 from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity. https://cnn.it/4q7KfHy

The federal food program helping more than 1 in 4 young children access fresh produce, milk, and formula will run out of funding next week.

Over 5 million children could lose food assistance — all thanks to the Trump-Republican shutdown.

The cruelty is endless.

June 2017 Trump: Qatar is funding terrorists!!!

May 2025 Qatar: Here's a $400,000,000 bribe, I mean plane!

Oct. 2025 Trump: Qatar needs an airbase in Idaho!!!

The quid is pro quo-ing all over the place.

Remembering Jane Goodall through her favorite charities | CNN Jane Goodall leaves behind a legacy of helping wildlife, championing conservation efforts on every continent, and advocating for the world’s poor.

Whether you’d like to donate to some of her favorite charities, learn more about her work, take on a conservation project – or even consider going vegetarian – here are some of the organizations and causes that were closest to her heart. https://cnn.it/4gXcPYc

NO KINGS Durham · Mobilize Hello activism warriors!! October 18th is the next national mobilization date. We will gather at Central Park (501 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701 by the Farmer's Market) from 2pm-4pm. We plan to have a l...

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The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics.

Our legislature is disgraceful, but we're keeping our mountains in our hearts. ❤️⛰️

(Shout out to Good Company Pizza in Swannanoa, btw 🍕)

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.

In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.

Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.

Textbook corporate greed.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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Whistle-Blower Account Contradicts Government’s Claims on Guatemalan Children

NEW: A whistle-blower report regarding the Guatemalan children who the Trump administration planned to repatriate claims that the government misrepresented its own data in court, failing to mention that at least 30 of 327 children had been flagged as vulnerable to violence or abuse if sent back.

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!

A high school math teacher posed a historically impossible-to-answer question to her students. St. Mary’s Michelle Blouin Williams says she didn’t expect anyone to solve it, but two students made history when they did. cbsn.ws/3WAmpYu

The U.S. is one of the world's biggest human rights violators under Trump. Well done, maga.

YouTube video by Robert Reich Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks

Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.

The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.

That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?

NBC News Chicago headline: 5th grader says friend saved him before getting shot in Minneapolis church shooting

It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot.

It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place.

Ban assault weapons again now.

Opinion | Trump’s Slavish Stupidity The president could learn a lesson from the sisters of Nativity.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Trump whitewashing slavery is the ultimate act of white privilege from a nepo baby who is the apotheosis of white privilege,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.

Opinion | Trump’s Domestic Deployments Are Dangerous. For the Military. The nation’s most trusted institution must not be reduced to a political tool.

In @nytopinion.bsky.social

“The military I love is under threat — from its own commander in chief,” writes our columnist David French. Using the U.S. military against domestic foes “risks fracturing its bond with the American public and diminishing its ability to recruit.”

NPR: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)?

Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.

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