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"If we truly want βglobal security,β we must invest in health as seriously as we do in the military β and not just when the crisis is burning at its brightest but also in times of relative stability and peace."
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I think it would be a GREAT idea if the Democrats and Republicans turned their vast fundraising machines towards funding food banks across the country. They could try to out raise each other.
@democrats.org I'd tag the Republicans but I don't see a presence here.
Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff werenβt having it.
12.05.2025 23:19 β π 8937 π 1642 π¬ 115 π 111
In the increasingly bitter trade war between the U.S. and China, perhaps nobody has more at stake than Americaβs soybean farmers, whose crop has become the countryβs single biggest export to China.
We spoke to an Iowa farmer who helped build that $13 billion market. Listen to "The Daily."
βWhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.β
18.03.2025 00:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Republicans can no longer claim to be the party of Law and Order.
17.03.2025 14:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0BREAKING: Debris over the Bahamas after SpaceX Starship falls apart during test flight
06.03.2025 23:58 β π 7567 π 2416 π¬ 1076 π 1369
NEW: A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox and warned that the nation may be on a slippery slope to a presidency that is above the law.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Why This Yearβs Flu Season Is the Worst in More Than a Decade www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
07.03.2025 13:48 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0"Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction."
25.02.2025 04:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wasn't it Nixon's appointment of Patrick Gray that influenced Mark Felt to become the informant known as Deep Throat
24.02.2025 15:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Doing some deeper digging.
After Hoover died there were serious concerns voiced in the press about Nixon's choice to replace him -- L. Patrick Gray -- a real Nixon man. Concerns he would politicized the FBI.
And they were correct! He did do this, & there was internal pushback.
A judge has blocked the Education Department and OPM from sharing personal info with DOGE β the most wide-ranging block on DOGEβs activities to date.
24.02.2025 15:01 β π 673 π 104 π¬ 22 π 7 PICK A LANE
(A modest proposal for a method through which we can Resist without going insane and effectively counter "Flooding the Zone.")
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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.
Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.
βKill Sone Nazisβ Munchkin card
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