@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "Before I went on Rogan's podcast, I went on Fox... I'm trying to go into places where Dems don't typically go because politics is about addition, not subtraction. If you want to maintain a pure, insular group, you don't want a political party, you want a social club."

The number of manifestly psychologically unwell people in the highest levels of this administration should be unsettling to the world.

Most of this “press conference” is this lunatic yelling at the media. This guy is so obsessed with his press coverage that he can’t even function.

Pastor's Wife Deported After 30 Years in U.S. as Family and Officials Clash Over Her Legal Status Maria Isidro, a mother and a pastor's wife in Live Oak, Fla., has been deported to Mexico after living in the U.S. for nearly three decades

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Not a single tweet in defense of Trump from JD Vance after Elon called for Trump to be impeached and for Vance to take over. Pretty telling...

Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right.

My latest: Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems
I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right.

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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

This is f*cked up!

Stories of ICE luring immigrants to hearings just to arrest them keep coming—now they’re going after kids.

Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth grader from Southern California, went to a hearing in Houston with his dad. Instead of an update, they were both detained and separated by ICE.

COSCO and Seaspan Place Large Orders Despite Threat of U.S. Port Fees While the threat of U.S. port fees for Chinese-built ships continues to loom, it does not appear to have changed the orders of several major operator...

COSCO and Seaspan Place Large Orders Despite Threat of U.S. Port Fees

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Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education Two recent cases suggest that the era of secular schools is coming to an end.

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

The now Emmy nominated documentary From Russia With Lev is still available on streaming platforms:

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

These billboards line the streets around Albuquerque, New Mexico.

U.S. and Russia Swap Prisoners in Deal Arranged by Intelligence Agencies Moscow released Ksenia Karelina while Washington freed Arthur Petrov in confidence-building measure.

US and Russia carried out a prisoner swap in UAE in a sign of confidence building, WSJ reports. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was in Abu Dhabi today when Russia released Ksenia Karelina, who was found guilty of treason for donating less than $100 to a Ukrainian charity.
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Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

The U.S. is the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee workers a paid vacation.

When a husband, wife & kids are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. It's an attack on everything a family is supposed to stand for.

Unacceptable.

Et tu, WSJ?

Wyden to skip Trump’s first speech to Congress, hold town hall instead Democratic Oregon U.S. Sen/ Ron Wyden has announced he will be skipping President Trump’s first first speech to Congress in his second term to hold an online town hall.

Hope to see you there

Key takeaway from DOGE:

There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.

KEILAR: Can you guarantee that veterans benefits and care will not be affected by these cuts?

REP. GREG MURPHY: No, I can't guarantee anything

King Charles Downgrades Trump’s State Visit to Lunch with Prince Andrew “Sorry, chap, you’ve got to take one for the team," the King told Andrew.

“Sorry, chap, you’ve got to take one for the team,” the King said.

Wyden on why he's not attending Trump's speech tomorrow and instead is hosting a town hall: "We're not interested in hearing about the Donald Trump alternate reality."

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US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪

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