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A garish but gorgeous six-petaled flower, white with purple spots including its anthers and filaments, with an orange yellow ring around its center.

One of my fall blooms: toad lilies! Much beloved by bees of the gentle and fuzzy-butted varieties.

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice.

When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who took down the mob is coming back Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, 64, served as a US attorney in Chicago for more than a decade, and he is a longtime friend and former colleague of Comey, 64.

Legendary, veteran prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, known for targeting Osama bin Laden and bringing down the Illinois mob, is coming out of retirement to defend former FBI director James Comey.

Chilling

Refusing corporate PAC money isn't just good politics, it leads to good policy—and Congressman Josh Riley knows it.

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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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Happy Memorial Day 💙

Marco Foster (@marco.foster) on Threads Remember when President Biden suggested that Republicans wanted to cut Medicare and they had an absolute meltdown about it? This week they voted for a bill that cuts Medicare by $500 BILLION

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Curious, are any of the bunnies for sale?

Crazy😆

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Then They Came for "Habeas Corpus" Perhaps we should take this both literally and seriously: “Top White House adviser Stephen Miller says 'we're actively looking at' suspending due process for migrants”

Saturday newsletter: Habeas corpus is one of the bedrock rights of our legal system. But it has also proven to be inconvenient to a regime whose indifference to human and legal rights has become increasingly explicit.

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So the Qataris chose the fanciest lagniappe of all — a jumbo bribe on wings that will touch every one of Trump’s erogenous zones of avarice and excess.

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Trump's Fanciest Bribe Qatar's wingéd corruption

This is all kosher, and not-at-all unconstitutional, says Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi — who until recently was paid $115,000 a month as a registered foreign lobbyist for the Qatari government.

But, wait. It gets worse.

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NEWS: U.S. and China agree to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to U.S. ports plummeted.

Tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from 145% to 30%. Tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125% to 10%.

If tariffs should result in massive job growth and make the U.S. rich, why lower them?

Things I did not have on my 2025 bingo card:

✅ American pope
✅ Drunk Fox News host interim U.S. Attorney
✅Conspiracy theory podcaster FBI Director
✅Drunk Fox News host Defense Secretary
✅Madman and his hackers with full access to our data—including Social Security numbers

Add yours…

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Who is the new Pope Leo XIV and what are his views? Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago. He is of French, Italian and Spanish descent. He spent years working as a missionary in Peru.

Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago. He is of French, Italian and Spanish descent. He spent years working as a missionary in Peru.

Rome has a pope who listens to Jesus.

Washington has a president who listens to Putin.

This day keeps getting better.