dey wylin

"elite capture of the fourth estate" feels like the grim answer to a lot of questions these days I gotta say

they're emboldened to say this shit because they know the entire media apparatus will just hand them the mic, applaud afterwards, and tell anyone who says WTF?? to shut up

YouTube video by SkaForKids The Slackers - International War Criminal

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Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files

this is just PR for Turning Point

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Cedric Mullins going to Tampa

A photo of a farm worker in a field holding a sign saying farm workers support striking Starbucks workers. #NoContractNoCoffee

Farm workers stand in solidarity with striking Starbucks workers.

Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract for close to 4 years. Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy union busting employers.

#NoContractNoCoffee

Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill The speaker is working behind closed-doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.

🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access.

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🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.

This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)

And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.

Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84 Prolific musician was known for work on songs like Green Onions and Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist whose work as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at Stax Records left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music, has died at the age of 84. Hs son Cameron confirmed his death to Variety. Continue reading...

Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84

On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x

YouTube video by Nonsense Sports Throwdown Throwback Back-to-Back Days Benches Clear Yankees vs Mariners (1996)

hope Paul O'Neill got that Emmy nomination #basebrawl

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it occurs to me that people who say "trans people didn't exist until the last decade or so" really only have the object permanence of a toddler where everything came into existence the moment they heard about it and not a second before

“What if rich kids take advantage of free school lunches?” is like asking “What if rich executives take advantage of public transportation?”

What if they do?

They probably won’t. But what if they do?

Well, nothing.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Doctor who sold ketamine to ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry gets 2 1/2 years in prison In handing out the sentence, the judge emphasized that the physician and others enabled the actor's addiction problems.

Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence plus two years of probation to 44-year-old Dr. Salvador Plasencia in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles.

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Native American D-Day veteran Charles Shay dies at 101 in Normandy Charles Norman Shay, a Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed off the Normandy coast on D-Day and helped save lives, died at age 101 on Wednesday.

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MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.

Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

hope he don't take his frustrations out on an innocent

dude just went back to work like w/e

Hanover Park police officer detained by ICE returns to active duty

Hanover Park police announced Tuesday that Montenegro-born police officer Radule Bojovic has returned to full-duty status after being detained in October by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents.

This is constantly happening. A paramilitary force is violently enforcing second-class status for nonwhite people the United States with the support of police forces across the country. Sure, ICE must be abolished, but so must every institution that supports such brutality. & this cannot be reformed

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell files paperwork to run for Minnesota governor The Mike Lindell for Governor committee was registered with Minnesota’s Campaign Finance Board on Wednesday.

He's gonna blame Hugo Chavez and those meddling voting machines when he gets like 1% of the vote in the GOP primary.

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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Also:

Musicians/actors are both making way less money on sales/residuals now than they did before streaming, and that's been going on for 10+ years at this point so even the "biggest stars" well into their careers are nowhere near as financially secure as they used to be.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.

It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier