'Game-changer for Michigan families': Gov. Whitmer declares Oct. 13-17 as Free School Lunch Week “I’m proud that Republicans and Democrats in the state legislature came together to continue free school meals for all in this year’s budget,” said Gov. Whitmer.

Free school meals will help kids stay on track and save families $1,000/yr per kid. Republicans wanted to end the program, but Gov. Whitmer and Democrats fought to save it. www.wzzm13.com/article/news...

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Therapy

Have a cup of Wake The Hell Up America!

It’s not just Medicaid: Republicans’ megabill would sabotage the Affordable Care Act The GOP has dropped the “repeal and replace” phrasing, but its megabill is an anti-ACA package that would take coverage from millions of Americans.

The GOP plan to rip Medicaid away from millions of Americans is bad enough, but the assault on healthcare doesn't end there. They're also using Trump's budget to gut the ACA and steal care from millions more. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End of America’s National Parks?

"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..."

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

48 YEARS AGO TODAY on May 7, 1977, "Hotel California" by The Eagles reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Rachel Maddow says we’re in an ‘attempted authoritarian overthrow’ "The was no learning," Maddow told Colbert about Donald Trump's competence.

“We are in the midst of an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the U.S. government,” Maddow told Colbert. “And it is not by an insurgent movement… It’s the party in power.”

I just watched this movie conclave and I gotta say that ending I did not see coming!

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If all it took was trans people existing for you to turn into a Nazi, you were already a Nazi.

"Illegal things are happening in the United States every day..."

David Frum, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, discusses whether President Trump would contravene the US Constitution by pursuing a third term.

#Newsnight

Have you watched this yet? If you can, make some time to watch it -- you'll be glad you did.

IN FULL: “There is a reason why at hockey games Canadians are booing the US national anthem… we are insulted, we are mad, we are angry”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly about US tariffs and the "51st State"

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1QUAr6qHKA

Target faces 40-day boycott for ending DEI programs as Trump tariffs take effect A 40-day boycott against Target is beginning today.

“We’re asking people to divest from Target because they have turned their back on our community.”

It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.

Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

Forced to flee Congo, USAID workers lost everything. They’re suing Trump. USAID workers based in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, tell a harrowing story of how Trump’s attack on the agency complicated an escape.

"the house of the USAID mission director in Kinshasa had been looted, and videos of the ransacking began circulating on social media..."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.

"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING

The Trump administration is pressuring Romania to lift restrictions on the Tate brothers.

Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime, and money laundering.

Full Story: https://bit.ly/431iwiC

Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:

www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.