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This week's This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow

10:51 AM - Apr 30, 2024

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Leonard Leo Gave Millions Trying to Influence Supreme Court on Elections, Discrimination — ProPublica

Newly obtained tax documents detail how Leo used a network of nonprofits to fund groups advocating for ending affirmative action, rolling back anti-discrimination protections and giving state legislatures unreviewable oversight of federal elections.

11:26 AM - Apr 29, 2024

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For someone like me who grew up surrounded by farmland, the Democratic messaging on climate has felt elitist, condescending and out of touch with a large portion of America’s needs.

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Opinion | I’m a Young Conservative, and I Want My Party to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change - The New York Times

Instead of continuing the environmental legacy they were once known for, Republicans have ceded the fight against climate change to Democrats.

10:12 AM - Apr 27, 2024

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Take a moment and remember a truly great statesman, Florida's Bob Graham. One of the old guard of politicians who was admired by Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike.

More 21st century American politicians should follow Graham's lead.

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Bob Graham remembered as 'great statesman'

Hailed as a consummate public servant and champion of the environment, former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham lay in state Friday in the Old Capitol as about a thousand mourners paid their respects.

09:25 AM - Apr 27, 2024

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In delaying the trial, the Supreme Court may well have denied the public its right to know whether a former president, now vying to be the next president, is guilty of trying to subvert the sacred process of presidential succession...

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Opinion | This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal - The New York Times

The former president’s claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason.

10:58 AM - Apr 26, 2024

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It was on tour that he’d encounter “Parks and Rec” fans who were outraged to find out that he doesn’t have Ron Swanson’s anti-government politics, and indeed was a supporter of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

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Nick Offerman on Trump, “Civil War” and Ron Swanson - The Washington Post

Nick Offerman says the fascist U.S. leader he plays in Alex Garland’s “Civil War” isn’t based on Trump, but he’s more than willing to sound off on the election.

05:50 PM - Apr 25, 2024

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I monitor news about National Public Radio closely. I worked my early years at an affiliate station in the Great Plains for over 17 years, as a jazz & classical music programmer and local news host of All Things Considered.

This stuff upsets me.

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Inside the Crisis at NPR - The New York Times

Listeners are tuning out. Sponsorship revenue has dipped. A diversity push has generated internal turmoil. Can America’s public radio network turn things around?

08:56 AM - Apr 25, 2024

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The small-business tyrant is, to borrow an argument from the writer and podcaster Patrick Wyman, an especially reactionary member of America’s landowning gentry: local economic elites whose wealth comes primarily from their ownership of physical assets.

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Opinion | The Small-Business Tyrant Has a Favorite Political Party - The New York Times

It has never been more obvious that the Republican Party is the party of the boss.

09:56 AM - Apr 23, 2024

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Lauren Boebert is one part Sarah Palin, one part rabid sewer rat, one part Bass Pro Shop camouflage vest mannequin, and one part stump.

07:13 PM - Apr 21, 2024

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Anne Applebaum:

Once the aid package becomes law this week, the psychological advantage will once again be on our side. Let’s use it.

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The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win. - The Atlantic

Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change.

11:11 AM - Apr 22, 2024

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This week's This Modern World

09:11 AM - Apr 22, 2024

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It won’t be easy to find another Florida governor who inflicted so much cruelty on its people as quickly as Ron DeSantis did with a single signature.

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Editorial: The cruelty of exposing outdoor workers to extreme heat

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed House Bill 433, which prevents local governments from putting in place water and rest requirements for outdoor workers facing extreme heat. It's yet another in a long line of preemptions by the state, but this one could get people killed.

09:09 AM - Apr 22, 2024

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BREAKING; The Biden White House has unveiled the official presidential portrait of Donald Trump.

05:04 PM - Apr 21, 2024

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For these minions of Donald Trump, chaos and paralysis appear to be the goal. Fortunately for the country, Democrats have figured out how to short-circuit the antics and humiliate Republicans.

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Opinion | MAGA antics fail over and over again, on Mayorkas, Comer and more - The Washington Post

The House’s ludicrous impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas died a swift death in the Senate.

02:07 PM - Apr 21, 2024

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“Each side accuses the other of hating America,” he writes, “which is only another way of saying that both hate what the other means by America.”

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Opinion | Give Me Liberty or Give Me … What? - The New York Times

Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is not a vision of what might happen in America but a collage of what already has happened, some here and much elsewhere.

01:06 PM - Apr 21, 2024

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Watching MAGA lose it over Mike Jonhson is the drug I didn't know I needed. Uncut schadenfreude.

02:31 PM - Apr 20, 2024

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Organized labor was and remains a threat to the political and economic elites of a region whose foremost commitment is to the maintenance of an employer-dominated economy of low-wage labor and its attendant social order.

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Opinion | Here’s Something Southern Republican Governors Are Afraid Of - The New York Times

Whereas an earlier generation complained of C.I.O. “communism,” this one warns of U.A.W. socialism.

04:42 PM - Apr 19, 2024

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I kid you not...

"Meiselas: What I’m hearing from credible sources is that Donald Trump is actually farting in the courtroom… I’m hearing it from actual credible people that as he’s kind of falling asleep, he’s actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell."

02:16 PM - Apr 19, 2024

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Big Black "Kerosene"

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Big Black - Kerosene - YouTube

Big Black - Kerosene Atomizer lyricsI was born in this townLive here my whole lifeProbably come to die in this townLive here my whole lifeNever anything to d...

02:05 PM - Apr 19, 2024

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Let's pause for a Friday moment of the brilliant artwork of Jane Rosenberg.

"He’s fun to draw,” says Jane Rosenberg, a veteran New York-based courtroom sketch artist. “He’s got a lot of expression in his face. And he’s got that hair that’s like a hat.”

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How a Trump courtroom sketch became a milestone New Yorker cover - The Washington Post

Court artist Jane Rosenberg had mere minutes to capture Trump in his New York appearance last week.

01:26 PM - Apr 19, 2024 (Edited)

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Happy Bicycle Day

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Bicycle Day marks an unofficial commemoration of the first use of LSD : NPR

Among psychedelic enthusiasts, April 19 or Bicycle Day honors a mind-altering ride taken by the Swiss chemist who created LSD.

09:58 AM - Apr 19, 2024

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in case you need a little cheering up

@repjasmine being rep jasmine

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Jasmine Crockett Exposes GOP's Ukraine 'Misinformation' In Under 2 Minutes

"If they wanna do some work, let me tell you somethin', the Democrats are ready and it seems like the Senate Republicans are ready, too. They just need to get to it and stop peddlin' Putin's lies."...

11:26 PM - Apr 18, 2024

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Fascinating and stunning.

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Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event

Scientists have discovered that a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event is underway, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants.

04:21 PM - Apr 18, 2024

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Leave no seat uncontested!

Nikki Barnes @NikkiBarnesFL

Qualifying for federal seats is next week! We still need 3 Congressional candidates on the ballot!!!!

08:16 PM - Apr 17, 2024

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