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Francisco has been working various crops in CAs Central Coast agriculture for 19 years. He is currently harvesting broccoli and shares, "It's hard work because we need to bend down all day long. I get very tired because of my age." #WeFeedYou

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Great video by freelancer Charlie Randall highlighting the work done by the Yale Climate Connections website that I write for: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yYR...

We know you’re worried about climate change. So are we.www.youtube.com Yale Climate Connections is a news service that aims to help you understand the reality of climate change and what you can do about it. Through our website, ...

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Has anyone seen the Lathe of Heaven…

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Did everyone know that the Adlai Stevenson who lost to Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 had a grandfather of the same name who was Grover Cleveland's VP from 1893 to 1897?

OK, I've done the math (aided by existing online tables), and the Trump-Vance ticket will have the largest age gap in US major-party history

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Just gonna leave this here

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Former president and game show host tragically scathed in a freedom incident north of Pittsburgh

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The picture of him cowering under the agents on the platform, shot between someone's legs, is actually ideal.

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New York Times Editorial Board: "Mr. Trump’s political agenda cannot and must not be opposed by violence. It cannot and must not be pursued through violence." Ok but to be clear Trump's political agenda *is* violence. We get that right? I dont want us to miss that www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to Americawww.nytimes.com Political violence is antithetical to our democracy.

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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Here in Denver, you're now seeing STARs vans everywhere - "Support Team Assisted Response." It's a medic and a social worker, both trained in mental health and addiction support, showing up instead of police. They offer support to homeless folks, people in crisis, and folks in altered states.

"U.S. police departments have gotten smaller—and the violent crime rate is still plummeting. So what is going on?" What's ALWAYS gone on. Cops do not stop crime. They never have. Real "tough on crime" measures are well-funded schools, free daycare, and mental health services. Always have been.

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Anybody could've dropped that.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement recovered AR-style rifle at scene of Trump rally shooting, AP source says.

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wild living in a country where "this person had access to military grade weaponry" doesn't narrow anything down in terms of which sort of person could be responsible. Military veteran? PTA president? Disaffected tween? who knows

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement recovered AR-style rifle at scene of Trump rally shooting, AP source says.

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The moron early-warning system is going off.

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The only thing we know now is nothing. Speculating isn't knowing. Stop pretending like you know things. This is a Very Unusual Situation. Not like that's ever stopped speculators from speculating.

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I question the editorial decision to use George H.W. Bush as the figurehead here when W is still alive and kicking saying George W. Bush’s ancestors enslaved Holman’s ancestors is just as correct, and doesn’t soften responsibility by laying it at the feet of a dead guy

Charles Holman had been researching his family tree for decades when he made a stunning discovery: President George H.W. Bush’s ancestors had enslaved his.

A stunning find in his family tree: The Bushes’ ancestors enslaved his relativeswww.washingtonpost.com “It was the coming together of things that I had been looking for for years,” Charles Holman said.

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With Joe McCarthy’s reputation being refurbished by the MAGA right these days, I suppose it was just a matter of time before they found their new General Walker.

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For the first time I can remember the left isn’t being blamed for a nominee’s general election struggles and they’re taking advantage of it.

The public endorsements of President Biden from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reflect a careful calculation that he offers the best hope for advancing progressive policies, according to people close to Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez.

Why Sanders, AOC threw Biden a lifeline as his candidacy flounderedwapo.st Liberal lawmakers giving the president political cover are aiming to secure his support for a more progressive policy agenda.

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The staging area for my canvas for Biden in NH is "week before the election" levels of packed. I don't think we have an enthusiasm problem.

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Cannot be said often enough that Posobiec is the first guy who livestreamed himself “investigating” Comet Ping Pong for non-existent child sex trafficking and who Trump has given a platform to ever since thebaffler.com/latest/the-p...

If this isn't fascist rhetoric, then I don't know what is. This is from Posobiec's speech. I don't think I've ever seen so many different euphemisms for "Jews" in such a short piece of writing.

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The Dem realignment on the Biden Ticket Issue is truly surreal. That it’s suddenly the center and pundit class demanding perfection and the left flank going, “guys, what are we doing here?!” is a plot twist even I couldn’t see coming.

Bernie: “Enough! Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he will be the candidate & should be the candidate. With an effective campaign that speaks to needs of working families, he will not only defeat Trump but beat him badly. It’s time for Ds to stop bickering.” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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This admin has pushed through more left-leaning policies than any other in Bernie's 30 years in Congress, and that's in no small part thanks to his own work and campaigns. He probably knows better than anyone what it means to get Biden re-elected.

In Opinion “I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay, adding: ”With an effective campaign that speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly.”

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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"I do talk about how upset I am when I see children being separated from their parents,” she said in 2019 about the Trump admin’s inhumane and traumatizing family separation policy, “because that's the story of my life." www.npr.org/2019/05/04/7...

RIP, Dr. Ruth, an amazing person whom I was fortunate to know. She never forgot what it was like to be a refugee, as this article demonstrates. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

Dr. Ruth, Dr. Kissinger, and Trump’s Cruelty to Familieswww.newyorker.com In the fall of 2015, Dr. Ruth told the story of the Evian Conference, in 1938, where countries from around the world debated the plight of Germany’s Jews.

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I feel like most comics folks know about Uline by now, but in case you don’t:

For anyone curious about Uline, we reported in 2022 on how the boom in online shopping had enriched the company's owners, who have used their wealth to fund far-right causes: www.propublica.org/article/ulin...

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denialwww.propublica.org A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

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That political subculture was "American fascism." That piece appeared in the Voice of German-Americans, a Holocaust denying, pro-Hitler newspaper published in Ridgewood, NY. Note the story about the "Soviet holocaust," which is the central focus of Posobiec's book as well.

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Elmo was cracking me up on set when we shot this video. Me: mucous can seem kinda gross Elmo: no no. Mucous doesn’t SEEM gross, it IS gross I had so much fun sharing Jersey shore wildlife with these kids! Check it out! youtu.be/NNItHwcj2no?si…

Sesame Street: Elmo and Kids Meet a Marine Biologist featuring @hihokidsyoutu.be Let's take a dive into the wonderful world of the ocean! Elmo and his friends from HiHo Kids meet a Marine Biologist who studies animals that live in the sea...

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#giftlink For people of my generation in New York, Dr. Ruth was a font of non-judgmental frank information on sexuality & intimacy, in all forms. She likely saved many lives with her early “safe sex” evangelism when others ignored (or cheered) the AIDS epidemic. May her memory be for a blessing.

Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96www.nytimes.com Frank and funny, the taboo-breaking psychologist said things on television and radio that would have been shocking coming from almost anyone else.

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Ellen, or Ripley Sent to a moon to look where a transmission was sent Alien ship Kane finds some big eggs One of them grabs on his face and it won't let him go Bring him aboard

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If we're moving straight from "Biden too old" to "RFK Jr. is serial sexual abuser" without taking a good hard look at how Trump is basically the same age as Biden and has enough sexual assaults to make Caligula blush, I'm going to climb a tree and throw rocks at cars.

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Remember that just a few days ago Posobiec tweeted out this quote from a very obscure historical figure who is known only within a certain intellectual community...and that community is "fascist antisemites." bsky.app/profile/seth...

Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.

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I think about this often these days; it’s a form of terrorism, just casually subjecting people to this continuous existential threat.