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Former FBI director Mueller is too close to his successor, James #Comey, to be impartial on Russia investigation.
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From @BillPascrell and @tedlieu: If Donald #Trump issued #pardons to his advisers, his children or himself, that would constitute perhaps the gravest abuse of power in American history.
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Whatever happens tonight, at least the campaigns are over.
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'We can’t have a functional government or healthy democracy if witnesses can’t testify, and if federal officials can’t do their jobs, without fear of payback,' Alexander Vindman writes in @usatodayopinion
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From Republican Reps. @Jim_Jordan and @RepMarkMeadows: Democrats put out welcome mat for a liar. We can't trust #MichaelCohen.
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From Rep. @tedlieu: We’re now seeing a debate about whether or not Trump suggested paying for the story in cash. That misses the point.
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As part of a campaign for Disneyland Paris' 30th year anniversary, designer Stella McCartney swapped Minnie's signature red-and-white polka-dot minidress for a bespoke blue-and-black polka-dot pantsuit, with a matching bow, of course.
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From @RepTedLieu: Zinke exempted Florida out of concern for its coastal economy. What about drilling damages in other states? This arbitrary decision-making will never stand up in court.
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Young people in Florida are being told their sexuality or gender identity is so wrong it can't even be mentioned. They're internalizing an assumption of unnaturalness that's at odds with science.
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I was dismissed from my job last week after I publicly shared my experience getting the COVID-19 vaccination, writes @dandarling
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From Rep. @tedlieu: "As a former prosecutor, I believe #ChristineBlaseyFord and #DeborahRamirez." #Congress has to step in on allegations against #BrettKavanaugh
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My life was saved by many fighting for justice reform. I want to save the lives of other prisoners who are nonviolent but still incarcerated, said #AliceMarieJohnson, who was granted clemency by #Trump. Now she wants to become the face of second chances:
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Since Day One of COVID-19, nurses have told our managers to prepare for predictable staffing needs, including hiring and training more nurses, and cross training nurses to work in critical care departments. They didn’t listen.
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From @BarackObama in his first column since leaving the White House:. Now is the time for Americans everywhere to follow John Lewis’s example and fight for our democracy. Now is the time for the U.S. Senate to do the right thing.
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"Did Trump break a U.S. law? His fate could turn on whether he knew about a reported plan to give Putin a $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow," say @NormEisen and Barry Berke.
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From @SenSanders: Don't buy the lies. #Trump and his billionaires might be doing well. But the #economy is not the best it's ever been, at least not for working families.
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Parkland victim's father: Traumatized students shouldn't have been flung into politics. Student suicides show that Stoneman Douglas mobilized but didn't heal.
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A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or shine George W. Bush's shoes: #Ourview
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#Trump administration could leave #Congress no choice but an #impeachment inquiry, says @RepTedLieu.
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From @govkristinoem: We will not be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in South Dakota. The Biden administration has no business forcing vaccinations on the American people through executive decree or rule.
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Say no to gun silencer bill. I survived Virginia Tech because I heard shots.
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A @SenJohnMcCain flashback: Russia threat is dead serious. Montenegro coup and murder plot proves it
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Support for removal rose and Senate Republicans saw an election rushing toward them under a black cloud. That was Nixon, but it could also be Trump, says @funder.
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Invoke the 25th Amendment: #DonaldTrump forfeited his moral authority to stay in office #OurView: By egging on a deadly insurrection and hailing the rioters, the president's continuance in office poses unacceptable risks to America
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.@ParisHilton is known for being a reality TV star, model, singer and DJ. Now she's meeting with lawmakers advocating for federal law to end institutional child abuse.
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Minnie Mouse is getting a Parisian fashion upgrade, and the internet is going bananas.
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"When I was 16, I was taken from my home in the middle of the night and spent almost two years at a series of residential treatment facilities."
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From Sen. @RandPaul and @RepAndyBiggsAZ: Anthony Fauci wants America closed until there's nothing to reopen
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Should Black Americans receive reparations? What do reparations mean in this context?. We’re talking about these questions and more.
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From @SenSanders and @RoKhanna: When you're shopping today, remember Walmart's owners have billions, while workers can barely afford to live, often forced to use government subsidies. We can do better. #BlackFriday
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Rather than federal indictment, #JulianAssange deserves a tweaked version of one of Washington’s hottest honors — a Medal of Freedom with a steam whistle.
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It was my family in the eye of the storm, weathering ugly and vile attacks and withering criticism from the president and some lawmakers as my husband, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, testified during Trump's first impeachment.
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Glenn Reynolds aka @instapundit: FBI info dump ensures 'Crooked Hillary' nickname isn't going away via @usatoday.
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"I think people finally started to understand how (messed up) the NBA is, and finally someone from the inside that lived for 11 years in the league (has) exposed them to the whole world." Read this @EnesFreedom interview.
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"It takes all my courage to talk about it, but I couldn’t stand knowing that children as young as 8 years old are being sent to these 'troubled teen' programs by parents who don’t know and government agencies that don’t care."
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Sometimes same-sex sexual behavior in the natural world makes for stronger social alliances, as with male bottlenose dolphins. Sometimes it’s to minimize conflict and tension within the group, as with the frequent bisexual sex of the bonobos.
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"My parents had been conned into believing that my diagnosed attention deficit disorder behavior would be fixed with 'tough love.'. I’m still processing the trauma. "
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From @TomiLahren: #Mueller investigation was never about maintaining integrity; it's about sustaining Trump #hysteria
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What else does Trump have to hide and who else knows about it? Was the Moscow deal the Russians' only financial leverage over him, or is there more?
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1/ More than 8.5 billion doses of vaccine have been administered globally. But narrow nationalism and vaccine hoarding by some countries have undermined equity, and created the ideal conditions for the emergence of the omicron variant.
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From @RepSwalwell: Ban assault weapons and buy them back. It might cost $15 billion, but we can afford it. Consider it an investment in our most important right, the right to live.
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"I'm often telling all these athletes out there, listen, all the gold medals in the world you can win is not more important than your morals, your values or your presence," says @EnesFreedom.
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Long before the pandemic, hospitals staffed at bare-bone levels to maximize profit, rather than at the level needed to safely care for patients and the severity of their conditions. The pandemic took the unsafe staffing to nightmare levels.
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From @RexHuppke: These Republicans are addressing the baby-formula shortage through the scriptural philosophy of: “All lives are precious, expect these little immigrant whiners over here. They can pound sand.”
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From @RepJoeKennedy: Donald Trump and Republicans are trying to gut Medicaid and its role covering treatment for mental illness. That's the real mental health crisis.
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Since March, an American has started a COVID-related fundraiser on GoFundMe every two minutes — a direct result of government programs coming up short, writes @gofundme CEO Tim Cadogan in urging Congress to pass COVID aid.
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Sen. #JohnMcCain has decided to stop #cancer treatment — showing courage in the face of a decision many of us might face.
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“The hospital keeps saying, ‘We appreciate you,’ but we are not seeing any action,” said registered nurse Maggie Webb. She will lose half a dozen colleagues in the coming weeks, as poor working conditions drive nurses away.
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"Could Trump stand at a podium for more than an hour, taking questions from media outlets asking for straightforward, detailed answers about his politics, policy, and how he would govern in a second term?" asks columnist @ByChrisBrennan.
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From @RandPaul: We cannot claim to want Middle East peace on one hand and fuel a deadly arms race in the region on the other. Saudi Arabia doesn't deserve US support.
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1/ Daniel Darling was the senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters until he wrote a column where he recommended Christians get the COVID-19 vaccine. He was then fired.
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From @donberwick: Stop fearmongering about "Medicare for All." Most families would pay less for better care.
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"If we tried to protest or question anything, they said it was a bad dream. They told us to stop making things up. But looking back on these experiences as an adult woman, I can recognize these exams for what they were: the sexual assault of children."
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Where were Capitol Police during Wednesday chaos? Tolerating white rioters in ways not afforded Black protesters #policingtheusa
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From @instapundit: #Clinton ran a pay-to-play program at the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of State.
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1/ Our democracy isn’t a given. It isn’t self-executing. We, as citizens, have to nurture and tend it. We have to work at it. And in that task, we have to vigilantly preserve and protect our most basic tool of self-government, which is the right to vote.
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The point is that women, and mice, can wear whatever they want and still be feminists.
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FOX News Channel meteorologist @JaniceDean: #COVID-19 killed my in-laws after Cuomo's reckless New York nursing home policy.
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"The troubled teen industry has been allowed to thrive without transparency or accountability for decades, raking in tens of billions of dollars while preying on vulnerable families."
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Rachel Vindman on her movement away from the Republican Party:
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From @BernieSanders: Donald Trump is shredding the safety net while claiming Democrats want to destroy Social Security. All Americans should be able to retire with dignity.
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Poll after poll, especially among working-class people, shows overwhelming support for what we are trying to accomplish, writes @BernieSanders.
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"In the back of my mind I'm asking: Am I being a deserter? If I am this distraught and this concerned, do I owe it to my country to do something, or do I owe my child my best efforts to keep him safe?" writes @RichelleCarey.
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She sued Harvard University to save her slave ancestors' legacy. The lawsuit kicked off one of the most controversial questions in America's reparations fight: Who owns the rights to the pillages of slavery?
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Don’t pretend the staffing crisis was inevitable or unavoidable due to COVID-19. Hospitals manufactured this crisis, writes @NNUBonnie.
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Pundits like Candace Owens see a plot to "destroy fabrics of society." . Will her pantsuit do that? Probably not.
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Drag music artist @trixiemattel brings a less serious and more fluid approach to gender and societal rules, which could help America navigate through divisive times. via @Josh1Rivera
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"Week in, week out, this unnatural loss of life is on the scale of a war or terrorist event. But the question remains: What explains this ongoing wave of excess deaths?" write Dr. Pierre Kory and Mary Beth Pfeiffer.
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Indoor mask policies are effective and complement vaccines to prevent infection in everyone, vaccinated or unvaccinated.
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Bernie Sanders: We can't allow the food and beverage industry to destroy our kids' health
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The thing about the Republican Party that Democrats have a hard time understanding, to the GOP, it’s all theater, writes @kurtbardella.
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Today, we are in the midst of a national trauma that could very well surpass 9/11 and approach the heightened terror of the Cold War years. The COVID era has changed our children’s lives in far more real, tangible ways.
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From @NoahBookbinder, @NormEisen and @crfredrickson: The real surprise was the degree to which the document undermined the attacks that the president and his allies had been advancing to tarnish Mueller. #NunesMemo #Russia #GOPMemo .Read here:
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"American evangelicals, by and large, have decided that they can ignore Trump’s personal morality because they are getting something far more important in return — the chance to impose their personal morality on others." @LOLGOP
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We have a simple, effective solution for encouraging nurses to return to providing the direct patient care we desperately need during this pandemic: Treat us better, writes Bonnie Castillo.
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Face facts, #BernieSanders is electable, says @USATODAY columnist .@KirstenPowers. It’s well past time to bury the "Bernie is unelectable" trope. He has a better shot than moderate #Bloomberg.
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Gen Z voters could swing the election. Hear from three young people on why they should vote. 🔗 Read the column: 📽: @VotersTomorrow; @USATODAY
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"Our tax dollars help pay for more than 120,000 youth pipelined each year into these facilities, even though studies have confirmed widespread abuses and fatalities."
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Researchers found the average youth football player sustains between 200 to 400 impacts in just one short season, with some incurring hundreds more.
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Britney Spears’ nearly 14-year-long conservatorship ended Friday. But this isn't the end of the shady world of probate courts.
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From @Scaramucci: "President Trump delivered a historically productive first year in the White House, following through on campaign promises to deliver real change in Washington." More in the #Opposingview of today's debate:
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"But what I couldn’t understand as a 16-year-old girl was why that internal exam would be done to me frequently during my time at Provo, and only during the middle of the night."
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"I was forced to remove all my clothes, squat and cough, and submit to a gynecological exam – all watched closely by male staff. Although it was an extremely uncomfortable experience, I was led to believe it was a legitimate, routine check for contraband."
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From @ClayTravis: "In the past #Nike signed and paid the best athletes in their sports — Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Andre Agassi, Bo Jackson, Serena Williams — now the company is signing a former athlete who is infamous for his politics." #Kaepernick
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Guess who was wrong on Thomas Jefferson. Apparently not @RealBenCarson. Deputy Editorial Page Editor @DavidMastio:
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Confirmed: Powerful men ignored women in short-circuited Brett #Kavanaugh investigation, says @Mimirocah1.
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"How did we get to a place where mocking our nation’s war dead is not an immediate disqualifier for a Commander in Chief?" writes Rebekah Sanderlin. "If we elect him again, we are the suckers and losers."
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From Michelle Obama’s chief speechwriter: Presidents and first ladies always owe Americans the truth.
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"So many kids around me were just gone. No hope. No light. This was especially true for girls who got dragged to those sham medical exams and the ones whom adult male staff leered at as we showered."
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