Maybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost. Maybe itās because I donāt have much time to make new ones, and some part of me is sifting through the sands.
A pretty devastating personal reflection on leukemia from Tatiana Schlossbergāand how her cousin, RFK Jr. is decimating the healthcare system and pulling funding for research into many of the drugs she has or couldāve used during her fight with cancer.
HernƔndez was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Bombing boats from Venezuela without any (publicly released) evidence, while pardoning someone who was tried and convicted of doing the exact same thing they are accusing Venezuela of doing. How can anyone possibly reconcile these things?
The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, āhas already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,ā Gawande wrote.
Four hundred thousand kids dead in less than a year. But hey, the Trump administration saved less than half a percent of its budget. Oh! And did we mention, DOGE was shut down already because it cost taxpayers more than it saved? Talk about fraud and wasteā¦
Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill cruised to double-digit victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Two Georgia Democrats flipped seats on the stateās Public Service Commission, the first non-federal statewide wins for a Democrat in nearly two decades. Democrats flipped a pair of Republican-held state Senate seats in Mississippi, cracking the GOP supermajority in a deep-red state. And a successful California ballot measure delivered five additional seats for the partyās House margins ahead of the 2026 midterms, offsetting Texasā redistricting push.
Finally some good news for once. Although, it kind of makes me even angrier at the lack
And the media, with its long-standing bias toward treating Republican grievances as more legitimate than Democratic ones, follows the lead of whichever party is making the most noise. Republicans scream about ādeplorablesā for weeks, so it becomes a story. Democrats shrug at Trumpās latest attack on blue America, so it doesnāt.
Trump and his administration (and minions) are all guilty of basically everything they accuse democrats of doing. Theyāre the biggest snowflakes there are.
In fact, protesters turned out waving American flags and wearing frog and unicorn and banana costumes and carrying homemade signs that demanded the release of the Epstein files and defended Lady Liberty. They laughed and danced and took selfies and sang. City police departments, including those of New York City, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., said they had made no protest-related arrests.
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