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Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

AIPAC's super PAC funded attack ads through groups with progressive-sounding names. Here are a few of them: 👩 Elect Chicago Women ⚖️ Pro-Choice Majority Action 🗳️ Elect Democratic Women None of the ads disclosed AIPAC’s role.

It's a great day to repost this article... #EpsteinFiles @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social ellieleonard.substack.com/p/the-sexual...

House Judiciary Democrats have released a 50-page report examining Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, including accounts involving 11 women and a new rape allegation that the White House denies. With just 8 days until the midterms, the report is raising explosive new questions.

Attn: USPS changes mean your ballot may not be postmarked the same day you mail it. Don’t wait until Election Day! Deadlines vary by state. Some require ballots to ARRIVE by Election Day, not just be postmarked.

Israeli strike on Gaza university kills three

70 percent now call it a top priority for the war to be over. Trump says Cuba is next.

US measles cases hit 4,588, more than twice last year’s total www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m... via @cvdall.bsky.social @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

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The youngest to be shot was 11 years old. ELEVEN YEARS OLD. In 2026, in the United States of America, the leading cause of death for children is a bullet. The victims and families are in my prayers. But they are also in my actions. We must end gun violence.

Trump prioritizes his puppet-master Putin and Russia, whilst he oppresses Americans.

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

Spouses are better predictors of severe COVID-19 infection than siblings, new data reveal In total, 71% of hospitalized spouses landed in a hospital bed within 5 days of each other. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ih0LSo

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Ethnic cleansing in broad daylight

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

Beware! This is happening in several "Red" states, including Texas and Florida. Some people are claiming that the machines are just "miscalibrated." Maybe so, but certainly NOT by accident. If it were an accident, some would do the opposite. This is a DELIBERATE GOP attempt to steal votes.

Trump opened a hotline to report people who defraud the government. Meanwhile, he's pardoned 70+ fraudsters — including a nursing home owner who stole $1.3B+ from Medicare and Medicaid. Many pardons only came after their family members gave to Trump's Super PAC. Hello?

Election betting odds are reaching millions through media partnerships with CNN, CNBC, and Fox News. What effect do they have on voters? A new study finds that prediction markets shape how voters view candidates — and more than 80% want these markets more tightly regulated or banned outright.

ADPH has identified 195 people exposed to #measles in N. Alabama. The virus spreads rapidly in areas with low vaccination rates. "If measles finds its way into a school where fewer than 95% are vaccinated, boy it just explodes." — @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news...

Before casting your ballot, review EVERY selection on the screen AND the paper ballot or record. If anything is wrong, stop and notify a poll official immediately. Take the time you need. Your vote matters.

move over Jesus -- Trump says he'll "lead us to a period of time in Christianity that nobody else can do"

Russia's KOSMOS 2612 executed multiple burns to intersect that orbit of the US-owned ICEYE-X36 satellite, which is currently supplying information to Ukraine. Today, the Russian satellite passed within 26 meters of the US satellite. Will Russia attack a US satellite? Will Trump care?

NEW: We recently reported that more than 500 American citizens have been detained by immigration agents. Now House members are moving to make it easier for those detained to seek justice through the courts.

Since 2000, hospital prices have risen 295% — triple the rate of overall inflation.

Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

New CDC report details deadly toll of delayed measles complication in kids Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare, invariably fatal brain disease that can occur years after recovery from measles. Read more: https://bit.ly/4dDn6Iq

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.

Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

Ebola cases top 9,000 in DRC outbreak At least 4,381 people have died in the outbreak that started May 15. Read more: https://bit.ly/3W7pzot 📷: NIAID

Trump's global health strategy has harmed HIV work in Uganda, Zimbabwe A new study finds that the pause in funding led to a drop in HIV testing, prevention, and treatment. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yg3ktR

As seen on @lastweektonight.com 👀 The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so we did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations: https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/

The federal government's debt has surpassed $40 trillion with over $4 trillion of that added since Trump's inauguration.

Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Pennsylvania reports its 6th measles death, in a Franklin County resident The 39-year-old woman had underlying health conditions, including a previous measles infection. Read more: https://bit.ly/4zy3w9a 📷: CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer

Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."

Every time I see ads for the sale of stolen Palestinian land to settlers, I think of all the ads in the US & Canada offering up millions of acres of stolen Native lands to white settlers.

Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org