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For years, Hungary's Viktor Orban gerrymandered his opposition out of power. But in the end, all the dirty tricks in the world couldn't save him from sinking approval ratings and massive voter turnout. There's a lesson here for us.

Georgia officials knew chemicals from carpet mills were polluting local water. The people did not apnews.com/article/pfas...

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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How can he possibly stay safe without a ballroom?

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

First, Trump’s district is repped by a Democrat, and now JK Rowling is repped by a trans person? Fabulous!! 💙💕🎊🏳️‍⚧️

Yep. Was just checking flights from ONT to ORD and economy was $998.

Brian Fennessy, new head of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, says his agency is 'trying to bring on additional aircraft and bring them on early,' and dismisses criticism of prevention methods. n.pr/4u4gEQZ

After the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, Richard Brown began lining up the paperwork he needed to get his refund. Experts say many businesses may never get their money back.

Indonesia is in the midst of a nickel boom, but it's come at a cost to the environment and public health. There’s been a rise in respiratory infections near the country’s largest industrial park.

Syria sets first cabinet reshuffle since Assad ouster, state media reports reut.rs/4tlGqyR

Rescuers on Saturday recovered the body of an Indonesian woman who was caught in a volcanic eruption at Mount Dukono on Indonesia's remote island of Halmahera a day earlier, as search operations continued to find the bodies of two Singaporeans.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy on Saturday warned that any attack on Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels would be met with a “heavy assault” on one of the U.S. bases in the region and enemy ships, even as a tenuous ceasefire appeared to be holding. https://to.pbs.org/4wlCD7t

Despite the dire humanitarian crisis across the Gaza Strip, where a fragile ceasefire remains in place, a handful of Palestinian surfers are finding joy — and relief — riding the waves of the territory’s Mediterranean coastal waters. https://to.pbs.org/4u8kMzw

Republicans are changing the map despite it being very very close to the midterms. They will do anything they possibly can to avoid free elections

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

“At age 19, after two failed attempts to reach the US via Honduras and Mexico, he succeeded. He received a work permit under the Temporary Protected Status program for refugees, worked as a janitor and at a UPS warehouse. He became a US citizen in 2006..." www.wvgazettemail.com/life/religio...

Carlson said in an interview with the New York Times that prominent Israeli supporters Rupert Murdoch and Miriam Adelson convinced Trump to go to war with Iran.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a farm community in Italy for people with addiction is a model for wellness camps designed to ease the U.S. overdose crisis. Critics say the idea is dangerous.

Unlike many cancers, colorectal cancer has become more lethal for people at younger ages. Doctors are sleuthing out why.

The longtime president of Bard College in New York has announced his retirement, months after it was revealed that he had a much deeper relationship than was previously known with Jeffrey Epstein. n.pr/4wckn0q

A maker of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to block an appellate court ruling that cut off mail-order access to the drug just a day earlier. https://to.pbs.org/4dkDkq3

A Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana has amplified an already intense national redistricting battle. Here’s a look at how some states are responding. https://to.pbs.org/4cOtc92

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Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon have killed at least seven people and wounded others.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will soon light the sky with debris from Halley's comet.

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

“Wade, who has six U.S. citizen children, was not deemed a priority for removal. But following a traffic stop in September, Wade was handed over by local police to ICE.” What county or city’s police did this? Names need naming. I just want to talk to somebody.

ICE is just a big human trafficking operation.

One thing ICE keeps proving over and over again is how there must not be any undocumented immigrants who pose any threat whatsoever. Obviously if there were any such people, ICE would be going after them, not this college student who has been here since she was a toddler and has no criminal record.

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

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The Embassy urged citizens to leave Iraq and warned the attacks may target both American people and entities like U.S. businesses, universities and diplomatic facilities.

Raskin: "The president might be taking from all of this the idea that he needs a more skilled fighter on his behalf, but in fact he should take it as a sign that the country has had enough of all of the obstructionism and cover up."

Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?

The automaker reported one of its worst sales quarters in years.

We’ve had presidents who didn’t understand economics, foreign policy, diplomacy, and lacked knowledge of historical lessons. But they were advised by people who did and listened to them. Now we have a president who doesn’t understand anything and won’t listen to people who do.

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Both Denmark and Iran made preparations to repel a ground invasion from the United States during the past month. 32 more months of this shit.

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