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32 years ago today, Mariah Carey released ‘Merry Christmas.’

12 years ago today, Taylor Swift released ‘1989.’

20 years ago today, Amy Winehouse released ‘Back To Black.’

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

14 years ago today, Taylor Swift released ‘Red.’

‘Moonlight’ was released 10 years ago today.

RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 12): The new NIH vaccine injury clinic is likely a sham designed to manufacture evidence of fake vaccines risks and offer a sop to MAHA. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de... via @sciencebasedmed.bsky.social @gorskon.bsky.social

$2000. That's how much your household has already spent this year on Trump's Middle East War. Congressional Republicans won’t lift a finger. It’s time to vote them out.

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Today is National Coming Out Day.

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem Pillay.

South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing human rights and international law. n.pr/4hOI08y

Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize. https://to.pbs.org/4yev2Y2

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

Everyone knows Fox News is a GOP propaganda outlet in service to Donald Trump. The last holdouts arguing otherwise at this late date are some combination of ignorant, naive, on the Fox payroll, lying to the public, or lying to themselves. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Don't forget that nearly all Republicans in Congress stood by and supported Trump's... -Tax cuts for the rich -Cuts to the social safety net -Iran War -ICE abductions & National Guard deployments -Inflationary tariffs -Blatant corruption His unpopularity is theirs too — and the midterms are here.

And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS

Happy 91st birthday to the legendary Julie Andrews.

Pathetic…..

25 years ago today, Britney Spears released “I’m a Slave 4 U.”

Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract.

The rogue Waymo that drove through a farmers market in Denver is a reminder that Colorado has no laws to issue citations for driverless vehicles and their actions.

15 years ago today, Carly Rae Jepsen released “Call Me Maybe.”

Madonna has opened the VMAs more times than any other artist in history, her 5th time including this year.

Eligible voters of the United States! Happy National Voter Registration Day! Not sure how to register to vote in the midterms? Or want to check your registration status? We have a guide for you at npr.org/vote

25 years ago today, Kylie Minogue released “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.”

Gloria Steinem's essays, organizing, and institutions like Ms. magazine reshaped American life for women. She understood that progress would provoke resistance, because, as she so eloquently put it... "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Happy 45th birthday to the legendary Beyoncé.

“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a major voice in the U.S. women’s movement for more than six decades, has died. She was 92. https://to.pbs.org/4zYGZTW

At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom. n.pr/3T6gEma

Women’s rights activists Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. She was most known as a nationally recognised leader of second-wave feminism in the U.S.

BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, the potent voice of the U.S. women’s movement and a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92.

The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google

He was smuggled out of Turkey in a catering container. But sure, action hero.

Really can't stress enough how deranged it's getting in the right-wing podcast space -- a main argument for the 2026 midterms is that Democrats want your Muslim neighbors to subjugate and/or murder you. www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer...

Dolly’s legacy will be felt in a million ways across East Tennessee, the nation and the world. We are honored to have documented part of that legacy in “The Library That Dolly Built.” We hope you watch the film, learn about the Imagination Library and consider supporting the program.

COMMENTARY: A whole lot of celebrities are loved. Dolly Parton loved you back.

So proud of my brother for having produced this documentary about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library that made clear the scope of one of Dolly’s many precious gifts to our world.

Dolly Parton's publicist says she died at a Nashville hospital after a brief battle with cancer.

Dolly Parton died "after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer," according to her publicist.

Dolly Parton has died at age 80. The country music icon's soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom. #DollyParton

They can't make you work past 5 on the day Dolly Parton dies, it's illegal

"We're all God's children. We all have a place in this world. We all need to be loved and respected," Dolly Parton told us in 2020. https://to.pbs.org/4wST7CV