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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

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BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

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CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

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Replying to @raskin.house.gov

Most of the draconian cuts kick in just AFTER the Nov. 2026 midterms. They are so cowardly they don't want the impacts felt before the election. They ARE ashamed of their brutality. So let people know, loudly in every midterm, what's coming to them and WHO DID IT.

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whether you like AOC or not, that's a fucking bar bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

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Replying to @yasharali.bsky.social

Jackass implying that employees are too incompetent to itemize their accomplishments. Completely ignoring the idiocy of soliciting millions of emails from people with no reasonable way of evaluating them. To say nothing of having no true authority. Musk is the incompetent one in this scenario.

Exactly!

Eric Holder@ericholder.bsky.social

DEI and affirmative action are designed to ensure equal opportunity for everyone not a guaranteed result for a few. There is not a tension between these efforts and excellence and equality For those opposed to the concepts I have two words : Pete Hegseth. Explain that and your commitment to quality

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Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy.

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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice" -- MLK, 4/16/63, Letter from Birmingham Jail

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social

WASHINGTON POST EDITOR: “All right, everyone, we need a euphemism for ARMED REBELLION—and we need it stat. The Big Guy’ll be pissed if we call what a man whose Inauguration he just gave a million to did in 2021 ARMED REBELLION. Obviously SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY is right out. So come on, people, ideas!”