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Dustin Nolan, Emmy winning anchor at KWQC TV6 in the Quad Cities, quit live on air Friday. "We have to be more than sanitized news because it makes people feel uncomfortable. The facts matter." He did not name his reasons. He did not have to.

This is gross. www.richmonder.org/city-hall-is...

Fantastic!

I'm not OK.

I would love to live in the Terminal Tower or The May Company building! I love my hometown. <3

"“Hungary, when it comes to Russia, is a frog being slowly boiled alive.” I hope the people of my family's homeland chasten Orbán and his ilk.

THIS: "One of the injustices of life is that sometimes when a person is fired from their job, it’s assumed that it’s their fault. "It couldn’t be that the employer or manager mishandled the situation, that they misjudged an employee, or that they were unfair or incompetent."

NEW: NC state board of elections refuses to give students an early voting location at North Carolina A&T State University, the largest HBCU in the country

I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

No lies detected here.

Excellent.

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“Kids”

As a journalist who began her career at UNC's The Daily Tar Heel, this story sets off all my alarm bells.

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.

It was the honor of a lifetime to have met this icon of courage.

“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”

They’re rewriting history.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Let them eat cake.

Giving this speech while adjourning the house to cover-up the Epstein files belongs on the Mount Rushmore of hypocrisy. Amazing stuff, Speaker Johnson

If the man you continue to support fears the release of a list of pedophiles, you are *not* against pedophilia.

I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately. He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.

"Countless studies have shown that outcomes for citizens improve when members of the media ask probing questions of politicians. Press freedom correlates with less corruption in many countries."

Plato the Cat's back in his Greensboro home after being missing for 11 years greensboro.com/news/local/a...

"They heard 'kindness' and interpreted it as an attack. They heard 'immigrant' and reached for gang references. What does it say about your worldview when someone suggesting we should be nice to each other feels like a personal assault?"

Tax the churches, then.

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.

'Born on The Farce of July' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/born-on-th...

As an American whose grandparents/great-grandparents all immigrated from Hungary, this gives me so much hope for an end to the disgraceful Orban regime.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

"... he was saying that his own community was too stupid to understand their own material interests. A demographic notorious for voting according to the price of gasoline or eggs would gladly further impoverish itself for the sake of Trump’s vision, or so the mayor claimed."

Gross. On every level.

"DeSantis tweeted the DCF letter with a comment, 'Bottom feeders gonna bottom feed,' drawing a retort from Schweers. "'Why not respond to my numerous public records requests?' he wrote."

"In 2009, David Simon, creator The Wire and a onetime crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun, said, 'The next 10 to 15 years in this country are going to be a halcyon era for state and local political corruption,' he said. 'It is going to be one of the great times to be a corrupt politician.'”

Shots fired, Neil.

People realise that ripping citizens off the streets, ignoring the courts, defunding suicide hotlines for LGBTQI + people and establishing a “register” for kids on a neurodivergent spectrum is just the start, right?