This week's cover @thelancet.com

Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

#TeamAnnaLeigh Pickleball Slam pits Anna Leigh Waters against Andre Agassi in battle of sports and sexes www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...

Do people have any idea how many consecutive stupid decisions have to cascade in order for this specific incident to occur

Russian Duma speaker Volodin claims the drones that entered Poland were a “European provocation,” insisting they came from Ukraine. Well, their society will believe it.

"President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States" It should be noted that @rollingstone.com is as much corporate media as @nytimes.com yet is able to write in plain and clear language about what's happening. No euphemisms. No laundering bad-faith morons & weirdos

Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are, with thousands of migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...

The unexplained death of a top Russian oil executive on July 4 is fueling renewed scrutiny over the rising number of high-profile Russian officials and businessmen who have died under mysterious circumstances, specifically, have fallen out of windows.

In addition to gutting Medicaid, Trump's Billionaire Bill adds 175 BILLION TO ICE, which gives it a bigger budget than some countries' entire military budget. What will Trump do with ICE and 10,000 "agents?"

Alcatraz inmates had due process. They were found guilty via judge/jury.Men who completed their sentences were released. When I toured the closed prison, a former inmate was there signing his paperback book he wrote about his experience. Alcatraz was not a concentration camp. #AlligatorAuschwitz

Fort Worth, Texas today! #MarchOfDissent #NoKings #HandmaidsTale

Just what we need. Fascist ICE thugs who are completely protected from accountability by the Republicans. And so America moves one step closer to becoming Nazi Germany.

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 2022: We lost 21 angels at Robb Elementary in #Uvalde. We must never forget those 19 precious children and two teachers and work to protect all students and educators from gun violence.

Never forget. Robb Elementary School. Uvalde, Texas. May 24, 2022 #Uvalde #GunRefirm

While many Americans were still asleep, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed Trump’s huge, horrible mega-bill. It might be the worst, most damaging piece of legislation I’ve seen in my nearly 60 years in politics.

Mathematics is no longer taught at more than 450 South African public schools, raising alarm among education experts, unions and civil society.

Many of the unsolicited pizza deliveries have gone to judges presiding over lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s policies.

The vice president of the USA rooting for the German party that includes neo-Nazis is quite a thing. And it’s not the most popular party. Maybe that’s Vance’s fantasy.

Munis ≠ general. VERY low turnout. And when the rubber meets the road, Rs are going to vote for the R in a general. You can assume “moderate Rs” will win primaries and save us. But Rs will ultimately do what the Party demands. Rs like Charlie Geren just voted for vouchers. 2/3

He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution. Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.” Translation: No. Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.

Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. popular.info/p/new-oklaho...

Louisiana sends children to the adult Jackson Parish Jail, where kids say they're abused and held in solitary confinement. Investigators found the facility violated state rules 83 times between July and February—almost 12 times more than the second-worst lockup. theappeal.org/jackson-pari...

My story again, this time at @politico.com. Great timing, another day, another grant rejection. My research investigating how #COVID increases Alzheimer's chances is suddenly not relevant to the U.S anymore. Will the last one out please turn off the lights. #BRAINDRAIN #SpeakOut

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

The process was so messy that eight women were among those flown to be incarcerated in the Salvadoran prison, an all-male facility, and had to be swiftly returned.

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

At RFK Jr’s direction, HHS plans to cut the National Suicide Hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

This is happening at the same time that Texas Republicans, at the behest of the insurance lobby, are trying to cap personal injury settlements using McDonald's hot coffee-type propaganda.

Wow, latest Heather Cox Richardson podcast drop is one of those worth a full 2nd listen. #LettersFromAmerica

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

From Shelby Tauber in 2024: All these women I met and photographed wanted to be mothers. These women are among the millions in Texas who now have substantially less authority over their bodies. Our bodies.

My CPA friend Patricia has some points to make.

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

I just asked the question everyone’s thinking: Does HB 44 enforce the 1925 abortion ban? Texas Alliance for Life said it themselves –– this bill doesn’t change that law “one iota.” HB 44 is a rare chance to give doctors the clarity they need to save women’s lives.

The May price of West Texas Intermediate is 👀 www.cnbc.com/quotes/@CL.1

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5