So much depends on whether our system, and our leaders, speak to what is best in us - or what is worst in us.

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

“When you pull billions out of the WHO and dismantle frontline USAID programmes, you gut the exact surveillance system meant to catch these viruses early. We are seeing the direct, deadly consequences of treating global health security as an optional expense.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

BREAKING: San Diego police are responding to an ‘active but contained’ reported shooting at an Islamic center. This is a developing story.

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The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency in the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda. MS NOW's Britt Miller has more.

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🔊ON 👇🏾 I Speak Her Name: Carol Ruby Davis, #Haida #MMIWG #MMIWG2S #Indigenous #FirstNations

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Civil rights veterans see history repeating after high court guts Voting Rights Act reut.rs/4ulBJXh

#JrMenTrad @ #TunicaBiloxi 🎶Meskwaki-Nation🎶 on the vibes 🥁 🎵

oh my holy bananas where do they find these people www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

Dump #DataCenters Solidarity Event · Hosted by Salt Lake Indivisible Saturday, May 23 11am – 12:30pm MDT #Utah State Capitol 350 N State St #SaltLakeCity Stand with the residents of Box Elder and stand against the planned mega Data Center. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/952840/

🔊ON & UP 😂'👇🏾🧒🏽Opal Chasenah 🥰he's just a little man, wise beyond his years. Thank you for sharing him with us. #Gourd Dance. #PowWow' (FB VID: Celena Renae Romo. May 16, 2026) #GourdDance #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

Fact Check: There is zero evidence that the 2020 election was rigged.

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Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

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Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

Marching in Alabama… same bridge, same fight, different century… (H/T @memphisforall )

"Taiwan will absolutely not be sacrificed or traded," President Lai Ching-te posted online in response to comments by Trump and Xi that frazzled Taiwan and elsewhere. Taiwan's future must be decided by its own people and its "sovereignty cannot be violated or annexed", Lai wrote, Reuters reported.

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One of four Canadians who returned home from a cruise ship where there was a hantavirus outbreak received a "presumptive positive" test result for the virus, Canadian officials said. https://cnn.it/4wzDNw5

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🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'✨🐴🪶 Ahéhee (Thank You) @gatheringofnations for The Beautiful Memories… “Tashina RedHawk #HorseDance Special”🐴🪶✨ ✨ #GatheringofNations #GoN #GoN26 #LastDance #PowWow' (FB VID: Truman Tsosie. May 16, 2026) #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

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🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'🥁Southern Cree. #PowWow' (FB VID: Bobbie Rainey. May 16, 2026) 🥁 #SouthernCree #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'🥁Bull Horn. #PowWow' (FB VID: Bobbie White. May 16, 2026) 🥁 #BullHorn #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

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Eric Trump "claimed the Trump family’s assets are entirely controlled through a blind trust and their securities are in market indexes" www.forbes.com/sites/alison... So. That makes it all okay?👁️🤦 Do they also have money stashed in tax-avoidance havens? 🤷

Trump Wall St stock investments: "According to documents submitted to the US Office of Government Ethics, more than 3,600 financial transactions took place between January and March, totaling an estimated $220 million to $750 million." www.aol.com/articles/jes... #InsiderTrading 👁️🤷 #law

"Nearly 60% of those detained have no criminal convictions... 'When it was built in the middle of the Everglades last summer, officials said they needed to put it out there because they were going to house the worst of the worst... Clearly that’s not the case'..." www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...

"As they rushed into his apartment...he felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his ankle, knocking him to the floor. He screamed as the dog tore the flesh from his thighs, hip and wrist. Down the hall, agents took a mother and her 16-yr-old son at gunpoint..." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

“Tseshaht First Nation has issued a water advisory for scheduled water main flushing and cleaning taking place next week.” cheknews.ca/do-not-use-w... - @cheknews.ca #PortAlberni #TseshahtFirstNation

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'🥁 Southern Cree: Saturday afternoon contest • Loon Lake 26’ #PowWow 🇨🇦 #Canada 🥁' (FB VID: May 16, 2026) 🥁 #SouthernCree #Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'🥁 Mato Pejuta Singers: #NewSong testin’ it out #NaNa #GoldenAgeMen #Traditional. #PowWow' (FB VID: May 16, 2026) 🥁 #MatoPejuta #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

Leak came out last night showing that a US backed Bolivian hit is being planned to kill Evo Morales, previous leftist president of Bolivia and loudest insurgent of the anti-Paz, pro-Fascist uproar in the country right now. Everyone needs to be talking about this. vxtwitter.com/Ollie_Vargas...

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"Democratic candidate Mary @marypeltola.com called for congressional term limits and for strengthening campaign finance laws at a rally in front of the #Alaska State Capitol in Juneau" alaskabeacon.com/2026/05/16/a... “We’ve got to enact term limits. We’ve got to stop insider trading...” Congress

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'🥁 Tommy "The Gun" Benjamin. La Pointe Wellbriety #Round Dance 2026' (FB ViD: Sugar Shane Webster. May 15, 2026) #RoundDance #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'✨ #Northern #Traditional Dancers / #FortMcDowell #Powwow ’26✨✨🎯 #SharpShooterSingers 🥁✨' (FB VID: Truman Tsosie. May 15, 2026) #MensTraditional #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

Here's a list of #MentalHealth 📞resources in 🇨🇦 #Canada Suicide Crisis Helpline 9-8-8 Crisis Services 🇨🇦 #Canada 1-833-456-4566 Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 First Nations - Hope for Wellness 1‑855‑242-3310 National IRS 1-866-925-4419 LGBTQ National Hotline 1-888-843-4564

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan on Friday, the country's weather agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage." gulfnews.com/world/magnit... #eq #wx seismic climate

Ban stock trading by the President. Ban stock trading by the Vice President. Ban stock trading by members of Congress. End the corruption.

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