When will the Trump administration demand nonwhite players be removed from sports? Will they start with the NCAA?
Will they take a different approach, pointing to rich Black athletes to tell us there is no racism in America's racism?
Why is it wrong to wear an N95 mask to protect yourself from airborne disease, but not wrong to wear a gator covering a federally-employed mugger and kidnapper's facial features?
This is the world that Ronald Reagan built.
[NYTimes]: Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said he was briefed on the U.S. government’s intelligence on Iran last week and that “Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States.” “Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon,” he wrote in an online post. “The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.” By Edward Wong
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Who do Senate Republicans love?
It certainly isn't anyone who can’t afford to pay for health insurance or sufficient food to feed their families.
No, it's their biggest and best corporate political donors who just happen to be the same corporations making ever larger portions of the world unliveable.
Senate Bill Gives Giant Tax Break to Big Oil - The American Prospect
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Senate Bill Gives Giant Tax Break to Big Oil
A provision inserted by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) would exempt many domestic oil and gas drillers from having to pay any corporate taxes.David Dayen (The American Prospect)
And I’m willing to bet I know who is already filling the void: “The vast majority of the job cuts, intended to be a permanent reduction in the size of the workforce, affects Voice of America, the government-owned international network that has beamed news reports to countries under autocratic regimes since World War II.” 🤬
#Politics #USPolitics #VoiceOfAmericaSilenced #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
Iran-Israel War News Today LIVE: US Strikes Iran Nuclear Sites Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan B-2 Stealth Bombers Donald trump Latest News Updates
Iran US Israel News LIVE Updates: US President Donald Trump Saturday night announced that the US military has struck three nuclear sites in Iran — Fordow,BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
126 years ago #onthisday, somewhere near the South Pole...
From Frederick A. Cooke's Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898–1899, in which he writes about a night lasting 2 months, experienced as part of the ill-fated Belgica expedition. More here publicdomainreview.org/collect… #OTD
Through the First Antarctic Night (1900)
Journal of one of the first to spend winter on Antarctica, including more than 2 months of total darkness.The Public Domain Review
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Trump Says Key Nuclear Sites Were 'Obliterated' (New York Times)
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Trump Says Key Nuclear Sites Were ‘Obliterated’
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Republicans express concern about lack of Trump trade deals (The Hill)
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Republicans express concern about lack of Trump trade deals
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Virgin Australia’s IPO prospects are helped by its heavy focus on a strong domestic market | CAPA – Centre for Aviation
Virgin Australia's move to launch an initial public offering (IPO) highlights the airline's substantial footprint in a booming domestic market, and the debutBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Trump strikes Iran hard, and the world waits for what comes next (Dan Balz/Washington Post)
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Trump strikes Iran hard, and the world waits for what comes next
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DNC leader faces growing scrutiny amid party turmoil (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
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DNC leader faces growing scrutiny amid party turmoil
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Luxon starts Europe trip remembering NZ’s past WWI sacrifice
Christopher Luxon's Europe trip has opened with the Prime Minister paying tribute to New Zealanders who served in World War I in Belgium's historic Ypres.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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