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Temperature today: 90C It’s going down in LA; shit’s getting real There is an iconic photo of a young woman confronting a row of National Guards with a single chrysanthemum flower, which became a powerful image of the power of peaceful protest. There is a new image, a video of this time, of a young
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Temperature today: 75C Signs of the gathering storm There’s several kinds of bad news today, with a bit of good and perhaps some silly. Journalist Thom Hartmann reports on a small section of the House’s “Big Beautiful” reconciliation bill (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/20/2323374/-The-Final-Checkmate-Republicans-Move-to-Destroy-the-Balance-of-Powers?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web): “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation
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“It is one thing to understand the gravity of his intentions, but I think it is equally important to recognize that he is really bad at everything he tries to do.” — Rachel Maddow, 4-23-25 Temperature today: 50C. Who knows? We keep bouncing back and forth between terror and incompetent shitshow. Current events appear to
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