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Judge holds Trump in contempt, fines him $9,000 and raises threat of jail in hush money trial
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Bwahaha guess who is now obligated to attend a high school graduation ceremony?
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War Zone Surveillance Technology Is Hitting American Streets
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I can fit into my favorite pair of jeans again!
By Aristus - 19 sec ago - Last reply 19 sec ago

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Texas AG Ken Paxton shows up in NYC to support former President Donald Trump at his criminal trial
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Joint Democratic Leadership Statement on Motion to Vacate
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MTG melts down after 'slimy' Mike Johnson gets bailed out by House Dems
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Live Updates: Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campus
By oldsoftie - 7 hrs ago - Last reply 2 min ago

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Have you or a friend or family member ever known someone famous?
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Environment & Energy
New Internal Big Oil Documents Just Dropped
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Pic Of The Moment: He's Being Silenced!
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Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk
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Image Dump 4/30/24 👀
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For GOP, Marjorie Taylor Greene's vacate gambit looks like a dud
By LetMyPeopleVote - 3 min ago - Last reply 3 min ago

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We still have an opportunity
By EndlessWire - 13 min ago - Last reply 4 min ago

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Lonely dog finds home after 5 years
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So, Bill Barr's job was actually catch and kill for the orange anus?
By deminks - 1 hr ago - Last reply 4 min ago

Omaha Steve's Labor Group
Boeing firefighters picket in Everett for better pay
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Ted Cruz Wants Airlines to Keep Your Cash When They Cancel Your Flight
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Humor
Tuesday TOONs
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Fox News Quietly Deletes Hunter Biden 'Mock Trial' Special Following Lawsuit Threat
By Nevilledog - 44 min ago - Last reply 5 min ago

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Columbia protesters occupy building, smashing windows; worker: 'They held me hostage'
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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
By demmiblue - 49 min ago - Last reply 6 min ago

California
California's population increased last year for first time since 2020
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Cable News Clips
Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponized Antisemitism, Silencing Dissent
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Coming out.
By Kath2 - 21 hrs ago - Last reply 6 min ago

Washington
How did a Russian oligarch's seized superyacht end up in Everett?
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Latest Breaking News
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
By BumRushDaShow - 4 hrs ago - Last reply 9 min ago

Birders
Mr. + Mrs. Osprey on nest, otd 2021
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Are ghosts real?
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Ignoring the mainstream media's sensational hype of the 2024 election, things are not nearly so bad as you think.
By lees1975 - 2 hrs ago - Last reply 11 min ago

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People here are "sick" of Israeli/Palestine Posts. But it goes beyond this topic.
By question everything - 12 hrs ago - Last reply 11 min ago

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Biden-Harris campaign statement on Trump endorsing prosecuting and punishing women who have abortions
By LetMyPeopleVote - 53 min ago - Last reply 11 min ago

Economy
US Department of Labor Seeks Court Order to Stop Alleged Retaliation by Tennessee Farm
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Are We Sure That The Columbia University Protesters Are All.....
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Wordle 1046 (Apriil 30) **SPOILER ALERT**
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Opinion The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum)
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Bwahaha guess who is now obligated to attend a high school graduation ceremony?
By intrepidity - 25 replies @ 13 min ago (Milestone)

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The longest, strangest trip: Some psychedelic drug users are stuck with unwelcome highs
By Zorro - 13 min ago - Last reply 13 min ago

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The posts that Merchan ordered Trump take down are now gone
By demmiblue - 24 min ago - Last reply 13 min ago

Washington
Washington seeks to fix discrimination from racially restrictive property deeds
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Kavanaugh draws the wrong lesson from Ford's 1974 Nixon pardon
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"Ballot Roll-Off". I had NO idea what this meant.
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What are typical sentences for felony convictions when the defendant has dementia? Asking for a... well, asking.
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They don't want to be a democracy, because it sounds too much like Democrat
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BOOM! Trump fined! Contempt. MSNBC
By lindysalsagal - 4 hrs ago - Last reply 15 min ago

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Is Trump getting desperate?
By Kablooie - 20 min ago - Last reply 16 min ago

Health
Mammograms Start Age 40, New Guidelines; Colon Cancer Rising, Young Adults, Screen: NPR
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Nancy Pelosi slammed Katy Tur just now.
By Funtatlaguy - 22 hrs ago - Last reply 16 min ago

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This is a real photo of Trump heading back into the courtroom today.
By demmiblue - 33 min ago - Last reply 17 min ago

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Mouse on a cat's belly:
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States are required to background check child care workers. Many are falling short.
By Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin - 18 min ago - Last reply 18 min ago

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"Judge Lets Trump Attend Son Barron's Graduation During Hush Money Trial--After Trump Blasts Judge"
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Mood:
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'Give It to Me!': Angry Georgia Cop Follows Man Home, Tases Him, Breaks His Leg Because He 'Stole' An Officer's Ballpoin
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J&J, Bristol Myers lose challenges to US drug price negotiation program
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Live Updates: Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campus
By oldsoftie - 25 replies @ 22 min ago (Milestone)

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Baby kookaburra:
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Biden Did That...
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Inside an Abortion Clinic Days Before Florida's Six-Week Ban Takes Effect
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Images show US military building floating pier off Gaza. Pentagon says it will cost $320 million
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I halp.
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'Donald Trump Did This': How to Beat MAGA on Border Security
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Hello Humans. My name is Commander.
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Trump says 'Biden, I am sure, will be prosecuted' in explosive Time Magazine interview
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Found on FB
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Puppy-killing Kristi Noem may have brought us together
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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
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My Mom had a wringer washer and a clothes line. Yes I am old & I want a clothes line again
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Elise Stephanic Files Ethics Complaint Against Jack Smith
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Compare and contrast...
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Border Patrol Agents Joked About Killing Migrant Children, Records Show
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2nd tweet--The better part of valor:
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Why Trump's lies about his ongoing criminal trial in N.Y. matter
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Protests, Privilege, and Hypocrisy Opinion
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estrogen mafia.
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2nd tweet--Owls:
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Cartoons 4-30-2024
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Foreign Affairs
Russia Seizes More Western Assets as Russian Companies Buy Back Shares at Huge Discounts to Market - Joe Blogs
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Gun Control & RKBA
Minnesota House approves 1 gun bill, tables 2 others
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Forum Spotlight: Science

On this day, April 30, 1916, mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist Claude Shannon was born.
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These Hardy Plants Have Figured Out How to 'Farm' Microbes in Their Soil
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Chickens Can Blush When They're Feeling Emotional, And We Should Pay Attention
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Latest Breaking News

US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
49 min ago - AP

Democrats say they will save Speaker Mike Johnson's job if Republicans try to oust him
1 hr ago - AP

Judge holds Trump in contempt, fines him $9,000 and raises threat of jail in hush money trial
4 hrs ago - AP

Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
4 hrs ago - The Guardian

In unusual push, funders band together to get out grants around election work 'early'
4 hrs ago - ABC News/AP

Updated federal workplace guidelines protect pronouns, bathrooms and abortion
5 hrs ago - The Hill

GOP lawmakers say Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to vacate has fizzled
6 hrs ago - Axios

Ex-NSA staffer gets 21 years for trying to sell defense information to 'friends' in Russia
6 hrs ago - USA Today

Live Updates: Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campus
7 hrs ago - WaPo

Kansas lawmakers' effort to override governor's veto of gender-affirming care ban fails
7 hrs ago - CNN Politics

Five Republican-led states sue over Biden's new Title IX transgender protections
8 hrs ago - NBC News

J&J, Bristol Myers lose challenges to US drug price negotiation program
8 hrs ago - Reuters

Feds testing ground beef sold where dairy cows were stricken by bird flu
9 hrs ago - CBS News

4 officers fatally shot, 4 injured while serving warrant in Charlotte
13 hrs ago - Washington Post

Regulator Investigates Ford's Hands-Free Driving System After Fatal Crashes
17 hrs ago - Wall Street Journal

Cornell says it's suspending students after they refused offer to move encampment to an alternate location
18 hrs ago - CNN

Matt Gaetz gets last-minute primary challenger
18 hrs ago - Axios

Advanced automatic braking systems to be standard on new cars by 2029
18 hrs ago - Washington Post

FCC fines US wireless carriers over illegal location data sharing
19 hrs ago - Reuters

U.S. Navy, Army ships building floating pier for Gaza aid. Pentagon estimates cost at $320 million
19 hrs ago - PBS News Hour/AP

OAN Retracts and Apologizes for False Story About Key Trump Trial Witness
20 hrs ago - Daily Beast

Prosecutors won't retry Arizona border rancher on murder charge after hung jury
20 hrs ago - Arizona Daily Star

Columbia University begins suspending students after warning to clear out of protest camp
20 hrs ago - NBC News

Michigan AG executes search warrants on Google and X in ongoing 2020 fake electors probe
20 hrs ago - CNN Politics

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador Discuss Migration in Latest Call
21 hrs ago - US News and World Report/AP

'Rest of life in prison': RNC official frets about 'decades' in jail in fake elector case
22 hrs ago - msn

Paramount says CEO Bob Bakish is stepping down
22 hrs ago - CNBC

House and Senate negotiate bill to help FAA add more air traffic controllers and safety inspectors
22 hrs ago - ABC News/AP

"Unethical behavior": Sarah Huckabee Sanders knew about Trump hush payments, David Pecker testifies
22 hrs ago - Salon

'Numerous' officers hurt in 'active' east Charlotte shooting, CMPD says
23 hrs ago - WSOCTV

G7 agrees to shut down coal plants by 2035, UK minister says, in climate breakthrough
23 hrs ago - CNN World

Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News 'imminently'
23 hrs ago - nbc

West Virginia and North Carolina's transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule
Yesterday - ABC News/AP

FDA brings lab tests under federal oversight in bid to improve accuracy and safety
Yesterday - NBC News/AP

California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a generic opioid overdose reversal drug
Yesterday - UK Independent

French police break up Gaza war protest at the Sorbonne in Paris
Yesterday - France 24

Hunter Biden demands that Fox News remove 'intimate' images from its platforms
Yesterday - CNN Politics

Turning point: COVID-era hospital reporting set to end
Yesterday - Axios

Push to restrict LGBTQ+ rights hits a snag in state legislatures
Yesterday - Washington Post

Trump, GOP seize on campus protests to depict chaos under Biden
Yesterday - Washington Post

9 people are on trial in Germany over an alleged far-right coup plot
Yesterday - ABC news

Likely missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targets a container ship in the Red Sea
Yesterday - ABC News/AP

Trump shoves Kari Lake out of Mar-a-Lago and frets she'll be electoral liability: report
Yesterday - raw story

Cruz proposal for lawmakers facing threats to get special airport security escorts is blocked
Yesterday - The Hill

Peter Navarro's get-out-of-jail request is again rejected by the Supreme Court
Yesterday - CNN Politics

Philips settles suits over its DreamStation sleep apnea machines for $1.1 billion
Yesterday - CBS News/AFP

Supreme Court Rejects Musk's 'Twitter Sitter' Appeal in SEC win
Yesterday - Bloomberg

Blinken to Hamas: Accept Israel's 'extraordinarily generous' Gaza truce proposal
Yesterday - Reuters

Florida 'callously' strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law
Yesterday - The Guardian

VP Harris seeks to energize Black voters with economic opportunity tour
Yesterday - Reuters

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