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Woker-than-Woke Retired Journalist. Pro-Democracy/Kindness/Peace. Anti-Trump/Musk/Hate/MAGA.

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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As ICE stages raids across L.A., local police and officials say they are left in the dark www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/u...
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Los Angeles officials say ICE keeps them in the dark on raids. That hurts protest response, police say | CNN
Some blame state’s sanctuary laws for why federal agents are keeping Los Angeles law enforcement at arm’s length.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RFK Jr. breaks promise to senators, guts CDC vaccine panel of independent experts Before his confirmation, the HHS secretary said he’d leave the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices alone. Now he’s doing the opposite. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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RFK Jr. breaks promise to senators, guts CDC vaccine panel of independent experts
Before his confirmation, the HHS secretary said he’d leave the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices alone. Now he’s doing the opposite.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump got shipped off to military school. Now we all pay the price. The president’s D.C. parade is an ego trip, 79th birthday party and boyhood fantasy rolled into one. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Trump got shipped off to military school. Now we all pay the price.
The president’s D.C. parade is an ego trip, 79th birthday party and boyhood fantasy rolled into one.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor’s wife apnews.com/article/orla...
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Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump vows to ‘HIT’ any protester who spits on police. He pardoned those who did far worse on Jan. 6 apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump vows to 'HIT' any protester who spits on police. He pardoned those who did far worse on Jan. 6
President Donald Trump is deploying a double standard in warning protesters against his immigration policies that they will get “hit” if they so much as spit on law enforcement.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Pentagon diverting key anti-drone technology from Ukraine to US forces in the Middle East www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/p...
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Pentagon diverting key anti-drone technology from Ukraine to US forces in the Middle East | CNN Politics
The Pentagon notified Congress last week that it will be diverting critical anti-drone technology that had been allocated for Ukraine to US Air Force units in the Middle East, according to corresponde...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Army parade will cause numerous D.C. street closures, some lasting four days Officials announced an extensive security plan for Saturday’s celebration along the National Mall, including drones, metal detectors and thousands of police officers www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Army parade will cause numerous D.C. street closures, some lasting four days
Security plan for Army parade will include numerous restrictions, including numerous street and waterway closures, with some roads shut down for four days.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
ABC News suspends Terry Moran after Trump administration condemns ‘hater’ post www.cnn.com/2025/06/08/m...
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ABC News suspends Terry Moran after Trump administration condemns ‘hater’ post | CNN Business
Veteran ABC News correspondent Terry Moran was suspended Sunday after he posted a highly critical assessment of President Trump and Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on the social media pla...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Coal and Gas Plants Were Closing. Then Trump Ordered Them to Keep Running. The grid operators that draw power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb extra costs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...
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Coal and Gas Plants Were Closing. Then Trump Ordered Them to Keep Running.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What’s a Couple to Do When One Works for Donald Trump and the Other for Elon Musk? Stephen Miller is a top aide to the president, while his wife, Katie Miller, recently left DOGE to work for Elon Musk. What now? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/s...
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What’s a Couple to Do When One Works for Donald Trump and the Other for Elon Musk?
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...
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Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
‘Death and hunger’: Videos, expert analysis and witnesses point to Israeli gunfire in Gaza aid site shooting www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/m...
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Videos, expert analysis and witnesses point to Israeli gunfire in deadly Gaza aid site shooting | CNN
A CNN investigation into a deadly incident near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their wa...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
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C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them apnews.com/article/trum...
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Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them
As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Elon Musk came to Washington wielding a chain saw. He leaves behind upheaval and unmet expectations apnews.com/article/musk...
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Elon Musk came to Washington wielding a chain saw. He leaves behind upheaval and unmet expectations
Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorith...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Smokey Robinson files $500m case against rape accusers www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Smokey Robinson files $500m defamation case against rape accusers
The case accuses four ex-housekeepers of fabricating allegations as part of an "extortionate" lawsuit.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Israel announces major expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israel announces major expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank
The biggest such move in years is condemned by the Palestinian presidency as a "dangerous escalation".
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
House Democrat launches investigation of Trump’s meme coin dinner Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Dem on the House Judiciary Committee, demanded the president turn over the names of the guests at the White House dinner for top investors in his meme coin. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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House Democrat launches investigation of Trump’s meme coin dinner
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland demanded that President Trump turn over the names of the guests at the White House dinner for top investors in his meme coin.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Israel Bombards Gaza Amid Chaos Surrounding Aid Handouts Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed more than 60 people over the past day, according to local health officials. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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Israel Bombards Gaza Amid Chaos Surrounding Aid Handouts
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
To Win Pardons, Trump Allies Echo His Claims of Political Prosecutions The president is increasingly using his clemency powers to undermine Justice Department cases against his supporters. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
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To Win Pardons, Trump Allies Echo His Claims of Political Prosecutions
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Shock court ruling on Trump tariffs throws business and trade partners into uncertainty A US federal court blocks President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, in a major blow to his economic www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...
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Shock court ruling on Trump tariffs throws business and trade partners into uncertainty
The White House says it will appeal a court ruling which found Trump did not have the authority to impose sweeping tariffs.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Pope Leo Will Address Chicagoans Via Video At Sox Park Celebration The newly installed pope — a White Sox fan — will deliver a “special video message to the young people of the world” at a Mass and celebration June 14 at Rate Field. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/27/p...
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Pope Leo Will Address Chicagoans Via Video At Sox Park Celebration
The newly installed pope — a White Sox fan — will deliver a "special video message to the young people of the world" at a Mass and celebration June 14 at Rate Field.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Elon Musk says Trump’s agenda bill ‘undermines’ DOGE mission www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/p...
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Elon Musk says Trump’s agenda bill ‘undermines’ DOGE mission | CNN Politics
Elon Musk raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package, saying in a video released Tuesday that he believes it would raise the US budget deficit and undercut e...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental rights. www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...
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Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental right...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Adidas says customer data stolen in cyber attack www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Adidas says customer data stolen in cyber attack
The sportswear giant says criminals accessed its systems through a "third-party customer service provider."
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Trump’s Bitter Personal Feud With Rival Billionaires Is Behind His Harvard Hate Campaign www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-bitte...
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Trump’s Bitter Personal Feud With Rival Billionaires Is Behind His Harvard Hate Campaign
Trump has a very personal beef with the college’s most senior member of its board of governors going back to his first real-estate deal.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
UnitedHealth’s collapse reveals the flaw at the heart of Medicare Advantage The nation’s largest insurer is stumbling from crisis to crisis. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | UnitedHealth’s collapse reveals the flaw at the heart of Medicare Advantage
The nation’s largest insurer is stumbling from crisis to crisis.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Elon Musk brought ‘the world’s biggest supercomputer’ to Memphis. Residents say they’re choking on its pollution www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/c...
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Elon Musk is building ‘the world’s biggest supercomputer.’ It’s powered with dozens of gas-powered turbines | CNN
xAI has moved into an abandoned factory promising jobs and investment. Residents and environmental groups say the new facility is bringing yet more pollution to community that’s long been fighting for...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Trump EPA drafting a rule that would undo decades of progress on limiting pollution from power plants www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/c...
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Trump EPA drafting a rule that would undo decades of progress on limiting pollution from power plants | CNN
The EPA rule would undo decades of progress on limiting US climate pollution and could drive up energy prices if expensive coal plants remain on the grid longer as a result.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
US envoy says Gaza ceasefire deal is on the table, as Israel prepares for ‘unprecedented attack’ www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/m...
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US envoy says Gaza ceasefire deal is on the table, as Israel prepares for ‘unprecedented attack’ | CNN
US special envoy Steve Witkoff has told CNN that a ceasefire-hostage deal for Gaza is currently on the table with a pathway to end the war, and urged Hamas to accept it.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Jerome Powell tells Princeton grads not to take universities for granted and that ‘integrity is all we have—guard it carefully’ fortune.com/2025/05/25/j...
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Jerome Powell tells Princeton grads not to take universities for granted and that 'integrity is all we have—guard it carefully'
"Our great universities are the envy of the world and a crucial national asset," Powell said.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The Kremlin claimed Donald Trump was showing signs of "emotional overload" after he called Vladimir Putin "absolutely crazy" following Moscow's largest aerial assault on Ukraine. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Kremlin calls Trump 'emotional' after US president says Putin is 'crazy'
Trump said that Vladimir Putin had gone "absolutely crazy" following massive aerial attacks on Ukraine.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Trump rages at Biden, judges in all-caps holiday message: ‘Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum’ Earlier in the day, the president reshared a post peddling his baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump rages at Biden and ‘scum’ judges in all-caps Memorial Day message
Earlier in the day, the president reshared a post peddling his baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Trump attacks opponents, judges on day honoring US war dead www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump attacks opponents, judges on day honoring US war dead
President Donald Trump marked the annual day for honoring the US war dead Monday by tearing into his "scum" opponents and judges who don't rule in his favor.Trump is locked in a series of court battle...
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface
Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
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For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV calls for end of Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and "sufficient humanitarian aid" to be let in www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-le...
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Pope Leo XIV calls for end of Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and "sufficient humanitarian aid" to be let in
Pope Leo XIV says the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, "the heartbreaking price of which is paid by children, the elderly, the sick," must end and food must be allowed in.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Pope Leo's family tree shows ties to a prominent Creole family of color in Louisiana The pope’s great-great-grandmother Celeste Lemelle was a free woman of color from a Creole family that made its wealth from cattle ranching. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
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Pope Leo's family tree shows ties to a prominent Creole family of color in Louisiana
The pope’s great-great-grandmother Celeste Lemelle was a free woman of color from a Creole family that made its wealth from cattle ranching.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP apnews.com/article/isra...
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Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Republican Bill Would Limit Judges’ Contempt Power Democrats have argued that House Republicans’ measure would rob courts of their power by stripping away any consequences for officials who ignore judges’ rulings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Republican Bill Would Limit Judges’ Contempt Power
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
These Hidden Provisions in the Budget Bill Undermine Our Democracy campaignlegal.org/update/these...
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These Hidden Provisions in the Budget Bill Undermine Our Democracy
President Donald Trump’s so-called “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” includes two provisions that would severely harm voters and threaten the rule of law.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Little-known provision in Trump tax bill could allow him to ignore court orders www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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Little-known provision in Trump tax bill could allow him to ignore court orders
A little-known provision in President Donald Trump’s tax bill could allow him to ignore court orders against him.
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EThompsonWV @notgoingback101.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
At Trump’s $148 m meme coin dinner, The #1 token holder was Chinese-born crypto mogul Justin Sun, who is currently facing Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges that were recently paused, with the agency citing “the public interest.” www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/t...
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At Trump's $148 million meme coin dinner, 'the food sucked' and security was lax, attendee says
Trump’s meme coin dropped 16% the morning after a black-tie gala for buyers, triggering political backlash that threatens to derail stablecoin legislation.
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