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DiffEQ specializes in working with white-identifying organization leaders to help them navigate DEI efforts in environments where political polarization poses a significant barrier to effective non-performative equity program implementation.

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DiffEQ #EmbracingDifferenceofAllKinds @rachaelmcleod.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS 2.0 Lincoln, Nebraska! 10.18.25 @ 10:18 AM!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS 2.0 Lincoln, Nebraska! 10.18.25 @ 10:18 AM! · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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DiffEQ #EmbracingDifferenceofAllKinds @rachaelmcleod.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
No Kings Rally in Lincoln, Nebraska @ 10:15 state capitol
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 30/04/2025
On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house. It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025
Miriam Haley was the first to testify of the three women whose accusations are at the center of Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on sex abuse charges.
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Harvey Weinstein Pushed, Grabbed and Then Attacked, Witness Testifies in NYC Trial
Miriam Haley is the first to testify of the three women whose accusations are at the center of the disgraced producer’s retrial on sex abuse charges.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/04/2025
The Trump administration has started rounding up people with no criminal record, moving them so even their families and lawyers have no idea where they are, and deporting them even after a court has said not to. I'm fighting back.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
National Law Day of Action -- May 1st Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public lawdayofaction.org
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MS NOW @ms.now · 29/04/2025
“FBI agents burst into an Atlanta house with flash-bang grenades and guns drawn, but victims have struggled to hold the government accountable for their actions.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court considers lawsuit arising from 'wrong house' FBI raid
FBI agents burst into an Atlanta house with flash-bang grenades and guns drawn, but victims have struggled to hold the government accountable for their actions.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/04/2025
FBI agents handcuffed Hilliard Toi Cliatt and pointed a gun at him and Curtrina Martin while her son cowered in a bedroom. It was the wrong house. The Supreme Court will consider whether those impacted by such wrong-house raids can hold law enforcement officials accountable for their mistakes.
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Supreme Court asks: Can FBI be held liable for raiding the wrong house?
FBI agents handcuffed Hilliard Toi Cliatt and pointed a gun at him and Curtrina Martin while her young son cowered in a bedroom. It was the wrong house.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 29/04/2025
Tony Blair calls for radical reset of climate change policies in major intervention
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Tony Blair calls for radical reset of climate change policies in major intervention
Former PM warns climate policy has become disconnected from ‘political, public, and economic reality’ and claims COP is struggling to ‘deliver change at the speed required’
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/04/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It is grimly entertaining to see this most ‘masculine’ of administrations reflecting stereotypes about female behavior that long kept women out of power,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.
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Opinion | Trump’s Vicious Sewing Circle
Catfights abound in Trump’s macho world.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 25/04/2025
“Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is expected to endorse his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, for the Senate on Friday, just two days after longtime Sen. Dick Durbin said he would not seek a sixth term.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to endorse for Senate, lending his political muscle – and likely some resources
Pritzker is backing his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, who was the first candidate to enter what's expected to be a crowded field to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/04/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are bending the law so they can fire thousands of Social Security workers. They want to get rid of the people who make sure you get your monthly checks and help out if there’s a problem.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Trump Administration policies are centered identity politics, and they always have been. But too many only label politics so when the identities are Black, POC, LGBTQ, and then suddenly identity is fringe and problematic.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Coercing companies to purge dangerous DEI while enacting policies that will disrupt supply chains and lead to empty shelves and spiking prices. Ending dangerous DEI while promising to focus solely on military lethality. Ending dangerous DEI while those struggling to pay student loans to creditors.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I’m curious about how many “centrists” who STILL continue to blame progressives for focusing on fringe identity issues at the expense of so-called kitchen table issues will admit that’s exactly what Trump’s been doing by attacking “DEI” while throwing the economy and government into chaos.
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Careless People @carelesspeople.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Facebook was willing to hand the CCP the keys to the kingdom for access to the Chinese market. ❌privacy ❌free speech ❌free flow of information
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/04/2025
Scottish government failing women who can’t access later term abortions, campaigners say
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Scottish government failing women who can’t access later term abortions, campaigners say
Abortion rights group says ‘extremely vulnerable women’ are having to travel hundreds of miles to visit English clinics Campaigners have warned Scottish ministers that they are failing in their legal and moral duties as growing numbers of “extremely vulnerable women” have to travel hundreds of miles south because they cannot access later term abortions in Scotland. Not one of Scotland’s 14 regional health boards provide abortion care after 20 weeks except in the specific cases of foetal abnormality or threat to a woman’s life. This comes despite the Scottish government pledging to rectify this “explicit inequality” three years ago, and abortion being legal on broad grounds until 24 weeks across the UK. Continue reading...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result? Demagoguery and corruption.
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CNN @cnn.com · 21/04/2025
JUST IN: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared Yemen strike details in a second Signal chat that included his wife and brother, three sources told CNN. cnn.it/3EpM8fP
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I wrote about this too, in my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
It took me ten years and dozens of feminist essays from that
morning I wrote “Men Explain Things to Me” to realize that
I was not talking and writing, after all, about violence against
women, though I was reading about it incessantly. I was writing
about what it means not to have a voice and making the case for a
redistribution of that vital power. The crucial sentence in “Men Ex-
plain Things to Me” is “Credibility is a basic survival tool.” But I was
wrong that it’s a tool. You hold a tool in your own hands, and you
use it yourself. What it does is up to you.
Your credibility arises in part from how your society perceives
people like you, and we have seen over and over again that no mat-
ter how credible some women are by supposedly objective stan-
dards reinforced by evidence and witnesses and ­ well-​­ documented
patterns, they will not be believed by people committed to protect-
ing men and their privileges. The very definition of women under
patriarchy is designed to justify inequality, including inequality of
credibility.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Mary Beard, in her landmark 2014 essay "The Public Voice of Women" traces this silencing/dismissal/exclusion of women's voices (in Europe/Near East) cultures back to Telemachus telling his mother to shut up in The Odyssey.
There is something faintly ridiculous about this wet-behind-the-ears lad shutting up the savvy, middle-aged Penelope. But it’s a nice demonstration that right where written evidence for Western culture starts, women’s voices are not being heard in the public sphere; more than that, as Homer has it, an integral part of growing up, as a man, is learning to take control of public utterance and to silence the female of the species. The actual words Telemachus uses are significant too. When he says ‘speech’ is ‘men’s business’, the word is muthos – not in the sense that it has come down to us of ‘myth’. In Homeric Greek it signals authoritative public speech (not the kind of chatting, prattling or gossip that anyone – women included, or especially women – could do).

What interests me is the relationship between that classic Homeric moment of silencing a woman and some of the ways women’s voices are not publicly heard in our own contemporary culture, and in our own politics from the front bench to the shop floor. It’s a well-known deafness that’s nicely parodied in the old Punch cartoon: ‘That’s an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.’3 I want to look too at how it might relate to the abuse that many women who do speak out are subjected to even now, and one of the questions at the back of my mind is the connection between publicly speaking out in support of a female logo on a banknote, Twitter threats of rape and decapitation, and Telemachus’ put-down of Penelope.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Luke 24, King James version: "It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not."
The Holy Women at the Tomb" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Three women gathered in the stone doorway in their draperies, an angel in the luminous far side of that doorway, the women seemingly exclaiming in wonder...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell
Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/04/2025
President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales. Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
A snorkel diver gliding near a school of lime green fish in shallow water. Text reads: "Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing." Photo credit: Ian Shive/United States Fish and Wildlife Service
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Abramorama @abramorama.com · 17/04/2025
We're excited to share our collaboration with @imcivicaction.bsky.social to bring the incredibly inspiring and timely film, THE LAST CLASS to theaters. Read more about the acquisition from @deadline.com: deadline.com/2025/04/robe...
Deadline article titled Teaching Students, Schooling America: Robert Reich Documentary 'The Last Class' Acquired By Abramorama
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/04/2025
Demand that your members of Congress speak out against Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court, push for an end to the lawless abductions, and move to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home immediately. Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/constit...
Senator Van Hollen on Bluesky: “I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.”
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Witness Docs @ajwitness.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"Can you imagine coming across your mother in a museum half naked for the first time in 62 years?" Find out the incredible story behind a forgotten Australian Aboriginal statue: aje.io/NannyNellie
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 18/04/2025
We cover the serious dangers of a seemingly bureaucratic move by the White House that could allow DOGE & OMB to unlawfully cut or redirect funds with little oversight, enabling them to make decisions about taxpayer money without Congress or the public knowing. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-white-...
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The White House is covering up its spending decisions
We’re suing to force the executive branch to disclose how it’s spending taxpayer dollars
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
See how this works?
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DiffEQ #EmbracingDifferenceofAllKinds @rachaelmcleod.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 15/04/2025
Donald Trump wants you to think it’s justice vs. safety. That’s a lie. As VoteVets’ Max Rose put it: “There’s a false choice between justice, safety, and fairness.” We can have strong borders and defend the Constitution. Trump and the MAGA Party are losing this fight—and they know it.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/04/2025
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
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Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between the victims and an alleged attacker
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
DOGE officials engaged in a security breach from the National Labor Relations Board, likely taking data "on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets" unrelated to efficiency, and then tried to cover their tracks. If they are doing it here, no reason to assume they are not doing it elsewhere
Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Make sure you understand the SAVE Act, which will seriously suppress voting rights, not prevent fraud as its sponsors claim.
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CNN @cnn.com · 14/04/2025
Meta is going on trial starting today. The US government is advancing a blockbuster antitrust case, alleging that Mark Zuckerberg’s company illegally built a “social networking monopoly” through years of “anticompetitive conduct.”
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Meta faces antitrust charges in court, as the FTC calls the company an illegal monopoly | CNN Business
eta is going on trial starting Monday.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/04/2025
Billionaires won't feel the difference if public schools shut down — but students sure will. We’ve got to stick together, stand up, and fight back against Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attack on the Department of Education.
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Billionaires won't feel the difference if public schools shut down — but students sure will.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Gavin Kliger of DOGE arrived at IRS in February & said he was there to root out waste. He laid five government-issued laptops on a table. Then asked for a sixth. The DOGErs are juggling multiple high-stakes government jobs. It’s not necessarily efficient — or safe. Story w @faizsays.bsky.social.
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Some DOGE staffers hold high-powered jobs at multiple federal agencies
The practice, which has been questioned by ethics experts, may give Elon Musk’s allies influence well after he formally leaves the White House.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2025
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
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Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/04/2025
"It’s time for Africa to transform from the world’s raw materials store into its manufacturing powerhouse. By turning our mineral wealth into lasting prosperity, we can make foreign aid what it should have been all along: unnecessary." — #AJOpinion by Maxwell Gomera ⤵️
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Africa doesn’t need aid. It needs control over its critical minerals
African countries can break aid dependency by simply capturing the full value of their mineral resources.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/04/2025
Trump’s on-and-off-again tariffs leave the door wide open for billionaire corporations to suck up for corrupt deals — while leaving small businesses, farmers, and families out in the cold. Congress must rein in Trump’s worldwide tariffs by shutting off his bogus emergency.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/04/2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Looks like he’s getting a big return on his investment.
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Apple, Nvidia Score Reprieve from Trump Tariffs With Exemptions
President Donald Trump’s administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, representing a major reprieve for global technology manufacturers i...
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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2025
The funds had been initially withheld following President Trump's clash with Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the issue of transgender athletes.
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Federal judge orders USDA to unfreeze funds to Maine
The funds had been initially withheld following President Trump's clash with Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the issue of transgender athletes.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/04/2025
Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"In addition to the check delays, Mayes said her office has received complaints about other Social Security disruptions..." ktar.com/arizona-news...
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Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams.com · 10/04/2025
In these times of turbulence, how do we stand firm—and stay engaged? On today’s Assembly Required, we talk with @ryan-holiday.bsky.social about how stoicism and taking action have worked for centuries. Listen in: crooked.com/podcast/less...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/04/2025
A Florida high school teacher lost her job after calling a student by an alternative name without parental permission, sparking community backlash in the conservative birthplace of Moms for Liberty as school officials sought to comply with state law.
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Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name
It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 10/04/2025
This is the Commander-in-Chief? Trump accidentally calls the wrong McMaster, then yells at him—and we’re supposed to trust him with our national security and the lives of our Troops? This isn’t leadership. It’s a liability. MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcm...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/04/2025
Some young workers are leaving an extended gap between jobs to invest in other parts of their life. But not everyone wants to call it a sabbatical: Some people prefer the term “mini-retirement” or “micro-retirement.”
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To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements’
Some young people are spending their savings on an extended break earlier in their careers rather than waiting until retirement.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/04/2025
Andrew Tate told woman ‘I’m debating whether to rape you’, court told
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Andrew Tate told woman ‘I’m debating whether to rape you’, court told
Claims by four women are filed at high court, including of rape, coercive control and assault and battery Andrew Tate told a woman he was “debating whether to rape you or not” before he strangled and forced himself upon her, according to one of four women suing the self-proclaimed misogynistic influencer. He is also accused of whispering “good girl” as he raped a woman he employed at his webcam business whom he had separately threatened with a gun, and strangling another so often that she developed spots from burst capillaries around her eyes. Continue reading...
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