Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Testifies Before Congress

Supporters of Donald Trump reportedly celebrated his felony conviction at a rally in Racine, Wisconsin. During coverage before the former president's scheduled rally on Tuesday, reporters for RSBN said there was a celebratory atmosphere at the rally over Trump's recent 34 felony convictions. "We see so many shirts with people kind of celebrating with President Trump when it comes to being a felon and the conviction," one RSBN reporter noted.

Today is Juneteenth, a newly-minted federal holiday just a couple of years old, but a holiday steeped in tradition and celebration for African-American communities dating back to June 19, 1865, when federal officers arrived in Galveston, Texas with the news that Black people enslaved in that state were free. It has been marked as a "second independence day" since then. From the Biden Administration's proclamation: On June 19, 1865, freedom finally came for the 250,000 enslaved people of Texas.

I'm sorry, there's just no other way to say it. Republicans, as an entity, hate this country. They hate it for its diversity, embrace of science, choice to look forward instead of backwards and so much more. They're resentful little gnomes, hateful, pathetic and scared they can't measure up in modern times--because they can't. In this incredible rant by Heartland Signal Chicago and AM950 Minneapolis host, he points out how Republicans can't get the past or the future right.

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…Flipping Congress Is Absolutely Essential To Keep MAGA In Check There are 12 different versions of this ad and Spencer, the Blue America digital director— who made them— is testing them on Facebook and Instagram now. The one that people like the most is the one we’ll run. The idea is to raise campaign contributions for the Blue America candidates.

It must be somebody pretty important in your life to warrant a personal airport pickup at 3 a.m. But that’s the honor North Korean “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Un paid to Vladimir Putin on Wednesday morning, greeting the Russian President on a red carpet-laid runway in the wee hours and then riding with him through Pyongyang streets festooned with roses and murals of his stout, balding guest, whom Kim had earlier hailed as an “invincible comrade-in-arms.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The last time Putin visited North Korea, it was his first year as Russian President and Kim was still ensconced under a fake name at a Swiss boarding school.