College Graduations Avoid Major Disruption as Tensions Abate Commencement ceremonies have largely gone off without a hitch. What’s less clear is how protests and demands for divestment will evolve over the summer break. 05/15/2024 - 10:52 pm | View Link
Duke students walk out to protest Jerry Seinfeld's commencement speech in latest grad disruption Duke University students walked out of Sunday's commencement as speaker Jerry Seinfeld was introduced. Seinfeld has been a vocal Israel supporter. 05/12/2024 - 2:22 pm | View Link
These cities raised taxes — for child care. Parents say the free day care ‘changed my life’ A growing number of cities are passing tax increases to expand access to child care funding. For many parents caught in a nationwide crisis, the funding has been transformative. 05/7/2024 - 3:30 am | View Link
"He looks lost": Alarm after Trump's "mind blanks out" repeatedly during speech It’s a bad war. And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Trump said during a speech in Greensboro, North Carolina. Trump, who is 77 ... 03/4/2024 - 1:25 am | View Link
House committee votes to release Donald Trump’s tax returns – as it happened 2022 The federal government acknowledged in its filing to the supreme court that ending the restrictions will likely lead to “disruption and a temporary increase in unlawful border crossings”. 12/21/2022 - 11:21 am | View Link
Do you want to see your teeth while you are brushing them?
I go to the dentist for teeth cleanings regularly. I have no interest when he tries to use his little mirror, coaxing me to open wider to show me what's going on in my back left molar.
"I believe you," I scream.
The smart toothbrushes are very expensive and I rather put that money towards an excellent espresso maker.
Count me out.
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9A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a ‘unified Reich’ among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November,” the AP reports.
“The word ‘Reich’ is often largely associated with Nazi Germany’s Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the modern pan-German nation, unifying smaller states into a single Reich, or empire, in 1871.”
“President Joe Biden’s political operation raised $51 million in April — a significant decline from its March fundraising, according to totals released by his campaign Monday,” CNN reports.
“Biden’s campaign and affiliated committee still ended the month with $192 million in the bank, according to his aides — a war chest they described as the highest cash-on-hand figure for any Democratic candidate in history and one they say positions the president to compete effectively with former President Donald Trump.”
Senator Ron Johnson (Q-Moscow) is complaining again, which, in itself, is nothing new. The guy isn't happy unless he's complaining. Biden's saving people from the pandemic. Brown-skinned people are coming into the country. They're charging Fearless Leader for crimes that he committed. It never stops with him.
His latest cause for griping is that protesters are being allowed to exercise their Freedom of Speech near the forums of the RNC convention in Milwaukee this summer.
Tom Nichols: “Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, works for the totalitarian Ministry of Truth, where his assignment is to produce lies. He rewrites history so that whatever the regime says today cannot be contradicted by something it might have said yesterday. (He ensures, for example, that Big Brother’s ‘Order for the Day’ announcements about the regime’s achievements match up with everything the leader predicted in previous statements, and he excises any untidy references in the state media to people who have been arrested and disappeared.) Once history is fixed, Winston drops contradictory materials into ‘the memory hole,’ a small opening near every desk that leads to a furnace, where the inconvenient past is quickly incinerated.”
“Leaders of the current GOP presumably do not have such memory holes in their offices, but they’re doing their best to replicate the effect.
“An aide to Mayor Eric Adams who served as his longtime liaison to the Turkish community and whose home was searched by the FBI has been cooperating with the corruption investigation into the mayor and his 2021 campaign,“ the New York Times reports.
“The cooperation of the aide, Rana Abbasova, could represent a significant development in the broad corruption inquiry, which has focused in part on whether Mr.