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Update 10/05/2025
Today’s Dad Joke: Why do bakers work so hard? Because they knead the dough. ……………………………. From The New Yorker: Back in January, during his Inaugural Address, Donald Trump declared that “after years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression,” he would issue an executive order “to immediately stop all government Continue reading
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Update 09/27/2025
So Trump is still trying to get to Letitia James, the prosecutor who got him: Following a three-month trial, a New York judge concluded that Trump and his family had committed a decade of business fraud by overstating the value of their properties to get favorable loan terms, fining Trump and his sons nearly half a Continue reading
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Update 08/31/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. As in: “Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies,” said Allie Continue reading
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Update 08/10/2025
And so goes the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its reliable data: With no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Then he ordered her fired and replaced with someone else — presumably someone whose data Trump will Continue reading
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