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  1. DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.

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  2. Americans still don't seem to get it. Canadians aren't boycotting US products because of tariffs or trade wars—it's because the president has threatened to annex Canada.

    www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

    The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ...

    Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62% | CBC News

    The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ...

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  3. This is just sad. We’ve posted about this before. Now here is what is going down.

    The rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial in Orlando (created to honor the 49 lives lost in the 2016 shooting) has now become the target of state enforcement.

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  4. The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples.

    They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.

    A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

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  5. This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

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