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A story you need to read today:
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-criminal-clerk-calvin-duncan-exonerated-d247677aa601a85cac604645d50fc739?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-04-09-A+new+legal+fight

Exonerated man fights to hold his newly elected post despite GOP challenge

A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmakers are racing to eliminate the position. Duncan won the clerk's office by promising to fix a system that failed him when he was trying to prove his innocence. Now, Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are seeking to shutter the office Duncan won. Senate Republicans passed a bill Wednesday to eliminate the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court, saying it's part of a broader judicial overhaul. New Orleans is a predominantly Black and Democratic city, while the state Legislature is mostly white.

AP News

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Sintas 6d ago

@TransitBiker There's no proof the assassination attempt was staged either. I'm very concerned at the amount of Democrats, who are supposed to be a rational alternative to Republicans, falling into conspiracism like their opponents.

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Sintas 6d ago

Democratic tax cuts aren't even electorally viable. Harris campaigned on all kinds of tax credits and deductions. Who won? The guy who proposed and passed the "Big Beautiful Bill."

Sintas 6d ago

Revisiting this article, I still agree with the critics of Booker, Porter, etc. Tax negativity is a scourge, not an aspiration. The idea that the rich should pay everything and that working people should pay almost nothing is populist slop, not to mention a Republican straw man.
https://prospect.org/2026/03/16/democratic-presidential-contenders-new-idea-tax-cuts-van-hollen-booker/

Democratic Presidential Contenders Have a New Idea: Tax Cuts

Chris Van Hollen and Cory Booker argue that middle-class households are paying too much in federal income taxes.

The American Prospect

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Sintas Apr 4

@TransitBiker Well yeah, but I'm just baffled at how extreme it can be

Sintas Apr 3

I'm not curious enough to look for the actual answers, but I really do wonder sometimes how flat earthers can dismiss these things.
https://apnews.com/article/artemis-moon-astronauts-nasa-8c66ed4f206f92b9d96c818d4dc056b4?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-04-03-Hello%2C+world%21

Artemis II's moonbound astronauts capture Earth's beauty

The Artemis II astronauts have captured Earth's brilliant blue beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. NASA released the crew's first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century. The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth in one of the capsule's windows. The second shows the entire globe with the oceans topped by swirling white tendrils of clouds. It even includes a pale green aurora. As of midday Friday, the crew was 100,000 miles from Earth and quickly gaining on the moon.

AP News

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Sintas Apr 2

To be clear, I'm only citing the NYT because they're the only major outlet I found reporting on this. They get the facts of the matter right, but as usual, implicitly justify awful shit. "Y'know who else is Shiite? HEZBOLLAH." #Israel

Sintas Apr 2

Israel is explicitly aiming to expel Muslims from Southern Lebanon. #Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/world/middleeast/lebanon-shiite-israel-evacuation.html

Israel’s Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go

Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shiite Muslims from southern towns, the leaders said.

The New York Times

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Sintas Apr 2

I just remembered what day it is. No, I'm not kidding in the slightest.

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Sintas Apr 1

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