At Least Putin is Having a Great Week

At Least Putin is Having a Great Week

It looks like we’re all going to be brushing up on our cross-border pharmacy etiquette because, man who chainsawed off a whale's head and strapped it to the roof of his car, RFK Jr., is soon to be holding the keys to the nation’s health department.

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Defending Our Free Press

 Defending Our Free Press

As I'm sure you've seen, there’s a surge of doubt washing over social platforms (especially here in the MSNBC subreddit.) Newer accounts, sharp with accusations, are questioning left-leaning and centrist journalism, crying betrayal and demanding to know why these news outlets lied or mislead viewers about who would win the election. (They didn't, but that's a whole other post.)

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Echoes of the Past: Maddow, Wallace, and the Power of Steadfast Resolve

Echoes of the Past: Maddow, Wallace, and the Power of Steadfast Resolve

In 1946, my five year-old father, grandfather, and my very pregnant Baba arrived at the British controlled Lyssenko Refugee Camp in Hanover, Germany. My aunt was born in that refugee camp. By 1947 they had immigrated to Toronto before settling in Chicago in the 50's. I am a second generation Ukrainian American born to a family forced to abandon their home when they fled from the Russians. I have many great aunts, uncles, and cousins who died in during the Ukrainian famine, and still others who disappeared in Siberian work camps when the war came.

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