Independent Journalist. Oklahoma native 🇺🇸
Denver, CO
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BREAKING: Patrick Stewart, the beloved actor best known for his iconic roles as Jean-Luc Picard in ‘Star Trek’ and Professor X in ‘X-Men’, dies at 86. nbcnews.to/4swhqWR
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Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' Captain and 'X-Men' Superhero, Dies at 86 hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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Sen. @RogerMarshallMD (R-KS): "This is one of the best economies I've ever seen in my lifetime."
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DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE (10/29): House
FL-4: Likely-R → Lean R
NY-17: Tossup → Lean D
PA-1: Lean R → Tossup
Democrats have an 80% probability of winning the House, with a forecasted total of 238 seats. 10 seats remain Tossups.
218 seats are needed for a majority.
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A warning to Donald Trump:
I’m deploying election lawyers to key battleground districts in California to protect every vote.
And I just made it a FELONY to illegally seize ballots.
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THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP BELONGS TO MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Ossoff: "Georgia will bow to no king!"
He then welcomes Obama to the stage. Here's his entrance. The crowd goes nuts.
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With the passing of Dolores Huerta, Hillary and I have lost a dear friend, and we’ve all lost a stalwart champion of working Americans.
Dolores wore many hats: voting rights advocate, human rights champion, die-hard Democrat, self-described “born-again feminist,” and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America. To see her in action was to witness a living legend who never stopped pushing for progress and seeing every new obstacle as a fresh opportunity to educate, to organize, and to uplift—even as those efforts sometimes brought her grave consequences. I will never forget and always be grateful for her support for Hillary in 2008 and 2016. It was an honor to award her the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and a great gift to spend time with and fight alongside her.
Our hearts go out to her family and the countless Americans whose lives were forever changed by her good long life.
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Dolores Huerta was a hero of mine.
When she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, people thought Dolores was crazy. “How are you going to organize farm workers,” she remembered being asked. "They are poor, powerless immigrants.” But that’s exactly what she did, helping thousands of migrant laborers working in brutal conditions make their voices heard, and demand something better.
Dolores spent the rest of her life fighting for marginalized communities, even as she herself faced sexism and abuse — including, as she revealed earlier this year, from Cesar Chavez and others within her own movement. She also came up with a pretty good slogan, “Si, se puede” — Yes, we can — that I too often get credit for. But as usual, Dolores got there first.
Michelle and I are thinking of Dolores’s family, the people whose lives she changed, and everyone who drew inspiration from her example.
Photo credit: National Archives, Obama Presidential Library
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Dolores Huerta, who founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, changing laws and the lives of thousands of laborers, died on Wednesday at 96. A skilled organizer, she coordinated walkouts and negotiated pathbreaking contracts with agribusiness. nyti.ms/4zZMDUY
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BREAKING: Dolores Huerta, labor rights leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers, dies at 96. nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/…
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Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family have landed in Miami after fleeing his country.
This comes a day after they were granted United States visas by the Trump administration.
