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Tag: Michelle Obama

  • Prof Patty
  • October 11, 2020October 11, 2020

Michelle Obama Says

But let’s be clear: Going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and c

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Michelle and Oprah

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 3, 2020

Michelle Obama Urged Everyone to Vote

Michelle Obama Urged Everyone to Vote. Her Necklace Spelled It Out. By Vanessa Friedman Aug. 18, 2020 The necklace had been custom-ordered through ByChari, an independent, Black-owne

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NY Times

  • Combative, Defensive and Occasionally Contrite, Kennedy Walks a Fine Line
  • Navy Secretary John Phelan Is Leaving the Pentagon and the Trump Administration
  • Not a Deal-Breaker: White House Downplays Iranian Action Near the Strait
  • D4vd Murder Case: Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Cause of Death Is Revealed
  • Kalshi Fines and Suspends 3 Political Candidates for Betting on Their Races

NPR

  • Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully
  • A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action
  • The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
  • Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
  • How a Japanese poet's diary helps scientists reconstruct solar cycles

The Progressive

  • Trump’s Vision for the Homeless Is Already Here
  • West Bank Children Forced from Classrooms As Israel Weaponizes Tax Revenue
  • From Classroom to Rubble
  • No Place Like Home
  • Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No Accident

FactCheck.org

  • We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award
  • What Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?
  • Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine
  • An Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate Race
  • Politicians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut

Snopes.com

  • Unpacking claim US Army 'nuclear chief' Andrew Hugg revealed secrets to undercover reporter
  • Sen. Chris Murphy wrote 'awesome' in response to Iranian ships evading US blockade. Here's context
  • Was Trump blocked from using nuclear codes against Iran? Not so fast
  • Investigating claim Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán used taxpayer money to fund CPAC
  • Trump may require banks to collect citizenship information, credible reports say

Tradeoffs

  • Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
  • High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom

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