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Kansas City Drives Votes

Kansas City, Missouri, hosts John Lewis Voting rights Act 'votercade'

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City, Missouri, community leaders gathered on Saturday to speak out against voter suppression efforts. The city hosted a "John Lewis Voting Rights Act votercade" as part of Voting Rights Action Day. KCMO is one of more than 140 cities across the U.S. to recognize the day.


Money Can’t Buy Laughs

Billionaire Elon a 'Musk see' on 'mediocre' episode of 'SNL'

Elon Musk hosted "Saturday Night Live" this week like a man with nothing to lose. That's probably because his net worth is $166 billion. What's a 90-minute-long sketch show to a man with an income greater than some countries' defense budgets? But 49-year-old Musk had been under pressure for weeks.


GOP Divided

Trump advisor Jason Miller says defeating Liz Cheney is 'one of the highest priorities'

Trump advisor Jason Miller pointed out Liz Cheney as a top political target of the former president. Cheney faces the loss of her leadership role in the House and a tough GOP primary challenge in 2022. The No. 3 House Republican refuses to waver from her criticism of Trump's continued election lies.


Former First Lady Worries About Discrimination

Michelle Obama on the Worry Black Parents Feel For Their Kids: "Many of Us Still Live in Fear"

Michelle Obama says Black parents in America have fear in their hearts. After Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, the former first lady sat down with CBS's Gayle King to talk about her feelings following the verdict and the worry she feels for her own daughters, Malia and Sasha, today.


India Scolded Amid Plague

Medical journal slams Indian government for 'squandering' early success on Covid-19

The Indian government has been blasted for ignoring warnings of a second wave, encouraging complacency, and failing to be transparent on Covid-19 data, in a scathing editorial in prestigious medical journal The Lancet.


Mom’s Day Testimony

Opinion | Why I hate Mother's Day as a daughter, daughter-in-law and mother

I hate Mother's Day. I've hated it as a daughter, a daughter-in-law and a mother, and not because I don't love the women it purports to honor. I'm not saying don't honor mothers. But I am saying we shouldn't do it in the threadbare fashion we have pursued for more than a century.


WEATHER

Your Storm Track 5 Daily Forecast

Active weather expected as we head through late this evening and into the overnight hours. Showers and storms will develop just to our west and continue to build eastward. These storms could come together to form an organized cluster or line. If this happens damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph will be the primary threat.

I'm A Mother by The Pretenders is the song of the day and this is the OPEN THREAD for right now.

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  1. There are many mothers that are just worthless cunts.
    They abuse their children. (in some cases kill them).
    Making them all Hallmark saints on Mother's Day is a joke.

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  2. "Trump advisor Jason Miller says defeating Liz Cheney is 'one of the highest priorities'"

    Stalin would be so proud!

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  3. Michelle Obama lives in fear? Even with a horde of Secret Service agents protecting her family 24/7? What a true lib whiner. Just like the rest.

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  4. 7:09 - your analogy is bullshit. Stalin would not try to get his political nemesis defeated in a fair election. He would order his foe to be hauled off to the Lubyanka and shot.

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  5. The Plastic Surgeon work on those Obama Girls is the envy of this Paris On The Plains

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  6. 9:26: Give the GOP time.

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  7. ^^^ idiot, the dimwit Clinton’s, the kennedys and lbj had their own murdered, the dimwits have been bumping off their opponents for centuries. Get your facts straight dumbass.

    Michael Obama is worried about her kids? I mean they are pretty stupid but c’mon man, white parents have the worst fears of all, we pray everyday that our kids won’t be robbed, raped, tortured or murdered at the hands of the worst criminals on the planet..... blacks, there’s no denying how vile, destructive and murderous they are so....

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  8. Poor Michelle Obama. So scared for her daughters. She doesn't even think twice about how police officers go through fear every day on the job and still do their job.

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  9. If the Obama daughters have had plastic surgery, they better get their money back.

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  10. It's called inflation dumbasses! Happens every time incompetent Democrats try to prove how smart they are on economics. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/investing/stocks-week-ahead/index.html

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  11. ^^^^The sky is falling! The sky is falling! We're doomed! We're doomed!

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  12. Mike Obummer scared for her daughters.. esp their poverty- stricken upbringing..

    Barry has scammed a current net worth of $70 Million..mebbe they could kick a little to their skanky daughters..

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  13. Not as many blacks worry about that as Whites worry about Blacks killing them over $5 in a parking lot. We all have our struggles.

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  14. Are their any good quality moms in kc. We certainly have a lot of messed up people who were raised here.

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