@cdarwin@c.imThe Senate will go on recess without voting on a reconciliation bill tied to the Department of Justice's $1.8 billion weaponization fund, according to reports on Thursday.
PunchBowl News reported that Sen. John Thune (R-ND) told senators the bill would be left unfinished while the lawmakers returned home for the Memorial Day holiday.
"House is expected to follow suit soon," Sherman wrote in a post on X.
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@servelan@newsie.socialThe history of Memorial Day and how it has evolved from its Civil War origins | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/memorial-day-decoration-civil-war-memorial-b2983170.html
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@smurthys@hachyderm.ioIgnorant POTUS's rants aside, what's with all the "Happy Memorial Day" greetings and messages? 😠
#MemorialDay #context #appropriateness
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s problem-plagued effort to revamp the landmark reflecting pool has stretched well past his initial goal of having the Pool ready by July 4 for the nation’s 250th birthday.
The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coa…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world“Your constitutional right varies by your ZIP code in New Jersey,” he said.
https://slate.com/life/2026/05/gun-range-new-jersey-law-memorial-day.html or
@deabigt@universeodon.comA Sinkhole Has Swallowed Part of a LaGuardia Runway Just Days Before Memorial Day, and Hundreds of Flights Are Already Cancelled https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/a-sinkhole-has-swallowed-part-of-a-laguardia-runway-just-days-before-memorial-day-and-hundreds-of-flights-are-already-cancelled.php
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Mandalorian & Grogu opened to ~$81M over Memorial Day domestically, the lowest Star Wars opening under Disney, yet analysts are hopeful about summer revenue (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/summer-box-office-mandalorian-grogu-streaming-di…
@cdarwin@c.imMemorial Day, an occasion to honor America’s war dead, originated from attempts to heal from war and prevent its recurrence.
First called Decoration Day, the holiday involved decorating the graves of Civil War soldiers and commemorating their sacrifices.
Some leaders at the time promoted the idea that the holiday could advance post-war reconciliation between the North and the South.
(Though that desire for reconciliation conflicted, to some extent, with advancing redress fo…
@cdarwin@c.imFederal law enforcement agents were spotted installing AI-powered surveillance towers at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the latest escalation of Donald Trump’s weird obsession.
In one video shared by TMZ Tuesday, U.S. Marshals escorted an LVT Mobile Security Unit to the edge of the Reflecting Pool.
In another video a day earlier, Daily Mail reporter John Michael Raasch witnessed a surveillance tower being towed in circles around the supposedly embattled landmark by U.S. Pa…
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