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Pete Hegseth is destroying the DOD after dragging us into a war that could very well show up at home www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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My god, this is an outrageous, loathsome ICE policy. Can you recall another regime in history that used public marking and tracking to single out a minority group?? JD Vance—who helped lead the demonizing of Haitians in Ohio—has this young man’s death on his hands too www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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There's no other explanation for this deployment than to see them as his Praetorian Guard, who will keep him in power, possibly past 2029. Also, MAGA likes seeing troops in the streets and minorities menaced. Also, when debunking don't serve the lie up first!
President Donald Trump sent thousands of National Guard to Washington as what he has said is an effort to get tough on an epidemic of crime. They seldom actually fight crime. Soldiers have been involved in about 1.3% of the city's criminal cases since they arrived. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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As the former President of South Korea serves a life sentence for his role in a failed insurrection, his wife just got sentenced to 7 years in prison for bribery. The US could learn a lot from South Korea what accountability looks like for power-hungry, corrupt grifters. youtu.be/nAUksLhLSKs?...
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Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Investigations into sex trafficking under President Trump have stalled, and prosecutions have declined. Factors driving this include staffing shortages, funding cuts, immigration enforcement, and growing distrust of gov't among victims. This comes after he pledged to crack down on sex trafficking.
President Trump administration's pledged to crack down on sex trafficking. Instead, investigations have stalled and prosecutions declined because of staffing shortages, funding cuts, immigration enforcement and growing distrust of the government among victims. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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NY Times should give him another op-ed explaining how he is just a smol bean centrist
Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to pull the company out of California starting October 1. Paramount will stay if AG Rob Bonta agrees to settlement talks over the lawsuit seeking to block the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
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This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
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The election EO appeal is about whether the fedl gov’t can change the rules of voting shortly before the midterms & whether SCOTUS will apply its own precedent consistently. Understanding the arguments is essential to understanding the outcome, so I parse them here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
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They couldn't get your voter data through the courts. The next attempt runs through Congress instead, and Congress counts constituent letters by district. Yours is the one that counts where you live. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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The problem with this framing is that it isn’t a question of whether he will or won’t, as if it’s some future event. The coup is *already underway*. POTUS has usurped Congress’ war power, its spending power, its tax power. He dissolves agencies Congress created. He overrules state govt at gunpoint.
I don't know how you look at everything Trump's been doing to mess with the election and think anything other than that he's trying to rig it. But whether he will succeed is a different matter, as Bob Kuttner reports. prospect.org/2026/07/28/t...
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Judge gives federal government two weeks to explain incomplete Renee Good shooting evidence
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Last month, SCOTUS told the Trump admin it could end temporary protected status immigration programs. Today 350,000 people, mostly Haitians lose status & elderly & disabled Americans they are caregivers for will suffer along with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/b...