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Worked in DC, was a knowbody. Really like to laugh.
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Our analysis of tax filings shows that the world’s richest plutocrat looks to be one of its least generous. Register for free to discover the full story
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Replying to @nytimes.com
Meanwhile in United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia & many other oil producing nations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdn...
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Donald Trump Jr. defended the gift earlier this week and made no mention he paid back Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch linked to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Since 2024, lawmakers in Louisiana, Ohio, and Kentucky have passed strikingly similar bills — backed by chemical or manufacturing trade groups — that curb the use of community-collected data in enforcement actions. www.thexylom.com/post/air-mon...
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Companies are boosting datacenters and fossil fuels and together manage $7.3tn in investments
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Trump attacks drive first Black head of the Smithsonian Institution into retirement
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“President Trump's investment accounts have continued to purchase and sell stock holdings in oil and natural gas companies while he oversees the U.S. war with Iran, according to his financial disclosure filings through the second quarter of 2026.”
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A new defense filing for journalist Georgia Fort over her prosecution for covering a church service protest in St. Paul, Minnesota, reveals that on Jan. 20, days before her arrest, a DHS agent subpoenaed T-Mobile for her cellphone info.
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“[Paxton has] remained relatively quiet on the data center issue, which he called ‘complicated’ during an interview with Valuetainment released in May. Meanwhile, Paxton has benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of data center industry money pouring into his political operation.”
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Todd Blanche was confirmed Sunday with assurances of DOJ independence. Hours later, the DOJ issued an opinion shielding private citizens who advise Trump from congressional subpoenas.
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Study finds switch from gas to electric stove brings 70% reduction in asthma hospitalization, days off work. Clean energy vs fossil fuel pollution. Trump admin immediately cuts off study funding. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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The Justice Department quietly wiped bank fraud alerts from its Epstein files about a Jeffrey Epstein-owned company that kept moving millions after his death, a new report shows.
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The Trump administration illegally overhauled a Homeland Security computer program in its hunt for noncitizen voters, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision that laid into federal officials for violating the privacy of millions of Americans. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/22/r...
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Visiting the Obama Presidential Center “felt like being in an alternate reality,” said writer Lori Waxman. “One where people…co-exist peacefully…the value of the environment, public space, human health, and the arts finds expression everywhere…and the future appears collaborative and hopeful.”
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Tech CEOs — including executives from Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral — are set to attend a lunch meeting with leaders from many of the world’s richest nations on Wednesday afternoon, as the Group of 7 nations wrestles with how to approach the opportunities and dangers presented by A.I.
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The agreement reportedly includes $300 billion in private investments in Iran’s economy.
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“I’ll meet Paxton at any time and any place if he will answer Texans’ questions about why he let admitted child sex offender Adam Hoffman walk free,” Talarico said, according to Texas Tribune reporter Alejandro Serrano. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “On balance, Iran emerges the strategic winner of the four-month war,” writes the Times editorial board.
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And this is why no one should bother investing in anything in the U.S. as long as Trump is still in office. He's not only open to do the bidding of any corporation willing to pay him, he's happy to try to harm other countries as well as his own in pursuit of securing more bribes.
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Really? Reporters are reporting that trump is trying to open the Strait of Hormuz. Is he? For example, if the US effed off out of there and stopped being hostile to Iran the the Strait would likely be open. Yes, I think trump and the like are feeding the public BS and reporters are selling it.
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The World Liberty project saw Justin Sun to go into business with the Trumps as a fraud case loomed. A new lawsuit marks an implosion in a relationship that once seemed mutually beneficial
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Big Tech and the state are increasingly "wound up with one another," says historian Quinn Slobodian, author of "Muskism."
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Longtime NPR listener, big-time savior: Meet Connie Ballmer, wife of Microsoft billionaire, who took on Trump’s cuts
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The acting head of the CDC delayed the publication of a research report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.
@nprextra.bsky.social Listened to an hour broadcast on npr on Christian Nationalism. These are not Christians and should state American white male supremacists.
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President Trump has repeatedly threatened to destroy infrastructure that makes up the foundations of civilian life in Iran — attacks that in most cases would be considered war crimes. He said on Wednesday that the U.S. would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
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Donald Trump's administration has quietly restarted an oil pipeline system in California, ignoring state law and court orders in the process.
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Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz: • paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee” • diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees • failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families He also received a Trump pardon.
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President Trump has tried to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding to coerce states, punish opponents, remake programs and impose his views. His targets have repeatedly sued to stop him, and the courts have repeatedly rebuked him — only for the president to try again and again.
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The decision by the International Energy Agency to tap into oil reserves is historic in its size and scope. https://to.pbs.org/3NtmzyV