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There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones -Mark Knopfler - Verse from the song "Brothers in arms"
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waste, fraud and abuse
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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With 30% tariffs aimed at the EU, it might be time to explore measures other than counter-tariffs or anti-coercion instruments. Earlier this year, we published an oped with a radical proposal: the EU should respond by banning US social media. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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The future of flight? First electric aeroplane lands in Denmark
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Then they came for the children: ICE agents attempted to question a group of middle and high school-aged U.S. citizens about their immigration status. Even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the Trump administration. https://trib.al/UvJn4oZ
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US aware of reported death of American after beating by Israeli settlers reut.rs/44r31Rp
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Authorities said they arrested about 200 immigrants and saved 10 children at risk of exploitation during the raids.
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I spoke to billionaires, CEOs, bankers, models, celebrities, scientists, a Kennedy... I sat on my couch and phoned up royalty, spoke to ambassadors, irritated a senior adviser at Blackstone, and left squeaky voicemails for what must constitute a considerable percentage of the world oligarchy.
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More on Alberta’s book ban: government staff used an index of America’s most banned books and a controversial American website to create lists of specific books deemed “inappropriate” for school libraries. theijf.org/alberta-used... #abpoli #bookban
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The MAGA 2.0 business coalition is a fragile one, and the ruling class might just be at war with itself. @jamiemerchant.bsky.social considers the battle lines.
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The FBI under Director Kash Patel has a new application for polygraphs: Sniffing out whether employees have ever said anything mean about their boss, the controversial right-wing figure himself.
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Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is the ultimate betrayal of his base | Sidney Blumenthal
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The Trump administration has made efforts to "erase" transgender people, who face violence and medical neglect behind bars.
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⚡️Ukraine's HUR destroys Russian command post in occupied Melitopol in joint operation with partisans. Ukraine on July 10 destroyed a Russian command post and killed five Russian soldiers in occupied Melitopol in a joint operation by military intelligence (HUR) and partisans.
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"Economy of Genocide": U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports on Corporate Profits from Israel's Gaza War
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Brazilian colleague recently reminded me, after hearing me speak about autocratic influence campaigns, that the greatest threat to Brazilian democracy is not from Russia or China, but rather the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
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Lacking Black officials to blame in Kerr County, and too timid to criticize Republicans for anything, Charlie Kirk spins a conspiracy theory to implicate the closest Black official he can find — the fire chief in Austin, more than a hundred miles away. www.chron.com/politics/art...
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The victim screams, "My god! My knee!" And you can see why. Knees don't bend like that. This is what CBP did to him.
NEW — Video shared with me by a bystander shows Customs and Border Patrol violently arresting people yesterday outside a Home Depot in Van Nuys, CA. One man screams in agony as he’s handcuffed, while another is on the ground with two agents on top of him. The agents refuse to identify themselves.
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Make Nazis Afraid Again Will the “revolution remain bloodless” as Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said it would be “if the left allows it …”? Here’s what @cliffcashcomedy.bsky.social had to say Monday at Nazi HQ. @wearetheflood.bsky.social #FuelTheFLARE
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From The Archive: The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Grok, Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot theonion.com/the-oni...
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An investigation by The National uncovers how the Israeli military is using artificial intelligence to select and kill targets in Gaza, often with little human oversight and high civilian tolls
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Borrowers whose payments have been on hold could soon start accruing interest.
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Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that there will be "no amnesty" for undocumented immigrant farmworkers when it comes to mass deportations. @dangooding.bsky.social and @gratefulgabe.bsky.social report for @newsweek.com:
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“The key assumption is at some point Trump will cross a bright line that makes it obvious to everyone that we no longer live in a free society…But this might not be the way it’s most likely to happen here. The continuities [may] obfuscate the discontinuities.” open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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Ireland's sovereign wealth fund has pumped millions into companies who hold lucrative contracts to assist the Israel Defence Forces. The companies have also been named on a UN database as contributing to settler activity in occupied Palestinian territories.
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