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For-profit medicine in the US is responsible for more deaths than socialism, communism, or whatever ridiculous bugbear is bothering people today. If only cranio-rectal inversion reversals were covered . . .

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"By simply claiming that there are 20,000 noncitizen voters and demanding their ballots not be counted, the Trump administration is treating the supremacy clause as a nearly limitless source of power, apparently hoping a federal judge will infer it from the clause’s name instead of it substance."

newrepublic.comTrump Has Found a New Part of the Constitution to AbuseThe administration’s attempts to grab power through its novel reading of the supremacy clause have, thus far, been consistently thwarted. But it’s another steady attack on constitutional norms.
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"Historians of imperial Russia refer to it as naive monarchism: the peasant’s belief that the tsar was benevolent and just, and that every injustice in the village was the result of the actions of the officials around him, who deceived him about what his people endured. Were the tsar only aware."

open.substack.comNo, Donald Trump Is Not Receiving Bad AdviceBlaming the advisers allows Trump’s defenders to disagree with him without mentioning his name, and at face value, the excuse serves as an indictment
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"In the occupied West Bank, more than 500,000 Israeli settlers can vote, among 3.1 million Palestinians who are subject to military rule and do not have the right to vote. In occupied East Jerusalem more than 230,000 Israelis with voting rights live among 350,000 Palestinians who cannot vote."

theguardian.comWhat you need to know about the most consequential election in Israel’s historyBenjamin Netanyahu is seeking a new mandate in Israel’s first election since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks
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"The death toll, modelled using historical relationships between heat and health in 854 cities, was the worst on record. It is important to bear in mind that these are estimates based on observed temperatures and epidemiological models, which don't incorporate actual data on deaths in 2026.”

theguardian.comHeat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warnPeople succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll
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"The lawsuit itself is remarkable. Trump’s public acknowledgment that he personally directed it is even more so. And with Election Day just eleven days away, the implications extend well beyond Alaska."

michaeldsellers.substack.com“I’m the One That Said Do It”: Trump Personally Ordered DOJ to Intervene in Alaska Senate ElectionEleven days before the midterms, the president has directed the Justice Department to seek a federal court order that could prevent certification of a Democratic victory.