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Corrupt felon at work.
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients
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Must-read. Let’s start with Bannon before the tribunal. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...
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Epstein Presented Himself to Indian Tycoon as a Trump White House Insider
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/world/asia/epstein-india-ambani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.3AmX.X14kjyiVGnjm&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Michael J. Stern
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We told you.
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Diedrich Bader
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Angelenos: please help
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Kevin Olmstead
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"I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means," Hegseth said then. We know what it means when YOU say it: nothing.
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They really don’t want to lose a Ryan Reynolds paycheck.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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WME Goes Public to Back Blake Lively, Says She’s Exposing “Covert Digital Takedown Campaigns”
While Blake Lively's sexual harassment claim was dismissed, the court signaled that public relations maneuvering by Justin Baldoni's camp could've crossed a line.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/wme-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-1236555707/
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Acyn
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Garcia: Blanche just said that the Epstein investigation is basically in the past, that he’s not going to address it moving forward, and that all the documents were released. I mean, that’s just a bold-faced lie.
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What a poseur. This husk of a man is utterly soulless.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Their tiny church is on the cover of JD Vance’s new book. They don’t know him.
The members of a tiny Methodist church in Virginia are excited — if a little confused — that Vance’s memoir of his path to Catholicism has put them in the spotlight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/04/03/vance-book-cover-church-photograph/
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This guy is so manifestly unfit—it’s criminal to let him stay in this job.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...
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Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/world/middleeast/pope-iran-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Marc Elias
about 23 hours ago
Georgia election officials have less than three months to convert the state’s entire voting system from touchscreen machines to paper ballots, after the state Senate failed to vote Friday on legislation that would have delayed the conversion until 2028.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOPers ignore election officials’ warnings, leaving Georgia little time for paper ballots switch
The rushed system switch risks compromising election security and will complicate ballot counting, delay reporting results and create “widespread confusion” for voters and election administrators, cou...
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gopers-ignore-election-officials-warnings-leaving-georgia-little-time-for-paper-ballots-switch/
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Jon Collins
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Almost half of the people arrested by federal agents this winter in Minnesota have already been deported, according to new data released to the
@deportationdata.org
through a FOIA lawsuit. It's the clearest picture yet of federal activities in the state. (1)
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Half of those arrested by federal agents in Minnesota this winter have already been deported
The federal government moved at a rapid pace to deport nearly 1,700 people picked up during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota this winter, according to data analyzed by APM Reports and M...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/03/half-of-those-arrested-by-federal-agents-in-minnesota-this-winter-have-already-been-deported
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Bradley P. Moss
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Pretty impressive for a regime that was decimated and barely alive. Almost like the White House and Pentagon lied and now service members are risking their lives.
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Carl Quintanilla
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#SurchargeSummer
💰
@denverpost.com
#$UAL
www.bostonherald.com/2026/04/03/u...
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Taniel
about 23 hours ago
These are so importent in four days. I’ll post a thread for the major ones to know about this weekend.
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Hegseth not only fired the Sec of the Army. He also fired head of Army Training & Command, as well as the Army's chief of chaplains. Destabilizing Army leadership during an active shooting war is another example of Hegseth's incompetence & cannon fodder philosophy
www.military.com/daily-news/h...
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Three Generals Ousted as Pentagon Shakeup Hits War Command
Hegseth's move represents a rare leadership shakeup, raising questions about strategy and command stability.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/headlines/2026/04/02/army-chief-forced-out-iran-war-hits-new-phase.html
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Kai Ryssdal
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A US service member is missing and this is the first we've heard from the president. Need I say more
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This is bad.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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The Most Powerful People in the World Are Obsessed With Media Again
Sam Altman is buying his favorite show, Larry Ellison is buying CNN to merge it with CBS News, Jamie Dimon is toying with launching a venture. It may mark a new era of vanity media owners.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/billionares-buying-media-deals-openai-tbpn-larry-ellison-1236554833/
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James Ball
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Things you do when your product is brilliant and sales are going great:
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Carl Quintanilla
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ROSENBERG, on jobs data: “.. If there was a blemish, it was that the workweek sagged -0.3% to 34.2 hours. .. in a holistic sense, .. payrolls actually declined by -284k: Tack on the revisions, and it is really -353k. .. Sorry, but we are not gullible enough to be a buyer of this report ..”
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Christopher Webb
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From “Attorney General” to curbside pickup in 24 hours ☠️ 😂 Not only was Pam Bondi‘s photo taken down at the DOJ, it was thrown in the trash.
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Kim Kelly
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Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”
www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263?utm_source=Sidney+Hillman+Foundation&utm_campaign=e77cdc573d-SP_2025_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-73a8db7644-197674633
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NY Times Pitchbot
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"Experts are dubious"
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Anne Applebaum
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Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wsM-mNGvnN32f98z3zNons&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Do more like this, you dumb sob.
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Rachel Maddow
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Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...
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Greg Sargent
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NEWS --> Now that Pete Hegseth fired another top general, Rep Adam Smith tells me that if Dems take House, the Armed Services Committee will seek testimony from people pushed out by Hegseth. Dems will also probe why Hegseth stalled promotion of black/female officers:
newrepublic.com/article/2086...
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Video: Trump Struck Iran. Now Farmers Are Paying the Price.
The economic fallout of the war in Iran is pushing farmers to the brink as the price for fertilizer soars just before planting season. Supply chain disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz are adding ...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010798680/trump-iran-farmers-iowa-fertilizer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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There’s currently a frantic search taking place for two US pilots who were shot down in Iran, and this idiot is talking about taking the oil.
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Unbearable to witness the real-world consequences of letting ignorant, incompetent poseurs run amok.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Iran War Live Updates: American Fighter Jet Downed Over Iran, U.S. Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/world/iran-war-trump-oil?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Trump Watch 👀
2 days ago
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth — a former Fox News host with zero command experience — just purged top U.S. military leadership. Army Chief of Staff Randy George. David Hodney. William Green Jr. — all OUT. This isn’t a routine shakeup. This is a power consolidation at the highest levels of the military.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
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“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.
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A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall
Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bacterial-disease-hib-doctors-warn-rising-vaccination-rates-drop-rcna265851
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The Washington Post
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President Trump said this week that Medicare and day care were too expensive for the federal government to cover, reversing himself on campaign promises to protect the seniors’ health insurance program and address child care costs.
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Trump backs off campaign promises to protect Medicare, help with child care
As a candidate, Trump had pledged to prioritize child care affordability and preserve Medicare. A spokeswoman argued that the president was referring to fraud.
https://wapo.st/417m2WG
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ProPublica
2 days ago
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1775186100&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Atlantic
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"Dumping the Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war is a reckless move even by Hegseth’s standards,"
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Hegseth’s War on America’s Military
Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
https://bit.ly/41J4Cjd
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Barry McCaffrey
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Hegseth just fired the Army Chief Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George the most competent and experienced combat leaders I have ever encountered. Courage. Integrity. Takes care of soldiers. A government of gangsters.
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The Tennessee Holler
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NYT reports Hegseth is firing generals because they won’t take Black/female officers off the promotions list.🤔 In the middle of a war. 🎪
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Jill Lawrence
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👀 Federal judge orders US Office of Personnel Management to release the names of the DOGE agents involved in the illegal disclosure of personnel records.
www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/04.02.26...
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JUDGE ORDERS OPM TO IDENTIFY DOGE PERSONNEL BEHIND UNLAWFUL RECORD DISCLOSURE
A New York federal district court judge has ordered the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to release the names of the DOGE agents involved in the illegal disclosure of personnel records.
https://www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/04.02.26-pr_2
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Leah Litman
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may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.
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Nice look for Netflix.
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Louis C.K. Is Back in Business With Netflix
The streamer has tapped the once-exiled comedian to headline a show at The Hollywood Bowl and will premiere his upcoming standup special.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/louis-c-k-back-in-business-with-netflix-1236554630/
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Maxwell Frost
2 days ago
Pam Bondi still has to testify, under oath, in front of the Oversight Committee regarding the Epstein Files. This does not get her out of that bipartisan, lawful subpoena. We will see her soon.
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Rachel Bitecofer
2 days ago
Here are the 3 tiers of Republican-held House seats that are within the realm of feasibility if the midterm effect is as large as it has been, with Ds flipping red districts with majority R voters. Tier 3 is where D’s need to hit to have any hope of the senate majority.
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6.46%
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WIRED
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A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.
www.wired.com/story/border...
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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.
https://www.wired.com/story/border-patrol-bortac-borstar-use-of-force-midway-blitz/
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Hard-hitting analysis from Bari’s Free Press.
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