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Politically unhoused.
âOver the next 10 years, it will add at least $3 trillion to the deficit and send the ratio of debt to gross domestic product to nearly 130 percent, from just under 100 percent at present.â
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Tuxie crashes after a 4 day alien invasion that disrupted her unfettered run/control of the house. And that was after her repeated instructions that guests are not welcome. Iâve been given a final warning.
#caturday
#cattitude
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ââŚNigerian authorities have disputed Mr. Trumpâs claims about a Christian âgenocideâ. Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto said recently that the area does ânot have a problem with persecutionâ of Christians.
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Trumpâs Claims About Nigeria Strike Belie a Complex Situation on the Ground
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/world/africa/trump-isis-strikes-nigeria-christians-facts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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âIn October President Trump exempted the smelter from complying with limits on lead, arsenic, chromium and other hazardous pollutants for the next two yearsâŚThere was no economic analysis or engineering study. It was as easy as sending an email to the Environmental Protection Agency.â
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A Top Source of Lead Pollution Faced Tighter Rules. Then Trump Intervened.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/climate/copper-smelter-arizona-pollution-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1._08.Pzj7.RlZ4x9t1IsF5&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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âOn DOGEâs watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up.â ââŚthe group became opaque, with its lack of progress obscured by errors, redactions and indecipherable accounting that few private businesses would accept.â What a scam.
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E8.dznt.xhLfBrCotwcZ&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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âChina has surpassed the United States in the number of diplomatic missions in the world..â âEarlier this month, the union released results of a survey of its members showing that 98 percent of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since Mr. Trumpâs second term began in January.â
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Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-administration-ambassadors-posts.html?smid=url-share
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Fat Elvis
Two cheers for renaming things after Trump.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/donald-trump-elvis-presley/
8 days ago
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A comprehensive, jaw-dropping list of gutted national security programs and the related/potential impact. Excellent reporting.
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Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review
The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nationâs ability and willingness to address a broad spectrum of technology challenge...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/dismantling-defenses-trump-2-0-cyber-year-in-review/
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âTrump Mediaâs $6 billion merger with a nuclear energy company doesnât even pretend to make business sense. TMTG is, to borrow Matt Taibbiâs defining phrase of another era, the vampire squid of this moment, haphazardly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.â
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America is becoming the worldâs dumb money â Semafor
The USâ capitalism is losing its way even as other countries are moving away from suboptimal and clunky state-run economies.
https://stocks.apple.com/AkvBS3pEhSLSIfAg5OfpNaQ
10 days ago
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âDuring the Biden administration, it was widely reported that Attorney General Merrick Garland rarely met with President Joe Biden.â âAttorney General Pam Bondi and Donald Trump speak so frequently that he has accidentally posted their private conversations on social media.â
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Iâve been harboring these feelings for some time
https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/ive-been-harboring-these-feelings-for-some-time?ecid=ACsprvtgVRnmhfUKUYzTmR8YDyrMsUdhvt91HtF4eIQ6EXIOK5eGxl0UbOMTfMQ477pmVF1jndd_
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Memories of this past Summer of the National Gardners....
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We canât help these children become productive citizens but we can pay $50k signing bonuses to ICE recruits? What a disgrace.
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Born Deaf and Blind, Sheâs Caught in Trumpâs Anti-Diversity Crusade
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.FkyK.CDUGs9XBAM5f&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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âOfficials have instructed superintendents to grade majority of staff at a 3 regardless of their performance. Some park superintendents, âquestioned the fairness to employees whose work merited a better rating at a time when many staff are working harder to make up for the thousands of vacancies.â
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National Park Service Receives One Final Punch in the Gut From the Trump Administration
You would think that after all the uncertainty and challenges experienced by National Park Service staff during the shutdown of the federal government, they would be allowed to finish out the year in ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinmlevin/p/national-park-service-receives-one?r=r1me4&utm_medium=ios
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More details:
moulton.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Moulton Introduces the NOEM Act to Hold ICE Officers Accountable for Constitutional Violations
SALEM, MA - Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06) has introduced the National Oversight and Enforcement of Misconduct Act (NOEM Act) which would permit victims of constitutional violations committed by fed...
https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/moulton-introduces-noem-act-hold-ice-officers-accountable-constitutional
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âWhile falls are not unusual in robotics development, this specific hand motion has raised questions about the current level of autonomy in Teslaâs system and whether the demonstration reflected real independent capability or operator input.â đ¨ + mirrors?
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Tesla Optimus's fall in Miami demo sparks remote operation debate
While falls are not unusual in robotics development, a specific hand motion has raised questions about the current level of autonomy in Teslaâs system.
https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/teslas-optimus-falls-in-miami-demo
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Trumpâs Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
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If true, another example of âwaste, fraud and abuseâ (their dog whistle) of this administration. Where is the oversight? Drain the bog, eject the bog hogs.
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Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriendâs pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patelâs use of the bureauâs strapped resource.
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-girlfriend-fbi-detail-wilkins-ride-home
21 days ago
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âReality Labs, which builds the hardware and software for Mr. Zuckerbergâs metaverse vision, has posted more than $70 billion in losses over the past four years.â $70B for an alternative reality! Touch grass, Zuck!!
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Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
23 days ago
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âThis whole notion that we are trapped into wars by the commitments we make to our allies..the opposite of that is true. We have not had to fight for any treaty ally. It is the reliability of the commitment that is the source of stability. And right now, we are absolutely anything but reliable.â
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Chaos Is Coming
America helped keep the (relative) peace for 80 years. Not anymore.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/chaos-is-coming-trump-war-alliances-democracy?r=r1me4&utm_medium=ios
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AMD CEO Lisa Su Says Concerns About an AI Bubble Are Overblown
Lisa Su leads Nvidiaâs biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIREDâs Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, the companyâs CEO said, âEmphatically, from my perspective, no.â
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-lisa-su-amd/
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DOGE Isnât Dead. Hereâs What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has âburrowed into the agencies like ticks,â government sources tell WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/
24 days ago
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Nick Catoggio posts are always on point and entertaining.
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The Pardon Racket
Why is Trump letting random white-collar criminals out of prison?
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/trump-pardons-cronyism-corruption/
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The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. Itâs a Shit Show
The Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money. But some immigrants say itâs been nearly impossible.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-wants-immigrants-to-self-deport/
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Another warning bell.
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Anthropicâs Chief Executive Acknowledges Risks of Huge Spending on A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/business/dealbook/anthropic-dario-amodei-ai-risks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E8.slc1.PbBJhIehS-O0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Canary in the coal mine?
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Morgan Stanley explores risk transfer for AI data center loans - Bloomberg By Investing.com
Morgan Stanley explores risk transfer for AI data center loans - Bloomberg
https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/morgan-stanley-explores-risk-transfer-for-ai-data-center-loans--bloomberg-93CH-4389191
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Be honest - who among us has never experienced this?
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A Drunk Raccoon Passed Out in the Bathroom of a Virginia Liquor Store
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/drunk-raccoon-virginia-liquor-store.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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It is so easy to spread misinformation when you donât understand that correlation â causation. A very good explanation! đ§ŞVia
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Bessent at Dealbook Summit today: âHistorically, capex is followed by employment growthâ. Historically, yes. But current capex is concentrated on data centers. Initial increase in construction jobs followed by minimal job creation.
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Data centers bring money to small towns. But do they also bring jobs?
Tech companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in data centers across the country. But despite the record-setting price tags, the centers create few jobs.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5355017/data-centers-bring-money-to-small-towns-but-do-they-also-bring-jobs
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26 days ago
My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
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The Absence and The Imperative of Virtue in Our Times
An American Jeremiad for Thanksgiving 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/the-absence-and-the-imperative-of?r=r1me4&utm_medium=ios
26 days ago
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âNoncitizen voting is exceptionally rare â so rare that the Heritage Foundationâs own âelection fraudâ database still relies on a handful of cases, from nearly half a century ago, to push for anti-voting policies.â
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The GOPâs War on Naturalized Citizensâ Right to Vote
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-gops-war-on-naturalized-citizens-right-to-vote/
27 days ago
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âWhat Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.â Judge Wolf, appointed by Reagan, resigns.
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Winner of this weekâs Joseph Welch Award
For standing up to tyranny. In honor of attorney Joseph Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of June 1954.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/winner-of-this-weeks-joseph-welch?r=r1me4&utm_medium=ios
27 days ago
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Anduril was founded by Palmer Luckey, whose sister is married to Matt Gaetz. The swamp has been replaced with a vast bog, teeming with hogs. Bog hogs.
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Anduril's autonomous weapons stumble in tests and combat, WSJ reports | TechCrunch
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has faced numerous setbacks during testing of its autonomous weapons systems, according to new reporting by the WSJ.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/27/andurils-autonomous-weapons-stumble-in-tests-and-combat-wsj-reports/
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âThe one dubious victory Trump got for those interested in lower drug prices was the creation of Trump RXâŚitâs not clear these discounts will be larger than ones that were already available, but they allow Trump to get his name on something.â
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Trump RX: The Merger of Pharma Corruption and Trump Crazy
US drug prices stay high because government-granted patent monopolies block competition, keeping cheap medicines expensive and fueling industry corruption.
https://cepr.net/publications/trump-rx-the-merger-of-pharma-corruption-and-trump-crazy/
28 days ago
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The Oval Office invitation came two days before Walker became the sixth GOP senator to be targeted in a swatting incident since Indiana Senate leaders said they were rejecting Trumpâs push for congressional redistricting.
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https://dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/sen-greg-walker-declines-oval-office-visit-accuses-white-house-of-violating-hatch-act/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Donald Trump Jr. serves as a âstrategic advisorâ to the company. We now have the son of the presidentâplugged into sensitive conversations & possessing direct access to the most powerful people in governmentâworking with a platform that profits when political insiders gamble on government actions.
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Kalshi Is a Corruption Time Bombâand Congress Is Sitting on It
A platform that lets insiders (and legislators) gamble on their own behavior is a threat to democracy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamkinzinger/p/kalshi-is-a-corruption-time-bomband?r=r1me4&utm_medium=ios
29 days ago
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This makes no sense.
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Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving US sentence after drug trafficking conviction â Reuters
President Donald Trump said he will grant a pardon to former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking an...
https://apple.news/AtGER6JVhS6mAb5ON5wX3hA
about 1 month ago
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Itâs pretty clear now why Admiral Holsey resigned.
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Emergency Video: The Boat Strike in Venezuela
Hey all, the story today that Hegseth ordered no survivors on the first boat strike, and as a result two survivors hanging onto the burned up boat were killed, is disgusting.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamkinzinger/p/emergency-video-the-boat-strike-in?r=r1me4&utm_medium=ios
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Seven voting laws every blue state should enact right now
https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/-seven-voting-laws-every-blue-state-should-enact-right-now-?ecid=ACsprvuNfeOJxjvK2-jfvIzHW-I-mSJ6TGFv6NfiMzID84KO1QaKr9tPbw5ISNE4a6Wh0q6pRdBK
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Another embarrassment on the global stage.
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Mike Waltz cut off in middle of UN speech #news #shorts
YouTube video by The Independent
https://youtube.com/shorts/4CIyuaaTAxs?si=braeEcQVL2jG1eOl
about 1 month ago
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Can you pass the citizenship test?
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https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/100q.pdf
about 1 month ago
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This is why we need to continue funding university research.
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Student-built EV with detachable batteries can be repaired at home
Students in the Netherlands have developed ARIA, a modular electric city car that enables simple part replacement and user-friendly repairs.
https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/modular-ev-with-detachable-batteries
about 1 month ago
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âMr. Zhao pleaded guilty to a money-laundering violationâŚMr. Trump pardoned him after Binance participated in a $2 billion business deal in May with World Liberty Financial, the Trump familyâs crypto start-up. The pardon allowed him to regain direct control of Binance.â
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Hamas Victimsâ Families Sue Binance, Accusing It of Aiding Terrorism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/binance-hamas-terrorism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E8.E7IR.06xOPdipOXKn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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You couldnât make this up.
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Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
https://azmirror.com/briefs/turning-point-leader-former-gop-rep-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-election-fraud/
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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Is there nothing this administration wonât steal from the public? Now itâs clean air.
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EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths â The Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
https://apple.news/AUVQkSscnTISjUGSlxaXRHQ
about 1 month ago
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Too Many Cooks
Trying to make sense of the Ukraine peace plan mess.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/ukraine-russia-marco-rubio-jd-vance-donald-trump/
about 1 month ago
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âFor all of the rhetoric about caring about childrenâs health and well-being, this administration is quick to throw them under the bus whenever it suits their polluting benefactors. Isocycloseram is also highly toxic to bees and other pollinators.â These people are deranged.
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Trump EPA Approves Its Second âForever Chemicalâ Pesticide in Two Weeks
The Environmental Protection Agency today approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram for golf courses, lawns and food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, and oats. The pesticid...
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-epa-approves-its-second-forever-chemical-pesticide-in-two-weeks-2025-11-20/
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This is the swamp MAGA campaigned to drain. And now itâs been replaced with a bog. Loaded with hogs. Bog hogs.
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The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the countryâs largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the governmentâs dirty work.
https://www.levernews.com/the-human-trafficking-case-that-could-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity/
about 1 month ago
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