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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
Quite the shot of Trump disembarking from Marine One last night. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm.
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The Supreme Court Changed. What Now?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Counterintelligence experts told us it’s no secret Russia has long been trying to penetrate the Trump family inner circle, so a Putin-linked oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding raised all sorts of red flags. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: propub.li/47fu7eJ
“The expert take was … if you are the president’s son, you don’t get into a place where you are indebted to a Russian oligarch who is funded by the Russian state.” - Brett Murphy, ProPublica reporter
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Team Wolf @team-wolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New research shows wolves may be blueberry gardeners: seeds that pass through a wolf’s digestive system sprout about 7 days faster. In northern MN, blueberries can make up 83% of wolves’ summer diet. Wolves shape ecosystems in surprising ways and those systems are better for it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fairshake, the crypto industry's main super PAC, says it will spend $30M to defeat Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio's Senate race as revenge for Democrats defeating the pro-crypto CLARITY Act. But don't expect any of their ads to actually mention crypto. Watch.
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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Clarke: It’s hard to take Justice Thomas and Justice Alito seriously. They are not engaged in independent interpretation of the law or our Constitution. They are solely focused on putting their thumb on the scale of Donald Trump’s agenda each and every time.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Team Wolf @team-wolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump is trying to turn the most cowardly excuse for killing a wolf into a legal defense. Per the NYT, a new administration memo says killing an endangered animal is only illegal if it was specifically targeted. A dead wolf becomes just another "accident." Stand with wolves: TeamWolf.org
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026
The rise in rulings on the “shadow docket” has been driven, at least in part, by Trump’s losses in lower courts. “The patterns show a court going out of its way to enable Trump,” one scholar said. “That’s the real blow to the court’s credibility.” (Published July)
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
COMMENTARY: Our promise to Never Forget only gets harder from here. Now the real work of memory begins.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026
One in nine migratory birds threatened with extinction, global report says
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One in nine migratory birds threatened with extinction, global report says
Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit One in nine migratory birds are threatened with extinction and 45% of migratory species such as cuckoos, turtle doves and Arctic terns are in decline, according to a global report. The migratory slender-billed curlew was officially declared extinct last year, the first global bird extinction in mainland Eurasia and Africa in recent centuries. Worldwide, seven migratory bird species have been confirmed or are suspected to have become extinct over the last 150 years. Continue reading...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
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Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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Team Wolf @team-wolf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨 ACT NOW: The clock is already ticking. Trump gave Interior Sec. Burgum 90 days to decide whether Gray Wolves and Mexican Wolves lose ESA protection. 78% of Americans back wolf protections—and 75% of rural residents in wolf states. Tell Burgum: don't delist: www.teamwolf.org/take-action#...
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Team Wolf @team-wolf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
After Trump green-lit 300,000 metric tons of cheap imported beef, ranchers revolted. In an attempt pander, Trump has now given the Interior 90 days to justify delisting Gray Wolves & Lobos. Wolves account for less than 1% of unwanted cattle losses. TeamWolf.Org
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump's secret police moves to create an enemies list for the White House. The database would have all US voters, their party affiliations and their political preferences. Now for the question: what does any of this have to do with immigration enforcement? www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/09/2026
Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges. (Published May)
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Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.
Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were "full steam ahead" looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s...
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer. The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
$165 million a year in taxpayer contracts to run detention camps, then $1.4 million flows straight back to Trump’s super PAC the next month. That’s your money, laundered through a prison company, landing right back in Trump’s political war chest. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ING: Real disposable income has effectively flatlined for well over a year in level terms and is well below the pre-pandemic trend. 🇺🇸 (via SoberLook)
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
$150,000 raised. Wow.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/08/2026
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
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Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'
The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Newly disclosed agency files reveal that FCC Chair Brendan Carr held extensive contact with conservative media leaders like Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch while running the regulatory panel.
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FCC chair’s meetings with Trump, White House and right-wing media revealed
Newly released calendar logs show FCC Chair Brendan Carr made at least eight visits to the White House and held scheduled calls with senior officials
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“.. Of every $1 the US federal government collects: 19.7¢ → interest on the debt 17.9¢ → national defense .. Interest passed defense in late 2024 and hasn't looked back — 20 straight months.” @bloomberg.com
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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
At least 22 Black individuals have been found dead under unusual or suspicious hanging circumstances across the country between March 2025 and August 2026. This alarming trend has raised concerns about the investigations into these deaths. 
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/08/2026
Breaking News: Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001.
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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2026
That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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Team Wolf @team-wolf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“HE WANTS TO HUNT WOLVES. I’M NOT KIDDING.” Rep. Haley Stevens told CNN that Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has talked to her about killing wolves “many times” on the House floor. She added: “It’s all he talks about.” 🐺
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Shelley @shelley112.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#Idaho #Idahofire Resources for the rich from our tax dollars while bigger fires burned.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 14/08/2026
A Trump assistant asked officials from five agencies to join a call “prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.”
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‘Smoking gun’ email shows White House summoned agencies to Colorado-focused meeting amid Tina Peters furor
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2026
Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card. (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Team Wolf @team-wolf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Colorado wolf 2504 was shot and killed by a hunter who says he mistook her for a coyote. His penalty? Just $140. He immediately reported the killing—but shooting first does not erase the responsibility. Every wolf matters, and one death can destabilize an entire pack.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/08/2026
We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Three people deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea - including a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt when he was 4 - told the Arizona Daily Star their lives are in danger at the hotel. All agreed to have their full names published, despite the risks to their safety in speaking out.
In a recent late-night incident, all three say they were dragged from their rooms at gunpoint, handcuffed, assaulted and threatened by armed men guarding the decommissioned Hotel Bamy.
"They said if we leave the hotel grounds, they will shoot us and bury us across the street," said Peta-Gaye Chambers, 35, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Jamaica when she was 5. A U.S. immigration judge granted Chambers "withholding of removal" to her home country of Jamaica in 2013, agreeing she'd face persecution there.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin quietly made his first trip to Colorado, where he met with GOP Rep Gabe Evans and spoke with friendly media outlets about "'false rumors' about immigration enforcement." 9NEWS learned of Mullin's visit and requested an interview. DHS did not respond.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 10/08/2026
President Donald Trump said Friday the federal government will fund $180 million in grants for mining schools across the country as part of his administration’s goal of rebuilding the U.S. coal industry.
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Trump announces $180M for mining education as administration recommits to coal • Minnesota Reformer
President Donald Trump said Friday the federal government will fund $180 million in grants for mining schools across the county as part of his administration’s goal of rebuilding the U.S. coal industr...
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 10/08/2026
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, court records show.
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Lauren Boebert’s son arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, court records show
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They had contracted Blue Angels for 43 years; 43 years The owner says she never received a personal notice that Hegseth was canceling her or any reminder that her contract renewal was coming up This is how the Trump administration treats people, especially Black people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that DOGE wildly exaggerated the purported "savings" it delivered for the federal government. We lost vital government services for basically nothing in return. Watch.
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The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Musk has stepped out of the limelight, but DOGE is still gutting countless government programs and services that million
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Adul El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan and holds a PhD from Oxford (that's in England, not in Mississippi), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He's a leading US public health expert. You, Tuberville, are motivated by just one thing: racism. It permeates your innermost self and defines you.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/08/2026
US agency ends 39% local TV station ownership cap reut.rs/45J2bzf
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US agency ends 39% local TV station ownership cap
The Federal Communications Commission voted ​Thursday to rescind the rule that bars local ‌broadcast station owners from reaching more than 39% of the total number of U.S. TV households in a move that could ​help spark industry consolidation.
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Team Wolf @team-wolf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sen. @booker.senate.gov blocked an attempt to strip Gray Wolves of their federal protections! Yesterday, Sen. Johnson tried to pass the Pet and Livestock Protection Act by unanimous consent. Booker objected, stopping the bill from advancing. It’s an important win but the fight continues!
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Reflecting Pool saga is a perfect diorama of how right-wing media turns Trump’s fantasies into public reality, and then tries to quietly conceal the wreckage once the facts catch up.
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Jeanine Pirro's Reflecting Pool reckoning
The former Fox News star couldn't sustain Trump's fantasy. Her downfall is classic MAGA tale
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/08/2026
NEWS: Trump just bragged about gutting endangered species protections so oil drilling, logging, development, and even military training can expand with fewer restrictions.
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Trump Announces Rollback of Endangered Species Protections
Trump: ”The United States of America is going to BUILD again.”
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NPR @npr.org · 04/08/2026
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country's most pristine ecosystems. n.pr/4pSfqqC
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These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/08/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think ... in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.”
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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