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Gaylene Pheysey 🌮

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Mom to 3 fantastic kids, got a cute hubby and cute dog, living in SE WA, closer to 50 than 40, member of www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=e… 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫶

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
theguardian.com
US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The cost of hiring a very large crude carrier from the Gulf to Asia has risen to $1.1mm a day, up from ~$100,000 at the start of the year. Costs on other routes not directly impacted by the US-Iran war, such as the Gulf of Mexico to Asia, have also surged 400–500% y/y.
bloomberg.com
The Next Inflation Shock: $1 Million-a-Day Oil Tankers
Former President Bill Clinton once said that when a crisis breaks out, the first thing everyone in Washington asks is, “Where is the nearest [aircraft] carrier?” That remains a critical question as th...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's a fun little friend. It's a caterpillar that has adorned itself with plant material to help camouflage itself. Quite an amazing find! Emerald Moth (Synchlora sp.)
A brown caterpillar with lots of burgundy-ish plants bits stuck to its body. It is standing on a linen sheet.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve covered Trump’s arch for nearly a year. I’ve watched officials reveal their plans to federal commissions and tracked them in court. Nobody, until today, made any suggestion it would be a “military complex.” But Trump has used a similar strategy to defend his ballroom.
washingtonpost.com
Trump says planned 250-foot arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipers
The president’s post about the 250-foot arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
To my Jewish friends and neighbors who will soon be observing Yom Kippur: May you be inscribed for a good year in the book of life. I'm looking forward to continuing to work together to build a better Michigan and a better world.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are still 380 subscribers short of our weekend goal. If you want to help Democracy Docket grow its influence and scale, sign-up now (free or paid). demdock.com/4w6emld
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Okay, so let’s get one of those.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee sitting in DC, issues a preliminary injunction blocking the entire U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rule. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (Key portions of the rule were blocked by Judge Talwani in federal court in Massachusetts.)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DSCC, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01114 (CJN)
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN
CITIZENS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01132 (CJN)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01151 (CJN)ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that DSCC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction,
ECF 163, is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART'; and it is further
ORDERED that LULAC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
ECF 171, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that NAACP Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
172, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that the United States Postal Service is preliminarily enjoined from
implementing and enforcing the Final Rule it published on August 21, see Ballot Mail for Federal
Elections, 91 Fed. Reg. 54,966 (Aug. 26, 2026).
DATE: September 13, 2026
'ARL. NICHOL
United States District Judge
' The Court denies only the portion of the Motion that seeks to preliminarily enjoin Section 3 of the Executive Order.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
UPDATE: DOJ decided to play fast and loose this morning. Without even filing a notice of appeal in the DSCC case, SG Sauer made arguments to SCOTUS about the merits of the DSCC case injunction in a "supplemental brief" in the stay application pending in the California/LWV cases out of Mass.
Late last night, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a preliminary injunction in three consolidated cases, DSCC v. Trump, No.
26-cv-1114 (D.D.C.); League of United Latin American Citizens v. Trump, No. 26-cv-1132 (D.D.C), and NAACP v. Trump, No. 26-cv-1151 (D.D.C.). See DSCC D. Ct. Doc.
192 (Sept. 13, 2026) (App., infra, la-24a). Much like the injunction at issue here, the D.D.C. injunction bars the Postal Service from implementing and enforcing its Ballot
Mail for Federal Elections Rule. See App., infra, 25a-26a. Because that decision does not contain any materially new reasoning, a stay in this case will require the district
court in DSCC (or the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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Circuit) to immediately grant a parallel stay. See Trump v. Boyle, 145 S. Ct. 2653, 2654 (2025) (explaining that this Court's interim orders "inform how a court should exercise its discretion in like cases").On the merits, although the DSCC court recognized that the Rule's labeling requirements might fall within the Postal Service's authority, see App., infra, at 16a n.7, it concluded that the Rule's requirement that state officials submit a list of intended ballot recipients as a condition of mailing ballots to those recipients likely exceeded the Postal Service's authority, reasoning that that requirement is about regulating elections rather than delivering mail, id. at 15a-16a. That rationale, which is essentially the same as the rationale of the district court in this case, see Appl.
App. 27a-30a, fails for reasons the government has already explained. In particular, creating lists of recipients helps to ensure that mail is sent only to the addressees the sender intends and to track if any fraudulent use of the mail occurs. See Appl. 9, 28;
Reply Br. 17. As such, that requirement falls well within the Postal Service's rule-making power and is analogous to the existing registration and tracking require-
ments for cremated remains or to a hypothetical rule requiring senders to provide
more detailed information regarding mailings to retirement communities that have been targeted for fraud. See Appl. 16-19; Reply Br. 7, 10-12.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. (Published Oct. 2023)
propublica.org
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "The draft-dodging commander in chief builds a monument to himself while plunging us deeper into a war he doesn't know how to end or win"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We are the only people who will rescue us from this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for. The next 51 days are crucial. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Indeed, it's far worse than that... Trump is running up a tab of many millions in taxpayer funds for purposes of promoting his own golf course. And the proper word for that is *corrupt.*
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Criminally insane.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
In states with abortion bans, medical providers are hesitating or flat-out refusing to terminate ectopic pregnancies, lawsuits allege. “I genuinely thought I was going to die,” said Kyleigh Thurman, who couldn’t get care in Texas.
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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My friends call me Spike, BSc 🇨🇦 @chemspice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Utterly disgusting! “These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.” fortune.com/2026/09/13/a...
fortune.com
Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares | Fortune
“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You don’t say. The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Breaks the law and reeks of dictatorship defector.com/treasury-dep...
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/12/2025
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
wsj.com
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And yes, there is actually a federal law saying Presidential $1 coins cannot feature a living current or former president.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chevron has set itself up with the Trump administration to expand existing operations in Venezuela and profit substantially from Donald's illegal actions in the country. www.npr.org/2026/09/02/n...
npr.org
Chevron to expand in Venezuela, days after the U.S. and Venezuela strike oil deal
Chevron is the largest foreign oil operator in Venezuela. The deal will expand its footprint at a time of political and economic uncertainty for Venezuela.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s Wednesday. Time for #SistersInLaw to answer your questions. You can listen here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS. One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.
propublica.org
These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.
Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The night Shakira opened Donbass Arena in 2009, a $400M stadium now left in ruins by war
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE arrests have hit a record high for Trump's second term. A vast majority of those who have been arrested are people with no criminal history. Remember that private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group were some of Trump's biggest donors. They're now reporting billions in revenue.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Federal corporate political spending has already reached nearly $650 MILLION ahead of the midterms, according to @publiccitizen.bsky.social. That’s an all-time high — and we’re still months away from Election Day. Big Money is the real threat to “election integrity.”
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At the 2026 March on Washington DC. Crowds are no longer allowed to surround the reflecting pool as it has for over 60 years.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
Newsom: "That $400m Qatari plane? That's not a $400m gift. It cost you $936m. That was what was appropriated as he's cutting food stamps and cutting your Medicaid. He put a billion dollars in the Pentagon budget to retrofit his private plane because that's going with him after the presidency ... "
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Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My Toronto Star take on festival challenges: 1. Crowds aren’t the problem; poor spatial planning is. Many festivals have outgrown the car-centric streets and spaces where they began. Their growth needs to be matched with permanent pedestrianization, better design, and placemaking approaches.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A president who refuses to send aid to states that didn’t vote for him, is a literally enemy of the state and the nation.
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A reminder, as polls open in Wisconsin: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or need to re-register, you can do so at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Here’s what we found: Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. The relationship was even stronger in lower-speed environments.”
theconversation.com
Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it
Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"At least 111 people were killed and 87 others were injured, according to Colombia’s president, Abelardo De La Espriella, who said that at least 1,575 homes, 18 health centers and 52 schools had been damaged. The death toll was likely to rise..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/w...
nytimes.com
Major Quake Hits Colombia, Killing at Least 111
Rescue crews and regular people searched for survivors, and the death toll was likely to rise. More than 1,500 homes were damaged, the president said.
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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EXCLUSIVE: North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says
The missile unit could be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers.
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Interesting. "The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan today signed a new joint defense agreement, creating a NATO-style collective defense alliance that could soon be tested amid complex regional conflicts" breakingdefense.com/2026/08/saud...
breakingdefense.com
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan ink 'joint defense' agreement - Breaking Defense
The agreement says that "any armed attack against any one of the three States shall be regarded as an attack against them all."
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Frontier Security, a US startup, says that Kimi K3 went outside of its sandbox while testing its defensive cybersecurity skills" www.wired.com/story/moonsh...
wired.com
One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In a new article for East Asia Forum, I look at the incentives that might reignite sustained missile technology exchange between Iran and North Korea: eastasiaforum.org/2026/08/08/t...
eastasiaforum.org
The spectre of renewed Iran–North Korea missile cooperation
Iran–North Korea missile cooperation has been dormant for much of the 2020s, but necessity and experience are creating new incentives to revive it
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Genuinely a good nonproliferation outcome here. The idea of getting buy-in from the government could be usefully applied to the situation with Iran, but alas.
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will soon remove nuclear material stored at a clandestine site in Syria" www.axios.com/2026/08/10/s...
axios.com
Scoop: U.S. brokers secret deal on clandestine Syrian nuclear site
The Trump administration and international inspectors rushed to prevent a major escalation.
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Jake Sherman is my Hero 🤣 Trump: “A lot of people are saying I’m one of the greatest presidents ever.” Sherman: “They’re not saying that though.”
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lebanon’s parliament has just voted to abolish the death penalty, becoming the first Arab country to end capital punishment today.lorientlejour.com/article/1544...
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Parliament adopts law abolishing death penalty
BEIRUT — Parliament convened Tuesday for a plenary session to debate several bills on the agenda, with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in attendance.L’Orient-Le Jour learned that the agenda was set in...
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