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Glenda McKali

@glenfem.bsky.social
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Feminist, retired news journalist, fuming at the MSM, fighting global patriarchy harming us all. Lover of artists, esp comedians, who shed light and laughter on the absurdity of life and humans.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 8h
It’s like writing up an Epstein profile and ignoring his sex crimes
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The First Amendment wasn’t actually “first.” The original First Amendment was meant to ensure that the House of Representatives grew in loose proportion to the country. Instead, the House’s size hasn’t changed since 1911. Today’s “One First” on that history—and the problems a capped House creates:
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Bonus 256: The Original “First” Amendment
The only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 8 years ago on October 6, 2018. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“As soon as the deal is approved and the sanctions are lifted, the result will be a very lucrative payday for Kushner and company.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/wasted-yea...
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‘Wasted Years’
We learned this week that Russia inserted a multibillion dollar bribe into the U.S.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's good news that NY Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Leticia James special prosecutor in this case, and here remember that Hochul became governor because Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign in disgrace because of his serial sexual harassment...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s getting harder to shake the feeling the USA isn’t being set up for something awful by an adversary who understood how cheap it was to hire Donald Trump & a drunk sex pest from Fox News to destroy our military.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“For the last year and a half, the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our government, and for the most part, we have simply passed on by.” www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-losing…
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today’s Jack Smith hearing should be treated by the press as a civics lesson rather than a spectacle. “As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime.” His opening remarks: www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
According to several people involved, the Trump administration initially floated an idea that would have virtually shut down mail voting: requiring all ballots to be delivered exclusively through certified mail.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Adamson said she wasn't offered water until around the five-hour mark of her detainment, and no one asked whether she needed to use the bathroom.” CBP is interrogating more and more travelers, claiming they're attempting to vote illegally. Fascists love to scapegoat. #USDemocracy #MomSky #CdnPoli
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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 28/09/2026
The government shouldn’t be able to secretly obtain journalists’ phone records without court approval. But DHS is abusing its authority to do just that. Read more about what Congress, journalists, and tech companies can do about it:
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These secret subpoenas are targeting journalists
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort aren’t the first journalists to be targeted with administrative subpoenas. Unless Congress acts, they won’t be the last
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is about as upset as a NYT reporter is allowed to get:”An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two months ago Trump gave a primetime address claiming China attacked US elections. Yesterday, he flew their flag on top of the Oval Office. If like me, you worked on a TV show w Trump when he rented an entire floor of Trump Tower to China’s largest bank, you won’t be surprised.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a sharp prediction from @aselrod.bsky.social: In the post-Trump era, many MAGA commentators will try to leave the stench of their support for him behind. "Some chunk of the far-right commentariat will try to make safe passage back to mainstream media. We should not let them." Indeed!
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
im only a bit into this longread and it's already a brutal accounting of the Reconstruction rollback being carried out by the neoconfederates on the Court like, this is a deliberate effort by opponents of multiracial democracy to disempower and degrade--again. different century but same shit
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When he appeared before the state Senate that day to testify against the new redistricting plans, he was joined by three other veteran Black politicians. Although Fields, a 63-year-old lawyer, has a reputation as an even-keeled consensus builder, he grew emotional as he spoke.

“To me, it is personal,” he told the Senate committee. “Since Reconstruction, Louisiana has elected four African Americans to Congress. And you’re looking at all of them. Four.” Even though nearly a third of Louisiana’s population is Black.

“You said something very profound,” state Sen. Gary Carter Jr., an African American Democrat from New Orleans, told Fields. “From the 1870s all the way through [the] present, just you four gentlemen—that’s it. And now this body wants to reduce that. ‘We want to cut it. That’s too many.’ How do we not be outraged?”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just finished this "story" and holy shit is it embarrassing. It would be charitable to say this reads like an infomercial.
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Glenda McKali @glenfem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bernie Sanders giving advice on AI? omfg. And his cult followers rage against others (esp women) his age but never criticize him. And that despite his terrible record of doing nothing but preach while in power, awful history before then, horrible campaigns attacking Dems that helped get us here.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's impossible to despise the DOGE crew as much as they deserve. The result of their work includes the death of millions, and a possibly irreversible decline in America's scientific and technological capacity, and they actually increased the debt to do this. World historical villains.
“There’s this misconception that we all just went in there and didn’t really think about what we were doing,” Hassen said, speaking virtually from a hotel room in San Diego. “I spent 24/7 thinking about it, waking up at three in the morning thinking, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’ … And I know I did.”To Hassen, whose pre-government career involved turning around distressed companies, “DOGE was not radical,” he writes in the book. It was “not a wrecking ball, but a catalyst.” “Did we eliminate the deficit? No. Of course not,” he said. “But we made it on the top of everyone’s minds, albeit briefly, for a few months, that this deficit is something that we need to fix.”
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No defense of the free press in the Washington Post this morning. Instead, Jeff Bezos’s editorial board continues to idiotically kiss Trump’s butt, this time by proposing he stop sending federal money to states for things like Medicaid. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | A $1.2 trillion state allowance is stunting America’s growth
The U.S. government has become states’ piggy bank.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump's ban on MSNOW, CNN, and Politico is not only part of the autocratic playbook, but the timing is no coincidence. Trump is well in the autocratic backfire process, thus, entire media outlets he sees as threats must be banished. This is a moment of reckoning for America.
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Glenda McKali @glenfem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some people complain about “the news” as if it’s not reality
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Glenda McKali @glenfem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NYT's story 'how DT broke the Kennedy Center' states "The president, who is the center's chairman", rather than noting his key first step of firing board members, naming himself chairman, installing lackeys, an unprecedented move by a US president. yes, dictator like.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"We already have travel bans in this country. We just don't call them that." —Jessica Valenti
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/09/2026
DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18/09/2026
It’s difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than Trump banning news outlets from the People’s House for criticizing the government. These outrageous attacks only show how scared he is of an informed public. Our statement:
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FPF comments on Trump’s media ban announcement
The president’s latest attempt to punish the press is unconstitutional and just plain dumb
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you NYT for reporting on this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportations (Gift Article)
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Glenda McKali @glenfem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It never was about gas prices. or food prices. Their cult believes whatever they're told
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Glenda McKali @glenfem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Of course some GOP candidates are 'distancing themselves' from the monster they put in power and still support. More lies. Good time to remember GOP, Sen McConnell in lead, put full focus on packing federal courts top to bottom, fast, to allow their full power, corruption, killing our democracy
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You take a job somewhere called “Reuters Legal” and you just never expect to have to write this sentence
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter — undistracted notes on the search for meaning. For 20 years, it has remained a one-woman labor of love — free, ad-free, AI-free, and fully human: themarginalian.org/newsletter
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sunday newsletter
If you yearn for depth and delight without the distraction of a social media feed, if you are weary of algorithms deciding what you see and read and constellate into reality, try the Marginalian Su…
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Glenda McKali @glenfem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yay Newsom!!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
DHS ordered agents to pose as individual voters to illegally access their records on state websites using highly personal data from a massive federal database in their deranged quest to find “unlawful voters”. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 459. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 459. 9/14/26
… A blockbuster new story from ProPublica revealed that a Russian oligarch paid over $170,000 for a lavish 3-day wedding celebration in the Bahamas for Donald Trump, Jr., Bettina Anderson, and their f...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Vastly less deceptive photos WaPo could have used to illustrate its empty-of-news article about Mitch McConnell -- rather than one showing him conscious: A shrine of sorts in his office, his closed office door, newspapers outside his residence. (via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 08: A photo of Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao is displayed at his office in Russell Senate Office Building on July 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. McConnell's health has become the subject of speculation. (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 08: Mitch McConnell's office in Russell Senate Office Building on July 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. McConnell's health has become the subject of speculation. (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)
Senator Mitch McConnell Residence
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 3: Newspapers are seen on the doorstep of Capitol Hill neighborhood residence of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on August 3, 2026 in Washington, DC. McConnell was taken from the home and transported to the hospital in June. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Really important to see what they looked like. "The use of such restrictive spaces is highly unconventional and does not align with standards for humane treatment," said Trump's own IG office. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
4'3" x 4'3" torture cages
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Nancy Pelosi @pelosi.house.gov · 13/09/2026
32 years ago, the Violence Against Women Act became law, strengthening our nation’s commitment to justice. Today, we once again commit to building on that progress until every woman can live free from violence and fear—with the safety, dignity and respect they deserve.
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