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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 2h
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 1h
NEW: The Tompkins County DA refused to consider additional evidence in the Cornell case. It's the whole damn system. I'm glad Letitia James is on it now. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Grace Garcia @givemegrace.bsky.social · 2h
"What Boutros doesn’t mention are the 25 other people charged during that period. For good reason! Virtually all of those cases also fell apart... But they fell apart differently than Broadview 6. And that’s where...the decision to keep trying to indict it, should come under scrutiny."
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 7h
Witkoff and Kushner discussed the deal last month during a meeting at the Kremlin with Putin. Here is a shorter overview of our investigation. With my NYT Washington Bureau colleague Anton Troianovski www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Trump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)
A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 2h
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted emptywheel.net/2026/10/03/t...
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The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted - emptywheel
Last year, when Andrew Boutros was dropping shitty ICE cases left and right, he made the decision to keep trying until he charged Kat Abughazaleh with a felony.
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 5h
Florida's dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental US in decades apnews.com/article/deng...
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Florida's dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental US in decades
Florida is experiencing its largest dengue outbreak in decades, with over 250 locally acquired cases reported this year.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 4h
A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 4h
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
WSJ has this story about how 73-yo Xi Jinping needed rest time during the summit with 80-yo Donny. It features this picture to show how Xi grabbed his spouse's hand while walking up the stairs. But Trump's inability to walk straight is more noticeable.
A picture of Xi Jinping, his spouse, Trump, and Melania, walking up red carpeted stairs.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. 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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21h
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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michiganknitter.bsky.social @michiganknitter.bsky.social · 6h
Vote! Don't think you can skip it because of polling!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20h
I just got a notification that my ballot has been mailed to me. Let's see how long it takes to get here! I live in California, where everyone is mailed a ballot.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20h
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h
Trump has stopped using the Flying Bribery Palace. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Stops Using Luxurious But Defenseless Jet He Solicited From Qatar
The president has for his five most recent trips, including Friday’s, used the real Air Force One built for that purpose. The White House refuses to explain the switch.
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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 21h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
Trump “feels badly” for the Cornell alleged gang rapists
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
NEW: The criminal investigation into the "grand conspiracy" fell apart with everyone resigning because they failed to indict anyone, so now they're just going to make up a report about it. Pathetic. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Kash Patel commissions classified, internal FBI report to examine department ‘failures’
Sources tell MS NOW the ‘Patel Report’ may be the latest effort to re-write history in President Trump’s favor.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23h
A $250,000 donation to a pro-Ken Paxton super PAC came from a businessman whose dad got pardoned by Trump — and who used a fake name and rented mailbox on the donation record.
politico.com
Who was behind a $250K mystery donation to super PAC backing Ken Paxton?
The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21h
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h
This is a point I think Dems need to be making more: Taunting the GOP on the way Trump delayed spending then tainted them all with these corrupt ads.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h
A south Florida political journalist explains why GOPers are beginning to worry that Angie Nixon can beat Ashley Moody.
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And like Alex Vindman, Moody is proving to be a terrible campaigner.
Moody runs and hides from the press and her campaign for the Senate is calling her opponent "Socialist Angie" over and over again. With gas prices high, the economy weak, an unpopular war, is that enough?
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Talking to Republican consultants, they are worried about the Senate race in Florida. They still think Ashley Moody will win, but their confidence has waned in recent weeks. Moody does not generate any excitement and Vance's recent comments only energize the opposition.
Jim DeFede
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As Republicans demonize 
@AngieNixon
, and JD Vance tells her "you don't belong in America," they run the risk of having it backfire. Nixon can be a compelling figure. Here she is getting emotional when I asked her to tell voters something personal about herself. 
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23h
VICTORY: A lawsuit seeking to end the Trump administration's social media surveillance program will move forward. eff.org/press/relea...
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Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media
NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
EFF and @aclu-norcal.bsky.social have demanded records from the Marin County Sheriff’s Office following a news report that it has shared Flock data with out-of-state and federal agencies – a violation of the 2022 settlement of our lawsuit, and of state law.
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We Demand More Information on How Marin Cops Illegally Shared Flock ALPR Data
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data from their Flock Safety system with out-of-state and ...
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Southwest Florida Man @swflman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is genuinely funny to layout how many of the tech AI ppl mtg with trump are immigrants or children of immigrants
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Dozens of Wisconsin sheriffs have rushed to help ICE's deportation agenda by joining the 287(g) program. In 2 swing counties Trump narrowly won, this has now become a campaign issue. And Democrats are running for sheriff in Sauk and Winnebago on a promise to quit the program:
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In Wisconsin, Two Sheriff Races Test the Future of Local ICE Cooperation - Bolts
Wisconsin’s Sauk and Winnebago counties joined an ICE program to boost immigration enforcement. Candidates running for sheriff have vowed to quit it if elected next month.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Garnet is absolutely right here. More than that, #SCOTUS has made it clear, over and over again, that it is not going to let states use its "original" jurisdiction to sue other states in contexts in which the underlying question *can* be litigated in the lower federal courts. This is one of those.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WSJ tracks how many local cops are getting rich arresting a single migrant. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
wsj.com
Exclusive | How Local Police Get Paid Big Money for Just a Few Immigration Arrests
The Department of Homeland Security gives local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When I get down about what has become of journalism, of speaking the truth, I think of Jamal. I lost my Washington Post job. Jamal lost his life. Both of us — all we wanted to do was write and help people.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Been waiting for this lawsuit for a year.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And @muellershewrote.com is also up for an award in the news and politics category! I’ve had the pleasure of going on The Daily Beans several times and Allison is always a fantastic host. Go vote! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Jenna Jacobson wins, power could shift in Wisconsin's State Senate for the first time in a generation. Guess what that means?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, missing expectations. The unemployment rate grew to 4.2%, up slightly from the previous month. Economists had expected 4.1%.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why do Americans pay so much for healthcare, prescription drugs, childcare, web service, college, and other 21st Century needs? Because the GOP decided to turn their backs on the social contract 45 years ago. It’s no coincidence Harry Truman called them #TheGuardiansOfPrivilege.
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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.samsung-news.com/articles/KmC... This is the GOP response to being utterly humiliated in Congress. 🤦‍♀️
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The entire Klan Act lawsuit describes how Stephen sent masked men into Minnesota on the pretext of hunting down Somalis — whom he and Katie had dehumanized for years — to deprive everyone there of their civil rights.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WaPo reports that Trump is stealing money again, this time money appropriated for (among others) Eastern Europe and sending it to Latin America. But I think stealing $$ from Iraq is just as important. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Late Wednesday, the administration quietly notified Congress it was defying the hold and moving ahead, diverting to Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia $52 million that had been approved for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq, the officials said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security matters.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In today's twin episode of leopards gouging themselves on each other, 1) Steven Friend, whom Kash funded to lie & rehired to FBI, was fired for disinformation about the pipe bomb case. 2) John Sullivan, who took vid of Jan6 while he was criming, is pro se suing Gateway Pundit for stealing that vid.
32.The speech identified in Patel’s dismissal letter concerned an important,
publicly known federal investigation: the FBI’s investigation of two pipe
bombs discovered near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Friend’s
commentary addressed the investigation, the agency’s handling of evidence,
and the accountability of federal law enforcement.Defendants systematically downloaded and extracted video files directly from
Plaintiff's public digital channels, intentionally removed, altered, and excised Plaintiff's
identifying copyright management information, digital watermarks, and authorial
attribution notices, re-encoded the video files into proprietary web formats, and uploaded
the footage onto video hosting servers and embedded video players hosted directly within
commercial articles on TheGatewayPundit.com. Indeed, high-definition broadcast frame
captures establish that Defendants publicly displayed and streamed Plaintiff's copyrighted
footage of the Speaker's Lobby-plainly bearing Plaintiff's transparent "Insurgence USA"
provenance watermark across the lower-right quadrant-while superimposing Defendants'
own prominent "GP" (The Gateway Pundit) corporate broadcast logo in the upper-left
quadrant to falsely brand and commercially exploit Plaintiff's work as their own
proprietary news reporting (Exhibit 69). This intentional removal, alteration, and
unauthorized superimposition of copyright management information was executed without
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not mentioned in here, but something I'm holding my breath for. Not ONLY is Harmeet Dhillon an Indian immigrant. But her policy of doing away w/affirmative action WILL RESULT in more Asians at UT (and everywhere else). At some point there will be enormous backlash, esp w/Rufo out there.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 01/10/2026
“When we say, ‘Ukraine is holding on,’ this resilience begins right here at the front.” President Zelenskyy recorded an address to honor Ukraine’s warriors on Defenders Day. Thank you to everyone protecting Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes 🇺🇦
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One ¶ in a ruling issued yesterday holding Congress CANNOT set rules on voter qualification, & USG cannot prosecute non-citizens for voting in Fed elections. This opinion has been & will be misrepresented (& I am correcting my own misrepresntation).
Here’s the weird part, and it has real bite for our case: None of the rationales contained in the
opinions that upheld the voting-age provision in Mitchell were supported by a majority of the Supreme
Court. Importantly, five Justices rejected the view that the Elections Clause empowered Congress to
regulate voter qualifications in federal elections. Id. at 143 (op. of Douglas, J.), 210 (op. of Harlan, J.),
288 (op. of Stewart, Burger, and Blackmun, JJ.). Equally importantly, five Justices also rejected the view
that the Fourteenth Amendment empowered Congress to lower the voting age. See id. at 124–30 (op.
of Black, J.), 155 (op. of Harlan, J.), 293–94 (op. of Stewart, Burger, Blackmun, JJ.). The Mitchell
majority judgment on the voting-age provision, therefore, was formed by combining two divergent
rationales: one based on the Elections Clause and one based on the Fourteenth Amendment. So while
there were five votes for the result—upholding the voting-age provision for federal elections—there
were explicit majorities of the Supreme Court that rejected each of the rationales (the Elections Clause and
the Fourteenth Amendment) that allowed for that very result. Quite unusual, and it raises the question:
What is the precedential effect of Mitchell in that kind of situation?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Under Marco Rubio, the State Department is being by pro-Russian Nazis using State to foster fascism worldwide. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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Trump administration shifts funds from human rights to supporting far-right causes | CNN Politics
The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding “Western civiliza...
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