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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 13/01/2026
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
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Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/11/2025
In a shocking trove of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Trump “spent hours” at his home with a victim and “knew about the girls.”
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Epstein: Trump knew
In a shocking trove of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein alleged that President Trump "spent hours" at his home with a victim and "knew about the girls."
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/11/2025
BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/11/2025
A father and his one-year-old daughter were pepper sprayed by US ICE agents in Chicago while on their way to go grocery shopping.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/11/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ear3xH
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/10/2025
That is very, very bad—and also illegal.
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It sure looks like Trump is about to weaponize the IRS
That is very, very bad—and also illegal.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/10/2025
Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes.
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Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand
Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2025
Federal workers and contractors: We understand the difficult situations you may be weighing as you decide whether to reach out. All of our reporters take source privacy very seriously. If you have information you can share with us, here's how to get in touch 👇
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Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You.
We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2025
NEW: In the lead-up to Trump’s second term, a PA businessman hired Tom Homan as a consultant and said he could put together a group of companies wanting to get in line to win contracts for a massive immigration enforcement plan, sources said.
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Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
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Poll: Agreement that political violence may be necessary to right the country grows
On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/09/2025
So much for the justices’ promise of a “colorblind Constitution.”
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The Supreme Court says colleges can’t consider race. But ICE can.
So much for the justices' promise of a "colorblind Constitution."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 31/08/2025
During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living. “Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?” trib.al/KGFzxKS
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“Stop Lying”: Voters Erupt at GOP Lawmaker’s Shocking Claim on Economy
Iowa State Representative Ashley Hinson’s comments were met with boos and jeers.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/08/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “How can the most powerful country on earth sow the seeds to make people sick again with preventable, even once-eliminated diseases?” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.
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Opinion | Vax Quack Lacks Facts
This Kennedy is no profile in courage.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 31/08/2025
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.
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'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.The reports started earlier in the summer that Tru...
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Who is Paolo Zampolli? open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
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Who is Paolo Zampolli?
From catwalks to closed‑door deals, his story is stitched together in whispers and court filings.
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Project 2025: The Shadow Presidency of the Heritage Foundation open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Project 2025: The Shadow Presidency of the Heritage Foundation
From climate rollbacks to baby deportations—how Trump is enacting the Heritage Foundation’s extremist vision
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Governor Abbott, open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
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Governor Abbott,
Bless Your Heart, That’s Not How Quorums Work.
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We Are Not the Generation That Lets This Die open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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We Are Not the Generation That Lets This Die
After 250 years of sacrifice, we won’t let apathy be our legacy.
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c...
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Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/06/2025
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is considering taking legal action after one of SpaceX’s giant Starship rockets disintegrated in June in a giant fireball. The explosion rained down detritus on beaches in northern Mexico and, environmental groups say, caused die-offs of marine life.
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Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation
Mexican environmental activists say detritus raining down from Elon Musk’s rocket company has caused die-offs of marine life.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 26/06/2025
Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who plotted to use fake electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of President Donald Trump, was disbarred in the state of New York this week.
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Trump 2020 fake electors architect disbarred in New York
Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who plotted to use fake electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of President Donald Trump, was disbarred in the state of New York this week.In an order obtained by Lawfare's Anna Bower on Thursday, a panel of judges noted that Chesebro had pleaded ...
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
You Shot Her! open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
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You Shot Her!
She wasn’t holding a sign.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/06/2025
And while we’re at it, here’s our guide on how to best protect yourself at a protest.
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How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 08/06/2025
A former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official during Donald Trump's first term as president claimed that what is happening in Los Angeles is exactly what the president has been hoping for so he can unleash the military on Americans.
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'This is the big one': Ex-DHS official raises alarm over Trump's plans for LA
A former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official during Donald Trump's first term as president claimed that what is happening in Los Angeles is exactly what the president has been hoping for so he can unleash the military on Americans.Speaking on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former DHS chief of sta...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/06/2025
Two veterans made their way onto a military base in Washington State and attacked a soldier with a hammer as they tried to steal combat equipment, the authorities said. The theft led investigators to a house full of Nazi paraphernalia and a stockpile of stolen weapons.
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2 Veterans Found With Stolen Military Weapons and Nazi Material, Officials Say
The authorities said a soldier was assaulted with a hammer as the men tried to steal gear from a military base in Washington State. The theft led investigators to a house full of contraband.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/06/2025
The 1939 Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their position to engage in partisan activity. The Trump White House is bringing loyalty oaths back. trib.al/fUwPy73
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/06/2025
Before landing at DHS, Fugate worked on the Trump campaign and interned at The Heritage Foundation. According to his LinkedIn profile, the bulk of his leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating…
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/06/2025
In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. trib.al/O1jiyie
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The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
National Guard being called up in Los Angeles due to riots against ICE. Happening now.
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
BREAKING: Donald Trump to Send in the National Guard as ICE Turns Los Angeles into a War Zone open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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BREAKING: Donald Trump to Send in the National Guard as ICE Turns Los Angeles into a War Zone
I’m reporting from the road — stuck in traffic, but I wanted to make sure you had the news.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/06/2025
Shares of Tesla fell 14.3% on Thursday, as Elon Musk ramped up his public criticism of President Trump’s domestic policy bill. The plunge wiped out about $150 billion from Tesla’s market valuation. nyti.ms/4dVWWQg
A line chart titled: "Tesla Shares Slide as Musk Feuds With Trump" that shows a steep plunge from June 4 to June 5
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/05/2025
Joni Ernst’s casually cruel remark is an accidental bedrock of Republican politics. Death does not matter, for certain people, if it means a supposed economic boost to the few. Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on: "Well, we're all going to die."
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"Well, we’re all going to die," says Joni Ernst in defense of Medicaid cuts
Joni Ernst's casual cruelty is an accidental bedrock of GOP politics: Death does not matter, for certain people.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/05/2025
From @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/05/2025
National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it. trib.al/Qpb9WJE
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Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
 “I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian
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Politico @politico.com · 20/05/2025
The Trump administration just flew two Asian immigrants to South Sudan in violation of a court order, their lawyers say.
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Trump admin deports immigrants to South Sudan in violation of court order, lawyers say
Their lawyers say they learned of the deportation plan after receiving an abrupt notice Monday evening. By Tuesday morning, the men were already on a plane.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/05/2025
After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.
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Surprise! DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust
Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/05/2025
BREAKING: A sweeping ProPublica report reveals the U.S. State Department is interfering with foreign countries on behalf of Elon Musk. Officials in both Washington and Gambia have aggressively pushed for the West African country to approve a license for Starlink, of which Musk owns a $150B stake.
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Musk Used State Department to Force Another Country to Get Starlink
Elon Musk is turning the U.S. government into his personal PR firm.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/05/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in D.C. permanently blocks Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie. The president appeared to punish the firm for its election work representing his political opponents. Background: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/05/2025
A photographer captured an image of Michael Waltz’s phone screen, which had a list of his conversations on what appears to be a modified version of the app Signal, during a White House cabinet meeting, a day before he was ousted from his job as national security adviser. nyti.ms/3GDhqk7
A group of men sit around a large oval table. In the foreground, Michael Waltz is checking his phone. A headline reads: “After Leaked Group Chat, Michael Waltz Still Used A Version of Signal.” Photo credit: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2025
DOGE's Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws: propub.li/4cVtSYq
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/05/2025
“I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service," Jackson told fellow judges.
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A Supreme Court Justice Finally Just Stood up to Trump
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the president's unsettling attacks on the judiciary.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025
Six men who prosecutors said took part in forcibly removing a woman from a town-hall meeting hosted by local Republicans in Coeur d’Alene, a small city in northern Idaho, in February are facing charges including battery and false imprisonment.
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Six Men Are Charged After Woman Was Dragged From Idaho Town Hall
The plainclothes guards were involved in the forcible removal of a woman from a meeting hosted by local Republicans in Coeur d’Alene, prosecutors said.
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Houthis Send Friend Request to Hegseth’s Wife open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Houthis Send Friend Request to Hegseth’s Wife
The rebels said that they want to “stay in the loop."
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NPR @npr.org · 17/04/2025
ICYMI: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/04/2025
Meet the Sakura, the best-selling electric car in Japan. It has driver assistance, auto-parking, fast charging, bi-directional power, and acres of charm. The killer stat: It only costs $17,000. www.wired.com/review/revie...
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This Could Be Japan’s Best-Kept EV Secret—and It Deserves to Be Shared
Meet the Sakura, the best-selling electric car in Japan. It has driver assistance, auto-parking, fast charging, bi-directional power, and acres of charm. The killer stat: It only costs $17,000.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/04/2025
A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."
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me @mrsp54.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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BREAKING: Judge Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt
We have major breaking news out of Washington, D.C.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/04/2025
This is the day that President Donald Trump sent a clear message to the nation: There is no rule of law in the United States.
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Trump to the USA: There is no rule of law
What might he try next? Illegal arrests or deportations of American citizens?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/04/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our free humor newsletter to never miss a Daily Cartoon: nyer.cm/PJhMpSk
A person in a boardroom points to a chart showing a steep decline, and says, “It was at this point, gentleman, that the President decided it was his plan all along to reverse course.”
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