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Doug Oplinger

@oplingerdoug.bsky.social
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Journalist for five decades, specializing in media-community engagement.

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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m back to work. Deportation flights rise at Akron-Canton, airport owed landing fees www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/r...
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Deportation flights rise at Akron-Canton, airport owed landing fees
Deportation flights relocated to CAK in late April when the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport down down a portion of its longest runway.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ohio should never have been dropped as a presidential-election swing state. It still provides a clear-eyed view of American attitude. According to Civiq rolling polling, his approval in Ohio has dropped from plus 8 in January 2025 to minus 11 in May. www.newsweek.com/map-donald-t...
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Map shows states where Trump's approval rating has crashed most
The president is underwater in many key swing states, signaling a shift in the battlegrounds that often decide national elections.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Of the 14 people on the face-bashing White House UFC Freedom 250 fight card, supposedly a celebration of U.S. longevity, six of the fighters are not Americans. There will be ICE, correct?
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Has anyone seen Lady Justice in the Epstein victim list?
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
As former executives of Ohio’s largest electric utility are on trial in the state’s biggest political bribery scandal, our largest university is now drawn into the international sex trafficking scandal of modern history. Who runs this place? m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Mamdani is a good listerner, shows respect, exudes genuine lighthearded humanity. A narcissist is likely to misread this as affirmation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump pivots from bashing Mamdani, predicting he will ‘do a great job’ as mayor
Trump warmed to Mamdani, even declaring he would finally feel comfortable moving back to the city with the 34-year-old democratic socialist running city hall.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Today’s @nytimes.com newsreel headline. (For old news junkies, it’s all the news that causes fits)
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
If Pritzker mobilizes the Illinois guard to block the Texas guard from entering his state, what happens next?
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Democracy is over. The government is now ordering reporters to report only what they’re told or be thrown out. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
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Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Might Russia have the Epstein files? Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
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Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2025
Tulsi Gabbard is using a White House press briefing to accuse Hillary Clinton of using tranquilizers. Dystopian stuff.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Google’s AI description of the Everglades detention center is changing. Last week the result of a search on “Everglades concentration camp” was immediately critical, saying the phrase was politically charged. Now Google is no longer critical and instead acknowledges why some believe it to be true.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
It used to be that doom-scrolling developed over time based on your social media habits. Algorithms are no longer necessary to create anxiety. Just open the New York Times news feed today and read the headlines, one after another.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is powerful, contextualized reporting that must become the norm: Hegseth and Caine Delve Into Details but Not Results of Iranian Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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Hegseth and Caine Delve Into Details but Not Results of Iranian Strikes
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Many mainstream media outlets referred to bunker busters as imprecise and largely untested and military officials were cautious ahead of the bombing. Leavitt's suggestion that journalists are now trying to "discredit the brave fighter pilots" is a lie SHE is planting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
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Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“The New York Times reported last week that the court system in Maverick County, Texas, had repeatedly incarcerated people accused of minor crimes for months without filing charges…”this is a blatamt violation of the constitutoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
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You Have the Right to an Attorney. But in Texas, Don’t Count on It.
In some parts of the state, misdemeanor defendants routinely face charges without representation.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I visited the #handsoff rally in Akron, Oh, est. 2,000 people, mostly white, strollers, Labrador retrievers, pleasant people. A Black friend asked, "Where's the cops?" Pictures from other cities are similar. I am reminded of the First Battle of Bull Run. Social party before the carnage? Thoughts?
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Musk's Tesla stock lost about $6 billion in value today but he probably remains the world's richest man. Meanwhile he and Trump and Ohio legislators are cutting aid to the local food bank as Akron Ohio residents, 40,000 in poverty, brace for a monthly $40 increase in electric bills. That's pain.
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Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank contending with state and federal budget cuts
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank President and CEO Dan Flowers talks about the impact of food assistance cuts at the federal and state level.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The First Amendment guarantees the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. But if lawyers are intimidated by the government for coming to our aid, what becomes our alternative? wapo.st/41XkLl3
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Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump’s actions in court than during his first term.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The administration is not only forcing our greatest superpower-allies to become more armed, it is angering/taunting them. “I fully share your loathing of European freeloading,” Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, later replied. “It’s PATHETIC.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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Signal Leak Live Updates: Trump Defends National Security Adviser After War Plans Security Breach
President Trump said that Michael Waltz, his national security adviser, had “learned a lesson,” after mistakenly including a journalist in a group chat where top administration officials planned a str...
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What a horrible first paragraph. This is not about lawyers. It’s an assault on Americans’ right to redress grievances. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Trump targets lawyers who he says file 'frivolous' lawsuits against his administration
Critics called the move "autocratic," "authoritarian" and "hypocritical," noting that Trump's lawyers have made myriad false legal claims, including that he won the 2020 election.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Judge contends Nazis got more due process than Trump deportees did
The fight over the rarely used wartime power has become central to Trump's immigration crackdown agenda and his efforts to stretch the powers of the executive branch.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hitler surrounded himself with ppl who would never disagree and thus were afraid to tell him bad news. He didn't know D-Day was happening as a result. Trump has now said twice that he knows nothing about this breach of security and potential risk to American military. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
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Top Trump Officials Discussed Secret War Plans in Group Chat With Atlantic Journalist
The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is an atrocity committed on America’s military. But then, for the richest people in the world who don’t buy their own groceries, let alone experience combat, they have no clue about real life. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
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Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil
A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It took Hitler 12 years to kill 6 million Jews. Trump and Musk -- two of the richest men in the world -- will kill an estimated 1.6 million in just ONE year by suspending HIV treatment, which costs pennies a day. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My hope in 54 yrs of journalism was to equip the community with facts and solutions that can improve life. Ryan Sorrell at the Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social has a 21st Century definition for his newsroom that works for me: "Power-building organization." www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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A ‘media organizer’ built an abolitionist newsroom in Kansas City. Is he a journalist? He’s not yet sure. - Poynter
At The Kansas City Defender, Ryan Sorrell is following Ida B. Wells and Claudia Jones in honoring the legacy of the radical Black press
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Anyone else see the troubling irony? Musk sent a SpaceX team into a secured FAA area and also has access to the FAA’s finances. www.space.com/space-explor...
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FAA investigating SpaceX Starship Flight 8 explosion that disrupted commercial flights
SpaceX's ability to fly Starship again will be based on the result of the FAA's investigation.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This is why we need a free press. Who else has the resources and courage to tell us which words are being removed from our federal vocabulary. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What you call irony: They’re emptying their prisons of rapists, murderers and drug dealers and sending them here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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Mexico Releases Cartel Operatives, Including Rafael Caro Quintero, Into U.S. Custody
The decision was said to be a signal that President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico planned to cooperate with the Trump administration in cracking down on the cartels.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If the Ohio legislature is so dead set against anyone discussing their identity, should we then ban party affiliation from the ballot?
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Typical of the Ohio lawmakers to waive academic expectations and take no responsibility for the problem. Ashtabula High was constructed under the guidance of the Ohio School Facilities Commission. The roof has been structurally unsound since, already replaced once. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/02...
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Ohio House passes bill to help Ashtabula seniors graduate after storm
Legislation offers waiver for instructional hours requirement following roof collapse at Lakeside High School due to heavy November snow.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If Musk and Trump are suggesting that some treasury notes are fraudulent and don’t have to be repaid, the bond market won’t like that.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/02/2025
The hiring of thousands of federal firefighters has stalled amid a governmentwide freeze ordered by President Trump, just as agencies were beginning to ramp up staffing for the summer wildfire season, according to a firefighters’ union.
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Firefighter Hiring Stalls at Federal Agencies After Trump’s Freeze
Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In this Ohio diner: As the meeting of Proud Boys was called to order, phones jangled with an accidental email from Elon Musk sharing the home addresses of all people who identified on their IRS 1040 as "public employee." www.newsweek.com/doge-emails-...
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DOGE emails went out to federal judges by mistake
U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss said judges across the country received emails from Elon Musk's DOGE.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I can't do it all. Is someone in the media downloading historic data on the price of eggs before it's shut down?
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The movie "Don't Look Up" was perhaps prescient. www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/s...
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Newly discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher risk of hitting Earth | CNN
A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Talking Feds host @harrylitman.bsky.social has fascinating guests. In this one, historian and journalist @andreapitzer.bsky.social offers chilling observations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Signposts of Democratic Decline
Podcast Episode · Talking Feds · 02/06/2025 · 54m
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain."
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Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain
Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions…
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The president has made diversity, equity and inclusion a central public policy issue. Is he saying that Americans, meanwhile, are prohibited from discussion of the topic?
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
While Trump fans are getting excited that there was a woman traffic controller and pilot, let’s keep in mind that since women joined the FAA and became pilots, air travel has grown dramatically safer! news.mit.edu/2024/study-f...
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Study: Flying keeps getting safer
Commercial air travel has become twice as safe in each of the last five decades, with the risk of a fatality just 1 per 13.7 million passenger boardings in 2018-2022.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The GOP supermajority Ohio House eliminated a rule requiring 24-hour notice of floor votes. The reason given: people find out, they show up. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
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Ohio House changes operating rules, igniting transparency concerns
The Ohio House changed the rules for how it operates. We're breaking down what you need to know if you plan to visit the statehouse.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Is this why we need a wall and to bomb Mexican drug cartels? To protect rich U.S. drug kingpins? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...
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Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump pardoned 1400 convicted or charged with participation in Jan 6 riot. Some violent. What will they do on his behalf when free? How does this empower others to harm anyone who peacefully exercises First Amendment rights in opposition to Trump? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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Trump Signs Executive Orders: Follow Live
The president ordered the withdrawal of the country from the Paris climate agreement and took action on immigration policy and other issues such as creating the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Public education for centuries has been an expanding journey to help all children achieve. Ohio has become a model for giving up on that aspiration, instead catering to the privileged and religion.
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The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers availab...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/01/2025
The scale of overlap between President-elect Trump’s family members and their business interests — and the government he will lead — underscores how unprecedented the second Trump presidency and the potential for conflicts of interest will be.
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Trump and Family Blur Lines in Deals on Cusp of His Presidency
Even before the start of the new administration, there has been repeated blurring of lines between the federal government efforts and Trump family businesses.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The only reason the Panama Canal has emerged from nowhere is an attempt to diminish Jimmy Carter, who at the moment is recognized as the best overall person to ever inhabit the White House.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Putin gave the same reasons for invading Ukraine — national security.
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Doug Oplinger @oplingerdoug.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A lesson from Putin? Take what you covet? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump suggests he could use military force to acquire Panama Canal and Greenland and 'economic force' to annex Canada
He has repeatedly quipped in recent weeks that Canada should become the 51st state.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In case anyone was wondering how democracy is going in our various states, "Republicans on the NC Supreme Court block certification of the Democratic incumbent’s election."
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Republicans on the NC Supreme Court block certification of the Democratic incumbent's election • NC Newsline
Republicans on the NC Supreme Court said the state Board of Elections cannot certify a Democratic justice's reelection.
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