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ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.

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The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Ships’ captains paid $100,000 a month to transit Strait of Hormuz

Oil tanker captains in the Gulf are being paid rates equivalent to $100,000 a month for travelling through the Strait of Hormuz, along with a $50,000 bonus, as Iran steps up its assaults on vessels. Shipowners were offering the bumper “danger money” to persuade seafarers to stay on vessels.

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Salaries and bonuses spiral for seafarers willing to risk perilous trip through waterway in face of Iranian attacks

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Hamas, Hizbollah and the Houthis. The closure of the strait has done significant damage to the international economy and may do much more; and the US alliance structure (in the Gulf and elsewhere) has been damaged. All this, moreover, is only about half of the full charge sheet.

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has never worked; it had no contingency plan for dealing with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It has also failed to achieve any of its four principal objectives — regime change, ending Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability, ending its long-range missile capability and ending its support for

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How much longer can the world absorb the Iran shock?

John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago describes the war on Iran as “The Mother of All Strategic Blunders”. Among other things, the US went into the war on the false claim that Iran was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon; it thought air power alone would produce regime change, which

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The disruption to oil supply, oil prices and the world economy has been surprisingly manageable so far

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Fundamentally this shows a lack of confidence in the US Treasury Department and its policies.

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Global bond sell-off resumes as 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002

A global bond sell-off resumed, pushing long-term US borrowing costs back to their highest since 2002, as fears over inflation and high public debt burdens rattled investors. The yield on 30-yr US Treasuries climbed to 5.73%, intensifying the squeeze on US households and businesses by the Iran war.

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French, Italian and UK government bonds also come under pressure in volatile trading

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Inside Bessent’s Treasury: Tension, Turnover and Unmet Economic Goals

The new WSJ portrait of Scott Bessent shows a Treasury Department in crisis and chaos and a secretary cracking under pressure. Definitely not a good look. And destined to damage confidence in the Treasury and its products still more. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Ahead of midterms that could turn on high prices and borrowing costs, the secretary dresses down officials.

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A great demonstration of the irreality of Israeli politics. Netanyahu's theme on the third anniversary of Oct 7 is that he will block Hamas rule in Gaza. But in fact Netanyahu enabled Hamas rule in Gaza for years in order to assure a split with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.

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‘Lady Trump’ was convicted for fraud and then pardoned by the president. The White House didn’t say why.

Nevada Republican politician Michele Fiore, nicknamed “Lady Trump,” collected money for a memorial to 2 fallen police officers but spent it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her of fraud. Trump pardoned her because he sees himself in her criminal conduct.

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“Justice Interrupted”: The latest installment in MS NOW’s series examining the clemencies and pardons by Donald Trump — and the fallout from them.

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YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

The most celebrated political commercial of all time, redone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhIe...

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Daisy L.A.

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Trump Goon’s Disgusting Restaurant Meltdown Revealed

I realize of course that things really aren't going Scott Bessent's way, but reading this it's hard to escape thinking that he has a severe personality disorder. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-s...

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The vile revelation was just one of many damning details exposed in a shock report about the top Cabinet member.

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CCTV cameras show inside Russian city on 'lockdown' after plague outbreak

CCTV cameras show iRussian city of Irkutsk on 'lockdown' after plague outbreak at biological warfare laboratory on the city's outskirts. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

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This is properly unsettling

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Still amazing how few Americans have read key pieces of the Epstein files. Like EFTA01250883.pdf.

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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

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Police name Israeli professor accused of planning mass terror attacks on Arabs

Meet mathematics professor Shahar Nevo, who planned simultaneous attacks targeting Arab Israelis and Palestinians and tried to recruit election candidate Moshe Feiglin and attempted to extort him into cooperating with the plan. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Prosecutors say Shahar Nevo planned simultaneous attacks targeting Arab Israelis and Palestinians and tried to recruit election candidate Moshe Feiglin and attempted to extort him into cooperating wit...

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The US urges the immediate evacuation of all Americans from Russia due to an outbreak of the plague.

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Going on 94, Chuck Grassley has regressed into a world of infantile delusions. He's the poster boy for the Iowa GOP.

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Zach Lahn's campaign for Iowa governor in free fall after he was obliterated by his adversary in the televised debate

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Max is right. Note how major US corporate media report stuff like Rubio's pablum without pointing out to their audience that Rubio is the man attempting to gut WHO and cutting off long-standing US cooperation with the agency. bsky.app/profile/maxb...

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Trump's memecoin grift moves into its next phase as insiders dump their holdings

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The Pedophile Party: The Palm Beach Co GOP's endorsement of a candidate facing active pedophile charges surprises few but prompts push back

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The El Niño Effect, graphically summarized

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson: For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline.

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A panel of Trump voters in Michigan harshly spurn Republican nominee Mike Rogers and embrace the Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed instead.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/10/2026

Pontifex maximus, remarks delivered in English at a General Audience on St Peter's Square this morning:

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Reposted by Scott Horton

Not my president. Clearly, not a president for all Americans. “Let them (Iran) take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” Then Trump called it a “small price to pay.” Millions of us dead. And his audience laughed. Reporting from my local news…

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from the Baltic Exchange in London. The rate averaged close to $60,000 a day last year and has soared as the number of shipowners willing to cross Hormuz dwindled. These arrangements may not be sustainable. Iran has increased the pace of attacks over the last few days.

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Dalio Says We’re Nearing Point Where AI Bubble May Burst

While the flow of oil through Hormuz has now reached about 85% of its normal rate, the cost of moving it has become staggering as a result of insurance and special security. The cost of carrying oil from inside the Persian Gulf to China rose to a record $1.3 million a day Monday, according to data

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Billionaire Ray Dalio warned that artificial intelligence is a “classic bubble” that is nearing a bursting point thanks to rising interest rates and the need to turn wealth into cash.

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The oil flow resumes through Hormuz, But the Cost of Shipping it Out Is Staggering

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