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EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with Michael Scherer, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland.
Trump: Delcy Rodríguez Might Be Next
The president told The Atlantic that the interim Venezuelan president will meet a fate worse than Maduro’s unless she complies with U.S. wishes.
bit.ly
January 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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El mapa de cómo Israel ha arrasado Gaza: carreteras, cosechas, ciudades enteras y una población destruida

Aquí se puede ver la evolución de la destrucción de edificios en la Franja www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.

I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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‘Former engineers advise their own families not to fly on the 737 MAX line, pointing to a culture at Boeing of “financial engineering instead of technical engineering” and suggesting that there are “disasters waiting to happen.”’
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I book flights specifically avoiding the Max. I will not fly Boeing.
‘I’m Not Trying to Cause a Scene. I Just Want to Get Off This Plane.’
A former senior Boeing employee on why he still won’t fly on a MAX plane.
www.politico.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
September 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Grieving parents and online safety advocates at a congressional hearing called for new laws to regulate AI companion apps to protect the mental health of minors.
Their teenage sons died by suicide. Now, they are sounding an alarm about AI chatbots
Grieving parents and online safety advocates at a congressional hearing called for new laws to regulate AI companion apps to protect the mental health of minors.
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September 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean.

Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified.

No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing.

President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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What we know about the Charlie Kirk alleged shooter Tyler Robinson so far:

- White
- Straight
- Male
- Christian
- Republican
- Conservative background
- 2nd Amendment supporter
- experienced firearms user
- a good son
- 22 years old
- outside of the murder, law abiding.
September 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The dramatic images from wildfires tearing through Spain and Portugal year after year have become a mainstay of Europe’s increasingly blistering summers.

But experts say that most of the damage is, in fact, preventable — if only authorities at regional, national and European levels would act.
Wildfires are preventable. So why does the Iberian Peninsula keep burning?
Governments can’t use climate change as an excuse for failing to take preventive measures, scientists say.
ow.ly
August 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Europe’s trade deal with the US was dead on arrival – it needs to be buried. Here’s how to do it | Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman
Europe’s trade deal with the US was dead on arrival – it needs to be buried. Here’s how to do it | Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman
Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. The EU should now steel itself and reject the terms imposed by Donald Trump, say Georg Riekeles and Varg Folkman of the European Policy Centre
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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58 million acres.
June 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Israel announces expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank

https://www.ft.com/content/f66432d0-16b8-4c6c-bab3-f571943c85dc
Israel announces expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank
Ministers hail decision as ‘historic’ but move likely to increase international condemnation
www.ft.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”
You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year
How in the hell does he get away with this? Here’s the answer.
newrepublic.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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The number of Europeans traveling to the US fell by about 180,000 people in March, part of that is the shift of Easter to April but a lot is the fallout from Trump’s policies.

“It's concerning for us,” Air France-KLM’s CEO said of the situation at the end of March.
Nearly 200,000 fewer Europeans flew to the US in March, new data shows - The Points Guy
Europeans are joining the increasingly global cohort of travelers opting not to take trips to the U.S.
thepointsguy.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return.”
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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“Denmark is not being a good ally” because they just won’t turn over their land? Tough words from Vice President Maybelline
JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"

"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
March 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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If you thought the Afghanistan withdrawal was bad (as I do), the #USAID withdrawal is magnitudes worse.

Thanks to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social for succinctly explaining the rapidly developing global consequences, including starvation of children on the brink.
February 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Air pollution causing more than 1,000 cases of lung cancer subtype a year in UK
Air pollution causing more than 1,000 cases of lung cancer subtype a year in UK
Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say ‘devastating’ findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers More than 1,000 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian…
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Bishop Mariann Budde speaks the truth in a homily that Trump attended.

And Brian Tyler Cohen explains why there are culture wars and why people in our country feel left behind.

#immigrants #SpeakingTruthToPower
WOW: Bishop calls out Trump TO HIS FACE at church
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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January 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground | Tim White
The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground | Tim White
Germany’s capital was known for its affordable rents. Now ‘furnished temporary’ flats risk destroying the heart of the city From London and other overpriced cities, we often look to Berlin as a beacon of progressive housing politics. Renting in the…
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM