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www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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The Bombshell Inside Trump’s $1.3 Billion Pardon Market
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The Bombshell Inside Trump’s $1.3 Billion Pardon Market
The Pardon for Pay President
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November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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"The Trump administration is asking a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order that requires the government to fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November."

Read that back.

The cruelty of this regime is on full display.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This is important. He has a big audience.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d
Good tweet-length summary from a conservative talk show host.
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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TERRIFYING! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
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November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Mike Johnson Has Lost the Moral Narrative
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Mike Johnson Has Lost the Moral Narrative
Most Americans don't believe that starving children so you can cut healthcare is "pro-life"
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November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Ring the Alarm Bells: Authoritarianism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here Now newrepublic.com/article/2026... via @newrepublic.com
Ring the Alarm Bells: Authoritarianism Isn’t Coming, It’s Here Now
Trump’s authoritarian playbook has 10 rules. He’s following every single one of them.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Sunday thought: How to cope with Trump’s chaos
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Sunday thought: Coping with Trump's chaos
Friends,
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November 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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PRRI Annual Report: Most Americans Don’t Share the MAGA Vision open.substack.com/pub/prri/p/m...
Most Americans Don’t Share the MAGA Vision
Reflections on PRRI's 16th Annual American Values Survey
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October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth www.vox.com/climate/4650...
Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth
Madagascar is reeling from political unrest. But there’s another problem that no one’s talking about.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Sunday thought: We’re winning
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Sunday thought: We're winning
These are terrible times, to be sure. But we will triumph
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October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Trump's illegal executions
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Trump's illegal executions
You or I could be next
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October 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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American History Be Damned - Dan Rather lays it out!! open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
American History Be Damned
Trump levels a national treasure
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October 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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www.propublica.org/article/trum...
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The loss of so much...... The East Wing Obscenity open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
The East Wing Obscenity
Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House
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October 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The @nytimes rightly taking heat for burying coverage of the massive protests in tiny pics below the fold on the cover and the story on page 23 — while saying they drew “thousands” (it was millions) and glazing Vance’s marines stunt.

What’s going on in there?
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Detention of citizens. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Beware the Oligarchs’ Two Bubbles
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Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The Truth about Panics
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The Truth about Panics
One is being generated right now
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October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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October 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
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October 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
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October 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy
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Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy
How the Insurrection Act could become the 21st-century Enabling Act, with six justices and the GOP standing by…
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October 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Hurrah, MIT! May the other 8 schools follow courageously! wapo.st/4niC09b
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.
wapo.st
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments
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26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments
The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM