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America the Ugly
July 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Hegseth installed Signal on Pentagon computers where phones banned: report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the Signal messaging app installed on his desktop computer in the Pentagon to circumvent poor cell service in the building, according to a new report in The Washingt...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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"Republicans, I need more from you . . . ."
April 22, 2025
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April 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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April 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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April 20, 2025
Yesterday, on the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Americans across the country protested against President Donald J.
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April 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Legal Ethics Nerds Weigh In
Last Friday, with little fanfare, the heavyweights of the legal ethics world weighed in.
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April 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Push back against Trump
The Week Ahead
April 13, 2025
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April 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Opinion | Trump’s tariffs are a farce. We who are in Congress can — and must — act.
I'm asking my House colleagues to vote to end Trump's sham national emergency and halt Trump’s devastating taxes.
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April 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Boycotting the Cowards
Georgetown Law Student Group Calls Skadden Cowards, Opts Out Of Recruitment Event - Above the Law
Georgetown continues to be ranked #1 in cojones.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The New Republic Email Marketing
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April 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Rut roh
Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House
Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.
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March 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Resist
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March 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Signalgate: violating national security
in order to violate rights
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March 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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“We lie. That’s what we do. 49% of voting Americans approve of our lies. They expect it. It’s how we own the Libs. So important

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Trump Blows Huge Hole in Adviser’s Excuse for War Plan Leak - NewsBreak
The Trump administration may one day settle on a version of events regarding how a journalist got included in a Signal group chat about striking Houthis i
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March 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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March 25, 2025
On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engines and screams.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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March 24, 2025
Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped the story that senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15 U.S.
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March 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Your DOGGIE hard at work
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the...
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March 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Contempt
In July of 2007, I was the appellate chief in the U.S.
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March 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials
Berlin checking if US immigration policy has changed after Fabian Schmidt becomes third German to be detained
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March 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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March 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Chuck aka Neville caves in fear to Trump
Opinion | Chuck Schumer’s stumbles leave Democrats without a message
Senate Democrats voted to avoid a shutdown but at the cost of throwing their House counterparts under the bus and enabling Trump's lawlessness.
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March 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Seeing Trump
Congresswoman Kay Granger of Texas, aged 82, and first elected in 1997, vanished from Washington, DC.
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March 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A dangerous despot in dangerous times
What Was That?
Grandpa Simpson visited the Justice Department on Friday, giving a speech that must have given even his handlers pause, a campaign stump speech delivered in front of the Seal of the Department of Just...
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March 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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And The People Rose up
March 15, 2025
March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.
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March 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Warning. String Language
POKING AROUND AS WE COME TO THE END OF WEEK SEVEN
This is the 54th day of Maladministration II - it only took Hitler 53 days to destroy the Weimar Republic.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM