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If you think there will be an impartial and fair investigation, I have a bridge I can sell you. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
FBI takes over investigation into fatal shooting of Renee Good
State investigators say they are off the case, and the FBI is now solely in charge.
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January 8, 2026 at 7:36 PM
If you think there will be an impartial and fair investigation, I have a bridge I can sell you. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pretty clear it was murder. www.facebook.com/share/v/1AS3...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Pretty clear it was murder. www.facebook.com/share/v/1AS3...
This is unbelievable. I would've NEVER thought this would happen in the U.S. The official White House website posting BLATANT LIES. What has become of the country that I grew up in and was proud of? www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This is unbelievable. I would've NEVER thought this would happen in the U.S. The official White House website posting BLATANT LIES. What has become of the country that I grew up in and was proud of? www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We Asked for Environmental Fixes in Your State. You Sent In Thousands. (Gift Article)
Readers submitted more than 3,200 ideas for our 50 States, 50 Fixes series. Before the year ends, we wanted to share just a few more of them.
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January 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how. | grist.org/politics/tru...
Trump's environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here's how.
The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.
grist.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how. | grist.org/politics/tru...
The Chinese must be laughing their asses off… 🤣 www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Chinese must be laughing their asses off… 🤣 www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
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December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
'In 2025, the most high profile health quack in America was put in charge of Americans' health. You might remember what happened next....' www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/12...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
'In 2025, the most high profile health quack in America was put in charge of Americans' health. You might remember what happened next....' www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/12...
"Minnesotans stared at their screens in horror last June as the raging Blue Earth River swallowed a beloved country store near Mankato…. [It also] damaged a nearby dam and caused well over $1 billion dollars in damage across 22 southern Minnesota counties." minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/20/r...
Report: Minnesota cities continue climate work, despite federal abdication • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesotans stared at their screens in horror last June as the raging Blue Earth River swallowed a beloved country store near Mankato. The same flood badly damaged a nearby dam and caused well over $1...
minnesotareformer.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"Minnesotans stared at their screens in horror last June as the raging Blue Earth River swallowed a beloved country store near Mankato…. [It also] damaged a nearby dam and caused well over $1 billion dollars in damage across 22 southern Minnesota counties." minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/20/r...
Why this country is going broke on the backs of regular Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Why this country is going broke on the backs of regular Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
President John Adams on the White House: “I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.” apnews.com/article/trum...
The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom
The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building. Demolition started Monday.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
President John Adams on the White House: “I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.” apnews.com/article/trum...
Ooops! The headline writers have this backwards. It should read, "Migration and Climate-Change Policies Say Trump Is Destroying the West". www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
Trump Says Migration and Climate-Change Policies Are Destroying the West
In the president’s first speech to the U.N. General Assembly for six years, he accused the global body of doing nothing to solve the world’s problems.
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September 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Ooops! The headline writers have this backwards. It should read, "Migration and Climate-Change Policies Say Trump Is Destroying the West". www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
Say hello to the largest staffing cut in Social Security Administration history… www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: The Trump administration's attack on Social Security is looking worse
Staff cutbacks and exposure of personal information are among the results of DOGE attacks on Social Security.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Say hello to the largest staffing cut in Social Security Administration history… www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Utilities that serve the public should be owned by the individuals, companies and ratepayers they serve because those utilities are monopolies, pure and simple. www.levernews.com/this-is-how-...
This Is How Wall Street Could Buy Your Power Company
Private equity giant BlackRock is waging a scorched-earth campaign to acquire a regional power company as Wall Street seeks to profit from the AI energy boom.
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August 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Utilities that serve the public should be owned by the individuals, companies and ratepayers they serve because those utilities are monopolies, pure and simple. www.levernews.com/this-is-how-...
Soon in theaters and on your home screening services:
"THE ATTACK OF THE DEADLY SANDWICH!" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
"THE ATTACK OF THE DEADLY SANDWICH!" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Prosecutors Fail to Obtain Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
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August 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Soon in theaters and on your home screening services:
"THE ATTACK OF THE DEADLY SANDWICH!" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
"THE ATTACK OF THE DEADLY SANDWICH!" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Lisa Cook is female and Black. She isn't white, isn't blonde and doesn't use Botox. Need we say more? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Removes Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board
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August 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Lisa Cook is female and Black. She isn't white, isn't blonde and doesn't use Botox. Need we say more? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet | grist.org/politics/the...
The Trump administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet
The United States is drifting ever further away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?
grist.org
August 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet | grist.org/politics/the...
How Wind and Solar Power Helps Keep America’s Farms Alive dailyyonder.com/how-wind-and...
How Wind and Solar Power Helps Keep America’s Farms Alive | The Daily Yonder
This story was originally published by The Conversation. Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and
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August 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
How Wind and Solar Power Helps Keep America’s Farms Alive dailyyonder.com/how-wind-and...
'Carlo M. Cipolla’s third fundamental law of human stupidity: A stupid person is someone who causes losses to others while he receives no advantage and may even experience losses.' Sound like a certain world leader (or two) we know? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-human-ir... #Behavior #Evolution
Why Human Irrationality Is Evolutionary, Not Accidental
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
'Carlo M. Cipolla’s third fundamental law of human stupidity: A stupid person is someone who causes losses to others while he receives no advantage and may even experience losses.' Sound like a certain world leader (or two) we know? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-human-ir... #Behavior #Evolution
Some people have too effing much money! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
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August 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Some people have too effing much money! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
“It’s great for me personally, financially. But even looking at my own and my family’s long-term self-interest, I would prefer less inequality and less of a country of very rich and very poor, and more of a country with lots of people doing all right.” wapo.st/4lIJPVj
They’re rich. They’re anti-Trump. And they don’t want their big tax cut.
Many of the biggest beneficiaries of the GOP tax law say they are getting millions of dollars they don’t want or need.
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July 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“It’s great for me personally, financially. But even looking at my own and my family’s long-term self-interest, I would prefer less inequality and less of a country of very rich and very poor, and more of a country with lots of people doing all right.” wapo.st/4lIJPVj
Earth to Marjorie Taylor Greene: Humankind has been geoengineering the climate ever since the first fire was lit and the first soil was plowed. After that came the burning of fossil fuels, which has really put us in deep doo-doo. reason.com/2025/07/23/m...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is dead wrong about outlawing climate geoengineering
An unholy alliance between MAGA and progressives to ban research on an emergency backup plan to cool the planet may be emerging.
reason.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Earth to Marjorie Taylor Greene: Humankind has been geoengineering the climate ever since the first fire was lit and the first soil was plowed. After that came the burning of fossil fuels, which has really put us in deep doo-doo. reason.com/2025/07/23/m...
Will the corruption never stop? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
With One Call, Trump Alters the Fate of a Contested Power Project
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July 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Will the corruption never stop? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...