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'Hegseth has been upstaged': Secretary inspecting uniforms as underling negotiates Ukraine

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'Hegseth has been upstaged': Secretary inspecting uniforms as underling negotiates Ukraine
Self-styled "secretary of war" Pete Hegseth has been reduced to threatening uniform inspections as one of his subordinates takes part in talks to bring Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine to an end.Th...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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White House likely told Noem she 'really messed up' over senator tackle: insider

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White House likely told Noem she 'really messed up' over senator tackle: insider
Reacting to Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) being manhandled by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's security team when he tried to ask her a question on Thursday, DC insider Maria Teresa Kumar suggeste...
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June 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Dem senator points to possible evidence against Kristi Noem's security detail

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Dem senator points to possible evidence against Kristi Noem's security detail
An incensed Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) hammered House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on MSNBC Friday for suggesting Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) should be censured after he was grabbed by Kristi Noem's securi...
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June 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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California union boss detained during ICE raid in Los Angeles: report

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California union boss detained during ICE raid in Los Angeles: report
David Huerta, the president of the California division of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), was injured and detained during a public protest against an Immigration and Customs Enforcem...
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June 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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What privatization looks like: Yosemite hotel plagued by safety and killer virus threats

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What privatization looks like: Yosemite hotel plagued by safety and killer disease threat
A National Park Service report suggests privatization isn’t doing the trick for a hotel in Yosemite National Park, according to SF Gate.The 2024 annual performance review of Yosemite Hospitality, a su...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Signs the tide is turning on Trump

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Signs the tide is turning on Trump
It’s easy to be depressed, discouraged, dumbfounded by the cruelty and brainlessness of Trump and the people around him. But today I want to celebrate what may be a turn in the Trump tide. Elon Musk h...
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June 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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'Let's be honest': Jasmine Crockett brutally nails the damage Musk left behind

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'Let's be honest': Jasmine Crockett brutally nails the damage Musk left behind
Less than 24 hours after billionaire Elon Musk did his exit interview with Donald Trump in televised Oval Office appearance, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) had a few things to say during an appearance o...
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May 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Defiance: CDC directly contradicts direct demand from RFK Jr.

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Defiance: CDC directly contradicts direct demand from RFK Jr.
Amid reports of a new Covid-19 subvariant spreading in several U.S. states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday failed to update guidance on receiving vaccines against the coronav...
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May 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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‘Show up and get deported anyway’: Migrants face impossible choice at court

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‘Show up and get deported anyway’: Migrants face impossible choice at court
Federal immigration officials continued targeting people at the Phoenix Immigration Courthouse on Thursday, surveilling and detaining migrants whose cases were dismissed minutes earlier in ways that a...
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May 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Courage is contagious

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Courage is contagious
Jo Ellen Grzyb, a member of this Substack community, noted in response to one of my posts that she’s seeing a lot of the phrase “courage is contagious.” She mentioned Bernie, AOC, Cory Booker, Tim Wal...
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April 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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'Frustrating': CDC lays off all cruise ship inspectors as virus surges

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'Frustrating': CDC lays off all cruise ship inspectors as virus surges
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid off all its cruise ship inspectors, which would severely damage efforts to prevent outbreaks on board.A smaller group of 12 U.S. Public Health Servi...
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April 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Six small morsels of hope
Friends,
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March 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Trump's attack on the American mind
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Trump's attack on the American mind
Behind his closure of the Education Department, his assault on higher education, on science, and on libraries and museums, lie the oligarchs of the techno-state.
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March 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The Emperor’s New Philosophy
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The Emperor’s New Philosophy
Of drunkards, lampposts and economic doctrines
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March 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A plain-spoken, fearless politician with a twinkle in his eye
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A plain-spoken, fearless politician with a twinkle in his eye
I spoke with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a man refreshingly candid about his disgust with the current administration's policies and its lack of humane leadership
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March 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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'It's going to kill all of them': Veterinarian slams Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bird flu plan

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'It's going to kill all of them': Veterinarian slams Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bird flu plan
A professional veterinarian on Thursday dumped on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to let bird flu rip through American farms.Appearing on CNN, former Kansas State Vete...
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March 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Trump is ignoring the power of nationalism at his own peril: expert

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Trump is ignoring the power of nationalism at his own peril: expert
US President Donald Trump has exploited American nationalism as effectively as anyone in living memory. What sets him apart is his use of national humiliation as a political emotion. Any presidential ...
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March 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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'Not helpful': Republicans want Musk to 'zip it' about Social Security

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'Not helpful': Republicans want Musk to 'zip it' about Social Security
During his 2024 campaign, now-President Donald Trump insisted that Social Security and Medicare cuts were off the table for him. But Democrats question his sincerity, pointing to disparaging comments ...
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March 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Schumer was correct
Initially I was of the opinion that filibustering the CR was the correct course of action. However, upon further reflection I came to the conclusion that allowing the CR to pass was the better way to ...
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March 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Financial Times Analysis: $1.4 Billion of Tesla Assets "Appear to have gone astray"
In light of the recent plunge in Tesla’s stock price that has seen the company lose 50% of its valuation in a matter of weeks, the highly respected Financial Times did an analysis of Tesla’s publicly ...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Inside Trump’s racist crusade to erase American heroes from US history
President Donald Trump’s administration has made it a top priority to remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal websites, regardless of the context. ...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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'The crown jewel of failures': U.K. columnist torches 'walking PR disaster' Elon Musk

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'The crown jewel of failures': U.K. columnist torches 'walking PR disaster' Elon Musk
Caolan Magee, a columnist for the United Kingdom's iNews, has written a scathing takedown of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's efforts to bring "efficiency" to the government by taking a hatchet to the federal wo...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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'It is shocking to me': MSNBC host accuses Pam Bondi of lying about judges' powers

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'It is shocking to me': MSNBC host accuses Pam Bondi of lying about judges' powers
Attorney General Pam Bondi's claim that judges have no business interfering with anything Donald Trump chooses to do got a thorough beat-down on MSNBC on Thursday morning.During an appearance on Fox N...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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'Bleeding to death in the dust': Reporter says maternity hospital Musk closed saved lives

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'Bleeding to death in the dust': Reporter says maternity hospital Musk closed saved lives
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is being schooled about the impacts of his foreign aid cuts that one reporter says have already killed people. When he came into office, President Donald Trump created the "...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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A Pentagon official not authorized to speak publicly said its review to scrub websites of DEI content was too hasty and used search terms like "gay," which led to the flagging of Enola Gay images.
Pentagon restores webpages of Black veterans, Navajo Code Talkers and others after outcry
A Pentagon official not authorized to speak publicly said its review to scrub websites of DEI content was too hasty and also used search terms like "gay," leading to the flagging of Enola Gay images.
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March 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM