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In his new book, "1929," Andrew Ross Sorkin re-creates the euphoria and mania that led to the most famous stock market slump in history.
What Reliving the 1929 Crash Tells Us About Today’s Stock Market
In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin re-creates the euphoria and mania that led to the most famous stock market slump in history.
bloom.bg
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A “No Kings” protest rally will be held Saturday outside the downtown Naperville Municipal Center, one of what could be as many as 2,500 such events planned for across the country.
‘No Kings’ rally to be held Saturday outside Naperville Municipal Center
Anti-Trump protesters will gather for a “No Kings” rally Saturday to be held outside the downtown Naperville Municipal Center.
trib.al
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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— love is linked
to compassion, communication,
community, communion, unity, union;
linked to cooperation; and linked
to bonds between brothers, sisters, mothers,
fathers, family, friends, fellows, neighbors, lovers,
the eternal, humanity, togetherness:
the eternal humanity-togetherness.
May 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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We spoke with Chris Mirasola, a University of Houston assistant law professor who focuses on the law regulating military deployments within the United States, about the statutory authority and legal theory the Trump administration has invoked.
The “twisted” history of Trump’s legal theory for using troops against protesters
The roots of a protective power authority can be traced back to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
www.motherjones.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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OPINION: Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act" betrays the poor and vulnerable. It also betrays the economic health and future of the nation, creating soaring debt, which will burden our children and grandchildren.
religionnews.com/2025/06/06/g...
GOP-proposed budget is one big betrayal bill
(RNS) — This bill is such a betrayal of Christian faith, churches must oppose it — and a growing number are.
religionnews.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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It happens every few generations: It’s what drove Confederate oligarchs to attempt succession in the 1860s; robber barons to murder union organizers at the turn of the 20th century; and it’s why wages have stagnated since the Reagan revolution.

The rise of greedy oligarchs.
https://trib.al/8h7BsDK
June 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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President Trump has long amplified debunked or baseless theories. On Saturday, he shared a conspiracy theory on social media that falsely claimed former President Biden had been executed and replaced by a robot. It was the latest outlandish claim he has promoted online to millions of followers.
Trump Amplifies Outlandish Robot Biden Conspiracy Theory
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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"Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan continually called out Donald Trump's choice to head the FDA on Sunday morning for making blanket statements about vaccine studies and undergoing a conversion to align himself with HHS head Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
'There is data': CBS host busts Trump's FDA head by reading study results to him
"Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan continually called out Donald Trump's choice to head the FDA on Sunday morning for making blanket statements about vaccine studies and undergoing a conversion to align himself with HHS head Robert F. Kennedy Jr.With Dr. Marty Makakry batting away the host's qu...
bit.ly
June 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Trump wants to bring Harvard “to its knees,” as if this is unremarkable, when it should be depicted as the power-crazed ravings of a Mad King. https://trib.al/XDPSAjI
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.
trib.al
June 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Nonprofit faith-based group that leverages its investing to advance human rights and "common good” calls on automaker Ford to address claims of anti-union activities at the BlueOval SK battery plant in Kentucky.
@liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/05/07/i...
Investor group urges Ford to address claims of 'union avoidance' at Kentucky battery plant • Kentucky Lantern
A nonprofit faith-based investors group calls on automaker Ford to address reported anti-union activities at the BlueOval SK battery plant in Kentucky.
kentuckylantern.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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BREAKING: A federal court blocks a months-long Republican effort to disenfranchise thousands of voters in North Carolina, affirming Justice Allison Riggs’ victory over Jefferson Griffin in the state Supreme Court election.

From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
WIN: Federal Court Blocks GOP Effort to Overturn North Carolina Supreme Court Election
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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DOJ attorneys are quitting faster than Trump can fire them—and not for politics, but for principle.

A legal ethics scholar explains their duty to the Constitution and justice, not just superiors:
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#polisky
Justice Department lawyers work for justice and the Constitution – not the White House
Some Department of Justice attorneys have recently been fired or have resigned, refusing to follow directives from the Trump administration that they felt violated the law, legal ethics or both.
buff.ly
April 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Good Trouble in Rehoboth Beach DE 4/19/25
April 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Dow Slides 1,200 Points As Wall Street Shudders At Ongoing Trade War And Trump’s Attacks On Powell
Dow Slides 1,200 Points As Wall Street Shudders At Ongoing Trade War And Trump’s Attacks On Powell
Trump’s headbutting with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell should be “taken very seriously and very negatively,” said one strategist, as Trump slammed the central banker as a “major loser.”
on.forbes.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Donald Trump’s deportation obsession “threatens everybody, citizens and non-citizens alike,” Jonathan Blitzer writes.
Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession
Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical.
www.newyorker.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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After the Trump administration cut its funding, a Nashville nonprofit is fighting to provide refugees with the support it promised, despite contending with depleted resources, layoffs and disillusionment.

By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
Two Months After Trump’s Funding Cuts, a Nonprofit Struggles to Support Refugees and Itself
After the Trump administration cut its funding, a Nashville nonprofit is fighting to provide refugees with the support it promised, despite contending with depleted resources, layoffs and…
www.propublica.org
April 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Exclusive: Under pressure from DOGE, employees of a Pentagon defense tech unit are resigning en masse over the next month.

“Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” said the director.
Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse
Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.
www.politico.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Money and grotesque flattery: The art of doing a deal with Donald Trump is to make sure there is an 'upside' for him
Money and grotesque flattery: The art of doing a deal with Donald Trump is to make sure there is an 'upside' for him
Donald Trump boasts that he is the king of dealmakers. His 1987 ghostwritten bestseller, The Art Of The Deal, turned the New York City nepo babe into a national figure.
news.sky.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Trump Boasts About Strong-Arming Trump Into Pausing Tariffs
Trump Boasts About Strong-Arming Trump Into Pausing Tariffs
WASHINGTON—Bragging that he had forced the world leader into “total submission,” President Donald Trump boasted to reporters Thursday that he had strong-armed President Donald Trump into pausing his l...
theonion.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Trump’s tariffs are the culmination of a 30-yr backlash to NAFTA.

He’s using the backlash for a power grab that could harm the working class he claims he aims to protect.

Fascinating Lever Time discussion with NYT’s @PeterSGoodman, author of DAVOS MAN.

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Lever Time
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unveiled his plans for far-reaching new tariffs on almost all imported goods entering the United States. The move has plunged the global economy into turmoil amid…
play.prx.org
April 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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They know that John Kelly told Jeff Goldberg the truth about Trump’s contempt for the dead who are buried at Arlington Cemetery. They know it was a national humiliation last week for Trump to skip Dover to profit from the presidency (and from the Saudis, no less) at his golf club.
The Right-Wing Media Machine Is What’s Saving Donald Trump—for Now
The president isn’t governing as if he wants to be popular, but he’s getting help sweeping his wreckage under the rug.
newrepublic.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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“Iowa should be the Tuscany of North America. It has some of the world’s best soil yet it has an obesity crisis, a water crisis, and a cancer crisis.”

Austin Frerick explains why titans have amassed near monopolistic domination of what we eat every day–and the systems that enabled them to do so.
The Barons Who Rule What We Eat
Author Austin Frerick explains Big Ag's powerbrokers—and how Trump's tariffs could upend American farming.
www.motherjones.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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⚡️ Germany finances Ukraine's use of Starlink alternative Eutelsat, Reuters reports.

Germany is financing Ukraine's access to a satellite internet network operated by French company Eutelsat, Reuters reported on April 4, citing Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke.
Germany finances Ukraine's use of Starlink alternative Eutelsat, Reuters reports
Eutelsat serves as an alternative to tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink, which has played a key role in Ukraine's battlefield communications.
kyivindependent.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The EU must hit US digital and financial services hard to stop the trade war launched by US president Donald Trump, Jean-Luc Demarty, former director-general of the Commission’s DG Trade, told Euronews.

#EuropeNews
Hit US with maximum political, economic damage - EU ex-trade chief
The EU must hit US digital and financial services hard to stop the trade war launched by US president Donald Trump, Jean-Luc Demarty, former director-general of the Commission’s DG Trade, told Euronews.
l.euronews.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM