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Things to know about the Qatar training facility planned for an Idaho Air Force base

When U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday morning that the federal government had reached an agreement with Qatar to build a facility at an Air Force base in Idaho, social media posts ...

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Crypto spent millions to defeat Sherrod Brown and elect allies. It's ready for a repeat in 2026

The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington.

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Scientists Completed a Damning Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. A final report was allegedly ready in mid-April.

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Supreme Court’s ‘Go Ahead And Round Up All The Brown People’ Decision Is Being Challenged In Court

In July, a California federal court handed down what should have been considered an obvious decision: of course it violates constitutional rights to consider skin color, spoken language, “acc…

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DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’

America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and…

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oldmikie.bsky.social @oldmikie.bsky.social · 9h

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Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

oldmikie.bsky.social @oldmikie.bsky.social · 9h

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Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…

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oldmikie.bsky.social @oldmikie.bsky.social · 9h

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UPS Is Destroying Packages Stuck in Trump's Tariff Chaos

Nobody is happy, from the businesses overseas to the Americans waiting on their packages. And it's all Trump's fault.

oldmikie.bsky.social @oldmikie.bsky.social · 9h

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Makes Bizarre Connection Between Circumcision, Tylenol, and Autism

At a White House Cabinet meeting Thursday, Kennedy argued that taking Tylenol for pain after the procedure may be driving up autism rates in boys.

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Trump Is Using the Shutdown to Supercharge His War on Equity

Donald Trump's $30 billion in shutdown cuts targeting Democrats will harm the entire economy, hitting women and people of color the hardest.

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oldmikie.bsky.social @oldmikie.bsky.social · 9h

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Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports

President Trump threatened to place an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a recessio...

oldmikie.bsky.social @oldmikie.bsky.social · 9h

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National Guard troops begin patrols in Memphis

Guard members in Memphis are operating under the governor's command — unlike other cities facing troop deployments, including Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.

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US announces it will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility in Idaho | CNN Politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and...

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King tides in Bosotn hint at potential climate change impact

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1 in 3 Republicans Say Trump Is Improperly Enriching Himself https://bit.ly/43dCwOd

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Saudi-owned corporate farms are draining Arizona’s desert dry

Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local families spend their savings drilling new wells.

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