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"The real threat to our understanding of the U.S. economy, and the country’s health writ large, is that the Trump administration has been quietly snuffing out thousands of data series, particularly those that might produce politically inconvenient results."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one...
Trump’s One Weird Trick for Eliminating Bad News: Delete It
The disappearance of inconvenient facts and the remaking of reality.
www.thebulwark.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Elon Musk's GROK analyses the text of the 21-point plan released by the Trump White House and concludes that it is clear this document was drafted in Russian and translated very poorly into English. Which is exactly what I thought when I read it.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Heartbreaking stuff. And more good journalism from @charlotteobserver.com which has been a part of an incredible effort from local media to cover this past week’s attack on our city.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Redirecting...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Minnesota’s grain indemnity fund faces first major test with large grain elevator failure www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Minnesota’s grain indemnity fund faces first major test with large grain elevator failure
Hansen-Mueller Co., a nationwide grain merchandiser and processor, filed for bankruptcy. The company, based in Omaha, Neb., has grain elevator operations in Minnesota. It owes hundreds of millions of ...
www.mprnews.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Fearing violence and disruption from Trump's anti-immigrant goons, parents keep their children home. Durham Public Schools saying 21% of students were absent Tuesday amidst Operation Charlotte's Web. Wake Co Sup Robert Taylor said he's highly concerned about the academic impact.
Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge
Nearly 1 in 9 Wake County students were absent on Tuesday, far higher than the normal total.
www.newsobserver.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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“After Aceituno again told the agents he was a U.S. citizen, they finally threw him out of the van…[And] the agents had taken his car keys.

(Aceituno voted for Trump in 2024 because of the border and the economy. He now calls it ‘the worst decision of my life.’)”

www.thebulwark.com/p/baker-past...
A Baker, a Pastor, and Charlotte’s Stand Against ICE
How everyday people are reminding the nation what it means to be American.
www.thebulwark.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Cruelty is central to his policies:

Trump says he's terminating legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Trump says he's terminating legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
The number of migrants who would be affected by Trump's announcement that he wants to end Temporary Protected Status could be very small. A report produced for Congress in August put the number of Som...
www.mprnews.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Mark Hertling:

What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
And why it matters there are two military oaths.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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An essential point. One of the major achievements for the Kremlin in "Trump's" peace plan is that it positions the US as an intermediary between the Kremlin and NATO, no longer as NATO's leader. This is completely nuts from a US national security perspective.
Future historians might want to reconstruct when NATO ceased to exist IN ITS TRANSATLANTIC FORM.
Here’s a hint. Look at this passage of the Ukraine „peace plan“. The US will act as a „mediator“ between NATO and Russia.
As if they were no longer the lead nation.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions. In their place, the gathering is filled with political hacks, grifters and charlatans.

go.nature.com/3XbIqw5
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
go.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Wirecard fugitive and Russian intel asset Jan Marsalek and a ring of Bulgarian spies he operated in the UK have been linked to a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that connects street-level drug dealers with sanctioned Russian oligarchs. Two money laundering networks known as Smart & TGR
Ex-Wirecard boss Jan Marsalek linked to multibillion-dollar laundering network
Link is latest revelation in a years-long probe into Smart and TGR, which move money for criminals and sanctioned individuals
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Not to worry, Hegseth's coastal invasion of Mexico was just a "mistake." (But Pentagon sources say it was planned over several weeks). www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete’s War Goons Accidentally Invade Mexico
U.S. “contractors” planted signs declaring that a Mexican beach was U.S. territory.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It's déjà vu all over again. After publicly protesting that he was souring on the Kremlin, Trump again allows Putin to script a peace proposal and stamps his name on it. Then he puts a gun to Ukraine's head to sign it immediately.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
WSJ Editorial Board on the Great Backfire:

www.wsj.com/opinion/texa...
Opinion | Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Backfire
A GOP plan to flip five House seats loses in court. Now Democrats could come out ahead in redistricting nationwide.
www.wsj.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.

At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Terry Gross interviews New Yorker writer Marc Fisher who profiles Kash Patel in the current issue of that magazine:

www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...
How Kash Patel is roiling the FBI and changing its mission
New Yorker writer Marc Fisher says Patel became FBI director without senior law enforcement experience because of his loyalty to Trump and willingness to seek retribution for his perceived enemies.
www.npr.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Mark Singer's New Yorker profile of Trump, published in May 1997:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Searching for Trump’s Soul
Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character.
www.newyorker.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Fox Business credulously reports that Saudi Arabia is pushing its investment into the US "to $1 trillion." The entire size of the Saudi economy is $1 trillion. How stupid are these people and/or how stupid do they think their viewers are?
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM