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‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in the shattered Gaza Strip, according to sources and documents reviewed by the Guardian.
With three-quarters of Gaza’s structures damaged or destroyed by two years of Israeli strikes, the rebuilding effort to come – estimated at $70bn by the United Nations – could be a rich prize for companies that specialize in construction, demolition, transportation and logistics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
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Trump spent the holiday eve ranting about Somali immigrants, “uninviting” South Africa from the #G20, and hinting he wants to fix the Lincoln Memorial (don’t ask). #DOJ exposes Epstein victims’ names, and somehow we still find reasons to be thankful. #uspolitics
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Thanksgiving in the Age of Kakistocracy
Trump melts down, institutions wobble, but communities, and readers, still hold the line.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Trump spent the holiday eve ranting about Somali immigrants, “uninviting” South Africa from the #G20, and hinting he wants to fix the Lincoln Memorial (don’t ask). #DOJ exposes Epstein victims’ names, and somehow we still find reasons to be thankful. #uspolitics
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Release the Trump-MBS Call About Khashoggi? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/relea...
Release the Trump-MBS Call About Khashoggi?
Yesterday President Trump met in the Oval Office with Saudi Arabia’s de...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Release the Trump-MBS Call About Khashoggi? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/relea...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This is an abomination. 🤬
This administration is attempting to re-write history to glorify the most brutal & reprehensible acts America has perpetrated.
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Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota at Wounded Knee - OSV News
A South Dakota bishop and a Jesuit community have countered a recent decision to retain awards for soldiers who killed hundreds of Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee in 1890.
www.osvnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is an abomination. 🤬
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The media's complete lack of curiosity over our nearly 80 year old President's health when he has permanent bruising on his right hand, swollen ankles, facial drooping, disappeared for days from public view twice in the last 2 months and just had an unexplained MRI is notable
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The media's complete lack of curiosity over our nearly 80 year old President's health when he has permanent bruising on his right hand, swollen ankles, facial drooping, disappeared for days from public view twice in the last 2 months and just had an unexplained MRI is notable
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While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.
October 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.
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Abrams: The destination this nation was built on was a nation that sees all and serves all and stands for all. And yet we are living in a moment where ethno-fascists are in charge of the government, Christian nationalists are making economic policy, when we have a secret police telling us who we are
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Abrams: The destination this nation was built on was a nation that sees all and serves all and stands for all. And yet we are living in a moment where ethno-fascists are in charge of the government, Christian nationalists are making economic policy, when we have a secret police telling us who we are
After the rally at the Civic Center where Senator Warnock and Stacey Abram’s spoke the march started to Liberty Plaza at the capital
October 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
After the rally at the Civic Center where Senator Warnock and Stacey Abram’s spoke the march started to Liberty Plaza at the capital
Atlanta GA Civic Center and this was just the beginning
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Atlanta GA Civic Center and this was just the beginning
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“Pritzker put it in the starkest terms. ‘Any rational person who has studied history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under color of law, what comes next?’”
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Trump’s Leaked Plan to Deploy the Texas National Guard Against Illinois Will Tear Apart the Union
If it goes forward, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis
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September 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Pritzker put it in the starkest terms. ‘Any rational person who has studied history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under color of law, what comes next?’”
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“You can sweep away an encampment, but you’re not sweeping away homelessness. The person is still homeless, they’re just in a different spot.”
DC’s homeless have nowhere to go. Trump might send them to jail.
The president's crackdown is causing fear and uncertainty among the city's unhoused and their advocates.
www.motherjones.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“You can sweep away an encampment, but you’re not sweeping away homelessness. The person is still homeless, they’re just in a different spot.”
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Rogin: So even what Trump is talking about in that press conference is totally wrong. He's misinterpreted something that his own envoy misinterpreted. So this is the level of sheer incompetence and confusion and just total bizarre chaos that's surrounding this Alaska meeting.
August 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Rogin: So even what Trump is talking about in that press conference is totally wrong. He's misinterpreted something that his own envoy misinterpreted. So this is the level of sheer incompetence and confusion and just total bizarre chaos that's surrounding this Alaska meeting.
Sunflower early morning just getting light. The birds are starting to wake. The owls pare still singing their nights and few roosters can be heard in the neighborhood.
August 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Sunflower early morning just getting light. The birds are starting to wake. The owls pare still singing their nights and few roosters can be heard in the neighborhood.
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Sources:
- Thomson Reuters / Tax Checkpoint - “IRS Tells 525,000 Federal Employees to Pay Tax Bills, Or Else”, published mid‑July 2025 
- Federal News Network - “OPM seeks fast‑track removal of federal employees for ‘suitability reasons’ in proposed rule”, June 2025 
- Thomson Reuters / Tax Checkpoint - “IRS Tells 525,000 Federal Employees to Pay Tax Bills, Or Else”, published mid‑July 2025 
- Federal News Network - “OPM seeks fast‑track removal of federal employees for ‘suitability reasons’ in proposed rule”, June 2025 
July 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sources:
- Thomson Reuters / Tax Checkpoint - “IRS Tells 525,000 Federal Employees to Pay Tax Bills, Or Else”, published mid‑July 2025 
- Federal News Network - “OPM seeks fast‑track removal of federal employees for ‘suitability reasons’ in proposed rule”, June 2025 
- Thomson Reuters / Tax Checkpoint - “IRS Tells 525,000 Federal Employees to Pay Tax Bills, Or Else”, published mid‑July 2025 
- Federal News Network - “OPM seeks fast‑track removal of federal employees for ‘suitability reasons’ in proposed rule”, June 2025 
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🚨 #SocialSecurity is on the chopping block. Thanks to Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” retirees are now staring down $18,000-a-year benefit cut in just seven years. Seniors who paid in their whole lives are left holding the bag.
– $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.
– $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.
A new analysis projects a 24% cut to Social Security benefits by late 2032.
Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will cause sharp cuts to Social Security by late 2032, a new analysis says.
www.axios.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨 #SocialSecurity is on the chopping block. Thanks to Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” retirees are now staring down $18,000-a-year benefit cut in just seven years. Seniors who paid in their whole lives are left holding the bag.
– $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.
– $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.
At today’s rally in Atlanta
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
At today’s rally in Atlanta
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This is from an actual Republican Congressman, from the party that is also locking kids in cages in a concentration camp in Florida, hoping they try to escape and get eaten by alligators.
This is today's Republican Party.
This is today's Republican Party.
July 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is from an actual Republican Congressman, from the party that is also locking kids in cages in a concentration camp in Florida, hoping they try to escape and get eaten by alligators.
This is today's Republican Party.
This is today's Republican Party.
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Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
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I can tell you that NONE of my Florida neighbors are happy about this.
June 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I can tell you that NONE of my Florida neighbors are happy about this.
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Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
June 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control!
GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control
GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”
GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control
GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”
June 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control!
GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control
GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”
GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control
GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!”
GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”
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No punches pulled. Justice Jackson warns that the Supreme Court has just put the country on a path to dictatorship. “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the country
The Supreme Court allows presidents to do what judges have ruled illegal.
www.motherjones.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
No punches pulled. Justice Jackson warns that the Supreme Court has just put the country on a path to dictatorship. “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
June 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
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New from 404 Media: cops in California investigated what they called an "immigration protest" with AI-powered cameras, according to new data we obtained. Data also shows local cops around the country tapping into California cameras on behalf of ICE. This is illegal www.404media.co/california-c...
California Cops Investigate ‘Immigration Protest’ With AI-Camera System
New data obtained by 404 Media also shows California cops are illegally sharing Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data with other agencies out of state, who in turn are performing searches f...
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New from 404 Media: cops in California investigated what they called an "immigration protest" with AI-powered cameras, according to new data we obtained. Data also shows local cops around the country tapping into California cameras on behalf of ICE. This is illegal www.404media.co/california-c...