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Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
State Department slashes its annual reports on human rights
Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
n.pr
August 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
www.wired.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...
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Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
February 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
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Despite a court order to resume paying vital programs like Head Start and community health centers, Trump is still delaying payment to many.
His interference with vulnerable children’s access to a pediatrician and preschool is deplorable and illegal.
His interference with vulnerable children’s access to a pediatrician and preschool is deplorable and illegal.
How the federal funding freeze is impacting community health and Head Start programs
A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last week, and blocked by a pair of judges, is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions. Some Communi...
www.pbs.org
February 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Despite a court order to resume paying vital programs like Head Start and community health centers, Trump is still delaying payment to many.
His interference with vulnerable children’s access to a pediatrician and preschool is deplorable and illegal.
His interference with vulnerable children’s access to a pediatrician and preschool is deplorable and illegal.
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New on @MSNBC: The Trump admin has blocked access to secure communications for hundreds of USAID employees abroad — including many who work in dangerous war zones — according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. @NBCNews
February 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New on @MSNBC: The Trump admin has blocked access to secure communications for hundreds of USAID employees abroad — including many who work in dangerous war zones — according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. @NBCNews
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Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
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You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
February 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
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I’m sure deporting people who produce food and slapping tariffs on countries that we buy massive amounts of food from will lower costs any day now.
February 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’m sure deporting people who produce food and slapping tariffs on countries that we buy massive amounts of food from will lower costs any day now.
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The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
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Can't sleep so I'm trying to work out whether Elon getting access to the Treasury payment system, the flat tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, the elimination of the under $800 loophole for imports, or the Mavs trading Luka is the most batshit thing from yesterday
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
February 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Can't sleep so I'm trying to work out whether Elon getting access to the Treasury payment system, the flat tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, the elimination of the under $800 loophole for imports, or the Mavs trading Luka is the most batshit thing from yesterday
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Fact checking RFK Jr.: No, antidepressants are not harder to quit than heroin.
Antidepressants harder to quit than heroin? Fact-checking RFK Jr.
Fact checking RFK Jr.: No, antidepressants are not harder to quit than heroin.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Fact checking RFK Jr.: No, antidepressants are not harder to quit than heroin.
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A small sampling of why Elon wants to eliminate federal watchdog agencies...
November 30, 2024 at 7:28 PM
A small sampling of why Elon wants to eliminate federal watchdog agencies...
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There also has not been a Democrat appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court in over 70 years.
Fun fact: there’s never been a Democratic director of the FBI in its entire history.
December 1, 2024 at 12:30 AM
There also has not been a Democrat appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court in over 70 years.