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"Four years after Gov. #GregAbbott announced #Texas would be the first state to build its own #borderwall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border."

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An airline-owned data broker collected US travelers’ flight records, sold them to Customs and Border Protection, and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to a contract obtained by 404 Media.

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"Administration sources told CBS News on Sunday that the White House was not aware that an attack was coming." My 2 cents: all Ukraine needs to do to attract Trump support is succeed on their own so Trump can take credit for their work.

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The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points

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“When #Congress created the #CPB, it stated clearly that the CPB is not ‘an agency or establishment of the U.S. Government,’” CPB said in court filings. “This alone demonstrates that the CPB is not an executive agency....”

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#LasVegas #Nevada #Layoffs #Trump

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How well do most Americans understand the Fourth Amendment? Here's a brief and simple intro from 2023. #DOJ #UnitedStates #Constitution #SearchAndSeizure

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BREAKING: The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president

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Trump and Navarro’s genius plan for shrinking trade deficits looks like it’s sending them soaring instead.

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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"The move carries particular significance given #Sheinbaum’s Jewish heritage.... Her administration has openly criticized #Israel’s attacks on #Palestinian territories, aligning #Mexico with other nations advocating for Palestinian self-determination."

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I hope media resist the urge to show pictures or video from this event. Text-only coverage would blunt the propaganda value. The headline: DT orders/pays soldiers to mark his birthday under threat of court-martial.

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The question Martin Luther King Jr. asked in his last speech: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

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DT criticized U.S. aid to #Ukraine and framed them as the aggressor. Now 77% of Republicans want to end the war asap (per Gallop). U.S. support for Ukraine was leverage against #Putin. We're not negotiating from strength but a desire to quit. So why would Putin stop at only 20% of Ukraine?

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“The Postal Service is American. It’s a public good. It’s not here to make a profit and we all depend on it.”

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I recommend this Andrew Marantz article for those interested in understanding (rather than making a quick judgement about) the dude-heavy world of para-social media. He also spoke to Fresh Air recently: www.npr.org/2025/03/20/n...

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"Longtermism... very techno utopian ideology.... decisions about cognitive enhancement at birth... So what we really should do is give more money to rich, productive, white people who are producing all these amazing technologies..." #longtermism #Bostrom #Musk #eugenics #thebellcurve

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Actually, the White House explicitly admitted to violating the order. Their claim is they don’t have to comply with court orders.

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The #DOJ attorneys arguing in support of #Hegseth‘s #transgender military ban hadn’t read any of the studies submitted to the court that allegedly supported it. It turns out that the studies don’t support the ban.

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The Republicans who saw that Trump was possible as a national candidate are like the zoo lions who eat a human and don't want to go back to cold meat.

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Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

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Rep. Mark Alford: "It is true that the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up about 75% of our budget. We've got to find the savings there. We will do that."

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In the lead-up to the 2016 election, #Facebook employees embedded with the Trump campaign helped it micro-target potential voters, feeding them bespoke ads filled with “misinformation, inflammatory posts and fund-raising messages.” (Clinton campaign declined Facebook’s offer to embed employees.)

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Only 36 companies account for half of global emissions, report estimates https://www.ft.com/content/7ba9da9c-2bba-4c0d-8ea0-ba907325a611

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