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Disney and ABC News have reportedly asked the hosts of “The View” to tone down their political rhetoric

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The Spy Factory: How Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for its deep-cover operatives –– until an elite team of Brazilian cops hunted them down. New investigation with Michael Schwirtz. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

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Trump claims that a video shows the “burial sites” of “over 1,000” white farmers in South Africa. It doesn't. From @rileymellen.bsky.social and me www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

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🚨 This bill gets more egregious by the minute. Rules just dropped an amended “Big Beautiful Bill” that includes a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother, even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.

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“The question I get most often is: What can we do to take our country back?” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “So let me try to answer, drawing on lessons from other countries that have faced authoritarian challenges.”

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A group of Senate Democrats on Wednesday asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate Attorney General Pam Bondi’s role in the Trump administration’s decision to accept a free luxury jet from Qatar to serve as Air Force One.

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“Don’t Republicans have family members with cancer or other illnesses who have benefited from our research?” Roxanne Kelber writes in a letter to The Times.

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President Trump tapped Billy Long, a former Republican congressman, to lead the IRS. During his confirmation hearing, Long said he pitched his friends on a supposed tax break offered by an Arkansas-based oil and gas company, but the agency said it doesn't exist.

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News Analysis: President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with the country. The deeper question now is whether he is also abandoning America’s project to support Ukraine.

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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.

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🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

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A new pod where I try to explain the Trump meme coin dinner to normal people blessed with not knowing what meme coins even are www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

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NEWS: Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan." We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs. One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

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Joe Kent, top aide to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, ordered rewriting to an intel analysis re Venezuela & TDA so the doc could not be "used against" Trump, adding to concerns about politicizing intel. More emails also emerging. @julianbarnes.bsky.social Maggie Haberman & me. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a nudge from Pope Francis — put Robert Prevost on the fast track.

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During a Senate hearing, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, falsely described habeas corpus as the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people. nyti.ms/3H1DXXS

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Yet another “Garcia”-like case www.justsecurity.org/113554/doj-c...

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Here's a look at some of the highlights worth watching from late-night TV.

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BREAKING: Following today's emergency hearing, Judge Brian Murphy orders the Trump administration to "maintain custody and control of class members currently being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country," such that he could order their return if needed.

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The family of Dem Rep. Gerry Connolly announced that he has died at 75. Connolly had been fighting cancer.

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SCOOP: In Feb, federal agencies "lost" many #FOIA requests but you probably had no idea. It turns out that the FOIAs disappeared due to an "insider threat attack" by 2 employees at a software company who were previously convicted of hacking into the State Dept 🧵 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Last week, @coe.int made history by opening for signature the first-ever international treaty to protect lawyers. Signing this Convention means saying “no.” No to physical threats & online intimidation. No to abusive judicial pressure & harassment. Full speech: www.coe.int/en/web/secre...

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A federal judge has rejected a bid by the U.S. Treasury Department to cancel a union contract covering tens of thousands of IRS staff, an early blow to President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many federal workers.

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Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some U.S. students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries. We spoke with the incoming class.

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“President Trump’s C.F.P.B. has not only ceased to pursue its mandate; it has taken the unprecedented step of unwinding prior victories — even in cases brought during Mr. Trump’s first term,” writes Eric Halperin, the former director of enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Tax cuts pushed by the Trump administration are amplifying debt and deficit concerns among bond investors, a powerful group of market players who influence interest rates.

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From Target to Walmart, retailers are fighting two battles at once: a financial battle to keep costs low in the face of new tariffs, and a political one to avoid the president's wrath.

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this is what happens when you fire and lock out every comms staffer without any notice!

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The EU said it is stepping in to provide emergency funding to Radio Free Europe, though the promised amount fell far short of what the news organization said it needed to stay afloat after the Trump administration froze federal support.

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So that AI-generated “Summer Reading List” full of made up books illustrates an important fact about AI art & writing we need to wrap our heads around. Because the easy story is “greedy corporate paper replaces humans with AI slop”. But that’s not what happened here, or in a lot of similar cases.

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“The Columbia footage that we subpoenaed conclusively proves that Mahmoud never attempted to run from the ICE agents, that the government lied once again, & that there was no valid reason for the arrest of a US permanent resident and human rights defender” - Ramzi Kassem to @premthakker.bsky.social

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Department says it accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar and will "ensure proper security measures" for use by Trump.

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The U.S. has now accepted a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar, which the Air Force has been asked to upgrade so it can be used as a new Air Force One for President Trump, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

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Breaking News: OpenAI is uniting with Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, in a $6.5 billion deal to make artificial intelligence devices.

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Breaking News: A federal judge said a sudden deportation flight to Africa violated a court order, a major rebuke of Trump officials on immigration.

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The Trump administration has taken a flurry of actions to drive up deportation numbers as part of its large-scale immigration crackdown. Here's what to know about those efforts and the millions of immigrants who may be affected. nyti.ms/45k0MQz

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President Trump argued with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa over Trump's false claims of mass killings of Afrikaners during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday. Ramaphosa sought to explain the reality in his nation, pushing back on Trump's amplification of fringe theories.

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Solicitor General John Sauer has now represented to the Supreme Court that Elon Musk is “not part of” the U.S. DOGE Service. An interesting representation considering how Trump described Musk’s role on Feb. 19: “I signed an order creating [DOGE] and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.”

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Breaking News: Gerald Connolly, the top Democrat on the House oversight committee, died at 75, weeks after announcing he planned to retire. He had said late last year that he was being treated for cancer of the esophagus.

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House Republican leaders worked through dawn on Wednesday to win over holdouts for their sweeping domestic policy bill to deliver President Trump’s agenda. If passed, the legislation is projected to cause around 10 million people to become uninsured, the Congressional Budget Office said.

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NEWS: DOJ goes to SCOTUS over DOGE-related FOIA case, seeking to keep DOGE records from the public. The docket will be 24A1122.

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Breaking News: The Trump administration said it was planning to abandon efforts to force police reforms in several cities, including Minneapolis, and retract Biden-era findings that police departments had violated residents' constitutional rights. nyti.ms/456A3ar

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The decision reverses course on the use of consent decrees to ensure accountability of law enforcement agencies. It comes days before the anniversary of George Floyd's murder by a police officer.

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The "big, beautiful" tax bill is worrying the bond market. Treasury yields are back up to levels just before Trump paused some tariffs. Investors worry they could go even higher. "We had an unsustainable budget path, and we’re amping up the volume" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/b... @nytimes.com

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Holding a hearing at 1:00 AM? What is it? They’re hiding? Good opportunity for us to all set our alarms and get up for a little midnight popcorn & airing of the truth.

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