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Here's what in the proposed budget. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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What’s Working: Federal workers on Colorado unemployment benefits. Who pays?

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Dr. M. Allison Stegner — granddaughter of writer Wallace Stegner — is an ecologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, until the Trump/Musk layoffs. Here's what she wrote about what happened.

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Once considered a bastion for free expression, America's record on press freedoms has fallen to a historic low, according to Reporters Without Borders. Under Trump's second presidency, the press is "under siege," the group argues.

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Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’

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Hate speech rose by 50% on social media platform X in the months after billionaire Elon Musk bought it, according to a new study.

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‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes

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“Few subjects have been more deformed by doublethink and muddle than that of the entity—if it is an entity, and not an ongoing event—we call ‘nature’.” @rhodrilewis.bsky.social reviews a new book that aims to bring some clarity: www.prospectmagazine...

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“The positions that Defense Secretary Hegseth announced in Brussels—which I’m sure I’d be stunned if Trump didn’t convey them directly to Putin in their phone call—constitute terms of a settlement that could have been written in the Kremlin,” Bolton said.

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More than 350 rabbis and dozens of Jewish creatives and activists have signed a full-page Ad in The New York Times condemning US President Donald Trump’s proposal for the forced removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4rpluk

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Breaking News: The federal order to drop Mayor Eric Adam’s corruption case led three Manhattan prosecutors to resign, the highest-profile resistance so far in President Trump’s Justice Department.

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A Q. & A. with Peter Beinart, whose new book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning,” argues that many American Jews who defend Israel have lost their moral bearings.

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Pope Francis at the Jubilee of the Armed Forces: ‘Be vigilant against the spirit of war’

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Unlocked Opinion: Trump is just the latest in a long list of demagogues who exploit the trappings of democracy to further authoritarian ambitions. Will anyone be willing to challenge him?

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President Trump’s executive order freezing most U.S. foreign aid for 90 days has thrown into turmoil programs that fight starvation and deadly diseases, run clinical trials and seek to provide shelter for millions of displaced people. Here’s what to know.

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In just two weeks, Trump has made drastic changes to the EPA, from firing top agency officials to freezing funding for community projects. Here’s how that could impact efforts to reform toxic hot spots across the country. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

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The Trump administration’s efforts to downsize USAID have endangered the funding for food, tents and medical treatment for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, according to U.S. officials and workers for humanitarian groups funded by the agency.

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A new report finds that International House of Prayer founder Mike Bickle betrayed the trust of his congregation by “misusing his position of authority to engage in sexual misconduct with multiple victims.”

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As we watch the ongoing collapse of American democracy, I’m very concerned about the Gitmo concentration camp Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

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In its food price outlook for 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted that already record-high egg prices will increase an additional 20%.

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Spatial mapping shows votes for the AfD are concentrated in the east and in the most rural areas, while university towns turn away.

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Trump appointees and allies of Elon Musk wanted to use the Treasury Department’s sensitive payment system to block USAID payments, emails show.

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They scaled treacherous mountains, pushed through dense, unforgiving forests, and trudged for hundreds of kilometres - all in pursuit of a singular dream: reaching the United States. Read: www.ndtv.com/india-news/i...

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"This feels strange to say, but Hawley’s moment in the spotlight may have peaked with the fist pump."

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European leaders were bracing for US tariffs after President Donald Trump imposed sweeping levies on Mexico, Canada and China that will affect billions of dollars worth of trade, roiling global markets and currencies reut.rs/4jHmVx6

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"The overwhelming support for impeachment shows that the American public is not willing to accept King Trump."

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As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode

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Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants will have serious consequences for the United States economy and job market. Economists predict that large-scale deportations could cause a significant economic contraction.

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"WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID."

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Dear 🧪🔭⚛️: Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“ jmjafrx.substack.com/p/the-resegr...

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Trump regime bans CDC scientists from publishing work that mentions trans or non-binary people. When fascists can't burn books anymore so easily because everything's electronic and international, they just ban people from writing them. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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Censoring the language of science (the pursuit of Truth) to align better with a political ideology sure does seem like fascism. I think it’s on us, the academic/scientific community, to not yield Truth in pursuit of publication. 🧪 #AcademicSky #philsci insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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I have proudly been a scientist my whole life. We are now watching the deliberate destruction of American science at the hands of the corrupt regime. Data is disappearing, young scientists are not getting paid, free speech is crushed. We can fix this, but we don't have much time to undo the harm. 🧪🌏

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📽️ WATCH: Researchers who tracked the social media activity of the Madison and Nashville school shooters found that the two teenagers may have crossed paths in online networks that glorify mass shooters, @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social and ProPublica's @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social reports.

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Trump and his supporters often dehumanize #immigrants as “animals” or “aliens.” A human rights scholar warns that dismissing such rhetoric as bluster overlooks how words are a first step toward discriminatory and violent policies.

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The world is in the midst of a Trump 2.0-sized reckoning, and the social media infrastructure upon which we’ve built our society suddenly feels a lot less stable. @melwoods.me writes. 🦋

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Nineteen Republican attorneys general have decided that now is the perfect time to declare war on Costco to convince the bulk retailer to abandon its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

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President Trump’s new trade penalties against Canada, Mexico and China represent an aggressive early move against America’s three largest trading partners — but at the risk of higher inflation and possible disruptions to the global economy.

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"I’m thinking about a woman, a man in a DC field office who played no policy role and was given an assignment to go out and conduct an investigation whose name now shows up on a list."

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“I think that too often throughout Christianity’s history, Christians have been tempted by—what do we call it?—I guess the siren song of power. Tempted by the desire for power over others, to stray from Jesus.”

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Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency.

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