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Europeans reacted with a mix of exasperation and anger to the leaked messages between Trump administration officials that surfaced on Monday. The exchange showed officials criticizing “European freeloading” — along with contempt for Europe that was even louder behind closed doors.

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March 24, 2025:

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March 23, 2025

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20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.

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March 22, 2025

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Thoughts and prayers for burning Teslas ⬇️⬇️⬇️ This is right up there with DJT’s early executive orders terminating the School Safety Board and Closing the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. #USDemocracy

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March 21, 2025

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"Can you tell me which way to the polls? I need to vote to lose my Social Security."

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Decades before President Trump canceled $400 million in funding for Columbia University, he tried to sell property to the school — for $400 million.

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Columbia University agreed on Friday to make changes to its protest rules, campus security policies and Middle Eastern studies department in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which had moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university.

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On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said. nyti.ms/41GYSGt

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On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order declaring the closure of the D.O.E. Trump cannot legally shut down a government agency, but his Administration can make it essentially impossible for the department to function.

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"At the base of a towering volcano, and miles from civilisation, huge concrete walls separate some 20,000 of the country's most violent prisoners from the rest of society," said Mail Online.

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A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

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"The Kremlin and other autocracies have long ached to see Voice of America and Radio Liberty destroyed, but even in their most fevered dreams, they could never have imagined that the Americans would do the dirty work themselves," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social: theatln.tc/0N1YAksF

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Israelis were gathering in Jerusalem on Wednesday to protest moves by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they say undermine the country’s democracy and to call for a renewed cease-fire deal for Gaza to bring the remaining hostages there home.

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President Trump’s showdown with the courts reached a new milestone on Tuesday, when he called for a federal judge to be impeached and the chief justice of the Supreme Court publicly scolded the president in response. Has the U.S. arrived at a constitutional crisis? Listen to "The Daily."

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Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service installed in White House

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Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

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It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

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No, the only thing that will turn out to bring any kind of oppositional response to Trump by Trump supporters—is when the pain becomes personal. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-trump-s...

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Habitat for Humanity. For fucks sake.

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The Trump administration's move to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent legal resident of the U.S., has set up a fight over free speech and raises questions about whether this could happen to other visa or green card holders. Here’s what to know.

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Government funding is set to expire on Friday if there's no action from the Senate.

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American gourmets are scrambling to stock up on their favourite imported foodstuffs before Donald Trump's costly tariffs inflate prices on the shelves.

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The president has named five cryptocurrencies he wants to see added to a federal stockpile as experts warn that the whole project could be a flop — or worse

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A recent University of New Mexico study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, found that levels of microplastics in brain-tissue samples from people who had died in 2024 were 50% higher than in similar samples from people who had died in 2016

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It sure does

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We're a global joke and a national disaster.

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Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration last weekend, have not been able to hold a private conversation with their client since his arrest.

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“Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do,” Sen. Mark Kelly wrote in response to Musk calling him a traitor. www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

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Oh. Elon Musk is calling Senator Mark Kelly, a literal combat vet and astronaut who’s been to space more times than Musk has updated his Twitter bio, a “traitor.” You’re too busy blowing up rockets, tweeting conspiracy theories, and watching your net worth decline to actually serve your country...

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Boris dahling🐿️🫎

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“Though both Hitler and Hugenberg were fiercely anti-Communist, anti-democratic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic, their attempts at political partnership failed spectacularly and repeatedly.” Timothy Ryback unpacks Hitler's relationship with his oligarchs:

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Meet the real Bald-wins: Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow are hatching their eggs live on stream like feathered family vloggers, and we can’t stop watching.

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Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow welcome 2 eaglets into the world - ABC7 Los Angeles apple.news/AnNH1IBCfQsm...

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🪶 It’s finally happening…🦅 The eaglets have finally landed as Southern California's famous bald eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow, have welcomed two new hatchlings. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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All eyes have been on the nest belonging to Big Bear’s famous bald eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow, and their trio of eggs. Two chicks have hatched. via @laist.com

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Meet the real Bald-wins: Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow are hatching their eggs live on stream like feathered family vloggers, and we can’t stop watching.

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