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Fox News and Smartmatic both asked a judge on Wednesday to rule in their favor in the $2.7 billion defamation case—but what’s missing from the recent filings could prove far more damaging for Rupert Murdoch. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/rupert-mur...

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Nigeria's Aliko Dangote 'comfortable' with impact of Trump tariffs on urea exports reut.rs/3YRMCCb

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"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."

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The rule of law prevents unrest, yet Huxley warned we’d fall in love with servitude, fostering complacency. Bernays showed propaganda's power, amplified by AI, algorithms & social media—owned by billionaires. Ellul warned technocracy erodes democracy, as McLuhan showed technology reshapes thought.

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@davetroy.com

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I taught a US citizenship class to South Sudanese refugees in Nebraska, 2006-2007. Fleeing civil war, they worked arduous jobs at a meat packing plant. Many had no literacy in any language. But they studied hard for a citizenship exam which many native-born Americans would not be able to pass.

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Joseph Goebbels On Propaganda 1/2 “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.

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The anti-government/authoritarian logic behind MAGA political cynicism: Because liberal democracy has at times fallen short in its professed goal of protecting individual rights, & because we're "in a dire crisis," therefore I'm ok with authoritarian abuses of power as long as they don't effect me.

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Fred Rogers was born on this day in 1928. In 2017, writer Anthony Breznican shared how the late television icon and host of "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" comforted him during a difficult period in his own life. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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BREAKING: A federal court ordered Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit should proceed in New Jersey instead of Louisiana, 1,500 miles from his family. This is an important step towards justice.

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The 3 members of the Bulgarian spy ring that spied on Bellingcat and plead not guilty have just been found guilty at the Old Bailey. The spy ring was directed by Wirecard fraudster Jan Marsalek on the behalf of the Russian intelligence services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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RFK Jr.’s former anti-vax group is running a mysterious online measles fundraiser for alternative treatments for measles. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @motherjones.com @kieraevebutler.bsky.social

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Merck vaccine trial delayed as RFK Jr. link creates jury concern: reading: plaintiffs lawyers thought Kennedy's (very real) role in getting this going and his extreme anti-vaccine views would work against them. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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Says it all really, the age of US international leadership is dead and buried.

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The leading candidates vying to replace Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent considerable time during a televised debate discussing the need to stand up to US President Donald Trump reut.rs/3D9eg6f

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This truly breaks my 💔 Thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social, I’ll be watching for what’s next. 🙏🏽

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In 1974 an antisemitic, Christian Nationalist Congressman from Arizona insisted that he be allowed to inspect the gold in Fort Knox after hearing testimony from Peter Beter, an author who believed world events were controlled by the Rockefeller family, the "Bolshevik–Zionist axis" & the Kremlin.

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OMG, Rachel on MSNBC calling out her bosses for firing the non-white primetime hosts Joy Reid and Alex Wagner

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Few people in American politics have ever exhibited less moral clarity than Nikki Haley has since 2016.

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Exactly!

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😂🤣 @davetroy.com they are STRATEGIZED & ORGANIZED! One after another institutions will fall. People will be replaced by machines in a predictable dystopian way!

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Seriously! 🤣 @davetroy.com Optimism at such times is a skill.

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One after another they’ll be chopped while the bamboozled audience sit quietly in the sidelines.

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U N B E L I E V A B L E! @davetroy.com people have been conditioned to think red vs. blue. People can’t conceive that they are all into this! The art of bamboozling!

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"The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials. NIH officials said they were given no advance warning and less than an hour to post the memo publicly." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Talking about freedom in Kyiv with the great Volodymyr Yermolenko earlier this month youtu.be/8IpyP1PbubM

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20 February 1904 | A Czech Jew, Vilém Frankenstein, was born in Nove Dvory. A chemical engineer. He was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. He did not survive.

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Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

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