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US says it struck targets in Iran over ‘continued aggression’ against shippingThe Guardian US
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Utah’s Cottonwood fire spreads overnight to cover 92,000 acresThe Guardian US
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It’s too hot in Europe—againDaily Kos
Trump hates cops—and reminds the DOJ they are at his commandDaily Kos
Green with envyDaily Kos
A voice for change: How Woody Guthrie keeps resonating with new generationsDaily Kos
Even in blue states, hospitals have continued to drop gender-affirming care for youthsDaily Kos
Trump Cabinet member caught in embarrassing error: 'Someone there did the math wrong'Raw Story
Trump exposed by recent side-by-side photo flagged by journalist: 'Clearly lying'Raw Story
JD Vance's 'admission' will make it easier to arrest Trump officials: ex-insiderRaw Story
Prominent conservative proclaims Trump 'being played like a fiddle': 'He admitted as much'Raw Story
Mike Johnson just revealed his true 'panic' with 'astonishing' remarks: ex-GOP operativeRaw Story
Trump's Failed Great American State Fair Rally Is Really Upsetting HimPoliticus USA
Evangelical Christians Humiliated As Trump Falls Asleep On ThemPoliticus USA
Speaker Mike Johnson Admits That He Is Running A Protection Racket For TrumpPoliticus USA
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Keir Starmer’s Downfall Is the Only Reward for Simpering CentrismThe Intercept
30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free SpeechThe Intercept
Trump Claimed to Run Venezuela. After Earthquakes, He’s Walking That Back.The Intercept
The Democratic Party Gets Its Populist TakeoverThe Intercept
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wades Into Tennessee Primary, Endorsing Justin J. PearsonThe Intercept
Mark Zuckerberg Sure Sounds Eager to Get Young People Hooked on Online GamblingMother Jones
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Has America Lived Up to Its Founding Promise?Mother Jones
Kylie Jenner and Meta Deserve Each OtherMother Jones
Saving the Scarlet Macaw in Narco CountryThe Nation
Celebrating America Shouldn’t Be Such a Partisan TaskThe Nation
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Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work?
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Paigelynne Gonyea, the Syracuse poll worker who federal immigration agents recently confronted at her voting site as she worked an election, said in an interview with Democracy Docket that she’s exploring her legal options, including free speech violations. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Some politicians yell “socialism” at every initiative designed to help people.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
Watch.
There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.
It's so sad to see people who have been so mendaciously supportive of a decompensating, mentally ill president suffer because of his decompensation and mental illnesses
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