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#kamala-harris
fromFortune
5 hours ago
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Kamala Harris doesn't believe her presidential run was her finale: A glass 'cliff suggests finality, and I'm not into that' | Fortune

fromFortune
5 hours ago
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Kamala Harris doesn't believe her presidential run was her finale: A glass 'cliff suggests finality, and I'm not into that' | Fortune

#visa-revocations
fromAxios
7 hours ago
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Trump administration revokes 6 visas over comments about Charlie Kirk

fromwww.aljazeera.com
7 hours ago
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US revokes six visas over Charlie Kirk death amid social media crackdown

The US revoked visas of six foreigners who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination on social media, saying it will bar foreigners who wish death on Americans.
fromwww.twincities.com
9 hours ago
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US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The U.S. revoked visas for six foreigners for social media posts that celebrated or made light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
fromAxios
7 hours ago
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Trump administration revokes 6 visas over comments about Charlie Kirk

#trump
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fromABC7 San Francisco
6 hours ago

Bay Area activists rally calling for end to political violence

Bay Area activists rally to condemn rising political violence after racist, threatening emails targeted Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and other civic spaces.
#government-shutdown
fromWashingtonian
19 hours ago
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White House Signals Very Long Shutdown, Commanders Game Ends in Heartbreak, and Betting Markets Sour on Jay Jones

fromWashingtonian
19 hours ago
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White House Signals Very Long Shutdown, Commanders Game Ends in Heartbreak, and Betting Markets Sour on Jay Jones

fromsfist.com
5 hours ago

Day Around the Bay: Marc Benioff Continues His Trump Turn, Brings Trump Adviser David Sacks to Dreamforce

Barely a week after confessing she had embezzled money from Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, South Lake Tahoe Mayor Tamara Wallace has resigned, and encouraged her Mayor pro tem to also resign over his bar fight allegations. So Mayor Wallace is out, and South Lake Tahoe City Council will have to discuss picking a new mayor and other issues at their October 21 meeting. [KOVR]
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fromAxios
8 hours ago

"Best birthday gift": Charlie Kirk posthumously awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

Donald Trump honored Charlie Kirk posthumously, awarded a medal, proclaimed Oct. 14 a national day of remembrance, and praised Kirk's influence on conservative youth.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 hours ago

El Cerrito man suspected of making racist death threats to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee

A man allegedly sent racist, violent emails threatening to kill and torture Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and faces felony charges with a hate-crime enhancement.
fromLos Angeles Times
3 hours ago

Trump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. faces challenge over 'acting' status

A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday to decide whether maneuvers used by the Trump administration to install Bill Essayli as acting United States attorney in Los Angeles are improper - and, if so, what should be done about it. During a Tuesday hearing in downtown L.A., Senior Judge J. Michael Seabright - who flew in from Hawaii for the proceeding - wondered how to proceed after defense attorneys sought to dismiss indictments against three clients and to disqualify Essayli
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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

Arizona Rep.-Elect Grijalva Finally Gets Keys to Office But No Internet, No ComputersPhone Lines Aren't Working'

House Republicans are dragging their feet on letting Grijalva officially join their ranks and have been using the government shutdown as an excuse. However, it's widely speculated that a major reason for the delay in swearing her in is the vote to release the Epstein files, as Grijalva would be the 218th vote to pass the bill in the House; she's publicly made this accusation many times herself.
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fromAxios
4 hours ago

Florida court pauses Miami land transfer for Trump presidential library

A judge ruled Miami Dade College gave unreasonable public notice for a Sept. 23 meeting that approved plans to donate land for a Trump presidential library.
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fromAxios
10 hours ago

Unicorns and T. rexes troll Trump at Portland's ICE protests

Protesters use inflatable costumes to mock claims of a 'war-ravaged' Portland, reclaim its eccentric identity, and resist fear through absurdist tactics.
fromsfist.com
7 hours ago

Trump Yanks Mark Zuckerberg's Leash Again, Meta Deletes Page That ICE Didn't Like

Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had gone too far earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied. It was well before Donald Trump had even been reelected yet when Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to Republicans for adhering to the Biden administration's request to censor certain COVID-19 content because that content was complete bullshit about ivermectin and such.
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fromwww.dw.com
3 hours ago

News outlets reject Pentagon's new press rules DW 10/15/2025

Multiple major news organizations refused to accept the Pentagon's new media access rules, rejecting provisions that could label reporters security risks and revoke press credentials.
#donald-trump
fromwww.mediaite.com
20 hours ago
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Trump Fumes at Time Magazine's Super Bad' New Cover Celebrating His Gaza Peace Deal Triumph': They Disappeared My Hair!'

fromwww.mediaite.com
20 hours ago
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Trump Fumes at Time Magazine's Super Bad' New Cover Celebrating His Gaza Peace Deal Triumph': They Disappeared My Hair!'

fromwww.mediaite.com
5 hours ago

Attorney General Pam Bondi Says Antifa No Different Than MS-13 or Any Gang'

We're going to get to the funding of Antifa, we're going to get to the root of Antifa, and we are going to find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country. Talk to all the influencers who have been threatened and beat up and their lives threatened from Antifa members.
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fromMission Local
6 hours ago

Marc Benioff exposed himself as craven and hollow. He has company.

Marc Benioff called for National Guard deployment to San Francisco despite the city never defunding its police and experiencing historically low crime rates.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago

Vanity Fair Editor to Release Book Addressing Her Scandalous Relationship With RFK Jr: Report

Olivia Nuzzi will release a book this year reflecting on her decade covering politics and addressing her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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fromAxios
11 hours ago

Trump teases new list of "Democratic programs" being shut down will come Friday

The Trump administration dismissed over 200,000 federal employees and is closing programs and targeting Democratic-favored agencies during the government shutdown.
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fromBoston.com
5 hours ago

Pressley condemns 'rogue' ICE agents' arrest of Everett boy, 13

A 13-year-old Everett boy was detained by ICE, transferred over 500 miles to an adult detention center, and reportedly subjected to inhumane conditions.
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fromVulture
5 hours ago

The Lowdown Recap: Live Fire

A chain of linked murders originates from Dale Washberg's death, with suspected political villain Donald Washberg and shifting loyalties driving escalating violence.
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fromLos Angeles Times
5 hours ago

L.A. County chief executive got $2 million settlement after Measure G fallout, records say

L.A. County CEO Fesia Davenport received a $2 million settlement over professional and reputational harm tied to Measure G, which will eliminate her appointed position.
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fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
5 hours ago

Trump Says He's 'Very Disappointed' With Putin As He Weighs Providing Ukraine With Tomahawks

President Trump says Putin could end the war in Ukraine quickly, expresses disappointment, and considers supplying Tomahawk missiles as Zelenskyy visits to request long-range weapons.
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fromwww.twincities.com
7 hours ago

Meta removes ICE-tracking Facebook page in Chicago at the request of the Justice Department

Meta removed a Facebook group used to track immigration agents after a DOJ request, citing violation of coordinated-harm policies.
fromwww.mediaite.com
6 hours ago

Pete Hegseth's Pentagon Press Crackdown Gets Absolutely Walloped on Fox News by Retired General

The new policy announced by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sparked immediate outrage from the Pentagon Press Association as an unprecedented message of intimidation, including the threat of criminal prosecution and the demand that reporters get approval from Department of Defense officials before publication. The vast majority of broadcast and cable news networks including conservative ones like Fox News and Newsmax voiced strong opposition to the new policy, issuing a statement that it was without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections
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fromwww.mediaite.com
5 hours ago

F*cking Losers': Massively Popular Dog-Themed Instagram Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post

WeRateDogs publicly condemned ICE after a family dog was fatally shot during an El Paso raid, signaling a rare political stance by the popular dog-focused account.
fromwww.npr.org
1 hour ago

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of Sandy Hook shooting defamation judgment

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors. The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits
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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 hours ago

AZ Attorney General Threatens to Take Speaker Johnson to Court: Holding the State of Arizona Hostage' to Protect Epstein Files

I really think that we are going to have no other choice, Laura, except to take Speaker Johnson to court if he refuses to respond to us, if he doesn't quickly swear in Adelita Grijalva, again depriving her of the ability to help her constituents, said Mayes: We've had some flooding out here in Arizona. She has no way to help those people in southern Arizona who have been impacted by that flooding.
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fromSFGATE
7 hours ago

San Mateo County unanimously votes to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors unanimously removed Sheriff Christina Corpus for conflicts of interest, retaliation, and misuse of authority under Measure A.
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fromLos Angeles Times
6 hours ago

NRA sues California over alleged Glock ban aimed at illegal machine gun 'switches'

California banned sale of Glock-style semiautomatic pistols with cruciform trigger bars enabling machine-gun conversion; gun-rights groups sued, alleging the ban violates the Second Amendment.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
21 hours ago

Drucker: U.S. politicians need to stop being so online

Most Democratic primary voters rarely post on social media, yet politicians too often base decisions on a vocal online activist minority.
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fromThe Atlantic
21 hours ago

America Needs Patriotism

Patriotism amid Trump's America combines shame and stubborn hope, reflecting attachment that depends on citizens' participation in principles of equality, rights, and self-government.
#proposition-50
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
14 hours ago

Barack Obama joins fight for US House control, urges vote for California districts to counter Trump

Proposition 50 would reshape California congressional districts potentially adding up to five Democratic House seats, with Obama endorsing it to help Democrats win House control.
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fromSan Jose Spotlight
12 hours ago

Stroll: Trump will be gone in 2029, but gerrymandering will be here to stay - San Jose Spotlight

Proposition 50 hands congressional redistricting to Democratic lawmakers, likely entrenching safe seats and permanently converting elections into formalities.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Fact-checking Donald Trump's speech in Israeli parliament

An Israel–Hamas agreement was presented as ending an "age of terror" and starting a new era, while several claims and the deal's permanence remain disputed.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
17 hours ago

I chaired the US Federal Election Commission. Now there's no cop on the beat | Ellen L Weintraub

U.S. democracy faces accelerating threats from political interference, weakened election safeguards, potential domestic military misuse, and an incapacitated campaign finance regulator.
#gaza-ceasefire
fromPoynter
20 hours ago
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Fact-checking President Donald Trump's claims about peace, war and Iran after his Israel address - Poynter

fromPoynter
20 hours ago
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Fact-checking President Donald Trump's claims about peace, war and Iran after his Israel address - Poynter

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fromThe Nation
13 hours ago

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It's Time for Others to Do the Same

New Mexico will provide free universal childcare, saving families about $13,000 annually and addressing high child poverty and childcare cost burdens.
#mike-johnson
fromLGBTQ Nation
11 hours ago
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Mike Johnson's thoughts on a strategy to end shutdown has internet pulling its collective hair out - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
12 hours ago
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Mike Johnson rages at naked Portland protestors: "The most threatening thing I've seen yet!" - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
11 hours ago
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Mike Johnson's thoughts on a strategy to end shutdown has internet pulling its collective hair out - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
12 hours ago
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Mike Johnson rages at naked Portland protestors: "The most threatening thing I've seen yet!" - LGBTQ Nation

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fromThe Nation
22 hours ago

Join a Loyalty Club for Highter Education-While You Still Can!

The federal 'Compact for Academic Excellence' pressures universities to pledge loyalty to administration values in exchange for preferential funding, risking academic freedom and diversity commitments.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
21 hours ago

Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now? | Hussein Agha and Robert Malley

Trump's Gaza plan demands Palestinian atonement, favors Israeli interests, lacks accountability, timetables, and consequences, and offers limited humanitarian relief while preserving Israeli dominance.
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fromTruthout
15 hours ago

3,700 Nonprofits Sign Open Letter Condemning Trump for Targeting Free Speech

Thousands of nonprofits condemn a presidential memorandum as an illegal, politically motivated attempt to weaponize the executive branch to suppress free speech and punish dissent.
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fromSlate Magazine
16 hours ago

One of the Worst Cases of This Supreme Court Term Has Been Years in the Making

Chief Justice John Roberts advanced the unitary-executive theory and court rulings to expand presidential removal power and weaken independent agencies.
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 day ago

Inside the Secret War: Senate Concern Over U.S. Military Strikes in the Caribbean

Currently, the administration is waging a secret war against a secret list of unnamed groups that they will not tell us about. There have been four lethal strikes against [alleged Venezuelan narco-trafficking] boats in the Caribbean. The administration wrote us [the U.S. Senate] a letter...about what they were doing in September. They said they considered themselves to be in a 'non-international armed conflict' -- that means a war -- against a secret list of 'designated terrorist organizations.'
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fromThe Nation
22 hours ago

How the Capitalism of the 1980s Created Donald Trump's Theory of the State

Ever since Donald Trump's election in 2016, liberals and the left have struggled to understand the meaning of his rise, and that of "Trumpism," for American politics. When Trump entered the political scene, he was hard to take seriously. In his first campaign, he seemed-initially, at least-to be a zombie headline straight from the New York Post 's"Page Six": a faded reality-TV star, a bankrupt real estate speculator, a huckster, a creep, and a punch line.
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fromTruthout
10 hours ago

As SCOTUS Enters a New Term, These Cases May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority

The Supreme Court's new term risks expanding presidential authority and undermining separation of powers by upholding Trump's tariffs, agency control, and emergency-order victories.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
9 hours ago

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month. The State Department said Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a Utah college campus on Sept. 10.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
13 hours ago

Pete Buttigieg still believes in America & says gay rights movement shows how quickly tides can turn - LGBTQ Nation

"I've heard it said that hope is the consequence of action more than its cause," he told David Leonhardt while appearing on the New York Times Podcast, The Opinions, "and that's something I try to think about a lot in this moment. Instead of waiting around for hope, we actually have an obligation - a responsibility - to build hope, and that hope is the result of what we do in this moment."
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fromThe Hill
15 hours ago

New Yorkers must save the city of dreams from Mamdani's socialism

Zohran Mamdani's digital propaganda, lack of experience, and radical policies pose serious risks to New York City's safety, economy, and civic institutions.
fromAxios
22 hours ago

The small cracks of dissent emerging in Trump's GOP

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia: Once one of Trump's most loyal and outspoken supporters on Capitol Hill, Greene (along with Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie) has been vocal in calling on the White House to release the Epstein files. And Greene has seemed to echo Democrats in chiding GOP congressional leaders over the shutdown. "I'm carving my own lane," Greene posted on X last week, adding that she was "absolutely disgusted" that health insurance costs for millions of Americans would soar if the GOP-led Congress doesn't extend the tax credits Democrats are demanding to end the shutdown.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
18 hours ago

Biden Commends Trump for Getting Gaza Deal Over the Finish Line'

Joe Biden commended Donald Trump for securing a U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage-release deal while noting his administration's prior efforts to bring hostages home.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
11 hours ago

Argument for rolling out creepy' digital ID too optimistic to be convincing'

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
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fromBoston.com
18 hours ago

Maine Gov. Mills plans to confront President Trump again with her campaign for the U.S. Senate

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills cited her White House confrontation with the Republican president in February as proof that she should serve in the Senate, a bid she formally announced with a campaign launch video Tuesday. "I'll stand up to Trump, just as I did in February," Mills said in a telephone interview previewing her campaign with The Associated Press on Sunday.
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#letitia-james
fromAol
1 day ago
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New York AG Letitia James gives spirited remarks in first appearance since indictment

fromUSA TODAY
1 day ago
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New York AG Letitia James gives spirited remarks in first appearance since indictment

fromAol
1 day ago
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New York AG Letitia James gives spirited remarks in first appearance since indictment

fromUSA TODAY
1 day ago
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New York AG Letitia James gives spirited remarks in first appearance since indictment

fromAxios
1 day ago

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line,
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fromSlate Magazine
12 hours ago

The Supreme Court Might Net Republicans 19 Congressional Seats in One Fell Swoop

Louisiana v. Callais began with a simple act of compliance. After a federal court found that the state's congressional map violated the VRA by weakening Black voters' power, Louisiana's Republican Legislature was ordered to draw a second majority-Black district.
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fromThe Atlantic
19 hours ago

The New Think Tank Infuriating Progressives

The age of the conventional Democrat is over. The time of the Democratic contrarian has come. So says Adam Jentleson, anyway. The veteran political operative and former adviser to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently launched a think tank that asks Democratic candidates to ignore pressure from the far left, take positions outside the "liberal box," and be a lot more "heterodox" in general.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

Kellyanne Conway Says People Were Throwing Money at Me' After Trump Got Elected

Kellyanne Conway said she turned down an eight-figure offer to buy her company and received large post-2016 election financial offers but declined them.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
19 hours ago

NASA Is Crucial to the U.S. Winning the New Space Race

China's 15th-century maritime retreat squandered a global empire opportunity; today the U.S. risks repeating that loss by undermining its space leadership while China rises.
#young-republicans
fromLGBTQ Nation
9 hours ago
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"I love Hitler": Young Republican leaders spout racist, anti-LGBTQ+ views in leaked chat - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
9 hours ago
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"I love Hitler": Young Republican leaders spout racist, anti-LGBTQ+ views in leaked chat - LGBTQ Nation

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fromwww.mediaite.com
16 hours ago

The Pentagon's Censorship Ultimatum and the War on Truth

The Pentagon demands reporters sign an agreement to publish only Defense Department‑authorized information or lose press credentials and access.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions | Miles Herbert

Chicago residents experience fear and trauma as intensified immigration enforcement, armed patrols, and deportations create lasting uncertainty and community disruption.
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