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Inside Trump’s Federal “Probie” Purge

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On Wednesday, S.W., an award-winning probationary worker at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), spent the day crying in bed.  S.W., who is being identified by her initials due to fear of retaliation for speaking out, is one of more than 24,000 federal probationary employees, those who have been in their jobs for […]

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Who’s Advertising on Twitter? One of Its Biggest Investors: Saudi Arabia 

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In the summer of 2023, Mohammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a 55-year-old retired teacher, was sentenced to death by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for posts he made on Twitter and YouTube, criticizing the country’s ruling family and calling for freedom for religious clerics. His punishment was commuted to 30 years the following year, a sentence […]

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AI Slop Farms Are Churning Out Fake Heartwarming Videos About Trump Figures  

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The judge demanded that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt remove her cross necklace, but soon he was humiliated. A man tried to yell at Vice President JD Vance in a cafe, but soon, he too was brought low. Barron Trump triumphed in a debate over a “liberal student” who bore a striking resemblance to […]

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How Does Climate Change Affect Our Brains? Trump’s NIH Just Cut Funding to Study It.

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On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health professor at Columbia University, got the email she’d been dreading: The Trump administration cut funding for a new center she had been tasked with co-leading called “Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change.” CHART focused on researching the effects of climate change […]

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How GOP Lawmakers’ Districts Benefited from Biden’s Energy Spending

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President Trump’s overarching embrace of fossil fuels includes repealing a landmark Biden legislative achievement, the Inflation Reduction Act, which has helped support major investments in clean energy infrastructure.  While this will be the 55th time Republicans will have tried to roll back part or all of the $370 billion IRA, a Mother Jones analysis shows […]

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Trump’s Bureau of Land Management Pick Bails Out Over January 6 Condemnation

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This story was originally published on the Substack Public Domain, to which you can subscribe here. Kathleen Sgamma, a longtime oil and gas activist, withdrew her nomination to lead the federal Bureau of Land Management hours before her confirmation hearing Thursday. The move comes two days after a watchdog group surfaced private comments in which Sgamma condemned President Donald Trump’s […]

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How to Travel Abroad as the World’s Most Toxic Brand: American

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President Donald Trump’s convulsive tariff policy, which all but reversed course Wednesday with the caveat that the same pain would return in 90 days, continues to scramble the world’s economic order. But against the upheaval of broken alliances and global supply chains, a small anxiety is emerging among Americans with wanderlust: how to travel with […]

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Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]

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House Republicans Just Passed a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions

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Two weeks after Donald Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed a measure, the SAVE Act, that is described by voting rights advocates as perhaps the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress. It could disenfranchise millions of voters and would severely limit how Americans can […]

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House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions

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Two weeks after Donald Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order, the House of Representatives is set to pass a measure, the SAVE Act, that is described by voting rights advocates as perhaps the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress. It could disenfranchise millions of voters and would severely limit how Americans […]

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Veterans Affairs Backtracked on His Cancer Treatment. He Blames DOGE.

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In February, after Donald Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery and a chemotherapy port, both related to cancer for which he had already received care through the VA—were denied. Puhl, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, holds the cost-cutting efforts of Elon Musk’s “Department of […]

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Lawmakers Are Trying to Hold Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Account

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Last month, during an Indiana state legislative hearing, Republican Sen. Jeff Raatz from Richmond, a small city in the eastern part of the state, discussed a resolution he filed declaring that the state’s general assembly “strongly supports pregnancy care centers in their unique, positive contributions to the individual lives of women, men, and babies—both born […]

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