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Trump Unleashes Bizarre Commencement Speech at West Point

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You may assume that derision of drag shows would not come up in a commencement address at the prestigious US Military Academy known as West Point—but you would be wrong. In a nearly hour-long speech by President Donald Trump on Saturday at the academy in New York—his second time speaking there—Trump also trashed diversity, equity, […]

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Report: Police Killings Rose in the Five Years After George Floyd’s Murder

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Five years ago today, George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, in Minneapolis. The harrowing footage of the murder—in which Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes after a nearby store clerk alleged he tried to purchase cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill—sparked […]

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Press Freedom Group Threatens to Sue Paramount If Company Settles With Trump

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The Freedom of the Press Foundation notified company executives that a settlement “could amount to a bribe.”

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Another Trump Casualty: A Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

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This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cuts made by the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that maintains the US framework of spatial information: latitudes, longitudes, vertical measurements like elevation, and even measurements of Earth’s gravitational field. […]

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Trump Has Dropped the Pretense of Ethics

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Do Donald Trump and his family “actually give a fuck” about appearing to profit from his presidency? Evidence is mounting that they don’t. Mother Jones reported yesterday on various ways that corporations, foreign governments, and random rich people with agendas are giving money and other benefits to the first family—and noted that the president and […]

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GOP Bill’s Militarized Funding Boost Could Instead Keep Millions on Medicaid

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The reconciliation bill is a “redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon,” an expert said.

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Foreign Student Ban at Harvard

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DHS said it targeted Harvard’s foreign students in a quest to “root out the evils of anti-Americanism.”

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New Oral History Captures Decades of Trans Life in the Words of Elders of Color

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Amid the current anti-trans backlash, let’s heed the wisdom and perspective of the trans elders in our communities.

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Republicans Snuck Two Devastating Health Care Measures Into Trump’s Megabill

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In the early morning hours on Thursday, after an all-night session of tense negotiations, House Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package. In addition to the largest cuts to Medicaid in US history, the bill contains provisions that have alarmed health care advocates since they first showed up in earlier versions of […]

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Federal Judge to Trump: Reinstate Fired Education Department Employees

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A federal judge has ordered the Department of Education to reinstate thousands of employees it fired in advancing President Donald Trump’s mission to eliminate the department. On Thursday, US District Judge Myong J. Joun granted a preliminary injunction on the department’s widespread reduction in force. Initiated in early March, the firings dealt a massive blow […]

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