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Republicans Are Stealing a North Carolina Judicial Race. They Won’t Stop There.

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On April 1, Republicans and Elon Musk decisively lost their bid to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But three days later the GOP came closer than ever to overturning the election of a Democratic justice to the North Carolina Supreme Court. On April 4, two Republican judges on the North Carolina state court of appeals […]

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A Whistleblower Says Trump Sent the US Marshals to Try to “Intimidate” Her

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A whistleblower who testified in Congress today is accusing the Trump administration of trying to “intimidate” her with help from the US Marshals Service, the law enforcement agency of the federal judiciary. Liz Oyer, the former US pardon attorney who was fired last month, says Justice Department leaders dispatched two special deputy marshals to her […]

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While Fallen Soldiers Returned Home, Trump Hit the Golf Course

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President Trump’s absence at the dignified transfer of four US servicemen who died during a training exercise in Lithuania is being noticed. While thousands gathered in Lithuania—including the Lithuanian president—to send the soldiers off, our commander in chief was busy (as he has been for over a quarter of his second presidency) playing in his […]

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The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

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One evening in March 2017, Hoan Ton-That, an Australian coder building a powerful facial recognition system, emailed his American business partners with a plan to deploy their fledgling technology. “Border patrol pitch,” the subject line read. He hoped to persuade the federal government to integrate their product with border surveillance cameras so that their newly […]

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For Some Disabled Protestors, “Hands Off” Went Virtual

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At a Hands Off rally for people with Long Covid, Amanda Finley was filled with emotions. She talked about how devastated she was to lose people who had suffered from the condition and died due to a lack of support, and talked about how she, an Internal Revenue Service employee, had just gotten Reduction in […]

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Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions

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The Trump administration’s top prosecutor for Washington, DC, spoke last month at a Florida fundraiser, where he criticized the Justice Department’s prosecutions of people involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress. The speech was attended by numerous January 6 defendants, including former members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia who are still appealing […]

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During a Past Measles Outbreak, RFK Jr. Dismissed Concern as “Hysteria”

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In early 2015, the California Department of Public Health identified a case of measles in an 11-year-old who had recently traveled to Disneyland. Within a month, at least 125 US residents were stricken with the disease. About a third of them had visited the Magic Kingdom theme park, many were unvaccinated, and the outbreak spread […]

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Trump Is Ramping Up His Lawfare Against Kids at the Border

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Last Friday, the Trump administration canceled a contract that funded legal representation for about 26,000 unaccompanied minors who had crossed into the United States. In a memo sent by the Interior Department, dozens of non-profits were told to cease their legal representation work under the contract with the Department of Health and Human Services(HHS), and […]

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Elon Musk Is Running the Most Brazen Scheme to Buy an Election in Modern US History

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On March 17, Elon Musk appeared on Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast and falsely alleged that Democrats were giving undocumented immigrants fraudulent access to programs like Social Security and Medicare to lure them to the US.   “By using entitlement fraud the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants,” Musk […]

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Trump Officials Are Keeping Ties to His Social Media Company

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For Donald Trump, TruthSocial, his unsuccessful and money-losing Twitter competitor, has mainly been a place to retreat to when banned from the former, and a megaphone to trumpet his many opinions on his enemies, golf, and the music of Paul Anka. But the company that owns TruthSocial, Trump Media & Technology Group, has also been […]

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