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For Trump, le Grift, C’est Moi

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. The only time I ever worked on a political campaign, decades ago, I […]

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Report: Abortion Providers Are Confronting a New Wave of Extremism

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In November 2023, while an abortion provider in the South was on vacation, someone broke into their home, shattered the windows, and scribbled “Baby Killer” on a whiteboard. The case is still open. That same year, a man crashed his car into a new abortion clinic in Danville, Illinois, trying to start a fire. A […]

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A Gun Deemed Too Dangerous for Cops, but Fine for Civilians

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This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. Shortly after dark one day in September 2022, police officers Yang Lee and Charles Laskey-Castle arrived on Milwaukee’s west side to investigate a car abandoned on the sidewalk. Lee knelt to examine […]

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Trump’s Pick to Lead Workplace Safety Agency Will Derail Heat Protections, Advocates Fear

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the US prepares for what could be another record-breaking hot summer, Donald Trump and his pick to lead the nation’s workplace safety agency are expected to derail the creation of the nation’s first-ever federal labor protections from extreme heat. Trump in February nominated David […]

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Trump Is Furious That His Tariffs Are Doing Exactly What Economists Said They’d Do

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After President Donald Trump announced last month that the United States would impose a baseline 10-percent tariff on much of the world—with far higher rates for a set of other countries—economists warned that consumers would feel the impacts on a variety of products, including groceries, coffee, and cars. But the Trump administration has tried a whole range of […]

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Trump’s New Qatari Jet Would Be Just Like the Statue of Liberty, Obviously

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As they struggle to defend President Donald Trump’s plan to accept a luxury 747 from the nation of Qatar, the administration and its allies appear to have settled on one of the silliest talking points in history. Here’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on CNN today, explaining that it’s fine to take a free jumbo jet […]

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The U.S. Just Lost Its Perfect Credit Rating Thanks to Trump’s Tax Cuts

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On Friday evening, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ overall credit-rating—from the highest level of AAA—to one notch lower, AA1, based on years of rising debt and Donald Trump’s tax cut plan, which the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget has calculated could add $2.5 trillion more in debt. The rating is important because it is […]

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This Week’s Reveal Podcast: Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother

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In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man killed six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. He didn’t suddenly “snap” one day out of the blue; he planned the attack and spiraled into crisis in the years leading up to it. The horrific incident left violence prevention experts […]

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ICE Officials Just Admitted to Another Major Deportation Error

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The Trump administration’s race to deport as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, has led to another major error. This time, the administration is admitting it—and it could have a major effect on deportation lawsuits. One of the challenges to the administration’s mass deportation scheme is a class-action lawsuit, filed by some of […]

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How Pope Leo Will Approach Climate Change Is Unclear, but the Vibe Is Positive

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably never […]

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Supreme Court Again Halts Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations

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In a 7-2 ruling on Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court once again barred the Trump administration from removing Venezuelans held at Texas immigration detention centers under the Alien Enemies Act, which gives the government extraordinary powers to summarily deport noncitizens during a “declared war” or “invasion.” The justices found that the federal government violated the […]

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How Star Wars Reveals Conservatives’ Authoritarian Fantasies

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Why do Republicans and their enablers insist on fantasizing about one of the most evil empires in science fiction? In a recent CNN appearance, former Mitch McConnell adviser and GOP operative Scott Jennings went on the defense, justifying Emperor Palpatine’s violent vision for a galactic empire. When podcaster and contributor Van Lathan pointed out just […]

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