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Blame John Roberts for Enabling Trump’s Massive Power Grab in Texas

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To justify their brazen effort to redraw US House districts in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms, state Republicans cited a Department of Justice letter alleging that four districts—all represented by Black or Latino Democrats—were “unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.” But on Tuesday, President Trump said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a “very simple redrawing” […]

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Trump Reaches a Breaking Point Over Epstein Files

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President Donald Trump seems unfamiliar with the Streisand effect, the phenomenon of inadvertently drawing more attention to an issue by trying to make it go away. The president on Wednesday unleashed another rant on Truth Social, claiming, without evidence, that Democrats are behind the uproar over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Referring […]

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“Never Again Means Never Again For Anyone”: An Interview With Sim Kern

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Sim Kern never set out to become a face of anti-Zionist Judaism—the English teacher turned science fiction author and “BookTok”-er was just in the right place at the right time. Facing, as the October 7 attacks unfolded, a social media feed they described as embodying “two contradictory realities” about Palestine —one in which Palestinians were […]

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“Never Again Means Never Again for Anyone”: An Interview With Sim Kern

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Sim Kern never set out to become a face of anti-Zionist Judaism—the English teacher turned science fiction author and “BookTok”-er was just in the right place at the right time. Facing, as the October 7 attacks unfolded, a social media feed they described as embodying “two contradictory realities” about Palestine —one in which Palestinians were […]

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Republicans Decry Canada Wildfire Smoke After Passing “the Most Anti-Environment Bill”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires. In a letter sent to Canada’s ambassador to the US, […]

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The Real Conspiracy Behind the Texas Floods

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David Sirota can be a hard one to pin down. He’s a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders. A onetime radio host. A co-writer of the Oscar-nominated “Don’t Look Up,” a dark comedy about the looming threat of climate change. (Spoiler: Most people do not, in fact, look up.) Today, Sirota is the editor-in-chief and founder […]

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Let’s Count All the Ways Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Angry With President Trump

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)’s fealty to President Donald Trump has, for the most part, seemed nearly unshakable. She has compared him to Jesus Christ. She has repeatedly—and falsely—claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from him. And she reportedly wanted to be Trump’s VP, claiming to the Guardian that her name was “on a […]

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The Pentagon Signs Up for Grok, Days After the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Meltdown

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The Pentagon will start using Elon Musk’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok, days after ito published a string of antisemitic posts, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office announced on Monday. The move is a part of a larger rollout of Musk’s company, xAI, for a new program called “Grok for Government,” which describes itself a as […]

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Now It’s Epstein Forever 

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“We’re on one Team, MAGA,” Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial over the weekend, “and I don’t like what’s happening.”  “We have a PERFECT Administration,” he added, “THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over […]

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How ICE’s Arrest of a High School Student Activated a Massachusetts Town

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Marcelo Gomes da Silva is still trying to get back to his old life. The 18-year-old, who was born in Brazil, wants to enjoy the summer before his senior year at Milford High School in Massachusetts—go to pool parties, hang out with friends. Since his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he has been […]

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Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere

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This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Massachusetts is among the American states exploring sourcing electricity from planned offshore wind farms in Atlantic Canada, following the US market-stalling moratorium imposed on the industry by the Trump administration earlier this year. The state, home to the pioneering […]

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Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates and Trump Couldn’t Be Happier

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On Monday, President Donald Trump spoke for nearly 90 minutes at the White House Faith Luncheon, a gathering of faith leaders and CEOs whose companies support faith-based groups. Though his speech wasn’t all about religion—he touched on the election, his “Big Beautiful Bill,” and foreign policy, among other topics—he devoted a portion of it to […]

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