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The Elections Were a Referendum on Energy—And Democrats Won

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On the campaign trail in 2024, President Donald Trump promised to halve Americans’ energy bills by January 2026.  After his win, his administration pushed policies that undoubtedly contributed to their rise. They tried to squash cheap, local energy from renewable sources while bankrolling the dying coal industry. They put tariffs on materials needed to keep […]

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The Right Can’t Decide If It’s Okay to Hate Jews

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It’s been more than a week since Tucker Carlson’s interview with groyper leader Nick Fuentes roiled the right. Many felt a line had, finally, been crossed by Carlson platforming someone who described Hitler as “really fucking cool.” The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro accused Carlson of “normalizing Nazism;” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Fuentes had “spread […]

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The Right Can’t Decide If It’s Okay to Hate Jews

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It’s been more than a week since Tucker Carlson’s interview with groyper leader Nick Fuentes roiled the right. Many felt a line had, finally, been crossed by Carlson platforming someone who described Hitler as “really fucking cool.” The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro accused Carlson of “normalizing Nazism;” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Fuentes had “spread […]

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At UN Climate Summit, Gavin Newsom Labels Trump “An Invasive Species”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has said Donald Trump is an “invasive species” whose dismissal of the climate crisis is an “abomination,” in a fiery attack at the UN climate talks in Brazil—from which Trump and his administration have been completely absent. Newsom […]

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Florida’s Governor Is a Veteran. So Are Seven Inmates He’ll Send to the Execution Chamber This Year.

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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. The caravan of executions started with a US Army veteran in March. It continued in May with a former Army Ranger who served in the Gulf War, then an Air Force veteran […]

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Mike Johnson Will Finally Swear In His Worst Nightmare

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More Epstein files could, in theory, be coming soon. That’s because, at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson will finally swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who has promised to provide the final congressional signature on a discharge petition to force a vote on a bipartisan bill to release government files […]

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Trump Sent Men to Torture in El Salvador, Report Confirms

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Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the United States sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch and Cristosal, a human rights group focused on Central America. In […]

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The Art of Truth in an Age of Lies

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“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell wrote in 1940. “On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.” That, in Orwell’s view, was a lost understanding: clear to Victorian authors like Dickens; obscure to his contemporaries of the late 1930s, who were too coy or deluded to square “art for art’s saking in the ivory […]

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Epstein: Trump Knew

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House Democrats on Wednesday released a set of emails in which Jeffrey Epstein called President Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” and alleged that Trump had once spent “hours at my house” with a sex trafficking victim. “[Trump] has never once been mentioned,” Epstein wrote in a 2011 email. In another 2019 email, Epstein wrote […]

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The Secret History of Santacon, America’s Most Hated Christmas Party

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In the winter of 1996, a cadre of police officers met an airplane as it landed in Portland, Oregon. Santa Claus had come to town.  It was the early years of what would come to be known as Santacon, and the plane carried a contingent of pranksters aiming to create a bit of Yuletide mischief. […]

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Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them.

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About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decline in the US. But that’s changing. So far this year, 41 people have been executed, up from 25 last year, and six more executions are scheduled.  Early in his second term, […]

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Distraught, Betrayed, and Mad as Hell: Your Takes on the Shutdown

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On Monday night, the Senate passed a bill that marks the first step towards potentially reopening the government after the 42-day shutdown. For Democrats, the bill comes with a major cost: It does nothing to address the rapidly-approaching expiration of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies which, according to health policy think tank KFF, will more […]

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