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Watch: Four Shocking Months With Gregory Bovino

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You have “nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out.” That’s what Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino said in December, as he and his entourage of masked agents patrolled a residential neighborhood in Kenner, Louisiana, a diverse suburb of New Orleans. Asked by a […]

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Testing Kristi Noem’s Transparency Claim

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This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that body cameras would be deployed for all federal agents operating in Minneapolis, effective immediately—with plans to expand the policy nationwide “as funding becomes available.”  Although Noem wrote that she is part of the “most transparent administration in American history,” getting footage from the Department of Homeland […]

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When Jeffrey Epstein Was the World’s Leading Expert on Getting Away With It

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“Women are on the upswing to power,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in October 2017 to a friend. “Their methods I might not agree with but I recognize the weapons are limited.” The friend was Kathryn Ruemmler, a prominent attorney and former White House Counsel to Barack Obama whose close relationship with Epstein is now one of […]

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Trump Posts Video That Depicts Obamas as Apes

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Late on Thursday evening, President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social that depicts former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.  The post, which was online all of Friday morning, appears to have been removed from the president’s page.  Toward the end of an unrelated video alleging interference in […]

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How to Resist Like Minneapolis

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In the chaos of 2020, Minneapolis got angry and brave and tired and jittery (Was that shots or fireworks? Unclear, check the Signal chat). Many of us got comfortable with the idea of direct giving (Just, like, to a Venmo account? Yep. How do you deduct it? Can’t). Under nightly curfews and circling helicopters, the […]

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One Protest After Another

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Since June 2025, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, has seen daily protests against the government’s immigration policies. Though relatively small in numbers, activists’ strategy of simply blocking the building’s driveway is an effective way to disrupt operations, and demonstrators are often met with force from federal police, who’ve arrested scores of […]

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Michigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid rising concern about global heating and soaring energy costs, Michigan has sued big oil for allegedly fueling both crises—a move experts have hailed as groundbreaking. In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, accused four fossil fuel majors and the […]

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Trump Has Betrayed the People of Coal Country. They Love Him Anyway.

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Christy Ratliff is sitting in a folding chair in a public school gym in Grundy, Virginia, waiting for her number to be called. She arrived at 4 a.m. on this October Saturday to secure her position in line to have eight teeth pulled. Genetic gum disease, she explains, has left most of them rotten or […]

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Six Vital Lessons From Minnesota’s General Strike

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Every few months, you likely notice something: people on Instagram calling for a general strike. The posts will appear suddenly, evincing urgency but sparse in details. Their provenance is usually obscure. But the message is always clear. To resist Trump’s authoritarian agenda, Americans need to unite in a national economic blackout. The cyclical nature of […]

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Illinois Representative Asks God to Get Trump to “Do What is Right”

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During his address to God at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Rep. Jonathan Jackson, a democrat from Illinois, called on President Donald Trump to be “invested in the elevation of suffering” of people in this country, including “the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis.”  Rep. Jackson, son of civil rights leader […]

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Trump’s FBI Raid Could Lead to a Takeover of Elections in Georgia’s Largest County

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On Monday, in a dramatic escalation of his administration’s attempt to interfere in the midterm elections, President Trump called on Republicans “to take over the voting in at least 15 places.”  Trump’s efforts “to nationalize the voting,” as he put it, will be difficult to pull off, since states have control over the administration of […]

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The Lessons of Kent State

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It’s been a half-century since Thomas Grace was knocked off his feet by an Ohio National Guardsman’s bullet, but he still braces for a flashback whenever people “under the color of uniform” concoct dubious claims to justify deadly force against other Americans. Last month it happened again. He watched as videos from Minneapolis showed agents […]

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