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How Federal Judges Put a Trans Civil Rights Lawyer Under Criminal Investigation

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Last Monday, federal prosecutors in Alabama revealed that they had indicted a lawyer for allegedly making false statements under oath. Perhaps such a charge might not seem extraordinary. But the case, which targets Carl Charles, a transgender civil rights attorney, is anything but ordinary. Over three years, multiple federal judges in Alabama have used secret […]

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This Republican Attempt to Scuttle Federal Land Plans Could Cause Great Upheaval

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple […]

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The Global Far-Right Is Making Charlie Kirk a Martyr

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After last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, hundreds of people gathered in front of Berlin’s American embassy to honor him with a candlelight vigil, at least one of them in a red MAGA hat. The group included several members of Germany’s far-right AfD party, including Beatrix von Storch, its deputy parliamentary leader. Von […]

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The “Chaos and Cruelty” of Trump’s Worksite Immigration Raids

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On September 4, federal, state, and local officers conducted the largest single-site immigration worksite raid in US history. The months-in-the-making enforcement operation by the Trump administration targeted the construction site of a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in southeast Georgia. As “word of the raid spread across the property,” CNN reported in the days after, […]

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Gov. Spencer Cox Has Been Preaching Calm in a Violent Moment—But There’s Something Missing

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Since the murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk last week in Utah, the state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, has won plaudits for his general moderation. In his press conferences and TV appearances, he was perhaps the lone member of his party to remind Americans that the person most responsible for killing Kirk was the young […]

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Justice Department Aims to Kill State Laws That Compel Major Polluters to Pay for Climate Harm

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s justice department has asked a judge to shut down a Vermont law which holds major polluters financially responsible for climate damages. In a brief filed on Monday in a federal court in Burlington, the administration said the policy was “unlawful on its […]

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The Supreme Court Greenlit the President’s Political Prosecutions—Even Unlawful Ones

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time ally turned critic of President Donald Trump, observed recently that Trump has torn down the traditional barrier between the president’s personal ambitions and the Justice Department’s power to investigate and prosecute criminal wrongdoing. “He absolutely rejects the idea that there should be separation between criminal investigations and […]

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The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Grab: Your Voter Data

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As the Trump administration vows to undertake a sweeping crackdown on liberal organizations following last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, the Justice Department on Tuesday sued two blue states, Maine and Oregon, to attempt to gain access to their full, unredacted voter registration lists, intensifying President Trump’s anti-voting efforts. The DOJ has demanded […]

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Name the One Political Party Led by Those Who Call for Violence

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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. After the past few days of jabbering about which political party is to […]

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“Amateur Hour”: The Man Sending US Military Contractors to Gaza

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In July, one week after a whistleblower accused contractors from the American security firm UG Solutions of deploying stun grenades and shooting live ammunition toward Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a new song appeared on the SoundCloud account of “Jameson G.” Titled “demon-in-the-desert,” the dubstep track featured artwork of an alien with a dagger stabbed through […]

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His Book on Charlie Kirk Was About to Come Out. Then His Subject Was Murdered.

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For the past several years, Matthew Boedy, an English professor at the University of North Georgia, has been working on a book about the Christian nationalist aims of the conservative powerhouse group Turning Point USA and its late founder, right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. In his forthcoming book, The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan […]

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Senate Committee Seeks Intel on Polluters’ Efforts to Kill Critical EPA Rule

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the Trump administration’s announcement that it will overturn the rule which underpins virtually all US climate regulations, a Senate committee has launched an investigation into a suspected lobbying push that led to the move. On Tuesday, […]

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