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Here’s Who Could Profit from Trump’s Pursuit of Greenland

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On January 15, the governor of Louisiana appeared on Fox News to discuss the fate of an autonomous European territory nearly 3,000 miles away from his home state. “The president is serious about reinforcing the Monroe Doctrine,” Republican Gov. Jeff Landry told host Brian Kilmeade of President Donald Trump’s bellicose demands to take over Greenland. […]

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HHS Wasn’t Worried About South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak. It’s Now Enormous.

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With 789 cases and counting, the current measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the nation’s largest since measles was officially eliminated in 2000. The highly contagious virus “is circulating in the community, increasing the risk of exposure and the risk of infection for those who are not immune due to vaccination or natural infection,” […]

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Is This a Police State?

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A version of 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. Toward the end of 2024, several weeks before Donald Trump […]

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Yup. Trump Suggested Ilhan Omar Staged Her Own Attack in Minneapolis.

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After Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was attacked at a Minneapolis town hall on Tuesday night and sprayed with an unknown substance from a syringe, President Donald Trump suggested that she may have orchestrated the incident.  “No. I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud. I really don’t think about that,” Trump said when asked […]

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Why the Next “No Kings” Could Be the Biggest One Yet

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Ezra Levin, the co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the many groups behind the nationwide “No Kings” protests, describes himself as “a cynical political organizer.” But still, Monday night got to him.  That evening, just days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Indivisible and other groups, which included the […]

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Trump’s Twin Cities Onslaught Feels a Lot Like the British Tyranny in Colonial Boston

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A version of this story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s Substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. Conservatives are fond of invoking the American founding, the framers of the Constitution, and the principles that drove the fight for independence. Those invocations have always been selective and opportunistic, but they’ve grown downright farcical as right-wingers contort themselves into knots […]

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People Hate Data Centers, so the Industry Is Spending Millions to Rebrand Them

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With community opposition growing, data center backers are going on a full-scale public relations blitz. Around Christmas in Virginia, which boasts the highest concentration of data centers in the country, one advertisement seemed to air nonstop. “Virginia’s data centers are…investing billions in […]

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Five Constitutional Amendments Trump is Ignoring in Minnesota

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For nearly two months, the Trump administration has unleashed immigration officers on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul in a siege of increasing cruelty and violence. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers are dragging citizens from their homes, deploying five-year-olds as bait, arresting demonstrators, and using pepper spray […]

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He Helped Build the Religious Right. Now He’s Fighting ICE.

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On January 24, a US Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis after he was held down by multiple federal agents. The Trump administration alleged that Pretti threatened agents with a gun. But videos appear to show Pretti, who was carrying a licensed handgun, holding only his phone in […]

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How Greg Bovino Proved Too Openly Fascistic for Trump

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Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol “commander-at-large” who terrorized people across America in his Nazi-like trench coat, is being put out to pasture by President Donald Trump. The cause was Bovino’s stupidity, not his cruelty. After his Border Patrol agents disarmed and killed Alex Pretti in broad daylight on Saturday, Bovino shamelessly slandered the 37-year-old nurse […]

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How a Violent, Warrantless ICE Raid Devastated a Memphis Family

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A few weeks before Christmas, six siblings huddled around a phone in their mom’s bedroom to talk with their dad and grandpa, who’d just been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Memphis. Camila, 16, the oldest girl, seemed tense as she sat next to Saraya, 13. Their grandpa tried to lighten the mood, at […]

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Those Brutal “Melania” Documentary Reviews Have Vanished from Letterboxd

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Yesterday I published a story about what was quickly becoming a surprising site of capital R Resistance: the Letterboxd review page for the $75 million documentary film, Melania. Comments were profane, fun, silly, unprintable. I included some of my favorites. The point I was making was this: Even before the movie’s release this Friday, it […]

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