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Trump Eyes Mining of Pacific Seafloor Near the Marianas Trench

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around American Samoa from 18 million acres to 33 million acres, an area […]

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Kash Patel, the FBI’s Agent of Chaos

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. This week’s huge news has to be the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations, a story that intersects with what can only be called the slow public unraveling of Kash Patel’s tenure director as FBI director. Patel, as you might remember, had long crusaded for […]

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Megyn Kelly Suddenly Finds Pedophilia Very Hard to Define

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Megyn Kelly is known for offering absurd takes that nobody asked for. There was her insistence that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim that wearing blackface used to not be so bad (that one got her fired from NBC News). Wednesday, on her eponymous SiriusXM show, Kelly picked another hill to die […]

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“They Dragged Her Out in Front of the Kids”: Inside Chicago’s ICE Raid at a Bilingual Daycare

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Video of a daycare raid in Chicago went viral last week, showing armed federal agents dragging a teacher from Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center as children watched in terror. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release that agents detained the woman as she fled into her workplace, describing […]

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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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