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The Wildly Unqualified Lawyer Trump Just Named to Prosecute His Enemies

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The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is one of the most significant positions in the Department of Justice. Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out last Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, had extensive experience. He is listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His […]

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Jimmy Kimmel Hits Back at “Bully” Trump

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Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night on Tuesday to a powerful standing ovation before using his opening monologue to directly condemn President Trump’s aggressive efforts to bring his critics and the larger media to heel. “We have to speak out against this bully,” Kimmel said. “He’s not stopping, and it’s not just comedy. He’s gunning for […]

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Alabama’s Poet Laureate Reckons with Personal and Political Grief

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In 2023, while on a group hike through the Sipsey River, Ashley M. Jones, Alabama’s youngest and first Black poet laureate, sat in a clearing and wrote the titular poem of her new book, Lullaby for the Grieving. Four months after she’d been named poet laureate in 2022, Jones’ father, Donald Lewis Jones, died without […]

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Big Utilities Are Even Worse on Climate Than They Were Five Years ago

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since 2021, the Sierra Club has been grading US utilities on their commitment to a clean-energy transition. While most utilities have not earned high marks on the group’s annual scorecards, as a whole they had been showing some progress.  That’s over now. […]

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How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery

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To say that Justin Portela never imagined himself as a highly paid business consultant at McKinsey & Company would be an understatement. He didn’t have a privileged upbringing, to put it mildly, and in 2018, when he first walked onto the Stanford University campus, Portela, like most incoming freshmen, was unaware such careers even existed. […]

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“Godsend” or “Concentration Camp”? A Lucrative ICE Deal Divides a Colorado Town

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In January 2010, the private prison operator now known as CoreCivic announced the closure of a 752-bed facility in Walsenburg, Colorado. At the time, the Huerfano County Correctional Center was the second-largest employer in the county. Its shutdown caused a “major hit” to the economy, said John Galusha, then the county’s administrator. The town estimated […]

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US Marshals’ Efforts Around Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were “Highly Unusual”

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As the US Marshals Service prepared for Donald Trump’s expected pardon of January 6 defendants, officials went to unusual lengths to facilitate the defendants’ travel home from the DC jail, newly obtained records show. The records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the ethics watchdog CREW, are yet another window into the […]

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Baltimore Mayor to Trump: Don’t Send Your Troops

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When Brandon Scott took office in late 2020 as one of the youngest mayors in Baltimore’s history, he pledged to reduce the number of homicides and incidents of gun violence. That year, there were 335 reported homicides in the city of roughly 600,000 people, making it one of the most dangerous cities per capita in […]

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If Only Pete Hegseth’s Military Shaving Crusade Was Just Stupid

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On September 17, Pete Hegseth—newly dubbed our Secretary of War—announced that any member of the US military who needs a shaving exemption for more than a year will be forced out of the service, tossing out a decades-old policy created for mainly Black and brown troops with pseudofolliculitis barbae, a skin condition that makes daily […]

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Who’s Part of Trump’s “Radical Left”? Maybe You.

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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. Following the horrific murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, Donald […]

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Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference

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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much to the chagrin of many autistic adults, who were completely excluded from the process. The two, alongside administration officials including Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator […]

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Trans Health Care “Skeptics” Lost a Key Ally—Now They’re Having a Meltdown

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Colleagues call Gordon Guyatt the “godfather” of evidence-based medicine. Guyatt, a distinguished professor of medicine at McMaster University in Canada, has had sweeping influence on medical research: GRADE, the framework he helped pioneer to assess the evidence behind clinical recommendations, is a standard at more than 100 medical organizations, including the WHO. Before Guyatt, medicine […]

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