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A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becoming more common in Trump's weaponized Department of...
by KeithDB
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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ...
by kos
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Hegseth shared classified information On Tuesday, sources revealed that an investigation by the Pentagon's Inspector General had determined that Pete Hegseth had shared CLASSIFIED military information on a commercial messaging app. This contradicts the...
by TheCriticalMind
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People keep commenting that the sight of Trump snoozing through his ego-boosting cabinet meeting whilst his underlings compete to see who can slather his crack the most was like something out of an Armando Iannucci film, so I went ahead and made it....
by Hard Left
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One of the things one tries to do when relating current events or news stories is to keep a distance from one’s feelings that compromise the truth. Anger can take your stories to a place of unfair or biased commentary. When I write something, a lot of...
by ReasonaBill
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was interviewed by Andrew Sorkin Wednesday at The New York Times DealBook Summit. And when Bessent attempted to spin President Donald Trump’s poor inflation ...
by Walter Einenkel
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How do you win an election, yet still lose the night? While votes are still being counted, Republicans have held on to their House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by a ridiculously slim margin—single digits. This is a district Donald...
by kos
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara tried to reassure the city’s immigrant communities during a press conference on Tuesday. Responding to concerns over President Donald Trump’s racist new ...
by Walter Einenkel
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is seizing on the fatal shooting of a National Guard member in Washington—using the tragedy to push for a sweeping new travel ban that goes well beyond ...
by Alex Samuels
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Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the...
by otter54
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