Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article) The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

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The Trump Administration Says It’s Cracking Down On Fraud. It Gave A Red State A Pass. Mississippi caught a break on an embezzlement scandal that funneled money to Brett Favre and others.

Mississippi caught a break on an embezzlement scandal that funneled money to Brett Favre and others.

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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito

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SIGN NOW: Tell Congress to Pass the People's Response Act! Our approach to public safety is not working for children, for families, and particularly for Black and brown communities that have been devastated by mental health and substance use health crises, an...

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NO KINGS Durham · No Kings Hello activism warriors!! October 18th is the next national mobilization date. We will gather at the Bull in Downtown Durham from 10:30-11:30. There will be thousands of demonstrations and rallies pla...

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Robocall wars We all agree on this

Robocall wars
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Ellen Mitchell on Substack

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Ellen Mitchell on Substack

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I Salvaged $6,000 of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students. Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible? At the end of the school year, a lot gets tossed by Duke students at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year I decided to dive in.

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Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat

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As Trump Courts Gifts and Dangles Access, Congress Sits on the Sidelines

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We know Trump has no respect for democracy His supporters should be held accountable for their complicity

We know Trump has no respect for democracy
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Defend Public Broadcasting! Public broadcasting provides Americans with access to local news, educational programming, and independent journalism without corporate and political influence. Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR ar...

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Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the norma...

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Extra! Extra! 4/13 What's right with this picture?

Extra! Extra! 4/13
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Demand an investigation into unethical insider trading! Add your name to the petition to demand the Office of Government Ethics investigate Trump, his family, the administration, and all members of Congress for any unethical recent market trades!

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Demand an investigation into unethical insider trading! Add your name to the petition to demand the Office of Government Ethics investigate Trump, his family, the administration, and all members of Congress for any unethical recent market trades!

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Largest U.S. pension fund claims UnitedHealth cheated investors by concealing Medicare Advantage scheme The largest U.S. pension fund Wednesday cited STAT reporting in an amended lawsuit over the health care conglomerate's Medicare Advantage business.

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Say NO to Tony Hinchcliffe's offensive comedy special with Netflix! Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who got on stage at a Trump rally and mocked Puerto Rican, Latinx, Black, Jewish, and Palestinian communities, just secured a lucrative Netflix deal for multiple new com...

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Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up (Gift Article) Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.

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How Kash Patel’s Charity Aided Trump, and Patel Himself (Gift Article) The nominee for F.B.I. director made his nonprofit into a publicity machine, selling his children’s book, his clothing brand and his image as Donald Trump’s ultimate loyalist.

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Russian Disinformation Campaigns Eluded Meta’s Efforts to Block Them (Gift Article) A new report details how a covert influence operation linked to the Kremlin continued to place ads on Facebook despite U.S. and E.U. prohibitions on doing business with the organization.

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