How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

The man behind the escalating situation in the Arctic is the heir to a makeup fortune – the global cosmetics brand Estée Lauder.

Wealth extraction comes in so many forms but it always benefits the same small group of people.

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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.

Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.

Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

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Thanks to everyone who canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions we’ve had over 50,000 people confirm they’ve canceled!

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I would love to see LD serenade pigeons with a violin. But being a New Yorker, he would probably yell at them. 😆

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Unsolicited Mexican free-tailed bat photo.

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I thought this was Larry David

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I’m so very late to being active on this app.

My name is Sam. I am a wildlife biologist who works with bats, owls, and smaller carnivores.

I live in the Beehive State (blue dot in an otherwise red ocean). I have a dog named Jasper. Jasper has been my pup for > 6 years.

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