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“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea” ~Isak Dinesen
“Some generations get a nationally televised car chase featuring O. J. Simpson fleeing police in a white Bronco. Others get the communal adrenaline rush of frantically “CTRL-F”-ing a House Oversight Committee trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails.”
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“Trump was always an unlikely champion for those on the right who believed in the Epstein conspiracy theories. The men were undeniably friends.”
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“Are the Epstein files suddenly real?…All we know is that Trump wants us to stop talking about the subject. That’s usually what you want when the subject includes evidence that you have behaved in a manner beyond reproach.”
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Pope Leo XIV
On a mission from God
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“A party that champions government workers and the poor was willing to sacrifice them.”
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Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
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As Trump’s deportation campaign escalated, the masks quickly turned officers and agents into a faceless, impersonal, undifferentiated goon squad.
It’s a look that has long been associated with authoritarian regimes and secret police…”
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"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes Jonathan Chait. Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
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“Air traffic in the U.S. could “slow to a trickle” if the federal government shutdown lingers into the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday season, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday.”
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“Most of Trump’s deportation campaign is inaccessible because after arrests are made, it is moving quickly, far from public view. And because it is targeting people who have spent an average of 16 years in the United States…”
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“Every government shutdown is a game of a chicken between Democrats and Republicans, or sometimes between Congress and the White House.
And every administration tries to use its power to squeeze opponents…”
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“Turning private equity loose in our health care system kills people.”
~Sen. Elizabeth Warren
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Military commissaries could begin closing in early December if a continuing government shutdown continues, with up to 168 U.S. locations potentially affected.
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“The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike. “
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“If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.
This is not how a representative government works.
It is how the Mafia works.”
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“…the reality is that Mamdani’s victory says absolutely nothing about the wider appeal of his priorities. If anything, the context of his victory reveals the limits of his platform…”
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“To use labels, signs, and other visual cues in the residence of a person with dementia is a common and recommended practice that helps individuals with dementia maintain their independence, reduce confusion, and lower frustration or anxiety.”
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“Greene is essentially doing to Trump what Trump did to the Republican Party of George W. Bush: She is recognizing the gaping void between the values of the party’s leaders and those of its followers, and ruthlessly exploiting it.”
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“Today, the supreme court is hearing oral arguments in one of those rare cases that could reshape all three branches of government.”
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Zohran Mamdani will be the unlikeliest mayor in New York City history. A 34-year-old backbench state assemblyman and self-proclaimed democratic socialist, Mamdani ran on the promise of affordability and was declared the winner not long after polls closed tonight.
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“The onetime designated villain of the Iraq War had somehow mutated into a hero of the anti-Trump constitutional resistance. Had he changed? Or had they misjudged him?”
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Hawaiian Airlines retires ‘HA’ callsign after 95 years as Alaska merger takes effect - Aviation24.be
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Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many of its GOATs are ghosts, that the former national pastime is easily dismissed as past its prime.
It isn’t.
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“Trump has signaled that he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States.”
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“It’s clear that AI is both drowning out and obscuring other stories about the wobbling American economy. That’s a concern.
But even worse: What if AI’s promise for American business proves to be a mirage?
What happens then?”
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“Base living—in the unofficial Trump Green Zone—has also become something of a double-edged status symbol among Trump officials.”
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