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Government Accountability Office opens investigation into FHFA chief Bill Pulte Senate Democrats wrote to the agency in November asking it to review Pulte's referrals to the Justice Department alleging mortgage fraud.

NEW: "The Government Accountability Office, an independent and nonpartisan investigative watchdog for Congress, says it has opened an investigation into Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte."

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Post from More Perfect Union - YouTube NEW: People in Maine are pushing for public control of their water. Right now Poland Spring is raking in millions by taking Maine's water, bottling it, and s...

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Nativity scene with ICE agents guarding zip-tied Jesus sparks debate The church's immigration-themed display has been called both "powerful art" and "blasphemy."

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Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional

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Trump Accidentally Lets Slip Plan to Rename Kennedy Center Donald Trump wants to rename the Kennedy Center after himself after doing everything he could to destroy it.

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For many contractors, losing ACA subsidies means losing health care The GOP's unprecedented premium hikes put chronically ill workers—especially freelancers—in peril.

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools:

“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

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Christmas Safety Tip:

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You should no longer wrap presents on the floor

Bitcoin sell-off halts Trump family's crypto windfall Due to a recent downturn in bitcoin, the Trump family has had roughly a billion dollars of their net worth erased in just a matter of weeks, according to estimates.

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Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error.

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Google Knows Where You Are Even With Your GPS Off - Here's How - BGR Google can track your location even if your GPS is off. Discover how Wi-Fi networks and mobile towers can pinpoint you, and what you can do to stop it.

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Matt Gaetz Cosplays as Reporter in Bonkers Pentagon Briefing The former congressman was among the MAGA newcomers lobbing softball questions at the Trump administration.

Gaetz, wearing a jacket embroidered with “Representative Matt Gaetz,” joined a ragtag cast of MAGA influencers and conspiracy theorists.

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

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Why do we trust ChatGPT? The science of how AI chatbots captivate, entertain, and influence us

OpenAl trains ChatGPT on user conversations (though there is an option to opt out), while Meta intends to run personalized ads based on what people share with Meta Al, its virtual assistant. "Your data is the profit," Wright says.

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Trump's brand is tanking His approval rating with voters has cratered to its lowest level of his second term—and that's not all.

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The Crisis of Competence and Consent A Psycho-Political Analysis of Dunning-Kruger, Propaganda, and Supra-Conformism in the Digital Age

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It’s Election Day in TN 7th District. Already, 84,356 people have cast their ballots early. If you haven’t voted yet, please make a plan to do so today!

This brings to mind another of Einstein's observations: "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits". This is perhaps the most crucial insight of all. True expertise, genuine wisdom, is defined by an acute awareness of its own boundaries. The expert knows what they do not know; the genius understands the vastness of their own ignorance. Stupidity, particularly the "conscientious stupidity" we have examined, suffers from no such constraints. It is boundless, unburdened by doubt, and armored against correction. It is a closed loop, a self-sustaining ecosystem of error.

Green-synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles from desert plants show broad antimicrobial activity As drug-resistant infections continue to rise, researchers are looking for new antimicrobial strategies that are both effective and sustainable. One emerging approach combines nanotechnology with "gre...

This is what we should be using AI for... Science!

"The work also links the plants' rich phytochemical profiles to nanoparticle stability and potency, and uses computer modeling to explore how key compounds might interact with microbial targets."

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I feel like this holiday season, it's important to remind people of the true meaning of christmas: ghosts terrorizing rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more.

Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.

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ICE Agents Drag Blind Man Across Pavement and Drop Him on His Head “I think they wanted to make a point. So they picked the weakest person they could find and made a big show out of it.”

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Court disqualifies Trump ally Habba as top New Jersey federal prosecutor A federal appeals court determined on Monday that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, was unlawfully appointed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and disqualified her from ...

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Seeing more of these articles from NYT and WSJ. Are we getting closer to Guillotine time?

Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

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Who's beginning to think the CIA D.C. shooter was a Trump plot to invoke a police state.

From Alyssa Milano to Marjorie Taylor Greene: "You don't get to unleash political poison into the bloodstream of American politics and then act surprised when it reaches your own veins. You don't get to cheer on Trump while he smears, threatens, and dehumanizes everyone in his way, and then clutch your fake pearls when he finally does it to you. You don't get to empower a movement built on conspiracy, cruelty, and violence, and then cry foul when you become its latest target."

GOP Says It'll Take A Lot More Than Eyewitness Testimony, Photos, DNA, Toxicology Reports, Victim Statements, Wire Transfers, Emails, Flight Manifests, Phone Records, Surveillance Logs, Bank Records, Audio, Video, & Total Confessions For Them To Believe Trump's Epstein Ties Were More Than Coincidental

U.S. immigration agency launches re-examination of green card holders from 19 countries 'of concern' The announcement comes a day after an attack on National Guard troops near the White House. Authorities have identified the suspect as an Afghan national.

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